NME - The Daily Download — 1. The Drums – ‘Money’ If there’s anyone better than The Drums at making music so deliriously sunny and upbeat whilst simultaneously chin-draggingly glum in the lyrics department, we’d like to buy them an orange Solero (then probably watch ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Chad Valley - "Now That I'm Real (How Does It Feel?)" (Courtship Remix) (MP3) Active Child at Le Poisson Rouge in May (more by David Andrako) Pat Grossi aka Active Child will follow up last year's Curtis Lane EP... more info

Stereogum — Following up on Active Child’s blog-star collabo with How To Dress Well, “Playing House,” there’s a second single available from Pat Grossi’s forthcoming full length via Adult Swim KIA singles series. “Hangin On” is another chilly servi... more info

Nialler9 — All of the new material I’ve heard from Active Child’s new album You Are All I See has been pretty stellar so far. Exhibit B is ‘Hanging On’ after his How To Dress Well collaboration, is this week’s Adult Swim Singles Program release. The... more info

Nialler9 — Check out this unwieldily-titled Indie R&B: The Evolution of Alternative and Experimental Contemporary R&B mix which aims to chart “Alternative R&B”, “lo-fi R&B”, “future soul”, “prog-RnB”. Call it what you like. R&B ain’t the same... more info

Nialler9 — The flame-haired former choirboy Pat Grossi aka Active Child who released the ’80s-tinged Curtis Lane EP last year will release a debut album You Are All I See on Vagrant Records in late August. ‘Playing House’ is the first song from that Ari... more info

Stereogum — Keeper of an especially frozen falsetto Pat Grossi, aka L.A.’s Active Child, is releasing his debut album You Are All I See on Vagrant at the end of the summer. The 10-song collection was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid. Here’s one of those songs, �... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako James Black @ LPR James Blake has the element of surprise working for him. The 22-year-old Londoner first became known last year as a producer of dubstep, the British club-music micro-genre marked by throbbing, reverberating b... more info

Altsounds — LA's pop multi-instrumentalists Princeton (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=szkioieab&et=1105493017273&s=357&e=001VLDSsnNFKZdV9541N09crCjYQ0PZYN2wqb_UGOFxzb_03aMB1mjauhXi0TA7SkHo_8ro2blgP8-RkhmsMNqju_QZaAbd7Pnqmnxy5yRcz0EtTm6qzlA45DhKD0W-0YLk) are plea... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — In case you're wondering who will be playing the opening set at the sold out James Blake shows happening tonight/Wednesday at Bowery Ballroom (afterparty at Tammany Hall) and tomorrow/Thursday at Le Poison Rouge, it's Active Child who also opened... more info