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Sorry for all the technical troubles here this past week. It's unfortunate (and unusual). We're still trying to get all our troubles hammered out and apologize for any hiccups. Fingers crossed that everything will be better soon.
Moderat - "Rusty Nails". The dark treacle of these vocals is at first too…

-- The eighth issue of Yeti, the zine/journal published by Pitchfork contributor Mike McGonigal, is out now. As always, it includes a compilation CD of rare and unreleased tracks. On this one, you'll get music from the late Jim Dickinson, Vaselines, Ty Segall, White Rainbow, Vampire Hands, and others.-- On…

City and Colour, the acoustic project from Dallas Green of Alexisonfire, have announced a new digital single to be released January 12, 2010. The single, Live at the Verge, features City and Colour performing "Forgive Me" from Bring Me Your Love and a solo acoustic cover of Alexisonfire's "Boiled Frogs."
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Van Dyke Parks is best known for his work with Brian Wilson, penning those imaginative and lines from the the SMiLE era (”I’ve been in this town so long that back in the city I’ve been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long, long time”). Beyond his…

As much as I enjoy reading literary novels and nonfiction, my heart still belongs to the short story. The past few years I have read more books and less literary magazines, and have devoured most of my short fiction in...

It’s here. This remix has been loved so much and it hasn’t barely been heard yet. Van She and Holy Ghost together, does it get better? And does it live to the hype/expectations? Let us know…
Van She – “Don’t Fear The Reaper” (Holy Ghost! B-live remix)
Bacardi to the rescue!

Peter, Bjorn & John got darker, donned leather, and grew mustaches in 2009 and were rewarded with a muted response to Living Thing, a collection known best or its enjoyable videos. Clearly undaunted, they've turned in a downcast take on Seals & Crofts's 1972 soft rock classic "Summer Breeze" that…

Taken By Trees just released a new single for one of our favorite songs of '09, "Anna." In addition to the gorgeous album version, the single also features an "Annacapella" which highlights Panda Bear's soaring vocal contribution (remixes, please), and this sparse, thoroughly hypnotic reverb-drowned version. Get the single here.
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Filed under: Music AppreciationBefore her acting skills landed her on the silver screen, Gabourey Sibide was a starry-eyed 'N Sync fanatic. When Sibide clinched a Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in 'Precious,' she seemed more psyched that Justin Timberlake was the one who made the announcement than she…

When Dana Falconberry recorded her session with Laundromatinee.com, she shared two new songs with us. We're still not sure if either of those two will end up our her upcoming release, but we are sure that this beauty will be on it.MP3 : Dana Falconberry - NightingaleDana tells us that…