Twin Shadow is the stage name of American musician George Lewis Jr. Lewis was born in the Dominican Republic and

Hits and Misses is a weekly podcast hosted by the AUX.tv editorial team, who round up, dissect, and make awesome jokes about the week's music news. Just in time for another dull, hellaciously hot summer weekend, AUX is pleased to bring you the fourth episode of our news roundup podcast, Hits and Misses, posted every Friday around the end of the day. So load up your Zune-pods with our invective musical insights and start your weekend right. Or, start it this way. Whichever. In this week's episode, we discuss AUX Magazine's newest cover artist Azealia Banks and the "viral generation," Frank Ocean's bravery and general radness, and '90s CanRock slander and libel. Stream it here (or subscribe): brightcove.createExperiences();

End Hits is a weekly podcast hosted by Sam Sutherland, featuring interviews with musicians and musician-types from a dining table in Toronto. Our fourteenth episode of End Hits (listen to the rest another time) brings George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow to our dining table. Taken under the proverbial production wing of Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor a few years ago, Twin Shadow's 2010 debut, Forget, launched the project in a major way, earning rave reviews and giving Lewis the audience his past bands -- including post-punk outfit Mad Man Films in Boston -- hadn't. A few weeks ahead of the July 10 release of Confess, his sophomore full-length as Twin Shadow, Lewis stopped by to talk about a lot of other stuff almost entirely unrelated to the album. Stream it here (or subscribe):

Twin Shadow's new video for "Five Seconds" premiered last night in Times Square, which just about covers its incredibly cinematic nature. Starting with some simple narration introducing a gang war, the clip goes onto, well...feature a gang war. Stereogum points out that the video's credits note that its based on a novel called Night of the Silver Sun by frontman George Lewis Jr. and Eric Green, though such a novel doesn't actually seem to exist. Watch the Keith Musil directed video above. Twin Shadow's new album, Confess hits stores on July 10th, through 4AD.

Twin Shadow, aka George Lewis Jr., has just released the first single off his newly announced sophomore album Confess, which will be out July 10 via 4AD. Stream or download the very-80s "Five Seconds" below or at Twin Shadow's website.