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First Listen: Tricky, "False Idols"

The producer's best album since the mid-'90s, False Idols is one of 2013's biggest surprises so far. His signature mix of menace and seduction still sounds contemporary after Tricky's more than 20 years in (and out of) the spotlight. Listen to Tricky's False Idols streaming now via FUV and NPR Music prior to its release on May 28 (May 27 in the UK)

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Posted 5-21-13 by guest
Tags: Tricky

Win Tickets To See The Raveonettes

Posted 1-10-11 by Sandra Fung
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The Raveonettes surfed into the New Year playing Los Angeles and while their 2011 tour plans are still being firmed up, one definite date is an April 20 show at Music Hall of Williamsburg with languid shoegaze duo Tamaryn. Make some great plans a few months ahead and enter to win tickets for this terrific bill.

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New Gil Scott-Heron Remix From the xx's Jamie Smith

Posted 1-7-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Gil Scott-Heron, Jamie Smith, The xx

The remix collaboration between the xx's Jamie Smith and Gil Scott-Heron, We're New Here, a reconfiguration of Scott-Heron's 2010 album I'm New Here, doesn't drop until February 22 in the States and February 23 in the UK, but another track from it has surfaced on Scott-Heron's website.

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Hit The Road This March

Posted 1-6-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Catwalk, The Depreciation Guild, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Twin Shadow

Euphoric dream-pop purveyors The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, who release their sophomore album, Belong, in March, will kick off a U.S. tour that month with Twin Shadow and Catwalk, concluding at New York's Webster Hall on May 6. Plus, The Depreciation Guild, drummer Kurt Feldman's other band, calls it quits but will play a final show this month.

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Beastie Boys On Track To Release New Album This Spring

Posted 1-6-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Beastie Boys

Mike D confirms that while Hot Sauce Committee Pt  1 is still delayed, the Beastie Boys will release Hot Sauce Committee Pt 2 this spring following bandmate Adam Yauch's good news regarding his cancer battle. Although plans for touring are still sketchy, a new video is in the works. UPDATE: Yauch has issued a statement explaining that he's not cancer-free following erroneous reports.

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Bright Eyes Give Away "Shell Games" From Their Upcoming Album

Posted 1-5-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes don't release their seventh studio album, The People's Key,  until February 15, but the band is offering up their first single, "Shell Games," for free on the band's label website.

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Listen To The Decemberists' New Album, The King Is Dead

Posted 1-4-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Gillian Welch, NPR, Peter Buck, The Decemberists

As WFUV's Sarah Wardrop puts it so aptly, The Decemberists' upcoming album The King Is Dead signals "a new musical lightness" for the band. You can listen to the album now, streaming over at NPR, until the record's release on January 18. 

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