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Bright Moments (Kelly Pratt) preps first album in 10 years (listen to "Lonely Child")

‘Fracture‘ is Kelly Pratt’s first Bright Moments album in a decade and will be out in January.

Dave Depper (Death Cab) readies solo LP -- listen to his duet with Laura Gibson

“‘Your Voice on the Radio’ is the only track on the record I wrote with a specific thematic goal in mind, which was to pay tribute to those classic, slightly cheesy boy/girl duets of yesteryear,” Dave tells us.

EL VY, Thao & Josh Ritter contribute anti-Trump tracks to '30 Days, 30 Songs' series (listen)

More new songs “written and recorded by Artists for a Trump-Free America.”

Five Notable Releases of the Week (8/12)

A band with members of The National and Menomena, a solo album from a Broken Social Scene co-founder, a one-man doom project and more.

Pfarmers (The National, Menomena) releasing 'Our Puram,' share a track

Not to be confused with the other band featuring The National and Menomena members, Pfarmers — whose lineup includes Bryan Devendorf (The National), Danny Seim (Menomena) and horn player Dave Nelson (Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent) — have announced they’re releasing a second album…

EL VY share "No Time to Crank the Sun" video (watch)

The promotional side of putting out a record is probably not the most fun part of being in a band (see Radiohead’s Meeting People is Easy), but it can look like (kinda) fun if its shot and shown in time-lapse, sped up motion…

EL VY (The National, Menomena), Wye Oak and Julien Baker played two NYC shows (Bowery Ballroom pics)

EL VY released their debut album Return to the Moon at the tail-end of last month via 4AD, and their tour in support of it hit NYC this past weekend for sold-out shows at Bowery Ballroom on Friday (11/13) and Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday (11/…

EL VY's Matt Berninger (The National) and Brent Knopf (Menomena) on Melodrama, Birthday Cake, and Legos

“We had a bit of a sense of direction as far as where wanted it to head but no hard and fast rules.” – Brent Knopf on EL VY’s debut “Return to the Moon” Both well known for their respective other projects, The National and Menomena, Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf seemed to be deliberately reserved about their collaborative project EL VY, and its debut release, Return to the Moon, at the end of last month…

stream The National/Menomena offshoot EL VY's debut album 'Return To The Moon'

EL VY, the new collaborative duo of The National singer Matt Berninger and Menomena / Ramona Falls‘ Brent Knopf, release their debut album Return To The Moon toda…

EL VY (The National, Menomena) streaming another new song

Matt Berninger (The National) and Brent Knopf’s (Menomena, Ramona Falls) new side project EL VY are just one day from releasing their album Return to the Moon and they’ve revealed one more song from it, “Silent Ivy Hotel…
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