Here’s the new video for Thao Nguyen’s song “Body,” directed by Dianna Agron (Quinn from Glee). The first three minutes are the two of them talking about Oxfam, but then it gets to the actual video.

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Good news from !!! this morning as we hear that they’ve readied their new album Strange Weather, Isn’t It? for an August 24 release. Tracklist after the jump; stream the first single at the following link. Head over to Pitchfork to stream “AM/FM”

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Some awesome citizen of the internet put together this fantastic web site that allows you to stream Girl Talk’s album Feed the Animals while it pops up the samples being used as sort of a poor man’s Pop Up Video. This is the kind of excellence I expect from the internet each and every day. [...]

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Don’t even try to act like we aren’t all going crazy waiting for the new Menomena record. It’s written on all of our faces. Luckily the guys picked today to give us our first taste of Mines. I can’t really outdo Menomena drummer Danny Seim’s info that accompanies the download, so I’ll share it here [...]

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Last night Janelle Monae brought her fantastic new song “Tightrope” to Letterman. It feels like an eternity since I saw her last year at Bonnaroo, but this fantastic performance helps ease the pain until I can experience her live show again. And of course her new album came out this week, so that helps too. [...]

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A bit of warning before we jump in. I’m somewhat notorious for only posting stuff I like — why waste your and my time with something bad, right? Well, here’s a track that’s going to break that streak. My reasoning being that I dig Busdriver and like to support him and cover his stuff, but [...]

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Good news! And I think we can all agree the real winners here are the people going to Forecastle

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Man Man have dug themselves a pretty comfortable little hole in the performing world. Their sets are always slightly different (and always fantastic), but mostly the same. That’s why their show at Cosmic Charlie’s surprised me so much. They’ve been tweaking a near-perfect formula — and surprise, surprise, managed to get it even better. Two [...]

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Looks like three of Kentucky’s finest are going to be hitting the road this summer. Yim Yames (MMJ’s Jim James), Daniel Martin Moore and Ben Sollee will be making their way from Kentucky up to the Newport Folk Festival with dates all along the way. MP3: Ben Sollee + Daniem Martin Moore – Something, Somewhere, [...]

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