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MP3 Roundup: Shugo Tokumaru covers Holy Fuck, School of Seven Bells, and Air featuring Beach House's Victoria Legrand

Shugo Tokumaru - "Lovely Allen (Holy Fuck cover)" Holy Fuck! Japanese avant-popster Shugo Tokumaru takes on one of Holy Fuck's most irresistible singles, "Lovely Allen," for Hand Drawn Dracula's first Vicious Circles digital EP, which has Tokumaru, Holy Fuck, and Black Moth Super Rainbow cover each other's songs. Holy Fuck return the favour...
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Kanye Tops Almost Every 2010 Best Of List (Except Ours)

While every major music publication except us was putting Kanye West's grammatically-challenged My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on top of their best albums of 2010 lists, a few blogs and magazines decided "out indie" everyone by either not including the disc at all, or listing a more obscure disc at #1.Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, Billboard,...
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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Sweet Thing's Nick Rose's Top Albums Of 2010

We asked a pile of our favourite musicians about their top albums of 2010. Here's what Nick Rose from Sweet Thing said:1. Beach House — Teen DreamThis is the record I put on when I'm drawing a bath. A sexy bath.2. LCD Soundsystem — This Is HappeningThe first song, "Dance Yrself Clean," tears me a new one. It's so patient, when the beat finally...
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Beach House Live Photos

Photographer: 
Jeff Ross
Venue: 
Olympic Island
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 19, 2010
Beach House (Photo by Jeff Ross)

Beach House Live Photos

Photographer: 
Jeff Ross
Venue: 
Olympic Island
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 19, 2010
Beach House (Photo by Jeff Ross)

Beach House Live Photos

Photographer: 
Jeff Ross
Venue: 
Olympic Island
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 19, 2010

Beach House Live Photos

Photographer: 
Jeff Ross
Venue: 
Olympic Island
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 19, 2010
Beach House (Photo by Jeff Ross)

Beach House Live Photos

Photographer: 
Jeff Ross
Venue: 
Olympic Island
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 19, 2010
Beach House (Photo by Jeff Ross)

Beach House Live Photos

Photographer: 
Jeff Ross
Venue: 
Olympic Island
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 19, 2010
Beach House (Photo by Jeff Ross)

Pavement Save A Hellish Day

In writing an unbiased review of the music at a Toronto Island Concert, one first needs to separate the venue from the bands. The event in itself is a lesson in tolerance and patience, both with other show-goers and with the festival's organizers. If you plan on drinking or eating, lineups will steal at least half of your day, and you'll...
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Pavement's Mark Ibold (Photo by Jeff Ross)

I Read The News Today... For May 18, 2010

Guitar Hero 6 will feature music from Black Sabbath, Metallica and Queen. But you won't be able to play as Paul Stanley, Tony Iommi or Kirk Hammett, since playable characters are getting the boot this time around. (Thanks a lot, Courtney Love.) —1UP Want to spot all the annoying hipsters in your city in the same place on one night? Head out to...
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Beach House Vs. Katy Perry

Tweens are probably rejoicing that Katy Perry's new album, Teenage Dream, will be out Aug. 24. But indie rockers Beach House aren't very pleased. That's not because they dislike Perry (although they probably do now), but they're a little ticked that Teenage Dream's title is pretty similar to their Teen Dream, which came out back in January....
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Beach House Are Living The Dream (Life)

Beach House came and left like it was a dream. The band's baroque pop dreaminess, stemming mostly from their latest release, fittingly titled Teen Dream, cast a fantasy-like aura over the crowd Wednesday night at The Opera House. Just as you were completely sucked into the world of slow jam daydreams, atmospheric rhythms and the echoes of...
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Beach House, Timber Timbre, Zeus Among Olympic Island Festival Adds

The upcoming Olympic Island Festival might as well be called Pitchfork Festival North. Seriously, all it's missing right now is Animal Collective and Fucked Up. Beach House, Timber Timbre, Zeus, Flash Lightnin' and The Beauties are among the bands that have been added to the event, which takes place at Toronto's Olympic Island on June...
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Timber Timbre (Photo by Fil Zuzarte)

Beach House — Teen Dream

Beach House, the Baltimore-based duo of Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, create a dream-pop revival on Teen Dream that harkens back to classic sweet male/female pairings of the mid-'80s like Prefab Sprout and The Dream Academy.The duo's third album does tip its hat to folk-tinged psychedelic indie rock (Grizzly Bear, Fruit Bats and Ramona Falls...
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Beach House's Teen Dream

BSS Play Olympic Island Festival

Broken Social Scene will headline Toronto's annual day-long Olympic Island Festival on July 11. Explosions In The Sky, Thunderheist, Beach House, Apostle Of Hustle and Rattlesnake Choir will also play the event, which is in its fifth year. This year's edition will also feature local independent food vendors and a licensed area hosted by...
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Broken Social Scene (Photo by Norman Wong)

Beach House Show Their Devotion To Carpark

Baltmore, Maryland-based dream pop duo Beach House will hook up with Carpark Records again to release Devotion, the follow-up to last year's self-titled debut, on Feb. 26. Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards) and Victoria Legrand (vocals, keyboards) formed the group in 2005 and received critical acclaim for their eponymous effort, which was recently...
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