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  Watch Tame Impala Expertly Cover OutKast's Smoothly Spacey 'Prototype'

  May 3, 2013 – Tame Impala are masters at taking personal, introspective feelings and blasting them into outer space. The Australian psych-rockers' decision to cover OutKast's "Prototype" in a recent performance for their country's Triple J Radio, then, was an inspired one. From 2003's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, the André 3000-sung track is at once romantic and dazed, and it's built around smoky electric guitar. …
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  Cut Copy and Tame Impala Dust Off Debuts for Record Store Day Reissues

  March 11, 2013 – Keep saving those pennies for Record Store Day; the list of releases only grows longer. We'd just received word of MGMT's limited edition "Alien Days" cassette single and Nicolas Jaar's 12-inch remixes of Brian Eno and Grizzly Bear when news trickled in of RSD exclusives from Cut Copy and Tame Impala.On April 20, Modular Recordings will issue Cut Copy's 2004 debut album, Bright Like Neon Love, on vinyl for the very first time. …
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  Tame Impala Trip Out at New York's Terminal 5

  February 20, 2013 –  …
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  Watch Tame Impala Return to 'Fallon' With 'Elephant'

  February 19, 2013 – Tame Impala returned to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night (February 18), the same show where the Australian rockers made their U.S. television debut back in August 2011. In the year-and-a-half since, frontman Kevin Parker and crew have dropped their Essential sophomore effort Lonerism, made headway with a number of side projects, and honed their live show (as witnessed on Later... With Jools Holland). …
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  Tame Impala Offshoot Pond Streams 'Giant Tortoise' From 'Manic Acid Rock' LP

  February 1, 2013 – The members of Aussie psych outfit Pond — three of whom moonlight as players in Tame Impala — aren't wasting any time following up last year's Beard, Wives, Denim LP. Pond's next full-length, Hobo Rocket, will be out this spring via Modular, Brooklyn Vegan reports. An exact release date hasn't been announced, but the band did share new track "Giant Tortoise," which will appear on the upcoming album. …
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  Tame Impala Mingle Horny Students With 'Heavy Metal' in X-Rated 'Mind Mischief' Video

  January 28, 2013 – Tame Impala's love for Led Zeppelin courses throughout their latest album Lonerism, but it's Van Halen that serves as the inspiration for their new video for "Mind Mischief." Like David Lee Roth almost 30 years ago, the Aussie psych-rockers are hot for teacher, and "Mind Mischief" spends a good duration of its opening verses focused on students fantasizing about their attractive instructor as she struts in slow-mo down the hallway in a  …
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  Tame Impala Find Their 'Elephant' Swagger on 'Jools Holland'

  November 21, 2012 – Behold the transformative power of heavy psych-rock. It might just be our imagination, but it looks like Kevin Parker gains confidence throughout Tame Impala's performance of thunderous Lonerism advance single "Elephant" last night on BBC's Later... With Jools Holland. …
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  Tame Impala Flashes 'Backwards' in Hallucinogenic Animated Video

  November 8, 2012 – Psychedelics — siiiike! — are a psyche-out for Kevin Parker. True to its title, the Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist's SPIN Essential second album as Tame Impala, Lonerism, explores emotional states more than altered ones, feelings rather than pharmaceuticals. Even swaggering first single "Elephant," a character study about the macho bloke Parker clearly thinks he isn't, ends in tears. …
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  Tame Impala, 'Lonerism' (Modular)

  October 8, 2012 – "Why won't they talk to me?" squeaks a small but emphatically overdubbed voice midway through Tame Impala's second album. …
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  Watch Tame Impala's Aptly Trippy 'Elephant' Video

  September 19, 2012 – The childlike element of '60s psychedelia hasn't translated as much to the contemporary psych-rock scene. Watch Roky Erickson documentary You're Gonna Miss Me or spend any time delving into the solo discography of Syd Barrett, and you get a sense of these psych-rock pioneers as big, innocent kids (among other peculiarities). …
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