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A few updates on Todd P's epic, all-ages three-day MtyMx Fest in Monterrey, Mexico at Autocinema Las Torres: Recent additions to the already massive lineup include LIARS, HEALTH, Los Planetas, Sun Araw, the Mantles, MNDR, Twin Sister, Teenage Cool Kids, and more (full lineup + set times after the jump). We've also been informed that tickets will be available on a daily basis at the door for $15 US

The latest entry in the Fader's 7" series features new, unreleased tracks from SALEM + Tanlines; take a listen to SALEM's gloomy, mildly depressing (but still kind of beautiful) contribution below, and hit up the Fader to hear Tanlines' side...

ATL RMX is the latest Adult Swim compilation, featuring remixes of songs from various ATL rappers (Jeezy, Gucci, Cee-Lo, Playboy Tre, etc.) by the likes of HEALTH, Flying Lotus, XXXChange, Memory Tapes, SALEM, Dam-Funk, Phaseo...

SALEM prominently featured a couple of songs on their recent We Make It Good mix from un-Google-able San Francisco band oOoOO. Well oOoOO sent over a few tracks today -- including a couple from the WMIG mix, as well as a brand new "Winter jam" -- and it's obvious why SALEM are fans...

"Goth-juke" enigmas SALEM are the latest to contribute to We Make It Good's esteemed mix series. Their unrelentingly bleak 45-minute mix features a few SALEM tracks and a couple wtf chopped + screwed remixes of classics from Skeeter Davis and the Beach Boys, among other things...

SALEM laces Gucci Mane's trap-hop flow with their demented electro-goth-juke, and the result is unsettling and awesome (check Heather's haunting vox on "Bird Flu"). Gucci needs to tap these guys to produce his next record: mp3: ******** elsewhere: Sub Pop sent over this unreleased track from the double-LP Bleach reissue (comes on white vinyl): mp3: ********

frost SALEM's new limited edition Frost 7" single is out today on Audraglint (complete with "silver foil embossed sleeve"). The a-side is more of SALEM's signature damaged, dark "goth juke" with thoroughly haunting vocals from Heather, while Jack sings on equally terrifying b-side "Legend" (video below)...

You might recall Chaz Bundick -- aka Toro Y Moi -- from his awesome dreamy/fuzzy lo-fi pop songs that we posted recently. Well Chaz has another project called Les Sins, in which he makes blissful, shimmering disco-house jams that are pulsating and repetitive but also kind of dreamy, like this one: mp3: And, in case you missed these the first time around, from Chaz's other project: mp3: **********

In a recent review, Pitchfork.com called Nite Jewel "a shuttle-mate of SALEM in the blog-hype space race" -- not at all like the Pitchfork-hype space race, which has since been deleted -- "to find an act that can merge tapes-out-of-the-trunk hip-hop recording methods with 4AD gossamer...