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Shura: White Light

With much-adored heartache confessionals like “Indecision,” “Touch” and “2Shy” under her belt, UK-based singer-songwriter Shura switches things up a bit with her latest. “White Light” is a seven-minute jam that boosts the …

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Dream Koala: Earth

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21-year-old Brazilian electronic artist Yndi Ferreira, aka Dream Koala, becomes a helmet-fitted space explorer in the music video for his track “Earth“—and don’t let the title mislead you, as it’s an out-of-this-world …

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Quindar: Twin-Pole Sunshade

Quindar is a newly formed musical project between Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen and art historian James Merle Thomas (currently a postdoc scholar at USC). Their music, which remixes NASA’s audio and video archive, …

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Yo La Tengo: Automatic Doom

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Three decades old and still going strong, Yo La Tengo celebrates this milestone with a “sequel” album to their 1990 Fakebook, which featured covers, re-workings of their own songs and brand new …