Whoa. I knew it was a good year for Local Natives, but I didn’t know they would be appearing on late night TV already. Here’s our guys making us proud and sounding great on Craig Ferguson. [via Audio Perv]

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Just picked up on this group from Lizzyville, who described this track as being similar to first-album Wolf Parade. Uh, is there a quicker way to get me to download a song? MP3: Slow Animal – Sitting Here “Sitting Here” has a great mixture of rock n roll crunch (I’m avoiding calling it “lo fi”) [...]

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Here’s the New Pornographers sounding and looking great on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Because nothing says Cinco de Mayo like a group of Canadians! [via Audio Perv]

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I completely lost track of the Do (pronounced “the doe”) over the past year or so and forgot that their record A Mouthful came out this week. I’m finally getting to soak it in and am really enjoying it so far. Each track is a bit different from the previous, making for a pretty fun [...]

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So Derrick Comedy’s DC Pierson wrote a book called “The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To.” I haven’t read it, but I did check out the free soundtrack posted in support of it. I was looking for anything new (and able to be posted) by Hi Ho Silver Oh and it turns out [...]

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Just the other day I was telling someone that I’m really curious to see how Cults’ career is going to go. I can’t think of another band that’s received more attention with less songs in this short of an amount of time. I mean, there are thousands of us waiting with excitement to literally hear [...]

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I’m always impressed when a band gives away their music for free online. To spend days writing and recording an album only to give the results away makes me think they must have confidence in the product (or at least be some nice people). It was that reason that got me to give a second [...]

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I learned something about myself yesterday. It turns out that I’m the kind of person who gets excited about Primus announcing their first headlining tour dates in four years. There are apparently more tour dates yet to be announce and I’m really hoping they can squeeze in a Bonnaroo performance. Looks super doubtful, but I’m [...]

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Big thanks to MFR for pointing everyone to this new song by Tapes n Tapes. They’ve been working on their third LP for a while now, so it’s good to finally hear something from it.

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