NPR’s First Listen Series does it again! Easter Monday brings us the long-gestating new album from Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (out 5/3) – as well as The Antlers’ own Burst Apart (out 5/10). Why wait? Click here for Fleet Foxes, and here for The Antlers. Enjoy!
The Foo Fighters’ newest album – Wasting Light – is coming out on April 12th, but you can hear it here… right now! The album features some guests – notably Krist Nov0selic on “I Should Have Known” – and was recorded in glorious analog. So, why wait? The Butch Vig-produced album is streaming just below the cut…
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Fleet Foxes debuted a new track from their forthcoming album – Helplessness Blues – on Radio 1, this evening, and now you can hear it, too! The album’s out 5/3 on Sub Pop/Bella Union, and you can bid on a vinyl test pressing to help the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund by going here. And now, “Battery Kinzie!”
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After last year’s tantalizing releases, I’ve been looking forward to getting to hear all of Belong – the new album from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. And now, thanks to their website, we’ve all got the chance to do just that. So, follow me, and get to hear the whole shimmering, 90s-inflected thing before its release on 3/29!
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Greater Pacific began when Kyle Kersten and John Phinney, members of Travel By Sea, decided to take their love of pedal steel and country folk into a new realm. On the Rainfall EP, out 1/25 as a six-track, digital release on Yer Bird Records, the pair are joined by fellow Travel By Sea member Mike Cusick on drums, as well as L.A. favorite Angela Correa. The result is a gentle, rolling cascade of expansive, haunting songs that draw us to those places of quiet solitude that mark a Winter’s night, a walk in the Spring rain, or where we go inside when no one else is looking.
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