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Stream All of Fucked Up’s Chinese New Year Singles

Hardcore band Fucked Up has released a new 12” single (almost) annually to coincide with the Chinese New Year. In the past, they’ve done 2006's "Year of the Dog," 2008's "Year of the Pig," 2009's "Year of the Rat" and 2010's "Year of the Ox."  read more

Matador Announces Singles Subscription Club

Matador announced yesterday a limited edition seven-inch subscription series that will start in early 2012. The title of the series is Singles Going Home Alone and will feature six singles over the course of the year.   read more

Video Premiere: Maria Taylor - "Matador"

Maria Taylor, who is half of the Saddle Creek duo Azure Ray, showcases the complex, layered track that becomes more interesting when you can see all of the elements of its composition. Watch her new video for the song "Matador" here.  read more

London Riots Attack Independent Music

Poet and musician Scroobius Pip described the London Riots best....  read more

Listen to Belle and Sebastian's Write About Love

The Glasgow pop group is offering its eighth studio album, Write About Love, in full for your streaming pleasure at NPR right now. You can listen to the 11-track record here....  read more

Interpol: Interpol

Back in black Interpol has mostly sat on the sidelines since 2007’s disappointing Our Love to Admire, so their fourth album’s eponymous title feels like a statement of purpose: “We’re back, and we’re more us than ever.” The songs just about prove it, too. Though the record meanders into aimless moping in its final third, most of the 10 tracks are bold, heavy and among Interpol’s best. Debut Turn on the Bright Lights presented pitch-black landscapes of reverb, Antics brimmed with taut, sharp hooks, and the new record fuses the two, with Paul Banks’ tight vocals wandering through the shadows....  read more

Download Belle and Sebastian's "Write About Love"

Be one of the first 20,000 to visit B&S’s website, sign up for the newsletter and nab a free mp3 download of Write About Love’s title track. Write About Love drops in the US Oct. 12. Listen here to “Write About Love.”...  read more

Watch Interpol's "Barricade" Video

For the second single from Interpol’s self-titled release due to drop Sept. 7 on Matador, the New York band recruited Moh Azima (Televised, Trappedinfreedom) to direct a mini-movie in which the boys perform in a hiply-lit pastoral field....  read more

New Belle & Sebastian Album Gets Release Date, New Cover Art

Glasgow sweethearts Belle & Sebastian divulged their latest full-length in four years, Belle & Sebastian Write About Love, is set to drop Oct. 11 in the U.K. and Oct. 12 stateside on Matador Records....  read more

Delorean: Subiza

Disappointing dance doldrums The latest offering from Barcelona electro-sunshine quartet Delorean is certainly danceable—house piano, handclaps and a jungle of synths suggest the bliss of the late-night summer parties they could easily soundtrack—but the album’s homogeneous vocals are too often reminiscent of other acts—specifically, Animal Collective’s harmonic structure. The mood and tempo don’t show much range either. By the time the glowstick-dance jam of third track “Grow” kicks in, the heavily layered synth that permeates Subiza, which at first seemed lush, begins to feel like the sticky, over-saturated air of the tropics after a downpour. The less-embellished “Simple Graces” offers...  read more