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Magdalena Bay – Venice
LA duo Magdalena Bay follow up the hottest 12 minutes of the summer with a shimmering, apocalyptic summer bop that's easily one of our favorite tracks of 2019. Mag Bay's proper new single "Venice", officially out today on Luminelle, is the duo's way of "coping with the ever-increasing ways that the world may end", and it's an absolutely glorious way to go out when global warming finally gets us all or the Russians burn this shit to the ground, whichever comes first...
Hana Vu – At the Party
LA's Hana Vu makes her triumphant return with the throbbing opening track from her stellar new double EP Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway, coming October 25th on Luminelle. Hana once again illustrates why she's one of the most endearingly cynical humans we know on the detached but eminently danceable new jam "At the Party", which Vulture has already properly dubbed an "evocapop anthem"...
Magdalena Bay release mini-mix vol. 1, check the new vid for “Nothing Baby”
L.A. duo Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin aka Magdalena Bay bless us with a badass DIY video for the final unreleased pop banger from their mini-mix vol. 1 mixtape, officially out everywhere today...
Vivian Girls announce reunion record Memory, share new song “Sick”
Whoa here's a pleasant surprise to start the day: Vivian Girls are back! Katy, Cassie, and Ali will return with new record Memory, "an album filled with personal reflections on toxic relationships, the false promise of new love, mental health struggles, and finding ways to accept oneself amidst it all", coming in September on Polyvinyl...
Magdalena Bay – Mine
We're very psyched to announce that L.A.-based duo Magdalena Bay has joined the Luminelle Recordings family. As I've alluded to at least a few times recently, the group is everything I love about pop music: playful, adventurous, fun, prolific, with a DIY spirit and shockingly good songs that are emotional and catchy af...
Maraschino – True Lover
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 Drugdealer here.
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premiere: Magdalena Bay share glittery new ode to sexual cannibalism “Only If You Want It”
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...
Gorilla vs. Bear x RACQUET Spring 2019 mix
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: