vibes

Our intro to the Wu-Tang-obsessed SZA came with last year's haunting, EOTS-sampling "Country," which ended up enduring as one of our favorite tracks of 2012. Her glowing, atmospheric new single is every bit as lovely/entrancing; if you missed her somewhat overlooked See... Read More ... Read More ...

New "paradise edit" of Tame Impala's "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" by regular Nicolas Jaar collaborator + one half of the great Darkside, Dave Harrington:

More hazy/sweaty psychedelic swamp drone jams from Cameron Stallones, aka Sun Araw: Not Not Fun has made the title track from his hypnotic new LP, Heavy Deeds, available for free download. The label says this one is "at once loftier, sweatier, deeper, groovier, and wilder than anything he's done before," and between this and the dub-funk grooves of Stallones' other project with Amanda fr

Amanda from Pocahaunted, Cameron from Sun Araw, Britt from Robedoor, and various other Not Not Fun weirdo all-stars make up lo-fi garage-soul "supergroup" Vibes. I mentioned the group's debut cassette You God It a couple months back, and that's long gone now, but we're currently wearing out a test-pressing of their funky-as-hell upcoming Psychic EP, which is due out soon on NNF... Read M

Vibes is a new Not Not Fun "all-star band," fronted by Amanda from Pocahaunted. Amanda says their rad debut cassette release You God It is intended "for all lovers of soul, soul funk, funk, funk rock, classic funk, and outsider funkadelics." If you're into groups like Pocahaunted, Sun Araw, Ducktails, and the like, there's pretty much no way you won't love these hypnotic garag