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Peaking Lights put their magic touch on one of our favorite singles of the year, draping some of their unmistakable dub-psych haze over Nite Jewel's "One Second of Love." Nite Jewel headlines an outstanding bill at the Bowery next week (also featuring Mac DeMarco + Sophia Knapp), and Peaking Lights play a free show tonight at Lincoln Center as part of the 2012 unsound festival... Read

New jj, taken from the group's forthcoming jj nº 4: beautiful life / burn 7" single, out in May on Secretly Canadian / Sincerely Yours:"DEAR LOVED ONES BOSSALINIS AND FOOLIYONES LEADERS OF THE NEW WORLD YOU WHO LIVE THIS BEAUTIFUL LIFE WE WANT YOU TO MAKE A VIDEO OF THE LIFE YOU LIVE, LIFE AS YOU SEE IT BECAUSE WE HAVE THE PERFECT SONG" -- jj mp3:

As Ramona Gonzalez hinted on preview tracks "She's Always Watching You" and "One Second of Love" (not to mention that gorgeous Stevie Wonder cover), gone are the beloved lo-fi 8-track bedroom recordings that elicited all of those "Debbie Deb on cough syrup" comparisons 4 years ago: this is some evolved/grown-up shit...

Here's a beautifully shadowy short film for "The Lamb," the soaring, otherworldly opening track from Little Scream's The Golden Record. Directed by Shannon Walsh, shot "in the dead of winter 2011 in Montreal" for Parabola Films: Little Scream's The Golden Record is out today on Secretly Canadian...

Little Scream performs a beautifully stark and fragile rendition of "The Heron and the Fox" in the back of a station wagon in the dead of Montreal's bitter winter. Download the original version, which was produced by the Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry and features Aaron Dessner of The National: mp3: __________ The Golden Record is out April 12th on Secretly Canadian...

Listen to "I Know," the vinyl-only bonus track from jj's new jj nº 3 LP, out now on Secretly Canadian: ******

YOURS0129: "...with money in the bank, nobody to thank, it started with a drank. and a couple of hours later the on the 29th of september they had felt the first breeze coming in from africa, sweet winds of melodies pure and true."Two new songs from Sweden's JJ, one of which ("Let Go") appears on the group's upcoming Secretly Canadian LP, jj nº 3, while the other prominently fe

An abundance of jj news lately: the group has signed with Secretly Canadian, who've just announced the release of their next LP, jj nº 3, on March 9 in the U.S. in conjunction with Sincerely Yours (just in time for SXSW and their tour with the xx)...

Dayve Hawk -- the tireless and prolific force behind Memory Tapes -- mentioned recently that with the majority of his remixes, he doesn't even bother listening to the original song, and I'm guessing that may be the case here. By focusing on Yeasayer's simple yet empowering "stick up for yourself son" refrain/mantra, Hawk turns the group's ode to the great Joe Louis into a swirling, upli