L.A.'s Piper Kaplan -- formerly of the great Pearl Harbour / Puro Instinct -- shares the infectious first single from her long-awaited new solo project Maraschino. Produced by Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grizzly Bear, Amen Dunes, et al.), "True Lover" is a bright and glittery synth-pop banger / break-up anthem that feels like an effervescent rush of '80s nostalgia, and has us very psyched to hear more from Pipes' new project. Listen below, and help support Maraschino's first-ever North American tour opening for Drugdealerhere.
Miami-raised, LA-based pop duo Magdalena Bay continue to wow us these days with their insanely versatile and unabashedly fun modern pop sensibility and '90s VHS visual aesthetic -- both of which honestly couldn't be any more up our alley -- and today Mica + Matthew hit us with some peak-era TRL vibes (think the Spice Girls, Kylie, Britney, et al...
RACQUET mag just released their sick California-focused 9th edition for Spring 2019, and as usual, we came through with some appropriate jams to soundtrack the issue from the likes of CHROMATICS, Solange, Toro y Moi, Kaytranada, MUNYA, and more, with some audio from budding young stars Bianca Andreescu and Felix Auger Aliassime prominently featured up in the mix. Pick up issue #9 here + listen to the mix below:
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...
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"...
Multi-talented LA-based singer/songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Christine Aprile aka Virgin Pool once again proves to be quite the compelling filmmaker with the elegant short film/music video for "Keeping Still", another haunting track from her new record Endless Evenings, out next month on Austin's Holodeck...
Launder shares the dreamlike new video for what is arguably his dreamiest, prettiest track yet, the gorgeously bittersweet and moving shoegaze ballad "Chew". Filmed in 16mm by Ben Mullen, directed by Robbie Barnett, produced + styled by Lindsey Hartman, starring musician/supermodel Staz Lindes and Wyatt Noble, and shot from the perspective of Staz's cat. Watch below, and cop Launder's Powder / Chew double A-side 7" here.
LA-via-Melbourne-via-New Zealand songwriter Jess Cornelius shares her beautiful and emotional new self-released single "No Difference", an empowering jam that is accurately described in the press release as "part self-help mantra, part blind fatalism"...
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