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We've already established that next year's Austin Psych Fest presents: LEVITATION 2015 lineup is really great, from the Jesus and Mary Chain doing Psychocandy on down to Costa Rican girl-gang garage rippers Las Robertas, and a ton of amazing bands in between. We don't expect anyone to take our word for it though, and nothing illustrates the quality of next year's fest better than this 90-minute m

"BONUS HOLIDAY JAM, with love from A. G. Cook and OPN" ...plus an unreleased track from R Plus Seven:

"It's the end of the year, so to commemorate the global underground touring we did— to all the people who were interested in coming to and putting on a Blue Hawaii show in Bangkok or Vilnius— we decided to put together a free mixtape of edits — somewhere between the dreamy record and the banging live show...

We've established that we're unabashed fans of the "Wicked Game" cover in general, whether the take is eerie and drugged out, super dream-wavy, or even sultry-but-straightforward-and-kind-of-unremarkable. But this haunting Lydia Ainsworth version might be the most beautiful + elegant rendition of the late '80s classic yet; download it below:

Download another unreleased gem from CHROMATICS + some cinematic, 7 movement, 30+ minute, "Electronic Wall Paper For Your Dreams" from Johnny Jewel:

Looking forward to this, should be pretty amazing: My best-of year-end list will be a mixtape of (mostly bootleg) remixes I made of my favorite tracks. — Recycle Culture (@RecycleCulture) December 1, 2014

In today's edition of "Checking in with Johnny Jewel": the prolific producer is still going strong (and being very generous) over on soundcloud. Today, he drops Glass Candy's cover of Herb Alpert's famously-sampled 1979 classic "Rise", along with a sweet story about the song's creation...

Here are our favorite records of 2014. The general consensus seems to be that this was probably not the most amazing year of all-time for new music, and further, we just weren't feeling that many of the unanimously lauded critic/indie blog favorites this time around (many of which we wanted to love, but it just didn't work out, with a few notable and very obvious exceptions). But as always, if you