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Universal's latest signee Azealia Banks debuts a new track in a strange place, even for her: the runway at Mugler's show at Paris Fashion Week (remember her standout "2123 lyric, "kick it with your bitch who come from Parisian, she know where I get mine from and the season..."). Mugler's creative director Nicola Formichetti will reportedly direct the upcoming video for Banks' track "Liquorice," so in return she gave him "Bambi," probably her rave-iest track yet, all pounding, hypnotic club backbeat. Continue reading: New: Azealia Banks - "Bambi" (Studio Version) [...]

Swedish pop trio Miike Snow are releasing their sophomore album, Happy To You at the end of March and are celebrating that with a string of dates in April and early May, as well as an appearance at this year's ULTRA and Coachella music festivals. Check out the dates below: Continue reading: Miike Snow Spring 2012 Tour Dates Read more articles like " Miike Snow Spring 2012 Tour Dates " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Miike Snow

Texas' great White Denim have announced a string of April dates, to add onto their ongoing Winter tour. Listen to this fcking epic live recording of "Street Joy" while you scurry about finding tickets to your local show. Continue reading: White Denim 2012 Tour Dates Read more articles like " White Denim 2012 Tour Dates " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: White Denim

We just got through sharing our thoughts on Lana Del Rey's massively hyped Born To Die LP , and now we're hearing that LDR is planning to re-release her 2010 album, under her Lizzy Grant album. According to the BBC, Del Rey has acquired the rights to the album (for a relatively low $10,000) and will be releasing it later this year. Continue reading: Lana Del Rey Planning to Re-Release Lizzy Grant Album Read more articles like " Lana Del Rey [...]

New York's up and comer Azelia Banks seems to have struck a chord with the Fashion community. Last week, Azealia provided a new song called "Bambi" for Mugler's menswear runway show and announced that Mugler's creative director and Lady Gags collaborator, Nicola Formichetti was directing her video for "Liquorice." And just last night, Azealia was invited to perform at a party hosted by iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. You can even see him attempt to capture the performance on his iPad 2. Awesome. [...]

Young & Old , the sophomore outing from husband and wife duo, Tennis , has positioned itself as the album to gift to your Valentine this year. After sharing the stellar first single "Origins," and its non-album b-side, "Deep in the Woods," the Denver duo are offering up a new song called "My Better Self." Listen below while you wait for February 14 to come around. Continue reading: New: Tennis - "My Better Self" Read more articles like " New: Tennis - "My Better Self" [...]

Florence + The Machine have released a new video for "Lover To Lover," the next single from their excellent 2011 LP, Ceremonials . It's a live clip that offers a compelling case to go out and buy a ticket for their recently announced world tour. Watch it below and check out when the band is coming to a city near you. Continue reading: Florence + The Machine Releases "Lover To Lover" Vid, Tour Dates Read more articles like " Florence + The Machine Releases "Lover To [...]

A couple weeks ago we reported on Odd Future's forthcoming compilation album, The OF Tape, Vol. 2 , and how the collective was going to promote the album with a string of shows and pop-up shops – and now, those dates have been made available. Check them out below: Continue reading: Odd Future US Tour Dates Read more articles like " Odd Future US Tour Dates " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Odd Future

Everyone's favorite Texas musical pseudo-cult The Polyphonic Spree are back after a brief hiatus, and their video announcement, cut with performance footage, boasts a list of February 2012 tour dates and a brand new song, "What Would You Do." Continue reading: New: The Polyphonic Spree - "What Would You Do" Read more articles like " New: The Polyphonic Spree - "What Would You Do" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: The Polyphonic Spree

Battles are following up their massively acclaimed, jam-laden 2011 art-math opus Gloss Drop with an appropriately titled, four-part remix album series called Dross Glop . In advance of the release of part 1 on February 6, you can check out re-ups of "Wall Street" and "Sweetie and Shag," the former by Gui Boratto and the latter by The Field , who keeps his looping state of mind intact as he drones out the sunny pop cut into nine minutes of creepy, echoing drones with only Kazu Makino's decontextualized intakes of breath as proof [...]

That's the official title for Rick Rubin's remix of Justice's groovy new single, "On'n'On," though we'd hardly agree with it. Mr. Rubin , being a ridiculously successful superproducer , doesn't do this sort of thing often but when he does, it's usually a home run. Listen below: Continue reading: New: Justice - "On'N'On" (Ruined by Rick Rubin) Read more articles like " New: Justice - "On'N'On" (Ruined by Rick Rubin) " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Justice , Rick [...]

Word is that next week, January 31st, M.I.A. will officially release a revamped version of "Bad Girls," that seriously bright highlight from Maya's seriously good Vicki Leekx mixtape . Check out the track as its stands now, then come back next week for the new single version. Continue reading: M.I.A. To Release "Bad Girls" Single Next Week Read more articles like " M.I.A. To Release "Bad Girls" Single Next Week " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: M.I.A.

Philly's finest purveyors of ramshackle pop-Americana Dr. Dog are back to their old ways with "Lonesome," a brand new drunk-on-the-back-porch rollicking slow-burner that serves as the first single for their upcoming record Be the Void. We love that old-school found-sounding percussion, those echoey dueling guitars, those folk-traditional group vocals. The whole thing sounds like you could turn a corner into 1870 and come across all your ancestors jamming it out at the local saloon, by which we mean pretty damn good. Be the Void will drop February 7 on Anti-; we hope it boasts [...]

Arctic Monkeys stopped by BBC Radio 1 and delivered this sweet cover of one of last year's best dance floor jams, Katy B's "Katy On A Mission." Ch-ch-check it out. Continue reading: Arctic Monkeys - "Katy On A Mission" (Katy B Cover) Read more articles like " Arctic Monkeys - "Katy On A Mission" (Katy B Cover) " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Arctic Monkeys

Yesterday, Secretly Canadian released Porcelain Raft's Strange Weekend . We've already shared our thoughts about it (spoiler: we liked it!), and now you can catch the brand new visuals for album highlight "Unless You Speak From Your Heart." Continue reading: Video: Porcelain Raft - "Unless You Speak From Your Heart" Read more articles like " Video: Porcelain Raft - "Unless You Speak From Your Heart" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Porcelain Raft

Fresh in the wake of that brilliantly accurate Portlandia sketch that centers around the question "want to come to my DJ night?", producer and remixer extraordinaire Star Slinger jumps on the bandwagon of what's perhaps the internet's equivalent of DJ nights with a mixtape series called JET JAM (it shares its name with, yes, a DJ night, but only if you can make it to Ljubljana, Slovenia). Continue reading: MP3: Star Slinger - JET JAM Mixtape #1 Read more articles like " MP3: Star Slinger - JET JAM [...]

Something about the very name of Canadian indie-pop four-piece Yukon Blonde feels like subtle disappointment – blonde isn't quite a fair substitute for gold, after all – and appropriately the band's latest single "Stairway," the first offering from their upcoming LP Tiger Talk , power-pops its way through a healthy dose of homesick melancholy. It might be a guitar-driven jam with plenty of arena rock drumming and riffage about coming home after a long slog, but this isn't an indie re-update of Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" – think more of the relentlessly catchy, driving [...]

Not to be confused with MEN, The Men are a Brooklyn quartet who are carrying the banner of old-school punk pretty well for this day and age. Their upcoming LP Open Your Heart doesn't lack one bit in insane riffage or massive drums or strained vocals or electric, instantly moshpit-inducing forward drive – case in point, the record's title track, which dropped as another teaser this week and has the kind of blind, resolute, unstoppable energy that'll almost drive you to start a wall of death in your room, right here, right now. Continue [...]

Here is your daily dose of Swedish pop deliciousness. Miike Snow , who have a new album called Happy To You coming out soon, have recruited Lykke Li for their latest promo track, "Black Tin Box." Continue reading: New: Miike Snow & Lyyke Li - "Black Tin Box" Read more articles like " New: Miike Snow & Lyyke Li - "Black Tin Box" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . No tags for this post.

Official video for Sleigh Bells' first single for Reign of Terror , due out February 21. This one's grown on us a lot. Continue reading: Video: Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid" Read more articles like " Video: Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid" " on PMA | Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Sleigh Bells