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Anastasia Coope – Norma Ray
New York artist Anastasia Coope's delightfully whimsical freak folk gem "Norma Ray" gets some immersive and appropriately surreal visuals, shot by Anna Brief...
SAULT’s new album Untitled (Black Is) is a poignant, empowering soundtrack for this turbulent summer
UK group SAULT follow up last year’s pair of stunning, seemingly out-of-thin-air releases with a brilliant and vital new album, fully realized in both sound and conviction, and it could not have landed at a more necessary time...
Gorilla vs. Bear presents TR/ST, Black Marble + more at LEVITATION 2019, check the official fest mixtape + win tickets
LEVITATION descends once again upon downtown Austin, TX this November, with another amazing and deep lineup featuring the likes of Angel Olsen, Kurt Vile, Deafheaven, the Flaming Lips, TR/ST, John Cale, Emma Ruth Rundle, Dinosaur Jr., Allah-Las, and many more...
video premiere: Holy Wave – Crys
Austin band Holy Wave share the new video for "Crys", a dreamily hazy garage-psych nostalgia trip taken from their album Adult Fear, out now on Austin's The Reverberation Appreciation Society and on limited cassette via southern California label Burger Records...
watch Thool’s immersive Total Nobrum mixtape movie
Here's a late dark horse contender for your year-end lists: weirdo electronic group Thool take us on an immersive audiovisual journey through a balmy, disorienting haze of left-field prog, boogie, balearica, and other assorted unclassifiable hypnagogic pop oddities...
MUNYA – North Hatley
Psyched to stumble upon these delightfully woozy lazy-summer-day gems from Montreal's Josianne Boivin, aka MUNYA. Check out her brand new mini-EP of dreamy, gently sun-warped French indie-pop below + grab it on bandcamp (and if you're feeling it, check her lovely Beach House cover as well):
listen to the official LEVITATION 2018 mixtape + win a 4-day Stubb’s pass for the fest
Austin's LEVITATION 2018 is now officially only 100 days away, and to get y'all even more psyched for this year's fest, we're premiering volume I of the always epic annual official LEVITATION mixtape by Al Lover, featuring over an hour and a half of deep jams from this year's performing artists...
video premiere: Laure Briard – Les pins des Landes
Toulouse, France artist Laure Briard shares the dreamy visuals for "Les pins des Landes", a modern yéyé dream-psych gem and one of the highlights from her beautiful new Sorcellerie EP, out now on Paris label Midnight Special. Directed by Aymeric Cattenoz. Watch below, and catch Laure Briard's magic live right here in Texas next month at SXSW.
listen to Laure Briard’s new Sorcellerie EP
We've been big fans of French artist Laure Briard's elegant blend of classic yéyé vibes, vintage garage psych, and irresistible Stereolab-esque pop for a while now, and her brand new Sorcellerie EP might be her trippiest and most enchanting record yet...