GORILLA VS. BEAR

Today we follow up our immaculate favorite albums of 2024 list with the historically much less popular but still pretty sick list of our 33 favorite songs of the year...

ML Buch live at the Echoplex in L.A. // iphone shots by David...

An animated film by Joe Garber...

We've attempted to document mysterious New York synth-pop group R. Missing's steady flurry of stellar singles throughout 2024, both on our songs of 2024 playlist and on our SiriusXM radio show, and today they've done us all a favor and compiled our favorite hits (and any we might've missed) into an album/singles compilation called Knife Shook Your Hand...

While we were away for a minute, one of our favorites -- Caylie Runciman aka Boyhood -- quietly dropped a short but super sweet new EP, and today she shares the beautiful, dreamlike video for title track "Shells"...

Presenting our favorite albums of 2024: The most subjectively correct year-end list in the world, every year since 2005...

Horsegirl's Phonetics On and On is coming in February 2025 on Matador...

Twin sisters Romy + Sari Lightman -- the duo formerly known as Tasseomancy -- share their gorgeous new single "Weave your name in mine", which they call a "love song to God through the eyes of Etty & Jeanine with the devotional sincerity of a 60s girl group"...

Seattle's Sea Lemon follows up her hazy and soaring Ben Gibbard collab "Crystals" with another eerie, dreamlike new single...

Our dream collab for roughly the past decade has finally come to pass, as Panda Bear shares a stellar new one featuring the exquisite guitar stylings of the great Cindy Lee...

Helena Deland + Ouri reunite as Hildegard, as the duo announce their new album Jour 1596, coming in October...

Cindy Lee shares an official video for one of the many dazzling highlights from 2024's album of the year, Diamond Jubilee...

Acclaimed multimedia visual artist and songwriter Flannery Silva, aka F.G.S., drops another warped and super compelling song + video, once again blurring the line between surreal performance art and straight-up Americana pop banger...

Men I Trust drop another woozy, hypnotic soft banger, download it here.

Longtime Ben Gibbard superfan Sea Lemon hooks up with the Seattle legend on a haunting, anthemic duet that shimmers and soars, launching Sea Lemon's beautifully wistful and always super catchy dream-pop into a new stratosphere...

Listen to Georgia Gets By's stunning new Split Lip EP in its entirety...

brat summer's finally officially over, so it feels like the right time to drop the 9th annual installment in our series of modern yacht rock late summer mixtapes...

Video directed by Vania Heymann + Gal Muggia...

Jamie xx flips a couple of '70s samples -- a soulful J.J. Barnes joint + Astrud Gilberto's dreamy OG classic -- into a breezy summer night banger, featuring 3 of our long-time favorites...

Video directed by Jasmin Baumgartner...

Australian duo Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel aka CS + Kreme share the opening track from their forthcoming new album The Butterfly Drinks The Tears Of The Tortoise, out next month on London label The Trilogy Tapes. Listen to the haunting folk lullaby "Corey" below...

Molina shares the dreamlike closer from her stellar new album When you wake up, coming October 11th on Escho...