Beach House Responds to Car Commercial Controversy

By Patty Miranda at 3:36 PM on May 18, 2012

Indie rock outfit Beach House has posted an informal statement in response to the public outcry over a British Volkswagen advertisement that used music eerily similar to their song “Take Care.” The tune in question, “Stories and Whispers,” was supposedly created by the London-based composition team known as Sniffy Dog, although Beach House’s original appeared on their 2010 album Teen Dream....  read more

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Best Music of 2010 (So Far): Rachael Maddux, Associate Editor

By Rachael Maddux at 7:00 AM on June 20, 2010

Does two still come before three?  read more

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Beach House: Teen Dream

By Stephen M. Deusner at 9:00 AM on January 25, 2010

Baltimore duo wakes up, shakes up Teen Dream sounds just like Beach House and not at all like Beach House. On their first two albums, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally created warm, lo-fi pop songs that favored subdued ambience over pronounced hooks, as if each song was designed to dissipate in the air between the speakers and your ears. By contrast, the duo’s new songs are less hazy and more forceful—they actually project. Singing in a bold style that suggests a huskier-voiced Kate Bush, Legrand sounds androgynous on “Walk in the Park” and breathy on “Norway.” Scally, meanwhile, creates prickly...  read more

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Watch a New Beach House Video Every Day This Week

By Rachel Bailey at 1:00 PM on January 19, 2010

Next week, Baltimore bedroom-pop duo and former Paste band of the week, Beach House, will release its third full-length and Sub Pop debut, Teen Dream. Back in November, singer Victoria Legrand told Paste that the new album would come packaged with a DVD of music videos. This week, some of those videos are streaming at Gorilla Vs. Bear....  read more

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Download Beach House's "Norway"

By Paste Staff at 2:00 PM on December 9, 2009

Download Beach House's "Norway" here.Beach House's Teen Dream is tentatively scheduled for an early 2010 release on Sub Pop....  read more

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Beach House Talks New Album, Teen Dream

By Christina Lee at 3:00 PM on November 6, 2009

The record "was much more like a plunge into isolation, much more of shutting things out and working long hours and really obsessing on things..."  read more

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