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Dam Mantle is about to wake you up. The Glasgow producer (AKA Tom Marshall) just released his debut LP, First Wave, yesterday on Wichita Recordings, and you can now stream the eclectic, innovative, and slightly eccentric record below via the Fader premier. Marshall will also (appropriately) be serving as the opener on Gold Panda’s upcoming [...]

After missing the band’s recent show at The Echo (sad), it took all of 2 minutes within reading the news of Smith Westerns’ extended tour dates with Yeasayer to spark possible plans of a San Francisco Spring road trip involving a stop at The Filmore. The Chicago band are completely booked through the summer now [...]

Lord Huron is not a character from The Hobbit. He’s actually LA based singer/songwriter Ben Schneider and his indie-folk band named after a Northern Michigan lake. Their latest release, Mighty EP, features the gorgeous, Calypso percussioned closer “When Will I See You Again.” Lord Huron have a couple of great LA shows coming up, including [...]

Generational’s “Victim of Trap” isn’t as eerie a song as you’d think, considering that the video is comprised of found footage of an abandoned, post-Katrina Six Flags in New Orleans. The NOLA based duo are set to release their sophomore full-length on Park the Van March 29. “Victim of Trap” appears on their new Trust [...]

Smith Westerns’ new clip for “Weekend” features every weekend by every teenager ever (maybe sans cutting down a tree with an ax) and stars Smith Westerns (teenagers). The Chicago band will be on the road supporting their sophomore LP through March (including shows with MGMT and Yuck) – dates below. Dye it Blonde is due [...]

Ra Ra Riot’s The Orchard may have been a slightly disappointing follow-up to 2008′s Rhumb Line (one of my favorites from that year), but this remix of “Too Dramatic” (via the Exclaim premiere) by Ontario’s The Most Serene Republic pianist, Ryan Lenssen, is highly lovable. The bands have a few joint shows coming up in [...]

Weekend’s oil spilled video for “Monday Morning / Monongah, WV” reminds me somewhat of Sigur Ros’ “Untitled 1 (Vaka)”, except it’s not the most depressing thing ever of all time. If you haven’t streamed Weekend’s staticy debut album, Sports (due November 9 via Slumberland), you should go do that now. Upcoming tour dates with Pains [...]

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are still promising a follow-up to their 2009 gazey gem of a debut. But until then, here’s another new single (the first being June’s “Say No To Love”) called “Heart in Your Heartbreak” (so many <3′s), which is the first taste of the band’s upcoming 2011 LP. “Heart [...]

Providence, Rhode Island’s Deer Tick recently dropped their 3rd release in 2 years, and have just announced a non-stop fall tour  in support of the record. The Black Dirt Sessions, named after the upstate New York studio where it was recorded, has a darker, more ‘Black Dirt’ appropriate sound than the band’s previous releases. See [...]

Brooklyn’s The Drums are promoting their recently released self-titled, debut LP with a free download of their latest single, “Down by the Water.” The band ‘slows the tempo’ on this track, which was originally featured on their 2009 Summertime! EP and sticks with you as easily as their band name (The Drums!). The Drums are [...]