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Last month we learned Beth Orton was co-producing a new album called Kidsticks with Fuck Buttons member Andrew Hung, a return to the electronic pop music that served as Orton's public introduction two decades ago. Lead single "Moon" was extremely promising, and the subsequent "1973" is even better. It's a bouncing, burbling synthetic pop track that traces the line from Stereolab to Hot Chip, with a hard-hitting electronic beat and keyboards that gleam like the sun reflecting off polished chrome. Twin Shadow's George Lewis Jr. plays guitar on the song, and Guillermo E. Brown aka Pegasus Warning handles the drums. Listen below. Orton's tour dates: 05/27-28 Brighton, UK @ Brighton Festival 06/07 Chicago, IL @ City Winery 06/09 Pittsburgh, PA @ Three Rivers Arts Festival 06/11 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall 06/12 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry 06/14 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge 06/15 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall 06/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom 06/20 San Francisco,

Thank you to Stereogum for premiering “1973,” the second single fromBeth Orton’s new album ‘Kidsticks,’ co-produced by Orton herself andFuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung. The album, full of Orton’s beautiful, unmistakable vocals and propulsive melodies, will be out on May 27. You can pre-order it here: bit.ly/kidsticks

It never topped Billboard’s Hot 100, didn’t receive any Grammy nominations, and wasn’t among YouTube’s 10 most popular music videos this year, but in 2015 Drake’s “Hotline Bling” dominated online culture like no other song.

#Hotline Bling #Drake

If there’s a lesson from 2015’s top 50 albums, it’s this: You can never be too famous to push yourself. There are plenty of relative unknowns in the group — DIY home-recording auteurs, underground extreme-metal blood-churners, edge-of-noise experimenters. But especially in the upper reaches of this year’s list, you will find plenty of people who were already famous when 2015 began. None of them found their way onto this list by making the same sorts of music they’ve always made. All of them found new ways to tinker with their voices, to make them even more powerful.

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Chvrches at the Highline in New York city for Stereogum © Ryan Muir

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The Zac Little who answers the door is the same Zac Little from Saintseneca's band photos -- his wiry frame clad in black head-to-toe from boots to vest to collar, his red facial hair gone full Civil War general. Or maybe Civil War-era blacksmith is more appropriate given that when I enter Little's half-double just north of Ohio State University, he's situated at a work bench soldering some of the handmade jewelry he sells under the name Hero King Embellishments. A bear's head is mounted on the wall; London Calling is streaming off a laptop. Little offers me some cold-brew coffee, and we sit down on his couch in the next room to discuss Such Things, Saintseneca's heady and hearty new album. Carl G. Liungman's Dictionary Of Symbols rests across from us on the coffee table. Little is the only remaining member of Saintseneca from eight years ago, back when he and two friends from Ohio's Appalachian southeast enrolled at Ohio State, recruited a violist, and immediately made their presence

Happy 40th, Sufjan!

#Sufjan Stevens

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The first time I heard Painted Palms' 2013 single "Spinning Signs," I was instantly captivated (and slightly obsessed) by their psych-pop instrumentals. The band's been quiet since Forever dropped last year, but now, cousins Reese Donohue and Christopher Prudhomme are back with a forthcoming sophomore album, Horizons. Although the duo collaborated on song ideas via email (a method they also used while writing Forever), Horizons marks the first time that the duo has been able to work side-by-side in a studio. The record was mixed by former DFA Records house engineer Eric Broucek, who's worked with LCD Soundsystem and Classixx. The synth-heavy single "Tracers" takes on a colder, '80s-inspired electronic sound that still incorporates the mesmerizing, echoing vocals of '60s psych-pop. It's a darker, echoing response to "Spinning Signs." Listen. Horizons tracklist: 01 "Refractor" 02 "Contact" 03 "Gemini" 04 "Glaciers" 05 "Echoes" 06 "Control" 07 "Disintegrate" 08 "Waterfall" 09

New Painted Palms song, “Tracers,” up now on Stereogum!

Kanye does Glastonbury with Justin Vernon, Stage Crasher, “Bohemian Rhapsody”

#Kanye West #Glastonbury #Bon Iver #Justin Vernon #Queen

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Disgusting: ISIS Just Released A 2-Star Review Of ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’

As ISIS continues to increase its deadly and destructive influence across the Middle East, it becomes increasingly clear that there is no act too atrocious for the terrorist organization, and its latest disgusting salvo proves just that. Earlier this morning, members of the Islamic State released a two-star review of Neutral Milk Hotel’s sophomore album, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.

According to reports, the devastating 500-word review, which appeared online at 7:45 a.m., attacks nearly every aspect of the 1998 indie album, again showing that ISIS is capable of anything.

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