Get me a hotline to indie Hollywood.

There’s a Noah Baumbach film missing a song.

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Weird Rivers – “Something Of A Secret”

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Posted at 4:29pm on Tuesday 10th January 2012
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Black Dice barge back into view with some Liars-inflected weirdo-disco skronk.

You can dance to it, but you’ve probably not enough limbs. Or you’ve too many. Either way, best of luck to you.

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Black Dice – “Pigs”

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Posted at 5:58pm on Monday 9th January 2012
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As Wild Beasts slowly push The xx aside as the presiding creative force over an emerging generation of new British music, the challenge is to find the band that embrace the influence but step out of the shadow.

Too early …

Posted at 11:43am on Sunday 8th January 2012
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Both CYMBALS and Weird Dreams will be playing various legs of the tour that coincides with the launch of the latest issue of Vice, without actually playing together at any point. That’s corrected on the 28th January however, as both …

Posted at 1:29pm on Saturday 7th January 2012
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There’s a universal appeal to the way in which Childhood are able to express the paradox of teendom as both endlessly hopeful and ineffably sad. Near everyone knows that strange, intoxicating concoction. With those guitars that sigh, Childhood are plugging …

Posted at 10:15pm on Friday 6th January 2012
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I’m deeply distrustful of people who have no trouble sleeping. It feels dishonest to the human condition. This is perhaps the reason why I’m continually drawn towards the music of the night, of apparent insomniacs who are able to sympathetically …

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Four things to note here, in no particular order:

1. Mac DeMarco is Canadian and is signed to Captured Tracks.

2. The Canadian government’s art funding policies are a kiss on the face, right around the ears, to the World. …

Posted at 9:33pm on Thursday 5th January 2012
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No-one who knows anything about Destroyer will be surprised with his intoxicating version of New Order’s “Leave Me Alone”.

Dan Bejar has spent the best part of his career spitting out ever-broadening variations of the 80s pop he ingested in …

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The last installment in this year’s scurrilous act of revisionism.

Now, where’s the Future?

1. Ice Age – “You’re Blessed”

I get the Death In June references and the flirtations with dubious imagery and the icey intensity spilling over into …

Posted at 12:30pm on Wednesday 14th December 2011
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