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GvsB II is only a few short weeks away (July 28) at the Granada Theater here in Dallas. We'll have a limited number of shirts (pictured below) available at the show and free posters for the first 100 or so people through the door, but for those of you that can't make it, we're giving away 5 shirt + poster packs right here...

Here are our favorite records / songs / videos from a very strong first half of 2012, complete with links to listen to the albums in their entirety, in most cases. We probably don't have to ask you to leave your choices in the comments, but as always, we enjoy seeing them...

Tracer is out 8/21 on True Panther.

As we mentioned yesterday, GvsB II goes down Saturday, July 28, at the esteemed Granada Theater here in Dallas. We are beyond psyched about this year's show, which promises to be the party of the summer thanks to an incredible lineup, featuring Italians Do It Better labelmates Glass Candy + Chromatics, Twin Sister, Taken By Trees, Laurel Halo, and Dallas' own A.Dd+. Here's a mixtape we put togeth

Coming July 28 to the Granada Theater in Dallas, TX. Pre-sale tickets are available here now using the password gvsb2012. Starring: GLASS CANDY CHROMATICS TWIN SISTER TAKEN BY TREES LAUREL HALO A...

Laurel Halo's gorgeous new LP Quarantine is out in June on Hyperdub. We premiered "Light + Space" last month, and you can now listen to the record in its entirety, courtesy of FACT. Featuring (at least) one of our favorite songs of 2012, the otherworldly "Thaw," which gets underway right around the 7-minute mark:

"I started out with a ton of echo and reverb on the vocals, but it sounded supremely boring to me, so I was curious how they’d sound dry in the arrangements and got rid of most of the wetness...It was tempting to use autotune but I decided against it because there’s this brutal, sensual ugliness in the vocals uncorrected, and painfully human vocals made sense for this record" -- Laure

Laurel Halo turns the new Sleep ∞ Over single into a skittering, swirling machine-like jam that's much colder than the original, but every bit as haunting : mp3: Laurel Halo's remix appears on the limited Casual Diamond 7" single, out tomorrow on Hippos in Tanks...

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