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There are a lot of great headlines coming from Charli XCX these days. She’s not only announced a new EP and tour dates with Santigold and Coldplay, but she’s also written one of the most effortless summer jams we’ve heard all year.

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Rising London pop singer Charli XCX premiered the title track from her upcoming debut EP You’re The One in a session with Invisible Children in Austin during SXSW. This is the first time we’re hearing the song and in its stripped down acoustic form, it’s beautiful. That undeniably smart pop songwriting is on full display here and we can only imagine how great it must sound when it’s coupled with Charli’s signature goth pop production.

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DJ Drama, enlists hip hop all-star Drake and rising ATL auto-tune aficionado Future for new track “We In This Bitch 1.5.” You might have heard, but Drake and Future have worked together before, and we can’t say that it’s terrible to have them on the same track again. They both bring it; Future a bit more aggressively than Drake, as it turns out –– and Drama proves to be as reliable as ever. Listen below:

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We’re a bit disappointed that Charli XCX’ exciting debut EP we’ve been hearing about is merely a glorified single featuring only one new song (the title cut) and the familiar “Nuclear Seasons.” Of course, they also top us off with remixes from Blood Orange and Balam Acab. The EP is set to arrive June 12 via IAMSOUND. Around this time, Charli will be on tour with Coldplay, having wrapped up her tour with Santigold the week before. Check out the tracklist and tour dates below:

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Sigur Ros, those hip Icelandic post-rock warriors, debuted a new song off their upcoming album Valtari on the CW’s Vampire Diaries. You can listen to the song below, but with caution; you’ll have to put up with some intense dialogue. If you watch the show and haven’t caught last night’s episode, we suggest you keep away––this is Spoilersville.

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Download “JUMANJI,” the first taste of Azealia Banks’ upcoming mixtape, Fantastic.

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Lil B raps over what he calls “one of the realest songs ever made,” the cheese-jam to end cheese-jams, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” (or, possibly even cheesier, a saxophone rendition of the Oscar-winning, Grammy-winning chorale). Lil B’s words would be inspiring if we weren’t overcome by goofy smiles and snickers as the saxophone refrain kicks into full gear. We kind of lost it when Based God started singing the chorus.

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Dark, creepy puppets and imaginative animation make the video for Modeselektor and Thom Yorke’s “This.”

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While fellow New York indie pop duo Cults looks to the 60s for inspiration, upstarts MS MR have firmly planted themselves in the heart of 90s chick pop. Their debut single “Hurricane” sounds familiar, as if we’ve known it for years. Personally, it’s driving me crazy trying to figure out what exactly it’s reminding me of; I’ve had it on loop for about twenty minutes now and all I’ve managed to do is get this beautiful track stuck in my head.

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Montreal producer CFCF offers this haunting and smoldering remix of Sleep ∞ Over’s excellent “Romantic Streams” single. We’ve more or less grown accustomed to fantastic remix work from CFCF, but this is something close to heavenly.

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Nigel Godrich is best known for his production work with Radiohead (he’s had a major role in the making of every album since Kid A), and most recently, working with Thom Yorke’s Atoms For Peace. Now Godrich has formed a band with Los Angeles drummer Joey Waronker and London singer Laura Bettinson. Under the moniker Ultraísta, Godrich and co are making cold synth pop along the lines of Radiohead’s excellent “Lotus Flower.” In fact, that’s exactly what debut single “Smalltalk” sounds like, a Radiohead song without Thom Yorke.

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Check out a particularly unhinged Danny Brown on “Jay-Dee’s Revenge” from Rebirth of Detroit, an upcoming compilation album featuring Detroit artists rapping over unreleased J Dilla beats. The whole comp is out June 12th. Listen below:

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Grimes has released a second video from her album Visions. After the one for “Oblivion”, we’ve now got a clip for the impossibly catchy “Nightvisions,” one of our favorite cuts from the album. Claire Boucher is more than a little bit unnerving in this woodland scene, and there’s also some brief nudity (read: don’t watch if you’re offended by some dude’s butt).

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The Hives have released a video for their rowdy thrasher of a first single “Go Right Ahead.” Their brand new album, Lex Hives, their first in nearly five years, is due out June 5.

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Elusive Swedish duo jj have just released a single called jj №4. We fell in love with the gorgeous a-side track “Beautiful Life” last month, and you can now listen to it’s smoldering b-side, “Burn” (it’s unfortunately not an Usher cover like we hoped!). Listen to the track below, via Spotify:

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This is Kitty Pryde, “the jail bait Hayley Williams of Rap,” the preeminent tumblr-wave rapper.

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Ab-Soul’s Control System is out this Friday (5/11), so we can assume “ILLuminate,” featuring crew member Kendrick Lamar, is our final taste before we hear the full album, and we can say with some confidence that Ab-Soul’s saved the best for last. Watch out for Lamar’s unhinged and manic verse.

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Ra Ra Riot and Delicate Steve’s awesome Record Store Day exclusive cover of Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” has been remixed by brooklyn dance floor fillers Friendly Ghost. Grab the MP3 below and save this one for one of your summer mixtapes.

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The video for Swizz Beatz and A$AP Rocky’s araabMUZIK-produced “Street Knock” has arrived, complete with an Allen Iverson cameo. The track’s off of Beatz upcoming mixtape, Limitless.

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“Call Them Brothers,” Regina Spektor’s collaboration with Moldy Peaches residue Only Son has been reworked and repackaged for the Deluxe Edition of her upcoming What We Saw From The Cheap Seats. The track now comes with this new video directed and photographed by James Holland. Watch below:

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Twin Shadow has announced a two month long “Ton Up” Tour, in support of his upcoming album, Confess. Check out the dates below:

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We took a couple weeks off our Tracking schedule to work on our list of the best songs of 2012′s winter. What we’ve got here is over three hours of excellent music––it’s hard to believe these 50 tracks were all released in the first quarter of the year. (Don’t forget to check out our Spring Music Preview to see what albums we’re anticipating over the next few months.) After you go through the mp3s and streams on our list, you’ll find a giveaway for a gorgeous pair of Bowers & Wilkins P5 Headphones.

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We’ve been waiting for this one for a while now. Stream Niki & The Dove’s full length debut Instinct in its entirety before it’s release (May 14 in the UK, August 7 in America).

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Oberhofer has covered Kanye’s “Runaway” before, but they’ve finally released an official recording for their sprawling rendition. Oberhofer doesn’t quite convey the stark honesty and feeling Kanye does, but the song’s solemn piano ballad chords reimagined as muggy shoegaze is a nice touch. Download and listen to the cover below:

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On June 5th Teen Daze will release his first ever long player All Of Us, Together. New cut “What You Feel” is not a track from that album. In fact, Jamison didn’t think the song was good enough to be on the album, which is funny because we’re vibing to this pretty hard right now. It’s got the familiar airy shoegaze meets electro feel of a Teen Daze song, but Jamison is mixing something up. It’s brighter, more tropical and carefree than we’ve ever heard him be. We’re hoping this song was left off the album because he has even better tunes in store and not because he wants to shy away from this sort of summer-perfect jam.

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Grimes, Diplo and Skrillex’s newly announced Full Flex Express is touring across Canada this summer, by train.

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Londoner Kieran Hebden, who records as Four Tet is responsible for some of my favorite sounds recorded in the last ten years, and after seven studio releases, three mix albums and four albums released under his birth name, he is still releasing music at consistent levels (lately he’s been into collaborating with the likes of Burial and Thom Yorke). His latest single, the fifteenth from his Text Records imprint, is an expansive, smooth jammer called “Jupiters” and it comes with a stuttering b-side “Ocoras.”

Four Tet – “Jupiters”

Listen to “Oracas” here.

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Mark your calendars if you haven’t already; The Walkmen are taking out their Heaven LP on May 29 via Fat Possum. Every song we’ve heard off the album has been really great so far (“Heaven,” and “Heartbreaker”), a pattern they certainly do not intend on breaking with third sneak peak, a lovely, soaring ballad called “We Can’t Be Beat.” Listen below:

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On May 22, Gossip will release their fifth full-length album, A Joyful Noise, but you can stream it in full now.

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We’ve been talking about LA indie pop upstarts The Neighbourhood for a couple weeks now and tracks like “Sweater Weather” and “Wires” have had us in anticipation for their first ever release, their I’m Sorry… EP. We’re not exactly sure why they’re so sorry, but we’re glad they are. You can listen to and download their five-track EP for free below:

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