Blog: Pretty Much Amazing

Wouldn't you know, Kanye West 's G.O.O.D Music crew have remixed Chief Keef 's "I Don't Like." The track was premiered earlier today by Chi-town area radio station Power 92, so naturally, you can listen to it online –– check it out below: Continue reading: New Kanye West, Pusha T, Chief Keef, Jadakiss, Big Sean: "I Don't Like" Read more articles like " New Kanye West, Pusha T, Chief Keef, Jadakiss, Big Sean: "I Don't Like" " on Pretty Much Amazing [...]

Rye Rye is seriously channelling M.I.A.'s "Bird Flu" on new track "Shake Twist Drop" (it doesn't quite sound like a sample to us). But once you, uh, shake off the initial quirk of déjà vu, it isn't difficult to succumb to Rye Rye's dancefloor provocations. Rack City Bitch Tyga makes a brief appearance, shining some of his spotlight on the track. Listen to the track below: Continue reading: New Rye Rye: "Shake Twist Drop" f/ Tyga Read more [...]

Being the skilled audio splicers that they are, Chicago's ABX and STV SLV take A$AP Rocky's mixtape hit "Peso" and seamlessly lay it over an impossibly fast sample of Purity Ring's very, very excellent new single "Obedear." Usually we'd think something like a mash-up of A$AP Rocky and Purity Ring would be nothing but an attempt to pander the so-called hip set, but damn if The Hood Internet didn't just pull this off. Continue [...]

Not just ten minutes after we posted a video of Lykke Li performing an unnamed new song , we get word of a brand new studio cut called "Come Near" from the chanteuse. Continue reading: New Lykke Li: "Come Near" Read more articles like " New Lykke Li: "Come Near" " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Lykke Li

On July 10, our favorite New Wave revivalist Twin Shadow will follow-up his excellent 2010 debut Forget with a brand new 10-track collection called Confess . We've got the full tracklist below, along with the album's first single, "Five Seconds," which you can download immediately. Continue reading: New Twin Shadow: 'Confess' Album, "Five Seconds" MP3 Read more articles like " New Twin Shadow: 'Confess' Album, "Five Seconds" MP3 " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Twin Shadow

On Friday night, Lykke Li , Miike Snow, Teddybears, Peter Bjorn and John , and other Scandinavian pop luminaries invaded NYC's Bowery Hotel to launch their new record label, Ingrid. At the launch party, Li took the staged an performed a new song she had written only the night before. The video and audio isn't pristine, but that's no excuse to pass on listening to new Lykke Li . Check it below–– Continue reading: Watch Lykke Li Perform New Song Read more articles like " Watch Lykke [...]

On July 10, our favorite New Wave revivalist Twin Shadow will follow-up his excellent 2010 debut Forget with a brand new 10-track collection called Confess . We've got the full tracklist below, along with the album's first single, "Five Seconds," which you can download immediately. Continue reading: New Twin Shadow: 'Confess' Album, "Five Seconds" MP3 Read more articles like " New Twin Shadow: 'Confess' Album, "Five Seconds" MP3 " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Twin Shadow

Shabazz Palaces remixing Lushlife 's Plateau Vision highlight "Hale-Bopp was the Bedouins" pretty much means that everyone doing cool shit in indie rap (for lack of a better phrase) is on this track now – Shabazz's Ishmael Butler drops a typically creepy verse in which he sounds like an outer-space wise man and chops and screws the original's Gang Gang Dance sample (yes) into a stuttering, offbeat droney stagger; let's not forget that Das Racist's Heems is on this track to begin with (but his vocals, [...]

Seminal shoegazers My Bloody Valentine (or at least the band's frontman Kevin Shields ) have been dropping hints of new music this year, but this previously unheard MBV track isn't brand new. You can check out "Good For You" now, courtesy the band's CD re-releases of their two records, Isn't Anything and Loveless , and a collection of EPs. It's a driving, awesomely catchy post-punk jam, with a weird and deconstructed guitar riff we can't get enough of – typically MBV massive, but somehow way catchier than their usual fare. [...]

Shabazz Palaces remixing Lushlife's Plateau Vision highlight "Hale-Bopp was the Bedouins" pretty much means that everyone doing cool shit in indie rap (for lack of a better phrase) is on this track now – Shabazz's Ishmael Butler drops a typically creepy verse in which he sounds like an outer-space wise man and chops and screws the original's Gang Gang Dance sample (yes) into a stuttering, offbeat droney stagger; let's not forget that Das Racist's Heems is on this track to begin with (but his vocals, on this remix, are not [...]

The Gaslight Anthem aren't ashamed to follow in the footsteps of their fellow New Jersian Bruce Springsteen – they've spent three great albums making driving, riff-packed rock that's emotional without being pathetic (far from it), passionate but not overbearing, drawing inspiration from the Boss as well as other big names in American classic rock. Their new single "45" speaks to tradition in more than one way – the surface level might be the most obvious (they're talking about vinyl, guys!) but listen to that limitlessly catchy riff and that chugging groove and you might be [...]

Lower Dens Nootropics out on 5.1 MP3 | CD | Vinyl | Stream A- After a decade of stumbling from project to project, honing her craft, and building a loyal following, Jana Hunter seems to have finally found the band she was looking for. She has discussed her admiration for the most recent members of Lower Dens (guitarist William Adams, bassist Geoffrey Graham, drummer Nate Nelson, and keyboardist Carter Tanton) saying that "this [...]

April 2012. Coachella happened... twice . Kanye West dropped a single... twice . Lana Del Rey collaborated with the internet's most buzzed about rapper... twice . Our favorite album of the year was seriously threatened, if not dethroned... twice . It was a busy month, and it was fun. Continue reading: That Was Fun: April 2012 Read more articles like " That Was Fun: April 2012 " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Chromatics , Death Grips , Featured [...]

Several weeks ago, Canadian rockers Metric announced their fifth album, Synthetica , but didn't offer any audio to sample. Now with the album's June 12th release date less than six weeks away, the band have debuted the first single, "Youth Without Youth.” Continue reading: New Metric: "Youth Without Youth" Read more articles like " New Metric: "Youth Without Youth" " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Metric

Regina Spektor lets loose "Small Town Moon," the lastest beaut from her upcoming album, From The Cheap Seats . Continue reading: New: Regina Spektor - "Small Town Moon" Read more articles like " New: Regina Spektor - "Small Town Moon" " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Regina Spektor

In the interim between Passion Pit 's 2009 record Manners and its just-announced upcoming follow-up Gossamer , the band's members have been keeping pretty busy, what with remixes, side projects, their own independent record labels, and incessant touring. Synth dude Ayad Al Adhamy is the next to add his name to the roster of killer Passion Pit side projects with TEAM SPIRIT , his band of crunchy power-pop garage rock. It's a pretty far cry from his day job's sexy synth grooves, but his ear for [...]

To promote their forthcoming full-length debut, Instinct , Swedish pop duo Niki & The Dove have released a 17 minute mixtape, simply titled Mixtape #1 , featuring remixed cuts of tracks that will appear on the album, even ones never heard before. You can watch a video for the mixtape version of Instinct 's excellent lead single "Tomorrow" below, then check out the full tape . Continue reading: New: Niki & The Dove - Mixtape #1 Read more articles like " New: Niki & The [...]

POP ETC , the artists formerly known as the morning benders , are releasing their self-titled debut? A follow-up to Big Echo ? Whatever you want to call it, it's out June 12th and "Live It Up" is the first single. Continue reading: New: POP ETC (aka The Morning Benders) - "Live It Up" Read more articles like " New: POP ETC (aka The Morning Benders) - "Live It Up" " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Pop Etc , [...]

The misleadingly plural Foxes is actually just London's Louisa Rose Allen , a 22-year-old music school dropout who crafts completely irresistible and compellingly strange pop music all on her own. Continue reading: The Irresistible and Strange Pop of Foxes Read more articles like " The Irresistible and Strange Pop of Foxes " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Foxes

We're not sure what to say about the Vancouver quartet Hot Panda that you can't infer from the first single from their upcoming LP Go Outside , "Future Markets" – funky bass and tribal beats anchor dispossessed vocals, processed guitars, and metallic drones that seethe from zero to sixty, by which we mean quiet, percolating fuzz to all-out panic attack, in milliseconds flat. At its soft moments it sounds like driving wooded back roads in the dark in the rain, when it snaps it sounds like the monster caught in your headlights when you turn the corner. [...]