Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem Announce New Album

Filmmaker/guitarist Jim Jarmusch and composer Van Wissem released the album, Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity, this past February and they've now they have announced their second album of the year entitled The Mystery of Heaven, due out on November 13 via Sacred Bones. After the jump see the music video for the track The Sun of the Natural World is Pure Fire directed by Diego Barrera that references references mythology, the elements, and symbolism.

[MUST LISTEN] Isaac Delusion

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Jules Paco and Loic Fleury are Isaac Delusion – a mysterious, brilliant musical export from France. The title track from their 2012 EP release Midnight Sun(listen below) is a dreamlike, cinematic pop masterpiece. Its one of those tracks you literally can't stop listening to and pine for the first time you heard it. The duo has just release a new track, entitled Early Morning, from an upcoming album due out soon on Craki Records.

Julia Holter Music Video For Goddess Eyes I

Julia Holtercollaborates with José Wolff on Video for Goddess Eyes I. Julia Holter and visual artist José Wolff share Los Angeles as home and worked together on a video for Holter's Sea Called Me Home, an earlier piece in Holter's repertoire. When Wolff approached Holter to create a video for Goddess Eyes I from her 2012 album Ekstasis, the two embarked on a journey to divine the celestial / human mystery of the song. "The first thing that came to mind was an image that gradually deteriorates with visual noise, echoing the sonic noise present in the song," says Wolff. "We go from lightness to darkness, away from a structured, fabricated place and into raw territory." The video is Holter's fifth (but not final) from Ekstasis. Fresh off a string of shows with Sigur Ros, Holter picks up touring at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, New York this Friday, August 31st making her way down the coast to the Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina.

El Perro Del Mar New Single From Pale Fire

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Swedish sensation El Perro Del Mar (aka Sarah Assbring) released the first single, Walk On By, off her upcoming album Pale Fire due out this November by The Control Group. Sarah says about the single: "I see it as an hommage to the songs I loved in the early 90’s."

[RISE] Introducing GRMLN

Born in Kyoto, Japan and raised in Southern California, 19-year-old Yoodoo Park is the man behind indie rock outfit GRMLN. In the summer of 2010 in between sessions on his surfboard, Park began recording guitar-driven dream-pop in his garage to soundtrack the journeys in his car. Park chose the name GRMLN to echo the feelings of otherworldliness and disconnect he felt during those summers. Currently a student at the University of California Santa Cruz, Park pens songs there when he's away from his makeshift recording studio and his live band, in which he plays with his brother. Entitled Explore, Yoodoo's debut EP is just that: a young artist inspired by the scenery of his coastal surroundings, discovering and developing his singular voice to create a wistful palette of blues, greens and golds.GRMLN will release his Explore EP on October 23rd with Carpark Records.

Taste It

London based Daniel Brereton has directed the brilliant new music video for Daniel Avery's track Taste It off his EP Need Electric. Brereton says, "I don't want reveal how this is done before you watch it, so watch it first. It might be easy to tell but this was all done an an everyday scanner, I just had the idea to do a video full of scanned images. So i just got the girls to move scan by scan, like in stop-frame animation. They didn't really "get" what was going on at times, but that is cool as it creates mistakes, and i often asked them what they thought would look good."

Kisses Return with Funny Heartbeats

After two years of touring the world and recording, Kisses, comprised of couple Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson, have unveiled their latest single. Funny Heartbeat, a track about love and high anxiety that calls attention to the end of Summer and a new chapter for Kisses. While putting the finishing touches on the duo's second LP, with production work from Saint Etienne's Pete Wiggs and Tim Larcombe, the group decided to release a song that sits between the disco sheen of The Heart of The Nightlife and the pulsing freestyle beats of their forthcoming LP.

Patric Fallon is Courtship

I was intrigued at first by the hopeful sounding name of the album: Hope; and then by the title of one of the tracks: Dishwater Blonde. Courtship (a.k.a. Brooklyn resident Patric Fallon) has just released his latest EP, the seven-track Hope, as a free download. Over a year in the making, the Hope EP is the first installment of Courtship's Virtues trilogy, which will soon be followed by the Faith and Grace EPs. Hope was written by Fallon throughout San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Chicago, and is a pop-focused meditation on the ideas of hopefulness and hopelessness. The EP has a few gems like the track My View and My Friends and Patric Fallon's voice has just the right amount of angst riding over his melodious beats. Fallon is also certainly an artist to keep on your radar and if a record label gave him the right amount of time and money his music will just keep getting better. You can stream and download the Hope EP for free via  Courtship's bandcamp page.

RIP CHAVELA VARGAS

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Our love to revered Mexican folk singer Chavela Vargas, pictured above kissing director Pedro Almodovar, who passed away last night in Mexico City at the age of 93. In her youth, she dressed as a man, smoked cigars, drank heavily, carried a gun and was known for her characteristic red jorongo, which she still wore in performances. She was even rumored to have once carried on a romantic relationship with artist Frida Kahlo.