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Summer Playlist: Poolside’s warm, liquid house track, “Only Everything” [MP3]
Lately, we’ve been loving L.A. band Poolside, the group most perfectly-fitted to our Summer Playlist section. Not only are they Californian, but their music is full of the sounds of the Caribbean,...
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Summer Playlist: Kisses’ chill pop, “Funny Heartbeat”&“Bermuda” [MP3s]
Oceanic-sounding L.A. indie pop band Kisses make music perfectly suited to a vacation on a beach, and I’ve been loving on their song “Bermuda” for years. Now the band has a new single, “Funny...
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Summer Playlist: Blonde Summer’s fun surf-garage tune “Robots on Command”
Below, check out a new one from L.A. beach bums Blonde Summer. Despite the horrible nomenclature — the band name is unoriginal and trashy, and the song name is not exactly interesting — the song is...
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Summer Playlist: Green Day go dance-punk on profane new tune “Kill the DJ”
After two consecutive rock operas, both of which confronted life in the post-9/11 world of modern America through the lens of identifiable, catchy rock music, Green Day are releasing a project which...
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Summer Playlist: Swedish duo Alpaca Sports’ catchy “I Was Running” [MP3]
Back in June (two months ago to the day, in fact), I posted a nostalgic, warm indie pop song from Swedish indie pop duo Alpaca Sports entitled “She’ll Come Back for Indian Summer,” and the first...
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Summer Playlist: Pure Bathing Culture’s nostalgic dream-pop, “Gainesville”
As far as chill, warm-weather indie pop goes, we’ve some very fitting band names around here — Blonde Summer, Beach Day, and the everpresent Poolside, for example — and Pure Bathing Culture, like the...
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About to Break: Generationals’ synth-laden beach pop, “Lucky Numbers”
This one’s been lighting up the internet like wildfire, and as it’s spread to the top levels like P4K and Stereogum, New Orleans indie pop band Generationals have seemed increasingly likely to break...
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Summer Playlist: Matt & Kim’s catchy new pop-rock anthem “Now”
Following up on the ultra-catchy pop-rock track “Let’s Go,” here’s another new one from indie pop-rockers Matt & Kim, who will release their new album Lightning on October 2. It’d make a great...
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Britishness: lust-charged pop-rock from Manchester band The 1975, “Sex”
On November 19 in the U.K. and November 20 in the U.S., Manchester rock band The 1975 will release a new EP with the rather blunt title Sex. Below, you can check out the title track, a lust-charged...
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Summer Playlist: Mike Coykendall’s doo-wop ode to “The Hippie Girl” [MP3]
Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter Mike Coykendall has never caught my eye before, but this cute 2-minute ode to hippie girls (because god bless ‘em!) is too much fun to pass up. Oh, and former...
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