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We're psyched to premiere the opening track from the brilliant forthcoming full-length from Austin analog synth wizards S U R V I V E, due this fall on Relapse Records. While we're hesitant to throw the word "epic" around haphazardly, it certainly applies to the group's thrilling, darkly gleaming, otherworldly synth odysseys, which are truly transportive and majestic (there's a reason ha

Just a quick note to let you guys know that we now have limited quantities of our classic Gorilla vs. Bear hoops logo tee back in stock for the summer, with a subtle update to rep our home state of Texas. Printed on the super-soft, athletic gray American Apparel® tri-blend track shirt...

Leon Bridges performs "Coming Home" at the Old Bronx Courthouse for Venue, a project for "collaborative works created at the intersection of music and the visual arts."

Leon Bridges takes us back again with some real Sam Cooke-era Soul Stirrers vibes on "Lisa Sawyer", a tender, beautifully nuanced, vintage doo-wop soul ballad -- and Jessie Ware's favorite jam -- that Leon penned as a loving ode to his mother...

Listen to both sides of the fragile, devastatingly beautiful new 7" single from Portland's Grouper: "Water People" + "Moving Machine," both of which would have fit quite nicely on Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, were recorded last spring in Marfa, TX, and released in edition of 500 on white vinyl by Ballroom Marfa...

Western Vinyl recently sent over Feeling Today, the new 5-song EP from Weatherford, TX's Botany. Here's the glowing title track, on which he flips some "decades-old samples" into something new and engagingly warm, with the help of some lovely vocals from Ashley Rathburn: mp3: Botany's Feeling Today EP is due out next month on Western Vinyl, with a full-length to follow in spring 2011...

New video for the title track from the Strange Boys' forthcoming full-length Be Brave, the most impressive effort yet from the TX boys (and girl). Be Brave is out February 23 on In The Red/Rough Trade (UK): ******