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NITE FUNK "Am I Gonna Make It" is the first jam to surface from the long-awaited (couple weeks) Dam-Funk + Nite Jewel collab, NITE-FUNK, courtesy of XLR8R. This sounds basically exactly how we thought/hoped this would sound: like the '80s (video here)...

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pearl harbor dum dum girls pearl harbor dum dum girls All photos by David. Check out more shots of Pearl Harbor + Dum Dum Girls | Live at Spaceland after the jump... ******

According to this, "Nite Jewel is the latest to get jumped into the Stones Throw crew" (apparently Dam-Funk is a huge fan). Get her new "Weak For Me" 45, backed with "Suburbia" on the flip, here. mp3: ********

L.A.'s Nite Jewel can probably be considered something of a dreambeat/hypnagogic-pop pioneer at this point (she was around all the way back in 2008), but this track from her new You F O European-only tour CD-r is a little darker and more along the lines of how the '80s actually sounded, as opposed to a chillwavier hazy-borrowed-nostalgia-via-warped-cassette version of how the '80s sounded... Read

New video from L.A.'s Nite Jewel, for the sweet title track from their upcoming Want You Back EP, out this month on Italians Do It Better (get it now on itunes). Directed by Erin Dunn: In related news, the Fader just premiered this great new track from the group's forthcoming Falling Far/Spiritual Nite Life 7": mp3: **********

Nite Jewel covers Roxy Music. This is pretty much exactly what their set at our WSJR x GvsB SXSW day party looked like: (via) **************

Our weekly Sirius XM Blog Radio show airs today at noon Eastern (and again at midnight) on the new Sirius XMU. This week's episode features new music from Dum Dum Girls, Raekwon, Black Dice, the Golden Filter, and Nite Jewel, who just announced the release date for her awesome full-length debut. Good Evening comes out via Human Ear Records on March 17. She also announced a few assorted live dates

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...