Portugal. The Man

Portugal. The Man - Creep In A T-Shirt
Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends

Over the past almost decade or so the poppy progsters in Portugal. The Man have been slowly crafting an impressive collection of simmering singalongs and ridiculously infectious melodies, so it shouldn't be too surprising that the brand new, Danger Mouse-produced and polished Evil Friends LP is also an insanely catchy and anthemic psych-sound extravaganza that's probably gonna get itself stuck inside your head for days.

Evil Friends is available HERE

Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada - Nothing Is Real
Boards of Canada - New Seeds

The collective pair of proverbial trousers worn by the electronic aficionado community got a wee bit tighter when the Scottish duo Boards of Canada announced the impending release of a brand new long-player after, what - eight years since the last one? So yeah, Tomorrow's Harvest is gonna scratch that itch with more tasty sounds from these shadowy, cult-favored ambient beat juggernauts. At least that's what I hear from everyone else not shutting the fuck up about it. Seriously, guys, stop drooling. Ah, who am I kidding? I'm pretty damn excited about it as well.

Tomorrow's Harvest will be released on June 10th, via Warp

Gold Panda

Gold Panda - We Work Nights

The knob-twisting, textural-tronic wizardry on Half Of Where You Live is a bit more restrained than its Lucky Shiner predecessor LP, for sure. But with its hypnotic beats snuggled up, all cozy-like, in an atmospheric, geo-influenced ether, I feel pretty good about saying that it fits rather nicely into the melodic discography of now-Berlin-based producer, Gold Panda. In other words, shit's pretty dreamy.

Half Of Where You Live will be released on June 11th, via Ghostly International

Mono/Poly

Mono/Poly - The Killers
Mono/Poly - Crew

Even while in the midst of collabing around with fellow Brainfeeders Thundercat and Flying Lotus, producer Mono/Poly still found time to expand on the original Killer B's EP to include even more of his woozy, staggering glitch beats and creeping/crunching low-end rumbles, bleeps, and bloops, plus extra previously-unreleased tracks and bonus remixes. How's that for multi-tasking, huh?

Killer B's Deluxe is available courtesy of Hit + Run

Wampire

Wampire - The Hearse
Wampire - I Can't See Why

In spite of the silly name and godawful accompanying cover artwork, the Wampire sound is infectiously upbeat and bouncy with hints of sci-fi and surf-rock and twangy guitar riff goodness - quite delightful, actually - and it's not hard to spot the similarities/influences of fellow Portlander acts Starfucker and Unknown Mortal Orchestra within the synth-driven dance party pop and/or über-catchy hooks and/or psych sounds on Curiosity, with a little bit (lots) of extra pipe organ tossed in, for good measure.

Curiosity is available courtesy of Polyvinyl

Bad Veins: Tonight!

In case you had somehow forgotten, Bad Veins is performing tonight at Crowbar (this evening's show will make it the fifth time the Ohio indie rocker duo has been down in our neck of the woods in a little over a year) and we're pleased as Punch to see them back in town again, obviously, especially with locals Jensen Serf Co. and Death Starsky rounding off the bill for what promises to be a super dooper dope as all get out good time.

Bad Veins
Doors at 8:00 • $10/12 • All Ages!
Crowbar: 1812 N. 17th St. • Tampa, FL

The National

The National - Don't Swallow The Cap
The National - Graceless

Been looking forward to new material from The National since the release of their last LP, the complex and bittersweet High Violet, which we loved loved loved. So raise a glass to this one, guys, 'cause Trouble Will Find Me has more dark hymns of headiness and swirling melodies and the immediately recognizable baritone delivery of intimate/nuanced/oftentimes quite bewildering lyrics and subject matter to accompany you to the bar on your next emotionally-exhausted-based bender.

Want more? Check out the video for Sea Of Love, after the jump.

Trouble Will Find Me will be released on May 20th 4AD

Mokhov

Mokhov - Magic Times
Mokhov - Sun Clouds

Electronic producer Mokhov makes music that sounds like it's been retroactively crafted as a soundtrack to every single cross-country drive I've ever been on. Or something like that. I usually ignore blurbs penned by artists trying to hype themselves, but in this case the self-proclaimed Boards Of Canada and Four Tet similarities are actually fairly accurate 'cause I can definitely hear influences from both, and I can easily see fans of also-similar-sounding peeps like Tycho and Yppah getting down with the dreamy beats and atmospherics on Magic Times as well. So there.

Magic Times is available courtesy of Mokhov

No Joy

No Joy - E
No Joy - Blue Neck Riviera

If you happen to have the patience to peruse through the past few hundred or so of our picks, it will probably become more and more apparent just how much we enjoy the Mexican Summer roster and back catalogue, 'cause good god! they've put together a ton of quality releases over the years... A few of our top faves include Washed Out and Lilacs & Champagne and The Soft Pack and Best Coast and The Fresh & Onlys and I'm sure there's more. Montreal's very own No Joy and their excellent shoe-gazey sophomore release, Wait To Pleasure, is a perfect addition to that list, don't you think?

Wait To Pleasure is available courtesy of Mexican Summer

Baths

Baths - Worsening
Baths - Miasma Sky

Look look look! New beats courtesy of Baths (aka electronic wizard Will Wiesenfeld) plus more quirky melodies and tons of stop-and-then-start-again glitchy goodness on Obsidian, following up the acclaimed Cerulean debut long player from a couple three years ago! Yes, I'm excited. As if you couldn't tell.

Obsidian will be released on May 28th, via Anticon.