win a 7″ made of ice from the shout out louds

Merge Records and the Shout Out Louds are giving away one of ten limited-edition kits for making a 7″ out of ice to celebrate the release of the band’s new track “Blue Ice”.

Everything about this project is crazy and we love it. It’s insanely easy to enter:

1. Send an email to merge@mergerecords.com
2. Make the subject of your email “Blue Ice Giveaway”
3. In the body enter your mailing address

A full-length from the Shout Out Louds will be available next year, but for now you can listen to “Blue Ice” below.

radio silence

Shout Out Louds – Show Me Something New (Jack & Meg would be proud of this pallette)
Archie Powell & The Exports – Enough About Me (shiny surfaces, beers, pinatas)
Bad Veins – Falling Tide (Acoustic) (rooftop shimmer)
Hurricane Bells – Freezing Rain (roadtrip!)
Richard Walters – Brittle Bones (memory ghosts)
Fol Chen – The Holograms (bad wigs abound)

february mp3 round-up

Here’s a collection of all the mp3s we gave away via Twitter in February.

Josiah Wolf (of WHY?) – Master Cleanse (California)
Portugal. The Man – The Dead Dog
Shout Out Louds – Fall Hard (Passion Pit Summertime Radio Remix)
Club 8 – Western Hospitality
Bobby Birdman – Only For A While
Cap’n Jazz – Oh, Messy Life
Neon Indian – Terminally Chill
Field Music – Measure
Tunng – Don’t Look Down or Back
Magnetic Fields – Book of Love (Peter Gabriel cover)
Peter Gabriel – Flume (Bon Iver cover)