smith westerns

Video by Josiah Marshall:

Whitney follows up one of the year's most beautiful songs with another stellar single / "their 'Trap Queen'", taken from their just-announced debut LP Light Upon The Lake. Video by Josiah Marshall & Frank Frankowski. Light Upon the Lake is out on limited clear vinyl on June 3rd via Secretly Canadian, but you can grab the bittersweet "Golden Days" on iTunes now...

As much as we'll always love their classic debut (which we first heard 4 years ago today), the excellent new Smith Westerns LP Soft Will may be their biggest/best yet; listen to another infectious track from the LP, out June 25 on Mom+Pop:

Taken from the group's forthcoming LP Soft Will, out June 25 on Mom+Pop.

This was unexpected: download Peaking Lights' "spaced-out, dream-dub" version of S-dubz "End of the Night," via Peaking Lights' facebook: mp3:

Presenting Smith Westerns live at the Loft in Dallas on February 8, with special guests Yuck and Sunset. We have 5 pairs of tickets to give away for this one, courtesy of the venue. Just like us on Facebook or leave your name in the comments below to enter, and I'll pick the winners next week...

Fat Possum further unveils their plan to dominate January 18, 2011: Cape Dory, the debut full-length from Denver's Tennis, arrives on that date, the same day the label drops the aforementioned Smith Westerns LP. That's the glorious cover art above, which as Dent May points out, is apparently an homage to this...