Like their debut album, The Ways We Separate, the video for Beacon's latest single ("Drive") takes some of its cues from beat-driven R&B but throws in enough shades of melancholy and mystery to keep it from feeling too familiar. Put the clip on cruise control down below, right alongside a couple upcoming tour legs... more »

All of the hullabaloo over Daft Punk's new album misses one important point: Disclosure is a couple weeks away from releasing what many are considering the real dance record of the year. (That's my opinion at least.) Due out June 4th through Cherrytree/Interscope, Settle sounds like a series of smash house singles from decades long past. And the fact that it was cut by a pair of barely legal brothers only makes it that much more impressive.

Case in point — the newly leaked "When a Fire Starts to Burn." If this one doesn't make you want to start the holiday weekend early, we don't know what will... more »

As we head into Memorial Day weekend, eMusic thought we'd celebrate the American Dream in a way that isn't as obvious as blasting "The Star-Spangled Banner." And that's by shining a spotlight on the forward-thinking rock/R&B fusion of Bad Rabbits and their new American Love album, which is as much a result of their record collections as their diverse backgrounds (India, Liberia and Ghana).

"That's where the concept of American Love comes from," explains drummer Sheel Davé. "It reminds me of when I used to go see Deftones and GlassJaw as a kid. Their audiences weren't only into a variety of music, but they were also multi-cultural. I always thought that was so cool. We may come from different cultures, but we all bond over music."

All together now then: "Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..." more »

The Amy Winehouse/Adele comparisons are inevitable, and yet Kendra Morris brings her own distinct throwback soul bent to Mockingbird, a crate-digging collection of covers that touches upon everything from the Rolling Stones ("Miss You") to Radiohead ("Karma Police"). Due out later this summer through Wax Poetics Records, it's as worth a listen as anything that's ever landed in the label's cult magazine... more »

FADER has premiered a new track that's reportedly taken from Earl Sweatshirt's eagerly awaited debut album Doris. Much more sinister than last year's "Chum" single, the Mac Miller collab features a syrupy, strychnine-laced beat and the kind of pitched-down vocals everyone seems to favor these days... more »

After spending much of the past year holed up in his new Athens home — a rural part of Georgia, not Greece — and Ben Allen's (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Gnarls Barkley) Atlanta studio, Washed Out has finally wrapped his second full-length record. Due out August 13th through Sub Pop, Paracosm is described as a sun-baked counterpart to the nocturnal transmissions of Within and Without. Or as Greene put it in a press release, "I knew from the beginning I wanted this record to be optimistic, very much a daytime-sounding album...I just imagined being outside, surrounded by a beautiful, natural environment."

Here's what he means in A/V form... more »

Fahey fans will find much to love about the spare storytelling of Glenn Jones. A shining example of American Primitivism, he says more with his finger-picked, alternate-tuned guitar than most singers. That's certainly the case on My Garden State, a record that was written in the same childhood home where Jones recently cared for his mother. (She suffers from Alzheimer's.)

Follow the twists and turns of one standout track — the limber and loose "Bergen County Farewell" — down below... more »