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Whoa here's a pleasant surprise to start the day: Vivian Girls are back! Katy, Cassie, and Ali will return with new record Memory, "an album filled with personal reflections on toxic relationships, the false promise of new love, mental health struggles, and finding ways to accept oneself amidst it all", coming in September on Polyvinyl...

We're very psyched to announce that L.A.-based duo Magdalena Bay has joined the Luminelle Recordings family. As I've alluded to at least a few times recently, the group is everything I love about pop music: playful, adventurous, fun, prolific, with a DIY spirit and shockingly good songs that are emotional and catchy af...

L.A.'s Piper Kaplan -- formerly of the great Pearl Harbour / Puro Instinct -- shares the infectious first single from her long-awaited new solo project Maraschino. Produced by Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grizzly Bear, Amen Dunes, et al.), "True Lover" is a bright and glittery synth-pop banger / break-up anthem that feels like an effervescent rush of '80s nostalgia, and has

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Miami-raised, LA-based pop duo Magdalena Bay continue to wow us these days with their insanely versatile and unabashedly fun modern pop sensibility and '90s VHS visual aesthetic -- both of which honestly couldn't be any more up our alley -- and today Mica + Matthew hit us with some peak-era TRL vibes (think the Spice Girls, Kylie, Britney, et al...

RACQUET mag just released their sick California-focused 9th edition for Spring 2019, and as usual, we came through with some appropriate jams to soundtrack the issue from the likes of CHROMATICS, Solange, Toro y Moi, Kaytranada, MUNYA, and more, with some audio from budding young stars Bianca Andreescu and Felix Auger Aliassime prominently featured up in the mix. Pick up issue #9 here + listen to

L.A.’s Paige Stark follows up one of our favorite songs of last year (her heartbreaker of a debut single “Albatross”) with another lovely track from her as-yet-untitled debut LP, coming this summer. “Depression Song” is warm and unhurried, settling into that perfect balance between poignant and wry, a timeless pop song in the classic West Coast tradition — think Harry Nilsson, Jon Brion (who colla

Matt Kivel shares the video for one of the standout tracks from his forthcoming 5th LP last night in america, a record inspired in part by what Kivel describes as that uniquely American ability to "to shrug and submerge terrible feelings...

Channel Tres is back with his first single of 2019, and this one might be his sickest track yet, which is high praise when we're talking about the man responsible for such ineffable bangers as "Topdown", "Controller", and "Jet Black". A press release calls "Brilliant Nigga", which is out today on Godmode, "an ode to a new kind of black exceptionalism, w

Multi-talented LA-based singer/songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Christine Aprile aka Virgin Pool once again proves to be quite the compelling filmmaker with the elegant short film/music video for "Keeping Still", another haunting track from her new record Endless Evenings, out next month on Austin's Holodeck...