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4AD just unleashed the next song from our early frontrunner for album of the year, Grimes' "post-internet" revelation, Visions. The beautiful/celestial future-pop jam "Genesis" has been a favorite in Grimes' live sets for a minute, and the LP version offers a glimpse at how far she's come since she sent us her (also great) debut tape almost 2 years ago: mp3: Visions drops on

Grimes has signed with 4AD, the home of Ariel Pink, Gang Gang, St. Vincent, et al. The esteemed label will release her next-level new LP Visions on February 21, 2012 in the States (and in Canada via Arbutus) and March 12 everywhere else...

Gorgeous, hypnotic new ethereal pop (that still manages to bump) from the amazing Grimes, taken from one of our most anticipated records of 2012, her forthcoming LP Visions: mp3: Catch Grimes this Thursday night at our YT x GvB 2011 CMJ party...

Directed by the great Alice Cohen. "Dream World" is taken from Majical Cloudz II, out now on Arbutus / Movie Star. mp3:

Here's a new one from Tonstartssbandht, taken from their all-over-the-place-in-the-best-way new record, Now I Am Become, which drops today on Arbutus. In stark contrast to the catchy, relatively structured previously unveiled jammer "Shot to La Parc, album closer "Orange Miss You" finds the bros in the midst of a noisy, chaotic, and occasionally abrasive experiment that takes a

Two new videos from like-minded Montreal homies Grimes + d'Eon, for songs taken from their new split 12", Darkbloom. Grimes gets down in her clip for "Vanessa," then she eats d'Eon's hair in his awesomely bizarre vid for '90s-R&B-leaning smooth jam "Transparency...

Here's an otherwordly new jam from Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, taken from Dark Bloom, Boucher's forthcoming split 12" EP with her Montreal homie d'Eon. The soaring "Vanessa" represents the bolder, slightly more polished version of Grimes' cosmic "space-station pop" that wowed just about everyone who caught one of her transportive sets at SXSW earlier this month... Read Mo

Halfaxa, the adventurous and entrancing new full-length from Montreal's Grimes, is officially out now, and can be had for free (with the option of a suggested donation) courtesy of the amazing Arbutus Records. Go here to download and offer your support, or purchase the gatefold CD for $8...

More ethereal, eerily moving outerspace transmissions from Montreal's amazing "cosmic-pop deity" Grimes, who's firmly established herself as one of our favorite new artists of 2010. "Weregild" + "Devon" are a preview of her magical new album, Halfaxa, which will be officially released by Arbutus Records on September 30th at the Pop Montreal festival...

Montreal duo Blue Hawaii makes glowing, wistful tropical-pop lullabyes that the band dubs "far away music." Their new Blooming Summer cassette is out now on Arbutus Records, the label that brought us that rad Grimes tape eariler this year. Grab the tape + download the mp3s for FREE here: mp3: ******