Another San Fran outfit Dominant Legs, featuring Girls guitarist Ryan Lynch and vocalist Hannah Hunt is about to release their debut EP on undomondo favourites Lefse Records next month. Nostalgia inducing lo-fi guitar pop.

Today’s Bad Panda edition features Brooklyn ambient & postrock troupe Bing & Ruth.

San Fran based power pop / garage rockers The Mantles have a hand numbered vinyl release of 1000 on Mexican Summer Records. Apart from the outrageous price tag, it’s another one of them essential summer crunchers, with fuzzy guitars, perfect vocal melodies and backing ooohs to spice it up.

#92 Tropical soul and chillwaves : Sun Araw, Woods, Coma Cinema, Forest Swords, The Alps, Ous Mal, Ian Hawgood, The Boats and more..

Talented UK dubstep producer James Blake breaks new ground with his 4 tracker CMYK, where he fuses chopped up vocals and glitchy beats to create moody and dark auras. Post dubstep cinema music.

Responsible for one of the defining roots reggae albums in history, Heart of the Congos, Cedric Myton and Roy Johnson are back recording and touring after decades of absence, with a new album entitled Back in the Black Ark.

#91 Garage rock meets lo-fi folk

Legendary Jamaican vocalist Sugar Minott has passed away yesterday, 54 years old. Guardian has an obituary.

Totally baked tropical jams from Magic Lantern member Cameron Stallones, aka Sun Araw. In his own words it is “for heavy-steamin’ late nights in the city, inter-dimensional back alleys, ghost cabs and midnight sweat locker rooms.” Not much to say but scream SUN ARAW when you’re bubbling with sweat on a late night stoner party.