Sweden’s eclectic Detektivbyrån are (FINALLY!) set to release their debut LP, Wermland, on September 3rd. I can’t express how excited I am about this release. (via and via)

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Nothing new, just a good song from Beirut’s Gulag Orkestar. (via)

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Not sure what I make of this from everyone’s favorite imaginary boys.

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“Shoegaze is a dumb term made up by clueless NME idiots,” argues Mogwai’s Stuart Brathwaite, a My Bloody Valentine fan as well as a friend of its architect Kevin Shields. “It’s pretty demeaning as well. If someone called us shoegazers, I’d be pretty unhappy.”

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(Hipster Runoff posted that damn Outback commercial and now I can’t get Wraith Pined to the Mist out of my head.)

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Magnetic Fields announce tour of fully seated “theatre” venues with upright pianos and minimal conversational noise (once at a Magnetic Field show I saw back in ’94, Stephin was so annoyed with someone talking at the bar that he threw a half-full water bottle at them).

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How odd. I really wanted to hate this, but how can you hate on SS? That’s just wrong. I wonder what Hipster Runoff would have to say about this. (swiped from About Today) *update* hipster runoff chimes in.

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