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Song(s) of the night: Atlas Sound's new Time Warp virtual 7" features a lilting, '60s sunshine-pop instrumental and a tripped-out psych-folk gem in which the prolific Bradford Cox ponders the possibility of escaping the suburbs via "holes in time...

New song from Deerhunter's upcoming Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP, due out June 8 on Kranky: mp3: *****************

Deerhunter, Times New Viking, and Nite Jewel played at Emo's down in Austin last night, and our exceedingly awesome new photographer Pooneh Ghana was in the building. She captured these great images of Bradford Cox and crew, including one of Whitney of Deerhunter doubling as TNV's human keyboard stand...

Deerhunter and Times New Viking are in Dallas tomorrow night, but the highlight of the lineup for me is L.A.'s Nite Jewel. I've written about her otherworldly, lo-fi avant-synth-pop before, but it's worth noting that her new Italians Do It Better 12" is out now, and her outstanding Good Evening LP is available on vinyl from Gloriette...

Thanks to the commenter who alerted me to Bradford Cox's updates on the Deerhunter blog, including a new virtual 7" that features a pretty, but perversely dark, little pop ditty called "Holiday." The real news, though, is Bradford's response to a kid who apparently raided his Mediafire folder (which Bradford mistakenly left unprotected) and leaked the demos from Atlas Sound's upcomi