Presented by: Pitchfork

Boasting an almost Google-proof name, Teengirl Fantasy is the project of Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi. Weiss and Takahashi, who craft an atmospheric yet driving sound -- borrowing from deep house, shoegaze, and other s...

New York NY

 

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Manchester UK-ENGLAND

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With a gritty, down and dirty flow that puts him in easy company with East coast greats like Method Man and Redman, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire evokes the days of mid-'90s hip-hop. Based out of New York, eXquire has a style...

Brooklyn NY

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Most people assume that when a band makes it—that is, reaches a critical mass of listeners, where shows across the country get packed, where the big festivals come calling, where placement on year-end lists seems preem...

Brooklyn NY

   

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Los Angeles CA

 

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Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had remixes ...

Brooklyn NY

   

Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export

When Frederic Riviere says something along the lines of “the sun and the sea are really important to me,” it’s easy to think, ‘Oh great, another chillwave artist who enjoys long walks on the beach and sitting on ...

Paris FRANCE

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Housse De Racket are the French duo Pierre Leroux and Victor Le Masne. Starting out as in-demand session musicians with Air and Phoenix the boys were simultaneously making their first steps as Housse De Racket. Recent si...

Paris FRANCE

   

Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export

College, from his real name David Grellier, is a French electronic music composer born in 1979 in Nantes. At the end of the 90s, he purchased his first computer, with which he realized numerous demos influenced by artist...

Paris FRANCE

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YELLE is a French dance-pop act founded in 2005 and fronted & named by Yelle, nee Julie Budet. First official single, "Je Veux Te Voir" a rather obvious slam of French rapper Cuizinier, was posted on MySpace in 2006 a...

Saint Brieuc FRANCE

   

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The Octopus Project plays loud, colorful music. The Octopus Project likes to put on intense live shows. The Octopus Project has 4 records and many EPs, collaborations, singles, etc. under its belt. The Octopus Project...

Austin TX

 

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Austin TX

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In the year of the saxophone, Santa Barbara's Gardens & Villa give us the flute. And along the way, G&V effectively wipe clear the vaseline from the murky bedroom funk of recent days. G&V bang out instant classics -- eac...

Santa Barbara CA

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Most people assume that when a band makes it—that is, reaches a critical mass of listeners, where shows across the country get packed, where the big festivals come calling, where placement on year-end lists seems preem...

Brooklyn NY

   

Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans

Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song — they pull off the scaffolding to...

Philadelphia PA

 

Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans

Sharon Van Etten came to Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the way, she sang in choirs, rejected her school’s music program, worked at an all-ages venue, trained as a sommelier, and got a full time jo...

New York NY

 

Presented by: AM Only

This BK, NY based beat maker is reachin' back to those golden days of hip-hop and house music. The days where you might sit in a record shop for hours searching for that diamond in the rough. His sound is a little cut n'...

Brooklyn NY

 

Presented by: AM Only

FELIX CARTAL / BIO: 2012 marks an important year for Felix Cartal, as the first single off his sophomore album has demonstrated, his sound has matured into simply put: memorable music. This single, titled, "Don't Turn...

Vancouver BC CANADA

 

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Nantes FRANCE

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Providence RI

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DC and Hooks are Zeds Dead. They first hooked up in 2004 and formed Mass Productions. Influenced by the digging in the crates sampling school of hip hop, Mass Productions released one independent album in the summer ...

Toronto ON CANADA

 

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Los Angeles CA

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There's a new ghoul haunting parties worldwide - a diamond-eyed skull slapped to turntables. Grinning off sweat-drenched t-shirts and gleaming from 20-foot neon screens. It's the bony mascot of Kill The Noise, the buzzin...

New York NY

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Perth WA AUSTRALIA

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Haarlem THE NETHERLANDS

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Although the Magnolia Housing Projects have long been demolished, a light post still stands at the corner where youth like Vockah Redu (Javocca Davis) gathered to rap and create beats. The light post marks one of the bir...

New Orleans LA

 

Presented by: Panache

This is what Chuck Klosterman says about Delicate Steve. He missed the note on hyperbole. THE CRITICS UNILATREALLY CONCUR: DELICATE STEVE IS A BAND WHO CREATES MUSIC Newton, N.J. – Every 30 or 40 or 500 yea...

Newton NJ

 

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The Black Belles are from Nashville TN. They met in a School For Wayward Girls in 2010 and have been practicing black magick and musik ever since. They are signed exclusively to Third Man Records, their debut LP "The Bla...

Nashville TN

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Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to post-college life, an ensuing break-up and geographic isolation Mikal Cronin steps momentarily away from the rhythm section of Orange County surf...

San Francisco CA

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Los Angeles CA

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The Strange Boys are an Amercian musical group who have just released their third LP on Rough Trade Records after releasing two LPs on In The Red Records. They play many types of songs in different keys and colors, and s...

Austin TX