Spanning 17 tracks and 69 minutes, pom pom is unfiltered Ariel Pink, a pied piper of the absurd, with infectious tales of romance, murder, frog princes and Jell-O. With the Los Angeles native striking it out alone and returning to the solo moniker he has adopted for well over a decade, pom pom could very well be Ariel Pink's magnum opus. pom pom is Ariel Pink's third studio album for 4AD.
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Music video for Luca Vasta. Directed by Adarsha Benjamin.
Dukes of Chutney is John Paul Jones and Dustin Lynn, California born brothers from other cosmic mothers who met surfing over a decade ago. Dukes of Chutney’s Domino was released yesterday and today they release their music video for the track Jan's Bellski using some incredible footage from Fellini's 1972 film Roma. You can purchase the album here.
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Rylee Jean Ebsen directs this music video for New York based Ducky's new track Air.
Genesis P'Orridge and Devendra Banhart in London.
Recently banned from youtube, music video for Reptile Youth's track It's Easy To Lose Yourself off their current self titled album directed by Peter Kaaden. “The video is the song. The song is the video. It’s not a complicated way around, it’s not the opposite and not an arty interpretation. You get what the song is about. Uncensored, honest & real. Everything is minimized to the necessaries in the song and in the video” Peter Kaaden.
Ashley Smith, Karley Sciortino, Sky Ferreira, Georgia Ford, Petra Collins, Marcel Castenmiller, Matthew Hitt, and Alice Lancaster star in Sandy Kim's music video, shot on 8MM, for the band Diiv's track Wait off the album Oshin, now on Captured Tracks.
Joined by their friends Erika Spring and Lissy Trullie on guest vocals Selebrities cover Fleetwood Mac's classic jam Everywhere in a style that is dreamy, romantic, and true to the original. Selebrities' second album is due out June 25 on Cascine.
A kaleidoscopic day of jamming, hanging on the beach, and horseback riding. This is the second music directed by Adarsha Benjamin for the band Woods for the track Size Meets The Sound.
Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier is a musical fantasy born in a trailer by the woods of upstate New York during summer 2010 by the French based in Belgium visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson. Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier’s new album Dark Morse, which is out February 1st by Shelter Press,is inspired by the short story The Angel Esmeralda written by Don Delillo.
Listen below to the track Für Hildegard von Bingen off Devendra Banhart's upcoming Nonesuch records debut, Mala, on March 12, 2013. Mala, Banhart’s eighth studio album, was recorded in his then-home in Los Angeles. (He now resides in New York City.) The album is inspired by Banhart's fiancée, Ana Kras, a Serbian artist. Preorder the album here to receive the below song and a limited edition signed print. photograph by Mads Teglers
Swedish duo The Knife announce new album Shaking The Habitual, to be released in April 2013. Sign up to receive news about the new album by email here.
Julia Holter and director Yelena Zhelezov have collaborated once again in video form. Having previously worked together on the video for Moni Mon Amie from Holter's 2012 album Ekstasis, the two Los Angeles-based artists (and friends) constructed a landscape over which Holter's all-seeing eye purveys the predictable events turned inexplicably preposterous. "The video for Julia's 'Goddess Eyes II' is inspired by the Latin phrase 'deus ex machine,'" says Zhelezov. "In theater, deus ex machina is plot device for seemingly unresolvable dramaturgical situations. The video is in tribute to Euripides and the literary spirit of the song that the video was conceived and directed.The video is Holter's sixth and final video from Ekstasis.
Music video for R.E.M.'s track Blue, featuring Patti Smith, from their final studio album Collapse Into Now, directed by James Franco
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White Fence's Tim Presley started Birth Records with sole intention of recording neo-folk songtress and Jessica Prattwho is based in San Francisco. Her music is mysterious and haunting and sounds like it's from another time. Presley says about Pratt, "Jessica Pratt's music feels like I have found a lost LP of an old forgotten mystical folk singer, that feeling of discovering a record all by myself: Without the help of friends or the Internet. Like Stevie Nicks singing over David Crosby demos, with the intimacy of a Sibylle Baier." Jessica Pratt's self titled album, which might be the best record of the year, is now available on vinyl and digital. Hear our favorite track below called Titles Under Pressures.
Sophie Auster, daughter of writer Paul Auster, performs live her song Lonely at Chez André in NYC to celebrate the launch of her album Red Weatherwhich is officially available today. You can purchase the album here.
Music video for King Krule's single Rock Bottom out now on Rinse directed by Paraic & Michael Morrissey. King Krule or Zoo Kid is Archy Marshall an 18 year old musician from the UK.