Imperial Topaz

intro Grooms @ Death by Audio's final show (more by PSquared) Grooms' last live show, the final night of Death by Audio, was a little hard to get into...

Monica Salazar and Jared Olmsted are both from California but they met and formed Courtship Ritual here in Brooklyn. They describe themselves thusly: Courtship Ritual are not a chillwave group, they are not a witch house group, they don't play EDM music and they don't play dubstep...

TPOBPAH at BV-SXSW 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) Mac DeMarco at M for Montreal 2013 (more by Ellie Pritts) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...

We profiled Brooklyn ambient pop duo Imperial Topaz back in 2013, just ahead of their live debut at The Stone. At the time, they only had an EP and a few singles, but the band finally released their first full length album, Full of Grace, this past February via Tranquility Tapes...

Ambient guitarist Mark McGuire, formerly of the now-defunct trio Emeralds, is set to release his new solo album (and first for Dead Oceans), Along The Way, on February 4, but it's streaming ahead of its release via The FADER...

As mentioned, this Saturday (9/7) is Cassette Store Day, a celebration of the first portable, recordable format. There are a number of exclusive releases for CSD, including cassette editions of The Flaming Lips' The Terror, Deerhunter's Monomania, Volcano Choir's Repave, a reissue of Fucked Up's Hidden World, plus other cassette-only items...

Still Corners released their second album, Strange Pleasures, last month via Sub Pop and if you haven't heard it yet, it's a terrific record...

Brooklyn ambient pop duo Imperial Topaz made their live debut in NYC at The Stone over the weekend (2/3). If you went, how was that? If you missed it, or want to see them again, you can catch them in Brooklyn at 285 Kent on March 8 with Small Black, ex-Beach Fossils project Heavenly Beat, and Beach Fossils DJs...

The always-prolific Motion Sickness of Time Travel (aka Rachel Evans) had a few releases last year, and she's already got one out in 2013, The Perennials EP, which dropped on New Year's Day...

DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz - "Periphery" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz - "Moonlit Mind" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz - "Evil Genius" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz - "Waterbed" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz - "Luxury Liner" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Imperial Topaz - "In The Waves" (MP3) Brooklyn ambient art pop duo Imperial Topaz (aka Caroline Teagle and Zachary Zierden) surfaced at the beginning of 2012 with the "Angel of the Overpass" single and followed that with the Imperial EP and the "Moonlit Mind" single, both of which you can download for free at the top of this post, or stream...