the mayfair set

The Mayfair Set, the collaborative affair from Dum Dum Girls + Blank Dogs, has a new 6-song 12" (pictured) due out soon on Woodsist. Listen to two tracks from the forthcoming release -- "Cease to Be" and "Junked" -- at the group's myspace page...

Phoenix has made the instantly catchy new single from their upcoming record available for free download at their website, just in time for spring (70+ degrees in Dallas all week, holler). The band's new LP, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, is out May 25...

The Mayfair Set is the new collaborative project from Brooklyn's Blank Dogs + L.A.'s Dum Dum Girls, apparently named after a 1999 Adam Curtis-produced BBC documentary series. They haven't released anything quite yet, and their myspace page is only about two weeks old, but the group was nice enough to send over these tracks from their upcoming 7", due out very soon on Captured Tracks... Read

2009 has been an overwhelmingly great year for exciting new music so far, and it seems like an unfairly disproportionate amount of it is being released via Brooklyn label Captured Tracks. In addition to releases from Dum Dum Girls, Blank Dogs, the Mayfair Set (seriously, listen to this band now), Little Girls, Christmas Island, the Procedure Club, Brilliant Colors, etc...