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Video: The Gaslight Anthem’s genuine, rocking new single “Handwritten”

Video: The Gaslight Anthem’s genuine, rocking new single “Handwritten”

Jordy Kasko July 18, 2012 0

Check out the new video for The Gaslight Anthem‘s genuine, rocking new single “Handwritten” off of their upcoming fourth album Handwritten, which drops next week.  Sorry that we can’t embed it yet — you’ll

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Hip-Hop Hits: The-Dream’s smooth “Dope Bitch (ft. Pusha T)” <small>[MP3]</small>

Hip-Hop Hits: The-Dream’s smooth “Dope Bitch (ft. Pusha T)” [MP3]

Jordy Kasko July 17, 2012 0

Got some new The-Dream for you below.  It’s a smooth song that runs on a hip-hop beat but has very little rapping thanks to The-Dream’s crooning: “I mean no disrespect by this next line/

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Video: London quintet exlovers’ new clip for the lovely “Emily”

Video: London quintet exlovers’ new clip for the lovely “Emily”

Jordy Kasko July 16, 2012 0

About a month ago, London quintet exlovers released their debut album Moth, and we posted the single “This Love Will Lead You On,” a great track from the album.  Below, you can watch a new video from

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Indie pop band Husky Rescue’s nostalgic “Deep Forest Green” <small>[MP3]</small>

Indie pop band Husky Rescue’s nostalgic “Deep Forest Green” [MP3]

Jordy Kasko July 12, 2012 0

Scandinavian indie pop band Husky Rescue have captivated me today with their aching, nostalgic song “Deep Forest Green.”  Its instrumentation is minimal and direct, featuring various electronic elements that are used wisely; it’s the

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Video: Kishi Bashi’s “I Am the Antichrist to You” as a surreal children’s book

Video: Kishi Bashi’s “I Am the Antichrist to You” as a surreal children’s book

Jordy Kasko July 12, 2012 0

Back in April we posted a stream of the debut solo album from of Montreal‘s Kishi Bashi (it’s still available, by the way), and my fiancée and I subsequently fell in love with the album

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Peggy Sue add guitars to a lo-fi version of The Angels’ “My Boyfriend’s Back”

Peggy Sue add guitars to a lo-fi version of The Angels’ “My Boyfriend’s Back”

Jordy Kasko July 10, 2012 0

British group Peggy Sue are releasing a covers album on July 23 entitled Peggy Sue Play the Songs of Scorpio Rising, and the first track I’ve heard from the release is this lo-fi interpretation

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Britishness: London quintet Torches’ stirring alt-rock, “Sky Blue & Ivory”

Britishness: London quintet Torches’ stirring alt-rock, “Sky Blue & Ivory”

Jordy Kasko July 9, 2012 0

London indie/alt-rock quintet Torches make the kind of wholesome, anthemic, stirring music that Brits seem to fall for, like Hurts without the synths or Clock Opera with an even bigger sound.  ”Sky Blue & Ivory”

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Song of the Day: Jesse Harris + Conor Oberst’s delectable “I Won’t Wait”

Song of the Day: Jesse Harris + Conor Oberst’s delectable “I Won’t Wait”

Jordy Kasko July 3, 2012 0

You know at least one song by NYC singer-songwriter Jesse Harris, even if you don’t recognize his name (and chances are you don’t): “Don’t Know Why,” as performed by Norah Jones.  That’s right.  Harris wrote

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Video: Eugene McGuinness swaggers through neon lights on “Harlequinade”

Video: Eugene McGuinness swaggers through neon lights on “Harlequinade”

Jordy Kasko July 3, 2012 0

One of my biggest crushes in the music world is Eugene McGuinness, the suave British hottie who will release his second album, The Invitation to the Voyage, in August.  We’ve heard a number of great tunes

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Video: Grouplove folk up Andrew W.K.’s “Party Hard” for A.V. Undercover

Video: Grouplove folk up Andrew W.K.’s “Party Hard” for A.V. Undercover

Jordy Kasko July 2, 2012 0

By all rights, it should be wholly unsettling to hear Andrew W.K.‘s 2001 hard rock hit “Party Hard” turned into a soothing, beautifully harmonized neo-folk tune… but instead, it’s rather settling.  L.A. indie band

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Video: Tristesse Contemporaine’s dark avant-pop, “Hell Is Other People”

Video: Tristesse Contemporaine’s dark avant-pop, “Hell Is Other People”

Jordy Kasko June 21, 2012 0

Parisian avant-pop trio Tristesse Contemporaine will release their self-titled debut album on June 25.  You can feast your eyes upon the dark, surrealistic clip for album cut “Hell Is Other People” below.  The song

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Talk Show Tunes: Dirty Projectors do “Gun Has No Trigger” live on Jimmy Fallon

Talk Show Tunes: Dirty Projectors do “Gun Has No Trigger” live on Jimmy Fallon

Jordy Kasko June 20, 2012 0

Below, watch a wonderful performance of the highly unique single “Gun Has No Trigger” by Brooklyn art-pop group Dirty Projectors on Fallon last night. Previously: “Dance for You,” “Gun Has No Trigger,” our Mount Wittenberg Orca EP

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