Lower Dens and similar artists

Blah Blah Blah's single, "Goodbye LA" is strikingly gorgeous and yet familiarly timeless. The artful pop-centric track is lush in its piano and shuff...

Leeds-based six piece Team Picture have this week shared latest single "Strange Year." A rollicking indie-pop grafter, "Strange Year" has a wonderful...

Exitmusic's "Iowa" blurs the lines between sultry, smooth, and explosive. The duo has channeled their recent divorce and other life experiences to cre...

In case you've never checked it out, the Last.fm page is pretty hilarious for Destroyer. It lists a disambiguation for ~15 bands with the same name, t...

All We Are's newest single "Keep Me Alive" is a genre-bending song that intertwines styles for an extra umph. The calculated instrumentals are humbly...

Back in the day, Wye Oak's Civilian stole my heart. Now it appears as if their new album Shrief might just follow suit.The follow-up to January's "The...

Wye Oak's new song "The Tower" is a pretty dark single. But that's no surprise given the vibe of their last album Civilian -- one of my favorites in 2...

Brooklyn-based outfit Bear In Heaven have done a great job getting their songs into remix crosshairs. From When Saints Go Machine to CFCF, none of the...

I tend to pull out Wye Oak's 2011 release Civilian for all sorts of listening occasions, so to see a new single coming from the Baltimore-based duo go...

While Stereogum have described this remix as "sparkling," I'm going to have to disagree. The word "brooding" seems a bit more appropriate; this track ...

It's time for the third installment of SPIN and Absolut's SXSW journey! This time we've got video footage of them following Lower Dens around Austin. ...