What a crazy, unexpected surprise. Cymbals Eat Guitars re-recorded “Wind Phoenix” for a new single and decided to pair it with this cover of Elliott Smith’s “Ballad of Big Nothing” for the B-side. Love love love it. [Via P4K via Pinglewood] MP3: Cymbals Eat Guitars – Ballad Of Big Nothing (Elliott Smith) Cymbals Eat Guitars [...]

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In case you almost missed this new Japandroids track that dropped at the end of last week, here’s a second shot at it. This comes from their limited edition 7″ with the cover of Big Black’s “Racer X” as the B-side. MP3: Japandroids – Art Czars Buy the “Art Czars” / “Racer X” seven inch

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If you’ve been reading YANP for a long time, you might remember that I spent much of 2005 obsessed with The Light Footwork. Their debut album One State, Two State kicked my Beulah-loving butt up and down the coast and now they’re looking to repeat the feat with a new album out this year. National [...]

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This is your first and last update notification that I added a bunch more covers to the Decemberists covers archive. Any more updates (unless they’re brand new) will just be updated there. So until they’re touring and doing new stuff again, head that way to hear recently added covers of the Band, Neutral Milk Hotel [...]

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In the words of Zach, well this is one way to announce an album. Will Oldham shared this video on V-day to announce the release of his new album The Wonder Show of the World on March 22nd. Check the video for the dramatic reveal.

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Songs from Janelle Monae’s upcoming record are beginning to make their way onto the interwebs. Pitchfork just debuted her song “Tightrope” with Big Boi and now “Cold War” has made it online as well. Stream “Cold War” at the Urban Daily I’m loving both tracks. Her last release was pretty good (much better live), but [...]

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It’s funny, really. It’s always the bands who you don’t need any additional reasons to love who keep giving you reasons to do so. The latest example: Local Natives, the creators of my favorite debut album of the last year, just recorded this great video of them playing their song “Wide Eyes” acoustically in a [...]

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Emily Reo has been getting a lot of love from music bloggers that I trust, but whose tastes don’t always strongly overlap with mine. Turns out, though, that this is one of the times where we can all agree. Get Off the Coast loves her, the Decibel Tolls thinks she’s rad and now I’m on [...]

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Cold Cave is playing Lexington Feb 28. Here’s how to get them to buy you some stuff while they’re in town! UPDATE: the tour has been canceled and therefore the contest is off. Sorry guys :( I am so insanely glad to be able to do another one of these vinyl shopping sprees. The one [...]

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