This has been a good year for rollicking Americana tracks. We've got Dawes Stories Don't End and now Deer Tick are turning out another fun record. Deer Tick's new album Negativity is out Sept 24, but we get an early listen today. Check out the increasingly-energetic track "The Rock" below. Once that horn section kicks [...]

Today brings the second chapter of electric boogaloo authored by Jack Magma. His new track is called "Super Powers," and is filled with the cyber-sounds and gigantic synths that have snuck their way into indie poprock this past decade. Magma has begun to cultivate a sound that starts at Passion Pit but ends up closer [...]
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This track from LX Sweat's upcoming City Of Sweat LP sounds gritty in a way that you wouldn't really expect from a German dude making dance music. In fact, it's much more in line with ... read more
http://www.poppressinternation al.com On a muggy evening in June, there really is no escape like being swept into the swampy and synthy sounds of a band like Twin Shadow. A laid-back crowd filed in out of the heat, but numbers were still small for what I consider to be a well-known band. Opener Elliphant (featuring an M.I.A-esque singer and her dj) worked hard to get the crowd out of their sun-addled stupor, and by all consideration succeeded in impressing them. However, it was obvious that this group of spectators had one agenda, and after a nice [...]
Ian Anderson, even as a massive four-DVD set of live Jethro Tull performances is set to be released next week, continues a well-received solo tour, highlighted by a June 30 stop at London's Royal Albert Hall and then a string of U.S. dates. He paused to discuss these on-going concert performances, his recent return to a legendary character from the [...]
This song makes everything that happened on the Tedeschi Trucks Band's Grammy-winning Revelator debut in 2011, not to mention last year's concert recording Everybody's Talkin', seem like a good-fun preamble. There's a refinement about this advance track from Make Up My Mind, due on August 20, 2013 from Sony, a taut sensibility that only comes from shared musical histories, shared [...]
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I'm still catching up on things I missed over the weekend and the start of this week. Timezones, redeye flights and weddling partying will really knock your schedule out of whack. Luckily there are a lot of fun surprises waiting for me, like this new track from M.I.A's upcoming album. I'll admit that I was [...]
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Arriving like a perfect combination of everything that the late Ray Manzarek brought to the Doors - this free-form, jazz-inflected sense of freedom - and the gnarled dangers of Roy Rogers' slide blues, "Just Like Sherlock Holmes" is a fine valedictory. Check out Rogers, midway through, as he bursts forth with a furious moment of improvisation, edging almost into math [...]
The Residents have been around since the early '70s, have made over 60 albums, 10 DVDs, 3 CD-ROM projects and numerous music videos and short films. And they make weird-assed music and dress in tuxes with top hats and eye masks. Do we know anything else about them? Yes, they're from Shreveport, Louisiana and relocated to the San Francisco bay [...]
Kanye West "Bound 23 "Bound 2," the final track on Yeezus , is the one song on the record that feels like something that could have been on one of his first three albums. It's also one of the album's most emotionally knotty cuts – it seems to be, in its own way, a show of affection for Kim Kardashian, but half the lyrics seem either passive-aggressive, dismissive, or openly skeptical about the relationship. But still, somehow, the song feels genuinely sweet. Maybe it's the self-deprecating tone in West's voice when he jokes about not [...]
The countdown is running and we continue with our focus on the artists featured on Kitsuné Soleil Mix 2 out on July 1st. Btw, did you already pre-order it on iTunes!? Today, we unveil 2 things we bet you didn't know about Sean Bones and Phone Tag who did a very groovy remix of his [...]
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We're really excited about the latest giveaway we've got for you - a pair of tickets to The Meoko Project . This is the first official event for the super rad promotions company, who launched in 2010, and not only will there be underground house and techno dj's such as Valentino Kanzyani, Jun Akimoto, Binh, Claus Voigtmann & Rico Casazza playing, there are some other exciting things happening too. The party celebrates all elements of club culture and includes a photography exhibition, pop-up fashion stalls and at 7pm the screening of the London Premier of music documentary [...]

We are heading to NY to catch Guadalupe Plata shred tomorrow night in Brooklyn. Come join us. Guadalupe Plata Cameo Gallery (Brooklyn) Thursday, June 20th @ 10:30pm Ticket Info Skip to :16 second mark. I briefly dated the girl lip-syncing the song. Guadalupe Plata - Lorena Guadalupe Plata - Milana Guadalupe Plata - I'd Rather Be A Devil [...]

4AD , you sure know how to twang my strings, if you know what I mean. Though I'm not entirely sure what I mean by that... my point is, they're constantly onto a bunch of winners . Peppy, but beautifully softly spoken, this is a wonderful tune that brings to mind a bit of She & Him, Fleetwood Mac and Neko Case (the latter of whom appears as a guest on this album). Considering that those three artists have appeared on this site before, it's no small wonder that I'm totally in love right now. The post [...]

While music-themed conversations over the rest of the season will surely be spent debating over the "classic" merits of Kanye West's stunning, need-to-hear-more-than-a-few-t imes-to-fully-d Yeezus , on a more under-the-radar profile, GOD:HiFi , the forthcoming EP from Brooklyn's MeLo-X is promising to inject just as much intriguing creativity and depth into hip hop's Summer 2013 quarter. On the heels of "Mojitos and Little Dragon" , a recipe for the ultimate relaxation session framed in sounds fabulously eccentric, MeLo makes a turn for the serious with the self-produced "The Truth", a sobering, introspective glimpse at police brutality [...]
Charmingly Ghetto "Got to Get Away" is a melancholy ode to escapism that portraits a young man looking for a way out of prison without bars. The song is complete and constructed perfectly with simplistic production from ATG that allows focus on CG's message, and Katrina Renee eloquent serenading. A very good introduction into the musical world of Charmingly Ghetto. S/O Guillermo for the alley-oop. The post Charmingly Ghetto feat. Katrina Renee - Got to Get Away appeared first on TAPEDECK .