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Sigur Ros, Innit?

By Brodie Lancaster | August 12th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

After announcing an indefinite hiatus last January—not long before lead singer Jónsi found worldwide acclaim for his solo record ‘Go’—the ambient Icelandic quartet have returned with a teaser for their new project, ‘Inni’.

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Canasta’s Broken Heart

By Jenna Hawkins | August 12th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

Chicago chamber pop sextet Canasta feel the pain of breaking up in their new video Mexico City from their third album, The Fakeout, the Tease and the Breather.

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Sleep∞Over’s Romantic Streams

By Annisah Ibrahim | August 12th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

The haunting magic of the VHS (or Video Home System) is brilliantly captured in an unofficial fan video for mysterious Texan dreamcore outfit, Sleep∞Over. For those too young to enjoy the raw beauty of Analog, David Dean Bukhart is one of the many retro-video enthusiasts who create postmodern video collages juxtaposing today’s music with found footage from forgotten decades.

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Oh Land Dreams Of White Nights

By Kenny Chy | August 11th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

Oh Land charms us with her sweet voice, quirks and vivid imagination in her enchanting new video for ‘White Nights’.

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Girls Take A Trip Downtown

By Jenna Hawkins | August 10th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

San Francisco’s Girls take a trip downtown to the seedy underbelly of Americana in their new video for Vomit from their sophomore album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost.

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Steering By Stars’ Creepy, Cosmic Collision

By Jenna Hawkins | August 9th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

Adelaide post-rock darlings release Collision, the follow up to last years critically acclaimed Cables directed by AFI award winning director Nick Matthews.

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Holy Moses! It’s Megan Washington!

By Annisah Ibrahim | August 8th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

Ladies and gentlemen, the caramel coated vocal compositions of Washington have returned. Now starring in a pitch perfect pop rendition of a modern showtune, Holy Moses is a thumping drumbeat followed by Washington’s signature piano and rhythmic handclapping, topped with the mischievous styling of the humble kazoo.

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Kanye Takes The Throne

By Flavia Browne | August 6th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

With an onstage career whose length hasn’t even spanned a decade, Kanye West has well and truly made his mark on the music world. While his solo work still leaves many rap artists for dead, it’s really his collaborative work with other musical renegades that sets him apart.

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Wild Nothing: Live and Unplugged

By Brodie Lancaster | August 5th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

After discussing all things Australian with Portable’s Emma Meres at Pitchfork Music Festival last month, four-piece Wild Nothing set up a makeshift performance space on the sidewalk of a quiet, Chicago street to shoot this live version of their track Our Composition Book with Yours Tru.ly’s video team.

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Travel Back in Time With Violens

By Cassandra Martin | August 5th, 2011 in Music | Locale:

The last time we heard from this Brooklyn-based band Violens, they had just come off a tour with MGMT and were getting press left and right. Now we can see that they are totally living up to the hype with It Couldn’t Be Perceived, their moody, heavy, and completely mesmerizing new video that is hitting all the right notes.

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