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Real Estate has a new 7" due out next month on Half Machine Records, featuring the excellent (and oft-blogged) "Fake Blues" on the A-side, backed with unreleased UK-only track "Green River" on the flip. More sunny, consistently enjoyable psych-pop from the Jersey Shore, complete with appropriately hazy/beach-y cover art (pictured), all for only for £2...

You can now listen to the new Major Lazer record,  Gunz Don't Kill People, Lazers Do, in its entirety -- a week before its official release -- at myspace. Highlights include: "Can't Stop Now," "Keep It Goin' Louder'" (which Sasha Frere-Jones predicts "will dominate strip clubs and St...

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rihanna/major lazer As we all know by now, Major Lazer is not Diplo + Switch, he's actually a "a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984" that cruises around on a rocket-powered skateboard and chills with nude Rihanna...

santi + 1/2 of major lazer New "surf rock ragga thingamajig" from Major Lazer's forthcoming debut, featuring Mr. Lexx + Santigold. mp3: ************** elsewhere: Here's the first mp3 from Sonic Youth's upcoming LP, The Eternal, courtesy of Matador Records...