Jul 17, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Laura Marling
Laura Marling is digitally releasing a deluxe edition of her album Short Movie, which came out back in March. It’s titled Short Movie - Director’s Cut and features full band recordings of album tracks “I Feel Your Love” and “Warrior,” as well as two songs that were previously only released on 7-inches, “David” and “Daisy.”
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Jul 17, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is set to release his debut solo album on September 18 via Glassnote. He’ll be going simply under his last name and album will be titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name.
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Jul 17, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
JR JR
Goodbye Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., hello JR JR. The Detroit duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. have announced that they are shortening their name to simply JR JR.
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Jul 17, 2015
By Michael Wojtas
Under the Radar’s Weekly Playlist
Welcome to Under the Radar’s Weekly Playlist, where we compile the best tracks to debut online in the last week (or thereabouts). In this mix we’ve got new songs by CHVRCHES, Mac DeMarco, Destroyer, Sharon Van Etten, The Dears, Dicey Hollow, and more; plus, The Drums get remixed.
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Jul 17, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Future Islands
Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring is no stranger to the hip-hop game and has performed before under his rapper name Hemlock Ernst. But now he’s taken it a step further and teamed up with Madlib as Trouble Knows Me.
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Jul 16, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Wilco
Surprise! Wilco has released a new album out of nowhere. What’s more, it’s a free download for a limited time, is entitled Star Wars, and features a cat on the cover.
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Jul 16, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Metric
Metric have released a new free app, The Pagan Portal, for IOS/Apple and Android platforms. Users of the app will be able to stream songs from the band’s forthcoming new album, Pagans in Vegas (due out September 18 via their own label MMI). Right now you can stream the previously shared Pagans in Vegas tracks “The Shade” and “Cascades,” along with the previously unreleased Pagans track “Too Bad, So Sad.” In the run up to the album’s release more tracks will be unlocked.
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Jul 16, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Outfit
British five-piece Outfit have shared a video for “Framed,” which can be found on the band’s recently released sophomore album, Slowness. Sam and Andrew of Studio Zongo directed the video, which is a striking clip presented mainly in black & white and featuring a lot of mirrored imagery and frontman Andrew P. Hunt.
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