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For our newest installment of the "Discover The Undiscovered" series, we are featuring electropop songstress, Beca, whose musical talent and smooth voice has captured our attention. Over the course of her musical career, she has honed her voice into a sound that is both fresh and truly her own.
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Though Last Good Tooth is the newest addition to Conor Oberst's Team Love Records, they are swiftly lodging a place in our hearts as effectively as veteran Team Lovers like Jenny Lewis, Jason Boesel and Tilly & the Wall.
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Tonight, two of our favorite Australian acts—Empire of the Sun and Culture Collide veterans, Gold Fields—perform at The House of Blues in Dallas. And before many of you start to whine about how you don't live in Dallas, Yahoo! On The Road has you completely covered.
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Since we're on Team Coco, we trust that our favorite ginger has great taste in music. And he does, because just last Wednesday, Beware Of Darkness performed an energetic and raucous rendition of "Howl"— the lead single off of their freshman full-length, Orthodox—on Conan, and we loved it.
This performance marked the band's national television debut, and it showed off exactly what the LA trio is all about!
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FILTER likes music. There's no hiding it. We also like our own opinions a whole bunch, so once a week we give the masses a fleeting glimpse into our selective stereos and Internet browsers to let them see firsthand what fuels our endless devotion. We like to think of it as community service. We're selfless like that. So without further ado, here are the official, inarguable, objectively good FILTER Weekly Picks—providing everything from new LPs you should be spinning to the latest good-fer-you videos. Yeah, we're good at what we do:
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Last year when we reviewed The Presets' album Pacifica, we identified "Fall" as a standout track that would soon sweep dance floors across the country. With a pulsing beat and undeniable disco groove, this track is sure to infect you.
It seems the time has finally come for The Presets' reign, now that they have released the visuals for "Fall."
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Barely a month has passed since the conclusion of both Coachella 2013 weekends, and we're already preparing for what the desert has to offer in 2014.
Starting this Friday at 10AM PDT, advance passes for Coachella 2014 go on sale at the official Coachella website. Weekend one will take place from April 11-13, and like the past two years, weekend two will be the following weekend: April 18-20.
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Tracey Duodu and Tom Barber perform under the name 14th, providing a dreamy mix of R&B vocals with modern electronic sounds.
The latest offering from 14th is a cover of "Never Letting Go" by Tina Moore and "Are You Sleeping?" by Indo. Though the track is clearly reminiscent of '90s R&B, 14th brings a dark, hazy quality that breathes a new, 21st century life into the genre.
Contests
No one claims the title of "cool" better than Miles Dewey Davis III: the composer, trumpeter and international jazz icon best known as Miles Davis.
Though not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until 2006, Davis' contributions to jazz and its various sub-genres—jazz-funk, bebop, cool jazz, etc.—made a profound impact on 20th century music, as well as to the betterment of countless music lovers' lives.
This Sunday, May 26, marks the musician's 87th birthday. In honor of this special occasion, Legacy Recordings is featuring Davis as their current "Artist of the Month."
To continue this celebration, one lucky jazz aficionado will win a prize pack containing Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition; The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (October 1998): a 4-CD boxed set that won the Grammy for "Best Boxed Recording Package"; Miles Davis Quintet 1965-’68: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (February 1998), which is the 6-CD box set that won the Grammy Award for "Best Album Notes"; and Live In Europe 1969.
In addition to all of these Miles records, the winner will receive t-shirts, a resin magnet and a pint glass.
For a chance to win, all you need to do is plug in some simple contact info below!
This contest will run from now until June 15, 2013, officially closing at 11:59 p.m. PDT. A winner will then be selected at random and notified via email!
Happy birthday, Miles!
Reviews
“Nothing ever ends up quite like what you planned,” rasps firebrand frontman Bradford Cox in the closing verse of “Pensacola.” This lyric could serve as an apt credo for Deerhunter’s modus operandi: a gradual process of distorting and mounting upon tightly coiled grooves until the listener’s endgame, by track’s conclusion, has been met with a seamless sort of subversion. On the other side of the coin, the line has thematic resonance also, as the idée fixe of this particular case of monomania—as near or far as one can see—seems to be Cox’s curious preoccupation with his own doom. “And in my dying days/I could never be sure.../They’ll never take me away,” he finally issues on “Monomania”...
