whichever side of the lana del rey fence you fall on, detractor or apologist, you now have a full fledged album to judge the authentically-challenged elizabeth grant on as her (sorta) debut album born to die is streaming below.
grant also appeared on letterman in a much better recieved performance of “video games” last night. check that out here.
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norwegian synthpoppers casiokids are all geared to release their newest album aabenbaringen over aaskammen (translated as: the revelation over the mountain on october 11th, but are offering a full album stream right now over on consequence of sound (link below).
don’t speak norwegian? no worries. the album’s sugary sweet melodies and uptempo tracks translate to any language.
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casiokids – aabenbaringen over aaskammen
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widgets are fun aren’t they? better when they are streaming the new album by feist. hit the jump and leave an email addy to get a link to a stream of feist’s forthcoming metals, out october 4th. tree-planking fully optional.
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naturally, the good people NPR got first dibs on the post-early-september-24-hour-exclusive stream of wilco’s new epic, the whole love. sure to make plenty of top 5 lists this year, i can’t help but feel like this must have been one of the funnest albums for wilco to write and record. take a listen and you’ll get it.
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wilco – the whole love [full album]
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annie clark’s sophisticated and whimsical new album strange mercy is now streaming over at npr. it’s a tough act to follow, st. vincent, with her uncompromising song-structures and sardonic wit, but every album since 2007′s marry me have been as gratifying as they are elaborate.
stream the album at the link below.
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score one more for texans. denton-based chillwave progenitor, alan palomo, has his band’s new album era extraña streaming over on npr. the album drops september 13th on palomo’s own static tongues label. hit the link below to check it out.
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seems it’s been forever since wild flag: two-thirds of sleater kinney, the minders’ rebbeca cole, and ex-helium leader mary timony, came rockin’ onto the music scene. and rockin’ these ladies do, and do well. their self-titled debut album has all the raw ferociousness of an album recorded live (it was, and in a skatepark no less).
stream wild flag at the npr link below.
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gone for baroquers, beirut have their third lp, the rip tide, streaming on npr in its entirety before its august 30th release. balkan folk extravaganza, indeed, zach condon.
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wolf parade were a hell of a band weren’t they? three brilliant albums in five years, ‘blink’ and they were gone. well stop wallowing, friend: frontman spencer krug has carried on, this time under the moniker of moonface and is releasing his solo debut album organ music not vibraphone like i’d hoped august 2nd. stream an advance at the link below, courtesy of spin, and yes, it is indeed organ music.
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enough teasing with the disco jams and electro jungle rumbles: you can now stream the new yacht album shangri-la, courtesy of npr. the album is out on june 21 on (gasp!) dfa records. well duh, now that i think about it.
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it’s been a good three years since justin vernon’s disarming falsetto caressed our ears with the enchanting for emma, foerver ago. since then, vernon’s dipped a toe in hip hop, and even reformed his former band deyarmond edison to grace us all with their breathtaking americana soul.
out june 21st, the eponymous album bon iver, sees vernon taking a grander approach to his utterly disarming introspective songwriting. the arrangements are more lush, more vivid and always with that layered, buttercream falsetto we’ve all come to identify with vernon. check it out below, courtesy of npr.
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those highly technical master-musicians in battles are set to release their sophomore album gloss drop tomorrow, unless you live outside the u.s. where it’s been available since forever. yeah, i know. u.s.a. not a-ok.
check out the manically complex and eccentric album below via spinner.
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do we really call anything and everything ‘dubstep’ now? anyway, uk uh, dance producer zomby has his new album dedication dropping on our shores july 12th, but you can streamthe whole thing right now over at disco naïveté
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a four-act musical portraying theclassic story of boy-meets-girl, boy and girl make dumb life-decissions, created by the hardcore punk band fucked up? yes, please.
long gestating within the band, david comes to life is the culmination of what fucked up believes to be their best work. says frontman damian abraham: “”second to the birth of my child, this record is the most important delivery I’ve ever made.”
check this baby out at the link below thanks to npr.
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those cray-cray dudes in black lips strapped down and, with the help of a one mark ronson, knocked out an album’s worth of streamlined garage-rock that’s equal parts revved-up rock, rockabilly, and rolling stones-style country. stream the album, arabia mountain (out june 7th) at the link below, courtesy of grooveshark.
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the far too precious brooklyn band cults are, after much pre-album buzz on a handful of songs (you could literally count them on one hand), ready to release their debut self-titled full length on may 31st.
ready your ears for the syrupy sweet vocals of madeline follin and the hazy guitar riffs of brian oblivion (how is this guy not in a swedish death metal band?). stream the full album at the link below, courtesy of the npr folk.
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the follow up to 2008′s highly experimental evil urges, my morning jacket’s circuital boasts arena-sized rock majesty built on a contained pop foundation. mind you, that foundation is built by the innovative and psychedelic mind of yim yames, so take that how you will, mmj lovers. the album’s out may 31st, but you can stream it in its entirety at the link below, courtesy of npr.
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sensual, cerebral, indulgent, passionate – no, i’m not talking about ghirardelli chocolate squares, but rather the whimsical english troupe, wild beasts, whose latest album (best described by the aforementioned adjectives) smother is available for your streaming pleasure. and i do mean pleasurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.
smother is out tomorrow.
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darker than their previous two-piece movements the stage names and the stand ins, okkervil river’s latest album i am very far (out may 10) features a new state of anonymity from frontman, will sheff, his lyrics soaked in cryptic menace.
check it out at npr, or the link below.
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okkervil river – i am very far
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as if you havent’ already experienced it live in its entirety, you can hear, now, the antlers’ new album burst apart. their first album written as a full fledged band, burst apart is all soaring melodies and sonic movements. check it out over at, where else, npr.
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remember when fleet foxes were a young band that swept everyone away in a wash of sweet harmonies of appalachia? well one album later, they still do the same damn thing. check out a full album stream of their latest helplessness blues.
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fleet foxes – helplessness blues
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noah lennox aka animal collective’s panda bear has just dropped off his latest album tomboy at the offices of npr, who are now streaming the darkly ambient (as compared to 2007′s person pitch of course) album in its entirety. have a go below.
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though we’ve pretty much heard the majority of r.e.m.’s fifteenth (count ‘em) album collapse into now, npr has the whole album streaming over on their site. it’s nice to hear the album as a whole, a more expansive, massive sound than in earlier albums.
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the hype machine have an exclusive stream of the dodos’ new album no color which is out march 15. the san fran band reunited with producer john askew, who had previously worked with the band on their first two albums, as well as dropping time to die vibraphonist keaton snyder and featuring a neko case guest spot.
stream the album below.
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to say all eternals deck is a more subdued mountain goats, john darnielle sounding more restrained than in recent releases, is to miss the point of the album entirely. darnielle’s provocative and highly literate lyrics have always been the driving force behind any of the mountain goats’ albums, every bit as reflective as they are intimate. to ahve the man explain it in his own words:
If you have ever watched say a 70s occult-scare movie where one of the scenes involves a couple of people visiting a storefront fortune teller, getting their cards read, and then trying to feel super-hopeful about what they hear when what they’re visibly actually feeling is dread, then you have a pretty decent idea of what the album is all about. If you know the feeling of exultation that comes with having recognized the oncoming train of fate, then that’s the other thing the album’s about.
stream the all eternals deck (due out march 29) over at npr (of course).
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the mountain goats – all eternals deck
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