Mexican Summer 
Arp’s Ensemble – Live! Available Digitally Now
Arp’s Ensemble – Live! is available today on all digital platforms. If 2018’s ZEBRA showed Arp blossoming as an arranger/producer, Ensemble — Live! emphasizes a different character: group sound, chemistry, what happens in the moment, and how those
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Introducing CMON
Please meet the newest addition to the Mexican Summer crew — CMON (Confusing Mix Of Nations). CMON is Josh Da Costa & Jamen Whitelock, a duo that met
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Out Now: Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox’s Myths 004
As sure as if it had been mapped in the stars, or written in a prophecy buried deep beneath the sands of the Marfa desert, a collaboration between Cate
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Out Now: Ariel Archives
Ariel Archives New collection Odditties Sodomies Vol. 2, reworked + remastered editions of Underground & Loverboy available now Ariel Archives revisits Ariel Pink’s historic run of albums as Ariel Pink’s Haunted
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Hear “Kalimboid,” The Latest Track From Arp
“Kalimboid” finds Arp and his ensemble in fiery form. A minimoog sequence, evoking a kalimba, begins, reverb’d hand percussion dances, getting quite loose, before drums enter, well charged.
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Allah Las – LAHS 🚁 the new album, out now
On their fourth LP, drummer Matt Correia, bassist Spencer Dunham, and guitarists Miles Michaud and Pedrum Siadatian turn their collective gaze outward and toward the horizon. Simply titled LAHS (a reference to a common misspelling of
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Arp’s “ENSEMBLE – LIVE!” + the new single “Voices”
A special one-off live studio album – featuring a five-piece ensemble performing music from Arp’s critically-acclaimed album ZEBRA – plus four new compositions Last summer’s spellbinding album ZEBRA struck a chord with many listeners.
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Ariel Pink Releases “Bolivian Soldier” and “My Molly”
“Bolivian Soldier” from Odditties Sodomies Vol. 2 “‘Bolivian Soldier’ carries the same sonic hallmarks as Before Today, Ariel Pink’s breakthrough Haunted Graffiti record. It’s a delightfully disorientating cut,
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Allah Las Release New Single “Prazer Em Te Conhecer”
Having taken their compact California on the road across the world (making stops in North, Central, and South America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, Russia, East Asia and beyond),
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Cate Le Bon Covers Wilco’s “Company In My Back”
Three cheers for Cate Le Bon 🔺🔺🔻🔺 Out today is Cate’s cover of Wilco’s “Company In My Back”, from 2004’s A Ghost Is Born. Wilco Covered is a limited edition
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Out Now: California Trip by Dennis Stock
California Trip is now available from Anthology Editions! In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a five-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture
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Allah Las Release New Song “Polar Onion”
“Polar Onion” the new single from LAHS out October 11 Second single from LAHS, “Polar Onion” takes us through the inevitable lows one encounters on a long journey,
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Ariel Pink Announces Archival Project
Ariel Archives New collection Odditties Sodomies Vol. 2, reissues of Underground & Loverboy + more through 2020 Ariel Archives revisits Ariel Pink’s historic run of albums as Ariel
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Allah Las Announce New album ‘LAHS’
Allah Las – LAHS new album + single “In The Air” On their fourth LP, drummer Matt Correia, bassist Spencer Dunham, and guitarists Miles Michaud and Pedrum Siadatian
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Out Now: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s Tracing Back The Radiance
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns to Mexican Summer with his third full-length for the label – Tracing Back The Radiance – a slow, delicate meditation, delving far afield from the
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Summer Sale
Summer is here and we’re spreading the spirit with deep discounts on tunes for backyard bashes, books for beach reads, and merch for carrying goods + rocking looks. ✷
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Out Now: Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day is now available from Anthology Editions! Blomerth’s first book and most ambitious work to date combines the extraordinary true story of Albert Hofmann and the
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Announces New Album, Shares “Joy”
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns with his third full-length venture with Mexican Summer – Tracing Back The Radiance – a slow, delicate meditation, delving far afield from the pop drenched
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Out Now: Cate Le Bon’s ‘Reward’
“Reward is a masterpiece of surrealist songwriting, an example of the kind of magic that makes Cate Le Bon such a singular talent.” –Stereogum, Album of the Week It was on a
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Out Now: Sad About The Times
“A charming picture of what was going on at the fringes at the time: a truly alternative scene made up of artists and bands who knew what the mainstream
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Out Now: Drugdealer’s Raw Honey
Out today, Raw Honey (Michael Collins second album as Drugdealer) sees Collins once again leading an ace crew of collaborators to coalesce the spirit of Drugdealer’s classically modern pop with lush arrangements, memetic melodies, and
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Out Now: The Beautiful Flower is the World
The Beautiful Flower Is the World is now available from Anthology Editions! Legendary skateboarder and artist Jerry Hsu began his blog, Nazi Gold, in 2009 as a repository
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Watch The Video For Cate Le Bon’s “Home To You”
The video for “Home To You” was made in collaboration with residents of Lunik IX neighbourhood in Košice, a former steel manufacturing centre in Eastern Slovakia. Košice has
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