Guardian Music — This synth siren sounds like a weirder and more credible version of Enya, all ethereal vocals and meandering melodiesHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Cameron Mesirow (vocals, instruments).The background: Cameron Mesirow is signed to True Panther Sou... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 08-06 San Diego, CA - Casbah #% 08-07 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar ## with Ariel Pink and Magic Kids% with Dunes more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 08-05 Tucson, AZ - Plush # 08-06 San Diego, CA - Casbah #% 08-07 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar #08-11 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival 09-04 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest 09-11 Pomona, CA - Glass House 09-12 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress 09-14 Lubbock, TX - Foun... more info

Stereogum — Fresh off of making our summer with a gorgeous show while boat-cruising the East River, Memphis’s Magic Kids double down on the generosity of spirit and sunny west coast baroque pop style with “Superball,” another single from their worthy homet... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Here's another track from Memphis twee ensemble Magic Kids' forthcoming True Panther debut, Memphis, out August 24. We originally posted "Superball" around these parts when it existed as a flip-side to a split with the Smith Westerns; this is a re-re... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Here’s another track from Magic Kids‘ upcoming full-length Memphis, out later this month on True... Read more » more info

Guardian Music — In collaboration with SoundCloud, we present the best tracks from artists featured so far this year in New Band of the Day. But what does it say about the nature of music in 2010?We're just over halfway through 2010 and already people are wondering i... more info

Altsounds — *Magic Kids* share with last century's masters of pop music - Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Jeff Lynne - the ability to take a tiny and simple song, a moment of wide-eyed sincerity, and translate it into something that is bursting with life. Memph... more info

Stereogum — So it may just be that Kanye West’s recent tweet did for airline travel what the Lonely Island did for getting onto boats, and that one day we’ll call a merciful moratorium on referring to airline attendants as “stuartists,” the same way you�... more info

Stereogum — So it may just be that Kanye West’s recent tweet did for airline travel what the Lonely Island did for getting onto boats, and that one day we’ll call a merciful moratorium on referring to airline attendants as “stuartists,” the same way you�... more info