Muzjiks — Playlist1. MUZJiKS Intro (ft. Samuel L. Jackson and The XX)2. Picture Book: Sunshine3. Blur: Out of Time4. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Home5. Freelance Whales: Generator ^ Second Floor6. Das Racist: You Oughtta Know7. The Hood Internet:... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 04-17 Fords, NJ - Vintage Vinyl04-17 Newark, DE - Rainbow Books and Music04-18 Clinton, NY - Cafe Opus McEwen05-02 Washington DC - 9:30 Club *05-03 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *05-05 New York, NY - Webster Hall [two shows] *05-06 Boston... more info

Rolling Stone — Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” �... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Freelance Whales craft catchy folk/pop songs, their debut LP Weathervanes is full of 'em and it's like fluffy cotton-candy for the ears. They're cute, tour like crazy, and are trying to spite a scathing Pitchfork review that everyone except the Amis... more info

Altsounds — To call them multi-instrumentalists might be a little overdone. The kids in Freelance Whales are really just collectors, at heart. They don't really fancy buffalo nickels or Victorian furniture, but over the past two years, they've been collecti... more info

Stereogum — While the buskers of BTW Freelance Whales offered up a stopgap clip for Weathervanes standout “Generator ^ Second Floor” via live studio video, the real thing is a far artsier and life-affirming affair, helmed by director Maxwell Sorensen. The... more info

Nialler9 — Masked banditos feature heavily in the snowy video for Freelance Whales‘ video for ‘Generation 2nd Floor’. The band’s album Weathervanes is out next week in the US. Mp3 widget below: more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Freelance Whales @ SXSW (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Freelance Whales, who are one of the many artists on the recently-announced Lollapalooza lineup (and who were just at SXSW) (and who recently played on a subway platform), will celebrate the Fren... more info

NME - Radar — New logo! Ooh! I've spent the majority of my 26 years on earth making unsolicited and often unwanted mixtapes for friends and loved ones. So the thought that I now get to make one every month of all the best new music out there, that might recieve m... more info

KEXP Seattle — A folk-stitched dream pop band is probably the last thing you’d imagine would come out of Queens, New York. Despite the city’s notorious jazz scene, the Freelance Whales found enough inspiration to create an explosion of sensory stimulated music ... more info