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Thanks to Dre for putting us on to Olympia, Washington's Braxton/Palmer, and more specifically, his excellent new debut two-part Creeper single, due next month on Ceremony Recordings. "Creeper, Pt. II" is a perfect introduction to the producer's glimmering, vintage deep house, and his preternatural flair for flipping vaguely familiar vocal samples -- in this case, an inspired choice fr

Our friends at PORTALS caught up with Brooklyn's Lorely Rodriguez -- aka Empress Of, whose full-on, swooning electro-pop set was easily one of the best things we saw at SXSW -- down in Austin last month, where they captured this charmingly intimate, stripped-down solo piano version of her new single "Tristeza," shot in black & white at Estuary by the PORTALS crew...