Class Actress - Journal of Ardency (2010)

mellow lady 'lectronica.

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Yuck - Yuck (2011)

British take on 90's indie rock.

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Generationals - Actor-Caster (2011)

Hopscotch band #4. New Orleans indie-pop.

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Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine (2011)

Hopscotch chill-wave. Add this dude to the list of people from South Carolina that doesn't suck.

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Reading Rainbow - Prism Eyes (2010)

Another hopscotch band that I am super fraking excited to see, and at the hive none the less. American indie-pop-rock at it's finest.

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Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure (2011)

I think I'm going to start posting more Hopscotch bands. Beach Fossils are one of the top bands I want to see this year. Perfect mix of indie rock and shoegaze.

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$K$E$H$A$ - IATDC + ICYTD (2011)

Is it ridiculous that I can't find this girl on Spotify without actually typing $.

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Metronomy - The English Riviera (2011)

Hot damn I love this band! This new album is so much more refined then "Night's Out." Don't get me wrong, I love that album too as it encompasses a raw electro-indie-i-just-had-my-heart-broken-but-let's-dance-anyway kinda thing. This album takes that, and bakes it to perfection with slightly less teenage angst.

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DOM - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (2011)

AND I'M BACK FROM SUMMER VAY-K!!! Ok, so I definitely still have a note on my desk from 3 weeks ago telling me to check out this DOM character, which i just got around to yesterday.... A MAN WAS I MISSING OUT! In a recent interview Dom declined to share his last name, and blurred the line between fact and fiction so nonchalantly that it became hard to know if anything he said could be believed at all. Supposedly the basis for his anonymity is seeded in the many debts he owes to a wide range of sinister individuals.

Dom makes sunburned guitar pop with fat hooks and stargaze synths that sound triumphant, heartbreaking, and totally immediate.

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Wye Oak - Civilian (2011)

Baltimore rep'n hard.

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Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)

I really don't have to say anything about Bon Iver. You are most likely already aware of their awesome sauce.

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Junior Boys - It's All True (2011)

Happy electro-indie-dance-tastic.

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Seapony - Go With Me (2011)

Seattle's Seapony makes me happy. lo-fo 60's indie pop for the win.

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Battles - Gloss Drop (2011)

New Battles. Somehow they lost a dude and got even better. I believe that's called the subtractive property of unequally-more-awesome-now. Sorry Tyondai Braxton.

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Matt Pond PA - Spring Fools (2011)

This is a pretty catchy freaking EP.

i give my love to get used

Grimes & D'Eon - Darkbloom (2011)

Claire Boucher (Grimes) + fellow Montrealer d'Eon. Comparable to Lykke Li, slightly more electronic. It works, trust me.

pitchfork

the Crystal Ball track freaking rules

Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (2008)

I'm hoping with chance, you might take this dance.

You're my number one guy

Midtown Dickens - Oh Yell! (2007)

This album is amazing. I can't wait to see these kids at saxapahaw.

Midtown Dickens

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Rosebuds - LPFL (2011)

What a freaking way to start the weekend. I'm super stoked about this album. I suggest all of you buy this album when it comes out, I know I will.

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Home Video - The Automatic Process (2010)

Friday indie-electro dance party. This just furthers the stereotype that hipsters like any band from Brooklyn (even if they are originally from New Orleans).

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Thao & Mirah - Thao & Mirah (2011)

So it turns out these girls are going to be rocking the local 506 next saturday. Anybody interested????????????

NPR

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Love Inks - E.S.P.

Austin's very own. This just came out a couple weeks ago and has been getting a lot of ink. Indie dream pop minimalism. If you like the xx, you'll like this.

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A - FiB

Katie Stelmanis says her goal is "to make classical music with really fucked up, distorted crazy shit on there." I think she accomplishes this well.

If you want it!

TJF - TBR

TJF rocks my socks off.

The greatest light is the greatest shade

FtP - T

I might just start a dedicated what NPR recommends blog. They have been pretty spot on the past couple months. "Pumped Up Kids" is pretty great, but I really appreciate how upbeat this entire album has been so far.

NPR consistently rocks my socks off

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Twin Shadow - Forget (2010)

I like this dude. 1980's new wave.

1980's NEW WAVE!

Ben Gibbard + Zooey Deschanel

I'm not posting names for things that will obviously get taken down. That being said, I love this band and have seen them no less than five times. I will see them again when they come to Cary later this year. I wasn't a big fan of narrow stairs, but this album seems to be pretty solid even if it's going in a slightly more upbeat direction. I'm can't freaking wait for Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel to actually for the indie superband that is inevitably about to happen. And while we are at it, where the hell is that second Postal Service album. Get it together Gibbard.

Katy Perry does not look like Zooey Deschanel

Discovery - LP (2009)

Arguably the best album cover in recent years. Discovery is love child of Ra Ra Riot front dude Wesley Miles and Vampire Weekend's keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij. This is seriously one of my top five records.

i'm serious, top five

Pedro the Lion - Control (2002)

Celebrate the rapture (track two) appropriately with David Bazan. Seriously one of the best albums of all time.

this line is metaphysical

Engine Down - Engine Down (2004)

Saw these dudes several times over the course of my college career, and they totally destroyed it everytime. I'm still pissed i never got that enginedown is for lovers t-shirt.

enginedown is for l<3vers

French Kicks - Swimming (2008)

Bands are like friends. Good friends are hard to find, but once you've found them you never let them go. I'll never let this band go.

relax

Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (2009)

Somehow all my friends found this independent of each other. My friends are awesome, and so is this band.

click here for dance party

New Cults

I love these kids.

for reals

Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose (2011)

I almost drove to Tennessee to see these kids, they are that good.

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Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde (2011)

Saw these dudes at Kings for the CAM afterparty. I loved it, but sometimes that Blenheim ginger ale and whiskey gets me feeling all warm inside.

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Small Black - Small Black (EP) (2010)

Love it, Despicable Dogs wins me over every time.

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The Dodos - No Color (2011)

Because you can't stream it on NPR forever...

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Nicki Minaj - Barbie World (The Mixtape) (2010)

I seriously love some Nicki Minaj. This mixtape is no different. Enjoy.

nicki minaj a trois

Lykke Li- Wounded Rhymes (2011)

Holy shit, this just leaked TODAY. What are the odds?!? I seriously spent like an hour last night scouring the internet for this. I've been so obsessed with the two songs that she's released so far, I'm pretty sure I willed this thing into existence. I just started listening to this album, but I really need to go ahead and delete it... I'm pretty sure that funny feeling in my chest is my heart melting. Alternatively, it could also be the insane amount of bloody marys I've had today, but I doubt it. I fucking love this girl. This is just the cherry on the top of what has been a fantastic weekend.

click here to have your heart melted!!!

James Blake - James Blake (2011)

I heard this guy on NPR like a month ago. Then another one of my good friends reminded me that this was awesome. Here it is, enjoy.

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Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday (2010)

Love this girl. Will be posting her mixtapes soon.

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Rye Rye - RYEot PowRR (mixtape)

Everyday I wake up and I thank the good Lord that I have awesome friends such as Caroline. Recently I have been going through some rough times because there has been such a lack in fresh music. Fortunately the dry spell has ended with the introduction of Rye Rye's latest mixtape. I shit you not, this mixtape has blown me away. Besides the first half being Rye Rye originals, the back half of the mixtape is full of mashups that can only be described as Girl Talk meets M.I.A.

Download it!!!!!

Drake - Thank Me Later (2010)

It's been way too long since I posted on here. That being said, this album is fucking great it makes up for the drought in new music. I never really cared too much for Degrassi, but Aubrey Drake Graham might be on to this whole Do Right And Kill Everything attitude. If you listen to one track, listen to Miss Me.

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