I don’t know that I’ve ever had stronger mixed feelings about a song. Half of me thinks this is is so far less than what any Jay-Z/Kanye collaboration should sound like; half of me thinks it’s a really enjoyable track. It’s good, but I wished that they’d switched to instrumentals at the end of each [...]

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My favorite part of Animal Collective’s set was also what I felt needed the most editing. On this tour, Animal Collective have begun linking their songs together more than they already did. Songs bleed into one another through jams, percussion or even the DJ-like use of samples and riffs. At some moments it was incredible [...]

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Loney Dear’s new LP Hall Music is due out this October on Polyvinyl. We’ve got a first listen as well in the form of “My Heart.” MP3: Loney Dear – My Heart I can’t say that “My Heart” is really any happier than Loney’s previous work, but it is a little more alive. Bells chime, [...]

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I’m not going to post the list of songs covered because I want you to be surprised. All I’ll say is that they included a few of my absolute favorites and this is incredibly great. Head over to Cover Me for the MP3.

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I wrote about occasional Lexingtonian Reese Richardson last year. Since that time he’s finished his album and switched over to the band name And All Became. As his site says, the album will be out in August. Here’s the first single “She Smiles Sweetly.”

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Jens Lekman has finally announced a new release in the form of the EP An Argument With Myself. The EP is due out Sept 20 on Secretly Canadian and has a tracklist that looks a little like this: An Argument With Myself 1. An Argument with Myself 2. Waiting for Kirsten 3. A Promise 4. [...]

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You’ve heard me talk about him a lot over the past few years, but now you can see what it’s like when I talk to James Friley, the man behind Idiot Glee. The review’s a bit old, so excuse the references to how the album is “going to come out” — it’s already out — [...]

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I checked Psych Explorations of the Future Heart for a while after the Flaming Lips debuted their new gummy fetus EP, but it didn’t turn up. But thanks to CoS for pointing out that the songs eventually did make it online. Here they are! Flaming Lips: “Enthusiasm For Life Defeats Existential Fear Part 2″ Flaming [...]

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After a quick teaser, we now have our first full listen to a song from their upcoming album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. Head over to M83′s site to grab “Midnight City.” Download “Midnight City” by M83

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