Brooklyn-based record label and art collective Famous Class’s latest split 7-inch features Cass McCombs and White Magic. Cass’s tune delivers a proper dose of McCombsian brooding and the piano on White Magic’s contribution is sort of upbeat, almost as if White Magic wrote the theme song for Charlie Brown on the moon. LIKE! TRACKLIST Cass [...]

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DaM-FunK re-freaks Toro Y Moi‘s “Say That.” Giving this a good listen, we venture to believe that to “re-freak” something means to strip it of its clothing and make it dance. —Daiana Feuer

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The Postal Service is back.

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The cool, the dorky, the unsmiling, the spastic, the silent, the pimpled and the suave all rocked out with as much self-consciousness as preschoolers. No one took their pants off, yet the rafters knocked.

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New video for Nite Jewel’s song “Memory, Man.”

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22-year old Austin Peralta passed away yesterday. Official reports haven’t been released as to the cause of death. Son of skateboard legend Stacy Peralta, this super talented guy was a musical force to be reckoned with. He had two CDs out in Japan by age 16. Still budding, his prowess earned him respect from jazz [...]

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It is quite swooping. Not to be confused with sweeping, this is more swooping. (Roll your head in a bit of a circle when you say the word.) This gal’s got a full length record just waiting for the right someone to put it out. And someone else should put out the piano version. For [...]

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Janet is her dog and she surely deserves the four page handwritten letter that Apple posted on Facebook. I understand. Fiona, would Janet like to come playdate with Future (my furry best friend) and we can talk about making out with our dogs, and how it’s not really making out, it’s more like face wash—sometimes [...]

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Tonight, Daedelus is performing at LACMA’s Halloween party, the Kubrick masquerade ball, so it seemed only appropriate that we should find out what’s his favorite scary movie and paste him into a scene from Kubrick’s creepiest film, of course. It also happens to be his birthday today. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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Three cute girls and one handsome dude all tangled up in red jumpsuits, Hawaiian shirts, toy space helmets and zombie makeup, they’re probably the least terrifying people who’ll ever show up to your party with four gallons of fake blood and a Skull in their name. They sit around on stage like kids in a sandbox, surrounded by toys and instruments and pedals and cables and things they barely understand, and they serenade you with playmusic like this is the first time they’re trying it themselves.

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