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New Polica song is more cowbell, less Auto-Tune

Minneapolis indie electonica collective, Polica, minimize the Auto-Tune on their new track Tiff. When you have a primo lead vocalist like Channy Leaneagh, why use voice manipulation tools?

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Watch Justin Vernon's new project The Shouting Matches at Coachella

The Shouting Matches

Justin Vernon’s new side-project The Shouting Matches played one of their first gigs at Coachella. At least this version of the band did. Justin has been jamming for years with drummer Brian Moen as The Shouting Matches, even recording demos for a never released EP in between Bon Iver tours. Now with some down time on his hands, Vernon added friend and Megafaun disciple Phil Cook to the mix creating a loose, bluesy concoction that is light years away from the Bon Iver persona.

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Listen to new track from All Tiny Creatures album Dark Clock

Madison’s experimental electronic pop quartet, All Tiny Creatures, are gearing up for the release of their new album “Dark Clock” via Hometapes Records May 28th.

“I think there was a noticeable progression in our sound between 2009's Segni EP and 2011's Harbors LP, and it seems like there's been a similar evolution from Harbors to Dark Clock,” said guitarist Andy Fitzpatrick. “More influences started to seep into the mix, and we started making songs that seemed like they might be able to pass as pop music in a parallel universe.”

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Watch Steve Earle at SXSW

Steve Earle
Photo by Rick Panneck

I admit it. The hipster music schedule went out the window tonight. SXSW has so many genres of music to choose from for shows that it’s the old 'kid in the candy store' syndrome. Rumblings of a record company shindig with Steve Earle swirled on twitter, sparking my interest.

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The Orwells and Bleached play Scoot Inn at SXSW

The Orwells
The Orwells

Some of the best times to see a show at SXSW are the day parties where early slots bring in smaller crowds and somewhat more coherent bands. Scouring the day party line-ups for diamonds in the rough, The Orwells and Bleached immediately popped up on my radar at the Scoot Inn starting at 1pm. Grabbing a pedicab, I take in the early afternoon sunshine and shake off my fogginess from the debauchery encountered the night before.

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Local Picks

Club Crawl

Netherfriends
w/ Asumaya
& Stephanie Rearick
Mickey's Tavern
May 25

Japandroids
w/ A Place to Bury Strangers
Turner Hall
May 27

Indians
w/ Cedarwell
& Asumaya
RSR Bar
May 31

Paulie Fest
w/ Solid Gold,
All Tiny Creatures,
Lorenzo's Music,
Cowboy Winter
High Noon Saloon
June 1

The Orwells w/ Twin Peaks
Memorial Union Terrace
June 6 (Free!)

Son Volt
w/ Colonel Ford
High Noon Saloon
June 6

The Delphines,
The Midwest Beat,
Dharma Dogs
Mickey's Tavern
June 7 (Free!)

The Hussy
w/ Digital Leather, 
Fire Retarded
& Trin Tran
Revolution Cycles
June 8 (Free!)

The Cave Singers
w/ Blessed Feathers
High Noon Saloon
June 14

Maps & Atlases
w/ Mutts
High Noon Saloon
June 21

Various Madison Venues
June 21

Parquet Courts
High Noon Saloon
June 22

Mount Moriah
w/ Jesse Sykes
The Frequency
June 24

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Harley Davidson Stage
Summerfest 
June 26 (10pm)

ZZ Ward
Majestic Theatre
June 26

Field Report
Memorial Union Terrace
June 27 (Free!)

Mac Demarco
Memorial Union Terrace
June 28 (Free!)

Pretty Lights
& Yeasayer
Harley Davidson Stage
Summerfest
June 29

Oberhofer (Brooklyn)
Memorial Union Terrace
July 11 (Free!)

Dawes
w/ Shovels &  Rope
Barrymore Theatre
July 12

Die Kreuzen (Final Show!)
High Noon Saloon
July 18

Live on King Street
w/ The Smith Westerns
Tapes 'n Tapes,
& Kopecky Family band
Majestic Theatre (outside)
July 19 (Free!)

El-P w/ Killer Mike,
Despot, Kool A.D.
Memorial Union Terrace
July 20 (Free!)

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New Releases (U.S.) Subject to Change

05/21/13 - Majical Cloudz - Impersonator (Matador)
05/21/13 - The National - Trouble Will  Find Me (4AD)
05/21/13 - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Columbia)
05/21/13 - Dirty Beaches – Drifters / Love Is the Devil (Zoo Music)
05/28/13 - All Tiny Creatures - Dark Clock (Hometapes)
05/28/13 - Baths - Obsidian (Anticon)
05/28/13 - CocoRosie – Tales of a GrassWidow (City Slang)
05/28/13 - The Pastels – Slow Summits (Domino)
06/04/13 - Camera Obscura – Desire Lines (4AD)
06/04/13 - Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record (Merge)
06/04/13 - Portugal The Man – Evil Friends (Atlantic)
06/04/13 - Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork (Matador)
06/08/13 - Future Bible Heroes – Partygoing (Merge)
06/11/13 - Gold Panda – Half Of Where You Live (Ghostly International)
06/11/13 - Royal Headache – TBA 7" (Matador)
06/11/13 - Smith Westerns – Soft Will (Mom + Pop)
06/11/13 - Sonny & the Sunsets – Antenna to the Afterworld (Polyvinyl)
06/11/13 - Surfer Blood – Pythons (Warner Bros. / Kanine)
06/18/13 - Spectrals – Sob Story (Slumberland) 
06/18/13 - Sigur Ros - Kveikur

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