2024-04-19 18:02
Prolific Texas songwriter/legend Bill Baird shares an enchanting video for the gorgeous opening track from Astral Suitcase, one of two stellar new albums that Bill released simultaneously th… Read More
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Gorilla vs. Bear is a Texas-based music blog. Once called the New Yorker of hipster blogs, we blog about relevant artists of the day, with no particular genre-specific focus.
2024-04-16 12:58
Copenhagen continues to shape the current and future landscape of experimental pop music, as Fine Glindvad Jensen -- aka Fine -- readies her stunning debut LP Rocky Top Ballads, coming in Ju… Read More
2024-04-10 14:00
Multi-faceted Montreal illustrator, animator, and low-key pop music genius Amery Sandford -- of Born at Midnite, Alpen Glow, and MUNYA animated video fame -- announces her debut LP under her… Read More
2024-04-02 14:45
Jane Penny shares one final softly stunning single ahead of the release of her stellar solo debut Surfacing, coming this Friday on Luminelle... Continue reading… Read More
2024-03-31 03:11
After a few false starts and some unforeseen technical difficulties only heightened our feverish anticipation, Cindy Lee's long-awaited, sprawling, 32-song triple-LP masterpiece is finally h… Read More
2024-03-26 13:09
Jessica Pratt shares a lovely, The Nazz-influenced new track from one of the best albums of the year, her forthcoming LP Here in the Pitch, out on May 3rd. Video directed by Kate Bollinger… Read More
2024-03-26 12:08
SAM MORTON's debut album Daffodils & Dirt is coming in June on XL. Video directed by Samantha Morton... Continue reading… Read More
2024-03-22 12:08
Nourished By Time's Catching Chickens EP is out today on XL. Cop the limited white label 12" here while they last... Continue reading… Read More
2024-03-13 15:11
Mount Kimbie's new album The Sunset Violent is out April 5th. Vid filmed by Gregory Prestön: Continue reading… Read More
2024-03-12 15:11
Fabiana Palladino's stellar debut album is out April 5th on XL / Paul Institute. Video directed by Caroline Waxse + Josh Renaut. Catch Fabiana live this week in Austin... Continue reading&he&hell…Read More
2024-03-07 14:09
Video directed by Steven Brahms. Amen Dunes' Death Jokes is out May 10th on Sub Pop... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-29 15:00
Video directed by Trevor Free. Fonteyn's "Jody" is out now... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-29 13:08
LA-based duo Allison Goldfarb + Jackson MacIntosh -- aka Paycheque -- follow up their 2023 debut single with another elegant and timeless late night synth-pop gem... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-27 15:36
Jane Penny follows up her irresistible debut solo single with a playfully sensual and super dreamy soft-pop love song/banger -- complete with enchanting flute solo -- taken from her incredib… Read More
2024-02-27 12:07
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2024-02-25 13:08
Mk.gee provides the ethereal live runway soundtrack for Jil Sander's recent F/W 2024-25 show in Milan, as he graces the evening with a few selections from his 2024 AOTY-contender Two Star &a&hell…Read More
2024-02-22 16:11
Yet another epic vid from TDJ, this time for her stellar new single "Come Back Home"... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-21 16:11
Discovery Zone shares one more transportive single ahead of the release of her new album Quantum Web, out March 8th on RVNG... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-21 13:08
Erika de Casier with the rare mid-week album drop... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-21 12:07
Another one from Vegyn's new record The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, out April 5th on PLZ Make It Ruins... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-20 17:12
Baltimore's Marcus Brown aka Nourished By Time put out my favorite album of 2023, and today NBT announces his brilliant new Catching Chickens EP (XL Recordings debut) with a self-directed vi… Read More
2024-02-20 14:09
Panda Bear continues his undefeated run of guest appearances/collabs, as he lends his distinctive angelic vocals to this bright + bouncy track from Bullion's stellar new album Affection, com… Read More
2024-02-15 18:01
Video by James Edward + ScHoolboy Q. Blue Lips is out March 1st... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-14 18:01
A bonafide banger from salute + empress of... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-14 14:09
A heartbreaker from SAM MORTON, out now on 7" via XL. Vid starring + directed by Samantha Morton... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-13 15:45
Georgia Gets By follows up her sublime 2023 debut EP with a gorgeous new standalone single, the softly devastating "When All You Can Manage is a Sigh"... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-13 15:01
Chanel Beads' debut album Your Day Will Come is coming in April on Jagjaguwar... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-13 13:58
Jessica Pratt's incredible new album Here in the Pitch -- her first in over five years and our favorite since her all-time-classic, self-titled 2012 debut -- is coming in May on Mexican Summ… Read More
2024-02-11 02:09
Another fire Panda Bear x Dean Blunt collab, as Panda goes in on one of Dean's recently released Hackney Commercial Waste instrumentals... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-09 05:12
Listen to Mk.gee's stunning, soulful sonic wonder/debut album Two Star & the Dream Police... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-08 14:00
Amen Dunes returns with his first album in 6 years... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-07 15:01
Erika de Casier hooks up with They Hate Change on new single "Ice". Video by Erika. Still is out soon.
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2024-02-05 15:01
Nisa's debut LP Shapeshifting is out this April. Video directed by Rhianna Hajduch... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-02 15:01
Aaron + Indra aka Peaking Lights are back with a hazy and hypnotic new-wave pop banger for the lovelorn and restless... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-02 14:09
Some lush, wistful, and sneakily sinuous late-night dream-pop from Southeast London group Night Tapes... Continue reading… Read More
2024-02-02 00:07
Listen to Burial's new one, out now on XL, below + cop the 12" here... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-31 18:11
Mk.gee: live + leaning out the bus... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-31 15:10
Dehd announce their forthcoming album Poetry with a Glamhag-directed video for the super catchy lead single "Mood Ring"... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-31 01:08
If you're like us and simply can't get enough of ML Buch's brilliant 2023 album Suntub, oh man do we have the mix for you.... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-30 13:08
John Glacier x Eartheater, taken from JG's forthcoming Like a Ribbon EP... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-25 13:08
A timeless, Tropicália-tinged daydream from Ella Raphael... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-24 15:22
Chicago's Jessica Viscius aka Bnny shares the emotional first single from her new album One Million Love Songs, out in April on Fire Talk... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-24 15:00
Fabiana Palladino shares a beautiful and emotionally rousing, Jai Paul co-produced piano jam from her highly anticipated debut LP, coming this April... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-24 14:20
Bullion x Carly Rae Jepsen, taken from Bullion's new album Affection, coming in April on Ghostly... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-23 17:30
Discovery Zone shares another enchanting track + video from her forthcoming LP Quantum Web, coming in March on limited hologram edition LP via RVNG Intl... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-23 15:30
Jane Penny of Montreal band TOPS announces her beautiful and brilliant solo debut with lead single "Messages"... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-19 23:26
East London duo Georgie & Joe go extremely hard out of the gates on their debut single "Student", a massive, gleaming escapist anthem that oscillates from straight-up dance-pop banger t… Read More
2024-01-19 14:29
An ethereal new electronic dream-pop banger from Polish duo Kacha Kowalczyk + Łukasz Rozmysłowski aka Coals. Video directed by Maciej Adamczak... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-19 13:08
We officially have our first AOTY contender of 2024... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-17 15:45
Video by Edem Wornoo + William Child... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-17 15:10
Edinburgh teenage duo No Windows announce their signing to Fat Possum with the wistful "meditation on loss" / lead single from their stellar forthcoming Point Nemo EP, coming in May... Conti… Read More
2024-01-16 15:10
Odetta Hartman shares a Grimes-inspired experimental pop banger taken from her forthcoming album Swansongs, out March 22nd on Transgressive... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-16 13:08
Vegyn's new album The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions is out April 5th on PLZ Make It Ruins... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-12 16:11
TALVI returns with a glowingly ethereal ballad/soft stunner about the passage of time... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-11 16:59
Faye Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony is out March 1st. Vid + game by Brain Dead's Kyle Ng. Check it below and play along here.
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2024-01-10 16:00
Shabazz Palaces follow up last year's Robed in Rareness -- one of our favorite albums of 2023, mini or otherwise -- with the announcement of another new "mini-album", Exotic Birds of Prey… Read More
2024-01-10 15:35
Generous Montreal producer Patrick Holland blesses us with his eclectic new mixtape Infra... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-10 15:10
Psyched to premiere this mercurial new track from Danish composer + viola player (and ML Buch's future tourmate) Astrid Sonne, taken from her stellar new album Great Doubt... Continue readin… Read More
2024-01-09 14:45
New Erika de Casier album coming! Check the vid for lead single "Lucky"... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-09 14:09
Julia Holter's long-awaited new album Something in the Room She Moves is out in March... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-09 13:08
Jamie xx X Chanel... Continue reading… Read More
2024-01-04 13:08
A nice surprise from Skee Mask to start the year... Continue reading… Read More
2023-12-20 01:08
One the heels of our accurate Albums of 2023 list, we present our 50 favorite songs of the year: no one came close to touching LDR this year... Continue reading… Read More
2023-12-05 15:10
Video by Discovery Zone + James Barry. Discovery Zone's Quantum Web is coming in 2024 on RVNG... Continue reading… Read More
2023-11-30 16:11
Presenting our favorite albums of 2023: The most subjectively correct year-end list in the world, every year since 2005... Continue reading… Read More
2023-11-09 14:09
Marci checks in from somewhere in Texas as her band TOPS continues their current massive, sold out tour with Men I Trust to gift us with a silky new sophisti-pop gem... Continue reading&hell&hell…Read More
2023-11-07 15:01
Fabiana Palladino hooks up with Jai Paul on a soulful new duet, the first single to be unveiled from Palladino's highly anticipated debut album... Continue reading… Read More
2023-11-07 14:09
Video by Tammy Nguyen... Continue reading… Read More
2023-10-27 15:11
Presenting our 15th annual GORILLA VS. BEAR HALLOWEEN MIX, perfect for soundtracking your shady local haunted house, tormenting the neighborhood trick-or-treaters, or just wallowing in your… Read More
2023-10-20 15:07
Alaska Reid, one of our favorite songwriters and storytellers, launches a compelling and enlightening new podcast with initial guests Sadie Dupuis + Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES)... Continue re… Read More
2023-10-20 12:08
EKKSTACY levels up on the first two singles to be unveiled from his forthcoming LP EKKSTACY, dropping in early 2024... Continue reading… Read More
2023-10-18 13:33
Enumclaw's triumphant debut album Save the Baby just turned one, and today the band celebrate their insane whirlwind year by releasing a new EP, produced by their friend and chillwave OG, Ch… Read More
2023-10-17 14:33
Nailah Hunter continues to enchant us as she unveils the otherworldly, dreamlike lead single from her debut LP Lovegaze, coming in 2024 on Fat Possum... Continue reading… Read More
2023-10-13 16:30
Montreal's TDJ releases the spectacular final installment in her SPF INFINI trilogy... Continue reading… Read More
2023-10-13 12:08
Helena Deland's Goodnight Summerland is out today. Video directed by Romain F. Dubois... Continue reading… Read More
2023-10-10 13:40
Jessy Lanza shares the dreamlike, Infinite Vibes-directed video for "I Hate Myself", a highlight from her wonderful new album Love Hallucination, out now... Continue reading… Read More
2023-10-10 13:25
MUNYA shares one final, irresistible single ahead of the release of her new album Jardin this Friday, October 13th. Video directed by Otium + starring MUNYA and her beloved pug, BoJackson… Read More
2023-10-10 13:09
A Lynchian country-noir ballad from Bar Italia, taken from the group's second LP of 2023, The Twits, coming November 3rd... Continue reading… Read More
2023-10-10 12:08
The mysterious Voice Actor follow up their brilliant, fathomless 109-song 2022 "album" Sent From My Telephone (one of last year's best) with a proper physical release on limited vinyl... Con… Read More
2023-10-03 15:11
This year's Making Time ∞ fest went down last month across five stages at Philly's historic Fort Mifflin, and it boasted one of the most adventurous + diverse (and best) lineups around… Read More
2023-10-03 13:09
Georgia Gets By's gorgeous Fish Bird Baby Boy EP is out this Friday, October 6th... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-27 16:00
Taken from Sea Lemon's new Stop At Nothing EP, which just dropped on super limited clear cassette... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-27 11:07
Goodnight Summerland is out October 13th. Video shot and directed by David Connor... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-26 14:25
June McDoom shares a beautiful cover of Judee Sill's lost '60s folk gem "Emerald River Dance", taken from June McDoom's new EP With Strings... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-26 12:48
We're psyched to bring you the alluring first transmission from new LA-based synth-pop duo Paycheque... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-26 10:06
Video by Dr Cool. Patrick Holland's infectious new house banger "Your Life" is out now... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-21 14:00
Los Angeles pop luminary Sedona extolls the virtues of the one-night stand in her dreamy, Caris Kuhn-directed new "Touch & Go" video... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-20 14:01
Video directed by Kyle Ng... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-20 11:07
Video by Joshua Gordon... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-14 22:46
King Krule, live at Stubb's BBQ in Austin. Check out Mount Kimbie and King Krule's excellent new track, "Boxing." Photos by David... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-06 14:10
Montreal's Josie Boivin aka MUNYA works her dreamy and heartfelt synth-funk magic on this lovely rendition New Order's oft-covered classic, but MUNYA's main inspiration comes from Frente!'s… Read More
2023-09-06 12:08
Father and son link up on this spectral heater from Shabazz Palaces' new record Robed In Rareness, coming October 27th on Sub Pop... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-05 14:55
Forest Swords shares the haunting and kind of ominous lead single from his just announced new album Bolted, coming October 20th on Ninja Tune... Continue reading… Read More
2023-09-05 11:07
Taz + Meeks (aka Tirzah and bff/longtime collaborator Mica Levi) are back with a surprise album that resides in the "lazy club fantasy zone", out today on Domino. Stream trip9love...??? in i… Read More
2023-08-30 13:09
Georgia Gets By shares a gorgeous and heartbreaking ballad that explores and honors her first queer crush... Continue reading… Read More
2023-08-30 13:00
Helena Deland heralds the impending arrival of her forthcoming album Goodnight Summerland with the gentle flood of emotions that is her poignant but incredibly warm and tender new single "Br… Read More
2023-08-29 15:00
Produced by JPEGMAFIA. Armand Hammer's We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is coming soon on Fat Possum... Continue reading… Read More
2023-08-29 14:45
Chicago's Melissa Harris aka Born Days shares another transfixing dark pop gem from her forthcoming debut album My Little Dark... Continue reading… Read More
2023-08-29 14:30
Sofia Kourtesis' Madres is coming in October on Ninja Tune... Continue reading… Read More
2023-08-29 14:10
Oneohtrix Point Never's Again is coming this fall on Warp. Video by Freeka Tet... Continue reading… Read More
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