POLICA - Lay Your Cards Out (Official Music Video)

Poliça's chanteuse frontwoman, Channy Leaneagh, has just emerged at the Depot in downtown Minneapolis. She and and one of her band's two drummers, Drew Christopherson, make their way to a table in the back, stopping briefly to chat with friends along the way. Leaneagh's short, tight-cropped hair is damp from the snow falling outside, and she seems tired—even indecisive—as she deliberates over what to order. At last, she decides on a Jack and Coke. "CityPages"

Loose Heels - White Lung

Frontwoman Mish Way has all the punk rock swagger a band could need - almost always with cig in hand - and drummer Anne-Marie Vassilou is simply put: a badass. Guitarist Kenneth William is the sole male in the group as Grady Mackintosh handles bass duties. Their two-year-old debut It's the Evil contained the killer track "Creep Sleep" and their newest single "Take the Mirror," off their upcoming LP Sorry, is quite possibly even more appealing. The band is signed to Deranged Records - home of Polaris Music Prize winners F**ked Up. Need we say more? "MTV Newsroom"

Summer Camp - Always

One listen to the new Summer Camp song “Always” and you’ll be thinking about new wave heroes such as New Order. It’s a good thing, and certainly a compliment. It may be one of the bands strongest efforts to date. They don’t hold back at all and it results in one hell of jam. "We All Want Someone To Shout For"

Grimes - Oblivion

This one doesn’t draw its power from throwing Claire Boucher into all sorts of unexpected situations, though that is fun. Instead, that power comes from how utterly ebullient Boucher looks in every one of those situations, dancing around looking starry-eyed and unselfconscious no matter who happens to be surrounding her at that particular moment. And in its gorgeous hi-def cinematography and its general all-consuming happiness, it makes the blurpy sidelong electro-jam signify as actual pop music. Salute. "StereoGum"

Zowie - My Calculator

New Zealand electro-pop artist Zowie that we posted her new single "My Calculator" previously here just made a new video for the track that you can check out below. Real colorful poppy affair. This track totally reminds me of early 2000's electroclash, even has that trademark simple hand clap. Real stylish girl. Her debut album 'Love Demolition' is out now in New Zealand. Not sure when it'll be out for the rest of us, hopefully soon. "Off The Radar"

Water To Ice - Ruby Frost

What are the odds that we'd do back to back posts on New Zealand artists? Probably not that likely, but as I was setting up this latest post for Ruby Frost that's what I noticed. We previously wrote about Ruby last year here. Her new single/video for her track "Water to Ice" is pretty sweet anthemic type of jam. Check those out below, plus a remix of the track by Golden Age. Both free for the taking. Her debut album 'Volition' is scheduled for release in the next few months. Be on the lookout. "Off The Radar"

Liz Phair - And He Slayed Her

Broken Social Scene - Sweetest Kill

Bijou Phillips dances with her manfriend, gazes lovingly at him, and then spreads out a sheet of plastic and chops his body into pieces. Every single limb-slicing here is rendered in vividly tactile style, with every bit of viscera shown in all its glory, to the point where I wondered how this video could’ve been made without any actual decapitations. "StereoGum"

Grimes - Nightmusic ft. Majical Cloudz

New Grimes reminds me of the art institute somehow,

sydney wayser - Dirty Work

Sydney Wayser is a French-American, New York-based singer-songwriter who plays guitar, piano and children's toys. Growing up in Los Angeles with summers spent in Paris, she draws on a wide range of influences and inspirations, from Edith Piaf, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Jacques Brel, to John Lennon, Jeff Buckley, and Sigur Ros Her third album, Bell Choir Coast, has been two years in the making; struggling to express herself creatively in the midst of a miserable New York winter, Wayser decided that if she couldn’t go elsewhere, she’d bring other lands to her. “Bell Choir Coast is about a fictional land that I made up, because I couldn't leave New York and I had to make my record. So I made up a new world in my head that was everything I wanted.” The result is the gorgeous and varied Bell Choir Coast. More than an record, it is an atlas, a map past difficult years and emotional terrain, to a place of self-understanding and agency. Sydney Wayser set about to make an album, and in the end she cleared a path to a world, and in the process she found her tribe and her sound. "sydney's Web Site"

Marika Hackman - 'Here I Lie' #BurberryPresents

I taught myself guitar and when I started making up my own songs, my singing voice just kind of came out! I never really thought about it, and it's completely natural. I don't put any runs in my voice or any weird vocal tricks, because I think that ruins the emotion of your songs. They're so much easier to believe if you're just natural and real. "Nylon"

EMA - Marked (official video)

Did I post this before? Well here it is again, I have seen EMA two times and am wanting to see her again, for me she was the most epic artist of 2011, of course she was in the band Gowns, which was awesome, but she is making some deeply intense tunes here. "Liz Abyss"

Now, Now - Thread

Now, Now, formerly known as Now, Now Every Children and abbreviated NNEC, is an American indie rock band formed in Blaine, Minnesota and based in Minneapolis.[1] The band is composed of Cacie Dalager (vocals, guitar, keyboard); Bradley Hale (drums, backing vocals); Jess Abbott (guitar, vocals), with occasional touring members Britty Hale (keyboard) and Christine Sako (bass). "Wikipedia"