Beach House

Talk about perfect timing. Just as we welcome the arrival of 2013, Beach House have unveiled their official new video for 'New Year,' the latest single off their 'Bloom' disc. The clip features home-movie-style and time-lapse videos shot while the band was in the Tornillo, Texas, studio Sonic Ranch recording the album, which dropped back in May.

There's nothing we like more on weekends than losing ourselves in soothing dream-pop. Baltimore duo Beach House are among our current faves, turning out moody, spacey and, yes, dreamy indie rock. Here are five other artists -- some that sound like Beach House, some that grab from the same set of influences -- you may also like. Che...

Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House have teamed up with Swedish director Johan Renck to create a video for 'Wild,' the latest single off their 'Bloom' album. Renck is known for helming videos for New Order, Lana Del Rey, Bat for Lashes and others --- not to mention his guest turn directing some pretty rad episodes of 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead' -- and his 'Wild' clip lives up to its name

Last night (July 24), Beach House rolled into NBC Studios to make their performance debut on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,' and did so by bringing out their 'Bloom' clip 'Wild' for the assembled studio audience and the viewers at home. After that, as an extra treat for the audience -- and those with the ability to watch web exclusives at home -- they also performed 'Wishes,' also embedded below..

Few albums in recent memory have as many moments of euphoria as ‘Bloom:’ The initial sweep of guitars in ‘Wild,’ the breathy curtain of "huh-huh-huhs" in ‘Lazuli,’ the splay of lead guitar in ‘Other People’ -- and that’s just tracks two through four. With 'Bloom,' Beach House have given us a beautiful work of art.

It's been about a month since a British Volkswagen commercial surfaced online featuring a song that shared a very peculiar similarity to a tune by Beach House. The Baltimore dream-pop duo has since gone on the record to reveal that an agency working for VW commissioned a professional music team called Sniffy Dog to compose the sound-alike, only after they turned down multiple requests to license t

If you think that Volkswagen Polo commercial with the Beach House-sounding song sounds a little too much like Beach House to be a mere coincidence, you may be right. The Baltimore duo has issued a statement that reveals an ad agency actually approached them to license their song 'Take Care' for the spot. It sounds like the ad agency simply recorded their own version of the tune when House "po

Baltimore duo Beach House’s latest offering 'Bloom' is earning plenty of rave reviews (including our absolutely glowing one), but not everybody is on board with the album. Producer Flying Lotus recently hit up Twitter to share his thoughts on 'Bloom,' and they weren’t complimentary.

Listening to Beach House's 'Bloom' is like standing on a beach with surf tickling your ankles. Listening to 'Bloom' is like discovering spring's first buds. Listening to 'Bloom' is like waking up next to someone you just discovered you adore -- and may be gone soon.

Baltimore, Md.-based Beach House are gearing up to release their fourth studio album, 'Bloom,' on May 15. In case you were a law-abiding citizen and didn't download the record when it leaked back in March, NPR is currently streaming 'Bloom' in its entirety.