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Here's the long-awaited first track to be unveiled from Shabazz Palaces' lush, dizzyingly brilliant new full-length, Lese Majesty. Not necessarily the most representative track on the new record, "They Come in Gold" kicks off with the kind of diamond-hard beat and ominous flow that made Black Up the best album of 2011, but the comparison with the last record ends there. When taken out o

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Ejecta's twinkling, heartbreaking "Eleanor Lye", taken from one of the best debuts of last year, gets a rather intense and beautiful video, in which we witness the stark, emotional (re)birth of our fearless heroine. Directed by the always wonderful Allie Avital Tsypin of creative collective BANGS: (oh probably NSFW, but don't let that stop you)

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Dear Air France, Sometimes I think the way we met...happened too fast...Our favorite dream-pop upstarts Yumi Zouma drop a sumptuous, absolutely beautiful cover of the late, great Air France's glorious final single, with a little help from Joel + Henrik themselves...

Perfect British future pop from PC Music -- Jerome LOL

"Perhaps you know Lewis. Perhaps Lewis is you"The heroes at Light In The Attic come through yet again, this time with the re-issue of L'Amour, a little-known 1983 private press obscurity from a long-lost enigma named Lewis. L'amour, a record that we were first made aware of a couple years back and that has haunted us on occasion since, and which the label accurately calls "a spine-t

Hear a weightless, twinkling new track from Beach House, taken from Space Project, a compilation featuring tracks "built around recordings made in space by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes." Listen at NPR.

As if we weren't psyched enough about SOPHIE coming to TX next week for SXSW: get your synapses bent by the next level sounds + visuals from the mysterious London producer's mind-melting, very out there live set for #JUSTJAM last night

According to the new issue of Under The Radar (and now confirmed by his label, Domino), Panda Bear is once again working with Sonic Boom, this time on a "break-centric," 9th Wonder-influenced new album, tentatively titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper...