I picked up this great track from No Modest Bear, one of my favorite blog discoveries of the past year. MP3: Toy Camera – Summer Days “Summer Days” doesn’t sound like the Twin Peaks theme song, but the backing keyboard track feels so much like an updated version of it that I had to mention [...]

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Thanks to Stereogum for finding the stream for Justice’s new track “Helix.” I can’t decide if it’s my favorite of the leaked songs so far or if it’s the only one that’s a throwaway track. It’s definitely got the pulsing Ed Banger-meets-Ratatat sound of the bass/guitar mix, which is always a plus.

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Given that her beautiful new album comes out tomorrow, I thought this would be a great time to put together a collection of all the covers St Vincent has done over the years. Must’ve been a popular idea, since CoS beat me to it by compiling some youtube streams of her greatest covers. I’ve got [...]

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Lexington’s Concentric Drone Cult was born a few years ago by local musician Michael Lunsford of Everyone Lives, Everyone Wins and Angelmaker (among others). Lunsford created Concentric when he first used the name to release material for his bands. The releases, called “Concentric Artifacts”, were originally all made by Michael, by hand. Today, an ever fluctuating [...]

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I can’t believe I knew that I had seen that shirt before The hardest thing for me to do as a music blogger would be to rank all the Of Montreal performances I’ve seen. Not only have I lost count (13 times, according to the archive) but each just feels so good when I’m there. [...]

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Heads up, Kentucky hip hop fans! I’m giving away some tickets to see Atmosphere in Louisville. To enter to win a pair of tickets to see Atmosphere at Headliner’s on Sept 14, leave a comment with your name and email address. I’ll pick a winner Monday morning. Show info after the break. Here’s the video [...]

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Brick and Mortar and Love is a documentary about Ear X-Tacy’s recent troubles. It’s a shame Ear X has found themselves in this potision. It’s Louisville’s best record store and easily one of the best in the nation. Hit up Backseat Sandbar for more information. Hopefully we’ll see this documentary hit the festival circuit this [...]

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Thanks to Psych Explorations of the Future Heart for uploading this video. Wayne stopped by the local news in Oklahoma City to give some details on the six-hour song the Flaming Lips are cooking up and how you can donate to get your name in the song. I was hoping there would be a snippet [...]

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Forget that new M83/Zola Jesus collaboration — this is the real gem of M83′s new one (at least so far). “Raconte-Moi Une Histoire” is a positively beautiful song. It sounds like something that Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson would be proud of… well, that depends on Esther’s feelings on having kids sing about psychotropic frogs. [...]

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