Washed Out has recorded a haunting cover of Chris Isaak’s melancholy, 1989 hit, “Wicked Games”, as well as unleashed a ghostly remix of “Eyes Be Closed” by spectral synth-pop succubus, Grimes.

Girls’ expansive new track, “Vomit”, melds church organs and gospel-infused choir vocals with a beatific, all-loving refrain. Like its putrid namesake, it’ll warm you from the inside out.

Melbourne three-piece The Vasco Era are back and have announced new tour dates for 2011. The band have also released a new single, “Child Bearing Hips”, taken from their upcoming album, ‘The Vasco Era,’ on the band’s own Inprint, Era Records, through Inertia.

M83′s “Midnight City” is the first track to emerge from his forthcoming double-album. It’s the kinda burning, neon anthem that androids raise their chrome fists to; leaving you wide-eyed with heart aflame.

Known for a voice of stark power and subtle refinement, Sharon Van Etten has announced that she has newly signed to Jagjaguwar. Her third full-length album will be released in Australia during early 2012 through Inertia.

UK-born, Sydney-based producer extraordinaire Mark Pritchard, most recently known as Harmonic 313 and one half of Africa Hitech, has done two remixes of Radiohead’s “Bloom”. The two remixes are available now, along with a Nathan Fake remix of “Morning Mr Magpie”.

We’ve been talking a lot about Washed Out lately. Hell, everyone’s been talking a lot about Washed Out lately. With the amount of absorbing tunes this guy pumps out, how could anybody resist getting submerged in the whirlpool? The latest is this great remix of “Eyes Be Closed” by the spectral synth-pop succubus, Grimes (if [...]

American singer-songwriter Annie Clark, better known as St Vincent, is about to release her new album, ‘Strange Mercy’, this September. You can help unlock promo videos for the new album, plus an mp3, all by using your Twitter account.

Dum Dum Girls’ “Coming Down” sounds some classic alt-ballad from Triple J’s Hottest 100 1994; the kinda swooning, melancholic tearjerker that Gen Xers still dream of walking down the aisle to.

Zach Condon’s music often parallels the exotic mysteries of world travel. Since Beirut’s last album, ‘The Flying Club Cup’ (2007), sang a love-letter to France (with a 2009 stop-off in Mexico for the ‘March of the Zapotec’ EP), many asked where his songs would voyage next, but few predicted the inward journey Condon takes on ‘The Rip Tide’, an album with the most introspective and memorable songs of his young career.

Last week, Seattle-based Shabazz Palaces (aka Palaceer Lazaro, aka Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler) paid a visit to Rock Island to record a Daytrotter Session. Two of the four tracks, “Toooonmiiiight” and “Emblazoned on Ice”, are unreleased and one is from the self-released and self-titled EP. The fourth track, “An Echo From Hosts That Profess Infinitum,” is from the new album, ‘Black Up’, out now on Sub Pop.

Check out the new clip for Pictureplane’s “Post Physical”, from the upcoming album “Thee Physical”.