summer

Ernest Greene aka Washed Out drops a glorious hour-long mix of perfect laid-back weekend vibes (heavy on the lo-fi house) for NTS Radio, featuring tracks from Kaytranada, Jack J, Project Pablo, Mount Kimbie, Mall Grab + more. Listen wisely below -- "due to licensing restrictions in the USA this show can only be played three times in a two week period", we already burned through ours :/ -

Shoutout to Forever for the heads up on another beach/pool jam of the summer contender from Montreal's Chewii. "Punoni" was produced by Kaytranada -- that irresistible beat is one of the weirdest, illest, and most infectious bits from his 0...

We featured a couple of tracks from this thing in our June 2016 mix, but it's worth noting that New Jersey producer Flamingosis' stellar, sample-based new full-length Bright Moments is officially out now. Not sure why this dude isn't everywhere by now -- he would have been huge in the good old blog days (2009) -- but this record is absolutely essential if you're looking for a breezy, feel-good sou

UK group Fear of Men are currently traversing America's flyover states as we speak on the last leg of their 2016 North American summer tour with Puro Instinct, and they'll soon be arriving here in TX for a show tomorrow night in Dallas at Club Dada, and one on Saturday night down in Austin at Barracuda...

We're extremely psyched to announce Texas Summer 2016, starring a couple of artists responsible for the two best records of 2016 so far (in our opinion): the amazing Jessy Lanza, whose new LP Oh No is out soon on Hyperdub, and the first U...

We still have the first two tapes from Drew Auscherman's lo-fi guitar pop project Hoops on heavy rotation, and the Bloomington group (now a 4-piece) is back with their third warm and fuzzy collection of endlessly replayable, sun-warped jams, in the form of the 5-song Tape #3...

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Here's an instant addition to your poolside playlist: "Burnin Up" is the steamy/slinky new "summer groove" from 1/2 of Booty Fade + member of Erykah Badu's band, Dallas' own Picnictyme. Art by Sober.

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