Presenting the list of our favorite releases from an overwhelming year, posted up way too soon like we always do:
polaroids: SXSW 2019
All photos shot by Patrick Waites:
GvsB VII: CHROMATICS
CHROMATICS announce the DOUBLE EXPOSURE 2019 North American tour — their first in over 5 years — and share the video for glimmering new Dear Tommy track "Time Rider"...
Grimes drops new demo “Pretty Dark”
Grimes shares a new track from her "AR band" project character "Dark". She says about the "Pretty Dark" demo: "NOT A SINGLE lol / just a demo. This is from an AR musical im working on (AKA NOT THE ALBUM/ NOT OFFICIAL GRIMES MUSIC//////)."
Patience – The Girls Are Chewing Gum
Roxanne Clifford, formerly of beloved indie-pop band Veronica Falls, announces her debut album as Patience, coming May 5th on Glasgow's great Night School Records and on her own Winona Records in the U...
Channel Tres drops triumphant new track
Channel Tres is back with his first single of 2019, and this one might be his sickest track yet, which is high praise when we're talking about the man responsible for such ineffable bangers as "Topdown", "Controller", and "Jet Black"...
stream Sofia Kourtesis’ new EP
Bless those purveyors of vibrant and adventurous modern dance music over at Stockholm label/collective Studio Barnhus for bestowing upon us the stellar new self-titled 12" from Lima/Berlin-based, self-described "traveling bedroom producer" Sofia Kourtesis...
Presenting our favorite songs of 2018*...
gorilla vs. bear’s SONGS OF 2018
We are beyond excited to announce our new endeavor Luminelle Recordings, a record label formed in collaboration with Fat Possum/House Arrest...
announcing Luminelle Recordings
polaroids: DAFT PUNK
Tamaryn takeover: NOT REALLY
This is a podcast i’m addicted to (I accidentally didn’t do anything else but binge listen to it yesterday) by one of my favorite minds and friends Patrik Sandberg (CR Fashion Book) and his hilariously outspoken partner in verbal crime Paul Cupo (Hood By Air). They are so quick witted and unapologetic. I can’t get enough. For fans of Drag Race, Real Housewives and questioning everything taboo in current events. Just read their bio...
Tamaryn takeover: KRIS ESFANDIARI
NGHTCRWLR, Miserable, King Woman and more. This woman is a force of nature. To me, her voice at once channels all the suffering of humanity and harnesses the power that fuels the natural world. Just trust me on this… I’ve seen her destory an entire room and leave everyone dumbstruck by the emotion she projects...
Tamaryn takeover: DERO ARCADE
This is my new record label. I had every intention of self releasing this album but when I started chatting to label head Jack Mannix I knew this was my community. Jack is the most angelic and inspiring being...
Tamaryn takeover: STARHAWK
Dreaming The Dark is the name of my album, also an essential book for anyone interested in witchcraft, magic, control, the patriarchy, sex, religion or politics. Eco-feminism is something that I think we all should embrace...
Tamaryn takeover: SRSQ
I played a festival with Kennedy Ashlyn recently and as she exited the stage a women from the crowd ran after her screaming “voice of a generation!” I can’t argue. She has a transcendent operatic like range and a cosmic sense of melody...
Tamaryn takeover: JORGE ELBRECHT
We've been massive fans of everything Tamaryn has done for the past decade plus (she was also on the lineup for what remains the coolest show we've ever done), so it's a huge honor to have her take over the site on release day for her most powerful and emotionally resonant album to date, Dreaming the Dark, a shimmering, soaring synth-pop odyssey that warrants every single Tears for Fears and Kate Bush reference it will inevitably garner. To start things off this morning, Tamaryn tells us about her regular collaborator, producer, and close friend, the great Jorge Elbrecht:
video premiere: Paige Stark – Depression Song
L.A.’s Paige Stark follows up one of our favorite songs of last year (her heartbreaker of a debut single “Albatross”) with another lovely track from her as-yet-untitled debut LP, coming this summer...
watch MUNYA’s dreamy set for CBC First Play Live
Fresh off her triumphant SXSW debut last week in Austin, Saguenay's self-described "new synth folk" producer/songwriter/chanteuse MUNYA performs a selection of highlights from her enchanting EP trilogy -- North Hatley, Delmano, and the new Blue Pine EP -- for CBC's First Play Live...
video premiere: Matt Kivel – l.a. coliseum
Matt Kivel shares the video for one of the standout tracks from his forthcoming 5th LP last night in america, a record inspired in part by what Kivel describes as that uniquely American ability to "to shrug and submerge terrible feelings...
Weyes Blood shares self-directed video for Titanic Rising highlight “Movies”
Taken from Titanic Rising, out April 5th on Sub Pop: