Suckers’ Candy Salad Out TODAY

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Now Streaming On Vice/Noisey Spring Tour Starts Next Week, With Support From Frenchkiss Labelmates Young Man & Devin Suckers’ sophomore LP, Candy Salad, is out TODAY via Frenchkiss Records. Go grab yourself a copy over at  iTunesnow! If you can’t wait for your own copy, get over to Noisey now, where you can stream the album in its

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Album Review: Miike Snow, Happy To You

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If Miike Snow’s eponymous debut is this relatively new band’s introduction to indie-friendly electro-pop music, then this sophomore offering by Stockholm-based trio is their gate to top-40 success. For some this is a revelation, but if you found comfort in the band’s mid-tempo beats, twinkling synths and easy-listening rendition of Scandinavian electro-pop through their acclaimed

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Wakarusa Festival 2012

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With the end of May comes Wakarusa Festival, running from May 31st to June 3rd in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. With that kind of scenery, the nature aspect is just as much a part of the festival experience as the music, and the two together is surely a powerful force. As a result, the

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New Bands To See At Coachella: Neon Indian

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Much has been said about Alan Palomo. Since rising from obscurity to bandblog sensation, his group, Neon Indian has become one of the de facto emissaries/new bands for a movement popularly known as “chillwave”—I’m guessing you’re familiar. To be sure, there are plenty of bands out there that draw parallels to Neon Indian, with woozy

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Album Review: FIDLAR, Don’t Try

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As we wrote in our Artist of the Week category during SXSW, Los Angeles-based punk rockers FIDLAR are a new band on the rise. Though many outside the City of Angels have yet to familiarize themselves with the quartet, these fellas kick some serious ass, trust me. Finally, after ranting and touting these dudes finally

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Cults Mix the Past and Present at Wonder Ballroom

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As a currency, nostalgia seems to be more valuable than ever.  Thanks to the Internet, the neatly packaged annals of human history are available everywhere, at any time. People are now archivists of this information, with rediscovered art currents blooming in a scattered, but collective renaissance. I’ll admit this topic is well-trod ground, especially from

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