Every girl I know just got really excited for Kanye’s Good Ass Job. Check out the video of what seems to be Kanye sampling Wicked’s “Popular” over at Consequence of Sound

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Here’s Blitzen Trapper bringing their new track “Dragon’s Song” to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Destroyer of the Void hasn’t hit me like their two previous records just yet, but it grows on me more with every listen. [via the Audio Perv]

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Tyler from the band Mura Mura emailed me the other day to let me know that he and a friend recorded some songs together and had put the results up as a free download on their website. Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, right? Two guys who’ve never played a show together are giving their music away [...]

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I found Mount Carmel’s CD in a stack at the record store where I work and decided to pop it in on a whim. Probably the best blind listen I’ve had in a while. MP3: Mount Carmel – Livin Like I Wanna Mount Carmel’s s/t record sounds like the guys are big fans of Black [...]

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So this is how it’s going to be, internet? Turn your back for a minute and a band blows the hell up. This track has been everywhere in the past 24 hours and for good reason — it’s a gem. MP3: Magic Kids – Summer “Summer” might win for the most appropriately-titled song of the [...]

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Here’s another one that would have blown minds if it had happened back in the late 90s. I mean, if this had been done in 1999 it’d be like Grizzly Bear covering Animal Collective today. But as is, it’s still incredible because luckily Yo La Tengo’s “Sugarcube” is still an awesome song and the Flaming [...]

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Here’s another one to add to the Of Montreal covers archive. Kevin Barnes posted this video of himself covering the Velvet Undergrounds’ “That’s the Story of My Life.” This joins “I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “She’s My Best Friend” and a snippet of “I Can’t Stand It” as other Velvet Underground covers they’ve done. [...]

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Well, a few weeks ago I posted the stream for the new These United States album What Lasts and it turned out that they weren’t quite ready to share that link with the world. My bad. But their PR person assured me that they’d have a downloadable MP3 ready to share before too long. Ta [...]

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I’ve never seen Richard Kelly’s The Box, but I’d like to imagine the plot is similar to this MGMT video: a vicious box gets all psychedelic and eventually gives our boys some problems.

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