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Smith Westerns – Varisty (Video)

Everyone’s favorite Chicago indie music stars are back with their first video from Soft Will as well as a slew of new announcements.  The new video, for the song “Varsity”, features a young couple “exploring a dream world of young love” as Pitchfork so eloquently puts it.  Along with the new video, which you can watch [...]

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Two Door Cinema Club – Handshake (Video)

Everyone’s favorite Northern Ireland-based rock band has finally released some visuals for their smash single “Handshake”.  The video is understandably bizarre.  I won’t spoil too much of it, but I will say that it includes a butcher and a bowling alley.  Be sure to check out Two Door Cinema Club at this year’s Lollapalooza festival, [...]

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Lana Del Rey – Summer Wine (Video)

Lana Del Rey is back with a new video today.  The new cut, “Summer Wine”, is a vintage homage to its original artist Nancy Sinatra.  It is such an homage, in fact, that the entire video looks like it was shot through some sort of Instagram filter.  I can’t say I’m Lana’s biggest fan, but [...]

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Smith Westerns – Soft Will (Album Teaser)

One of my most anticipated albums of 2013 is easily the 3rd effort from Smith Westerns.  The Chicago-based dream-pop band’s first two albums have shown significant improvement over each other, and it will be extremely interesting to see if their third effort, Soft Will, continues with this trend.  Check out the teaser for  Soft Will below…it’s [...]

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Lollapalooza lineup leaks…probably

Alright, all you festival-lovers: it’s been a big week for Lollapalooza. Incredibly, the festival sold out all of its three-day passes in less than four hours–without even having released their line-up. At this point, people are assuming it’s going to be good. After I bought my non-refundable ticket, I was thinking to myself, “Wow, they [...]

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The Shins reveal new tour dates

I’ll never forget how last year I walked past Shins frontman James Mercer in the Lollapalooza media tent and my heart skipped multiple beats.  It was one of the craziest moments of my life.  I couldn’t even get my phone out in time to snap a couple of quick pictures before he and his entourage [...]

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