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Tennis turns out a charming little cover of Brenda Lee's 1964 jam "Is It True," famous for featuring a pre-Yardbirds/Zeppelin Jimmy Page on guitar. Download the mp3 for free here. Tennis :: Is It True? (Brenda Lee cover)

Directed by Ian Perlman, shot on Chesapeake Bay using a vintage 16mm Bolex camera . mp3:

Directed by Scott Laidlaw + Jeremy D'Souza.

01 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 02 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company 03 Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo 04 James Blake - 05 Girls - Carolina 06 Twin Sister - 07 Panda Bear - Alsatian Darn 08 James Blake - I Only Know (What I Know Now) 09 Big K.R.I.T. - 10 Big Boi - Shutterbug 11 Deerhunter - He Would Have Laughed 12 Morning Benders - Excuses (Yours Truly version) 13 Arcade Fire - We

Another winner from our friends at Yours Truly. Make sure to read Tennis' sweet love letter from husband to wife over at YT.

Here's the LP version of Tennis' "Take Me Somewhere," a song we first heard on the duo's charming Daytrotter Session from a few weeks back. This one's taken from Tennis' forthcoming nautical-themed Cape Dory LP (complete with Lisa Hartman-inspired cover art), out January 18, 2011, on Fat Possum: mp3:

Fat Possum further unveils their plan to dominate January 18, 2011: Cape Dory, the debut full-length from Denver's Tennis, arrives on that date, the same day the label drops the aforementioned Smith Westerns LP. That's the glorious cover art above, which as Dent May points out, is apparently an homage to this...

Tennis :: Cape Dory (Daytrotter session) Tennis :: Take Me Somewhere (Daytrotter session)

"Cape Dory" can be found on Tennis' new 7", out soon on Underwater Peoples. Pre-order here. UPDATE: Tennis also has an extremely limited (100 copies) cassette release available now on Japanese label Sixteen Tambourines. Six songs, including both 7" releases and an unreleased bonus track...

Download "Baltimore," the a-side from Tennis' excellent new limited Underwater Peoples 7". mp3: Pre-order the Baltimore/Cape Dory 7" here. If you missed the b-side a while back, it remains a song-of-the-year contender: mp3: