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Nestled between San Francisco and the notorious Alcatraz lives Treasure Island. A bit haunted with history in its own right, for the past eight years it's become home to the Treasure Island Music Festival. Steeped in a fog that continually rolls throughout the day, a sea salt whispered haze illuminated the thousands crowding the tiny space. And though the San Francisco music scene has arguably tr

Animal Collective, who recently finished recording their forthcoming record at LA's EastWest Studios, have re-launched a new + improved myanimalhome.net to announce a limited (2000 copies) new 3xLP live boxset, from their show at 9:30 in Washington, DC, in June 2013. Listen to the live version of Feels classic "Did You See The Words" from the record below, check the tracklist after the

Panda Bear keeps the PBVSGR-related gems coming with his brand new Crosswords EP, featuring a new mix of the album highlight, along with a glorious studio version of live favorite "Jabberwocky", re-worked versions of "The Preakness" + "Cosplay", and new track "No Man's Land" (fka "Papadum"), which gets a trippy animated visual by Patakk: Update: y

The legend Pete Rock lends his golden touch on a nice and subtle hip-hop re-working of one of the best tracks of the year. This one will appear on the PBVSGR Remixes EP, along with the previously released Danny L Harle + Andy Stott remixes and more, out next week...

My friends Andre and Joana make up this Lisbon group. Their recent music has a rough kind of wander that I like a lot. Familiarity feels good and safe but most of the time its the search thats most revealing. Check out the videos too… -- Noah Lennox

Hiatus Kaiyote is a group from Australia I heard in my friend Dave’s car on the radio a couple of years ago. I didn’t know what was playing and I liked it so much I went online to the radio stations website log to find out. Turns out it was Hiatus Kaiyote playing a song called Nakamarra...

My wife Fernanda makes clothes and is a far more inventive and creative thinker than I am. Im especially fond of this collection of jackets she made a little while back. The fabric for the jackets comes from traditional Portuguese blankets (Fernanda is Portuguese I should mention) and I like the idea of walking around covered in a blanket...

This is another local group that i like a lot. I first saw videos of theirs as promotion for one of the Principe nights and liked how they grafted with the music. They’ll have a new 12” record coming out soon but for now check out this video which shows them playing together...

Im looking forward to the upcoming record from Shamir. Wish Id caught him live as Ive heard from a bunch of people about the shows. I like the rawness and directness of his singing against the robo synthetic backgrounds. -- Panda Bear

Here’s a recent one from this Swedish band. I like the singing a lot and really like how they go the extra mile to craft synth sounds. They also don’t seem to let the machines do the work which i can appreciate. Im also a fan of the song they did with Gorillaz called Empire Ants with two loosely connected but gracefully navigated sides...