This snippet from a quick Guardian review of the new Foals album exactly sums up my feelings on it after three listens: “Foals find themselves on their third album, trying to sound big rather than clever.” Yes, exactly. Too bad.

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With his first album in a decade not out until March 12, 2013, David Bowie is already announcing his second single, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight),” which will precede the highly anticipated album, The Next Day, by two weeks. His first single, “Where Are We now?,” which sneaked up on the press without warning on […]

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Atoms for Peace is just the worst, worst, worst band name. It’s just so earnest. They may as well be called Champions for Clean Water in Third World Nations. The music itself is fine. It sounds like blippy, latter-day Radiohead with extra doses of paranoia, despite access to Flea’s bass talents. I’m just so turned […]

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There’s now a video for the Sky Ferreira track Lost In My Bedroom, which was one of my favorite singles of 2012.

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I love everything this band touches. “Cherry” is on the forthcoming After Dark 2 triple LP from Italians Do It Better. The retro production reminds me of the “Drive” OST, which makes sense since Chromatics had a song on it, but the feel of this song in particular evokes that opening piece by Kavinski. This […]

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Kids Songs With Cat Power from Cat Power Having witnessed many, many of Cat Power’s on-stage meltdowns this is amazingly funny. [via K]

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Yoko Ono’s cover (I’m not sure you can tell, but those are very loose quotation marks) of Kart Perry’s “Fireworks” is not going to be topped any time soon. Enjoy! [via @heywardsims]

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