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12/17/2014
Janice Headley
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  • The holidays are all about family, so it's perfect that Nashville siblings JEFF The Brotherhood have released a Christmas song in their snarling, punk rock style. Stream the track "What’s A Creep" below, available for download at their website. [Stereogum]

  • Tame Impala side project Pond share a video for the track "Sitting up on our Crane," a song frontman Jay Watson says was inspired by visiting construction sites as a kid. "We’d sit at the top and I’d always be afraid that we were gonna fall off, kill ourselves," Watson explained in a press release. "That’s what the song is about. Kind of an anxiety power ballad." The song will appear on the full-length Man It Feels Like Space Again, out January 27th. [Under the Radar]

  • UK folk chanteuse Laura Marling will release her fifth full-length Short Movie on March 24th in the U.S. via Ribbon Music. Check out an animated music video directed by Art & Graft below, and watch her 2013 KEXP session on the blog here. [Pitchfork]

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