blue hawaii

Montreal duo Blue Hawaii return with a dreamy deep house anthem, taken from their new album Open Reduction Internal Fixation, coming this fall on Arbutus. "All That Blue" has a heavy late '80s / early '90s vibe, as Ra Standell-Preston takes a glorious house-diva turn over the track's pulsing beat, with that smoky sax and haunting vocoder accoutrement lifting the track into the rafters of

Directed by Blue Hawaii. Tenderness is out October 6.

Blue Hawaii are a great band from Montreal composed of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, who also plays in Braids, and Alex Cowan. After a four-year hiatus they are finally coming back to release Tenderness on Arbutus later this year. I've loved this band for quite some time and thought it would be a perfect time to catch up with both of them on Skype. -- Jacques Greene

Taken from the duo's forthcoming LP Tenderness, out October 6th:

Montreal duo Mind Bath + Forever -- aka Cafe Lanai -- return with two steamy, viscerally haunting new love songs, including a psychedelic self-directed video for the first song they wrote as a group. The duo says about "Denim Jacket" and the intensely emotional, Blue Hawaii-produced "Here 4 U":

Tei Shi's Verde EP is out now.

BEVERLY x TOPS All photos by Faith Silva @ Baby's All Right + Elvis Guesthouse in NYC // shot on the Impossible Project film. DOSS TEI SHI AGOR // BLUE HAWAII EMPRESS OF YUMI ZOUMA DREW CITRON // BEVERLY JANE PENNY / TOPS

"It's the end of the year, so to commemorate the global underground touring we did— to all the people who were interested in coming to and putting on a Blue Hawaii show in Bangkok or Vilnius— we decided to put together a free mixtape of edits — somewhere between the dreamy record and the banging live show...

TOPS x tei shi ellie herring lydia ainsworth saint pepsi ryn weaver mary j. blige tei shi TOPS

(๑ ऀืົཽ₍₍ළ₎₎ ऀืົཽ)✧ 'Get Happy' is a song we recorded one day in January 2014 but laid to rest as we got lost in the commotion of touring and moving to separate cities. As the year progressed, we found our live show intensify but still had all these softer recordings which would never be released. Hence we present Get Happy / Get Happier, where we explore both sides: the original demo and a fun, d