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In honor of D'Angelo's imminent comeback, or in his words, "to celebrate the return of the master," James Blake premiered this new remix of Voodoo track "Left & Right" while guest DJing on BBC Radio 1. Check it out below: Continue reading: New: James Blake Remixes D'Angelo Read more articles like " New: James Blake Remixes D'Angelo " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: James Blake

LMFAO , Nicki Minaj , M.I.A. and Cee Lo Green all join Madonna at this year's Super Bowl Halftime show. The Pop Queen's setlist included seminal classics "Vogue" and "Like A Prayer," turn of the millennium smash "Music" and her newest single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'." Continue reading: Madonna Plays Super Bowl Halftime Show Read more articles like " Madonna Plays Super Bowl Halftime Show " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Madonna

Saturday Night Live delivered the goods this weekend, giving Bon Iver the stage to perform their Grammy-nominated "Holocene" and the divisive "Beth/Rest." Earlier this week Bon Iver revealed that they gave the good folks at the Grammys a Cee-Lo style Forget You when they said they had to collaborate with another artist in order to perform. So the stage at 30 Rock is the biggest one the band will be chilling-out too anytime soon. Check out the performances below: "Holocene": "Beth/Rest": [...]

B- | 02.07.11 | Smalltown Supersound | Stream | CD | VINYL Though he claims to be a homebody, Oslo's Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has been slowly but surely suffusing Norway's electro scene with his updated take on what's essentially disco music – a handful of EPs, remixes, collaborative releases, and a solo album later, Lindstrøm's such an established name that it's hard to believe his latest release, Six Cups of Rebel , is only his second solo album. The man's certainly been busy in the interim since his solo debut [...]

Drake has just released this nice homemade clip for the Weeknd -penned "Practice," from last November's excellent Take Care album. Don't watch it in front of your boss, or mother. Continue reading: Video: Drake - "Practice" Read more articles like " Video: Drake - "Practice" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Drake

We weren't that sweet on The Big Pink's second LP, Future This , but that doesn't mean our ears didn't perk up when we heard the band decided to give away one of the album's slyest and poppiest numbers, "Give It Up," for free. It's a fun Friday listen and, it's f*cking free. Claim your MP3 below: Continue reading: MP3: The Big Pink - "Give It Up" Read more articles like " MP3: The Big Pink - "Give It Up" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing [...]

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We are shamelessly in love with M.I.A.'s new single, "Bad Girls." It's better than anything on /\/\/\Y/\ and gives some of Kala's highlights a run for their money. Now we have a video of insane car stunts to jam to. The clip comes from by "Born Free" director Romain Gavras. Continue reading: Video: M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" Read more articles like " Video: M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: M.I.A.

VEVO premieres the new Miike Snow video for Happy To You 's official first single "Paddling Out." Happy To You is out March 27. Watch the clip below: Continue reading: Video: Miike Snow - "Paddling Out" Read more articles like " Video: Miike Snow - "Paddling Out" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Miike Snow

Adult Swim produced this animated clip for Neon Indian's very great Era Extraña standout, "Fallout." Get back into this song, folks. Watch the vid and grab an mp3 after the skip: Continue reading: Video: Neon Indian - "Fallout" Read more articles like " Video: Neon Indian - "Fallout" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Neon Indian

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We wrote about Shabazz Palaces associates THEESatisfaction before ; you guys dug them right? The Sub Pop duo have an album coming out on March 27th called awE NaturalE . Here is "QueenS," the first track to come from the album. Continue reading: Check Out: THEESatisfaction - "QueenS" MP3 Read more articles like " Check Out: THEESatisfaction - "QueenS" MP3 " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: THEESatisfaction

Pop's reigning matriarch, Madonna , has just premiered "Give Me All Your Luvin'," the M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj -wasting first single from her forthcoming 12th studio album, MDNA . Continue reading: Madonna - "Give Me All Your Luvin'" f/ M.I.A. & Nicki Minaj Read more articles like " Madonna - "Give Me All Your Luvin'" f/ M.I.A. & Nicki Minaj " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: M.I.A. , Madonna , Nicki Minaj

Love at the Bottom of the Sea will be Los Angeles songwriter Stephin Merrit's eleventh record with the Magnetic Fields , so it's appropriate that the record's first single, "Andrew In Drag," sticks with (as you may guess) one of Merrit's favorite lyrical tropes – a blurring of gender lines. The track's slightly NSFW video sticks with that theme too as well as with the song's playful, indie-pop bounce, showing off the very different drag makeup routines of two characters. Watch the video while you wait for the record to drop on Merge on March 6. [...]

Atlanta's finest ambient punk four-piece Deerhunter have been all too quiet since the release of their fantastic fourth full-length Halcyon Digest in 2010, but they dropped a new instrumental track today on Blonde Redhead frontwoman Kazu Makino's Japan tsunami relief compilation We Are the Works in Progress , which'll also feature exclusive tracks from Four Tet, Interpol, Liars , and the Knife , among others. Continue reading: New: Deerhunter - "Curve" Read more articles like " New: Deerhunter - "Curve" " on [...]

Lana Del Rey's second crack at American late night TV wasn't too shabby. Check out the young singer perform "Video Games" below. Born To Die is out now, read our review . Continue reading: Lana Del Rey Performs "Video Games" on Letterman Read more articles like " Lana Del Rey Performs "Video Games" on Letterman " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Lana Del Rey

Beach Fossils have been so ubiquitous for the past few years that we have to keep reminding ourselves they've still only released one self-titled LP. Brooklyn songwriter Dustin Payseur and his merry band of dream-popping cohorts have been making hay injecting a healthy dose of jangly, tightly interwoven '80s new wave-inspired guitar riffage into a style that tends to pride itself on sounding so hazy and out-of-it it's almost like lying in your bed with a sinus infection, and those nervous guitars are still in finest form on the band's newest single "Shallow." Continue reading: MP3: New [...]

Beach Fossils have been so ubiquitous for the past few years that we have to keep reminding ourselves they've still only released one self-titled LP. Brooklyn songwriter Dustin Payseur and his merry band of dream-popping cohorts have been making hay injecting a healthy dose of jangly, tightly interwoven '80s new wave-inspired guitar riffage into a style that tends to pride itself on sounding so hazy and out-of-it it's almost like lying in your bed with a sinus infection, and those nervous guitars are still in finest form on the band's newest single "Shallow." Continue reading: MP3: New [...]

Video directed by Pondr . "Materials" taken from Nico Jaar's little heard 2010 EP, Marks / Angles . Listen to it over at Spotify . Continue reading: Nicolas Jaar - "Materials" Read more articles like " Nicolas Jaar - "Materials" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Nicolas Jaar

Sébastien Tellier will follow-up 20082s Daft Punk -produced Sexuality with My God is Blue , due out on April 16. Of the album, Tellier has this to say: "Don't listen to my album; listen to my message. Enter into vibration with my music. Let's merge our dreams, together spreading this communal energy in an immense blue wave that will wash over the world - and truth will emerge." Continue reading: Sébastien Tellier: New Album, My God Is Blue , Hear New Song Read more [...]

Remember Wild Nothing's precious Twin Sister -featuring new single, "Nowhere" ? Yeah, well here is the (superior) b-side, "Wait." Like we said, Captured Tracks will release the "Nowhere" single on February 21st. Both new tracks will appear on Wild Nothing's forthcoming sophomore LP, which was recorded in a real, professional studio, a first for Jack Tatum. Continue reading: New: Wild Nothing - "Wait" Read more articles like " New: Wild Nothing - "Wait" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Wild [...]

UK Dance duo Orbital are back after a hiatus of nearly eight years. Their new LP is called Wonky and it's out April 3rd here in the US. The first track to come from the album is a doozy; "New France," it's called, makes great use of Zola Jesus' Nika Rosa Danilova and her powerhouse vocals. Listen below: Continue reading: New: Orbital & Zola Jesus - "New France" Read more articles like " New: Orbital & Zola Jesus - "New France" " on PMA | [...]