Deerhoof's video for Breakup Song cut "We Do Parties" interprets the song's title on a trip to singer Satomi Matsuzaki's native Tokyo. The band does karaoke while wearing slotted light-up raver glasses and playing with glowsticks.

"We Do Parties" will be included on the band's upcoming EP of the same name, out February 26 via Polyvinyl. The EP includes a remix by Simeon from Silver Apples; "Just for That", the bonus track from their Breakup Song flexi-disc release, and a live Velvet Underground cover.

Watch the "We Do Parties" video after the EP tracklist and Deerhoof's upcoming dates.

We Do Parties EP:

01 We Do Parties
02 Mario's Flaming Dessert (Simeon Silver Apples Remix)
03 Just for That
04 All Tomorrow's Parties (live) (Velvet Underground Cover)

Deerhoof:

02-20 New York, NY - Merkin Concert Hall (Ecstatic Music Festival)
03-01 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo
03-02 Sydney, Australia - The Annandale
03-03 Melbourne, Australia - Schoolhouse Stuidos
03-06 Adelaide, Australia - Adelaide Festival
04-04 St. Louis, MO - The Firebird
04-06 Madison, WI - UW-Madison Music Hall
04-07 Iowa City, IA - The Mill (Mission Creek Festival)
04-08 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall $
04-09 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme $
04-11 Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Pike Room $
04-12 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Theatre $
04-13 Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall $
04-14 Albany, NY - Valentine’s $
04-15 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer $

$ with People Get Ready

New York rock'n'roll band the Men will release their next record, New Moon, March 5 via Sacred Bones. (It's the followup to last year's great Open Your Heart.) In advance of the album, they've shared the music video for the record's first single "Electric", shot last June at a chaotic (and seemingly very fun) gig in London. Watch the clip, directed by Teresa Dorothea, below.

The Men are touring almost nonstop from now until June; check out their recently announced North American dates here.

After the new video, watch a Pitchfork.tv interview with the Men from last year.

Photo by Will Deitz

James Blake has just announced a string of tour dates, beginning with Coachella in April and ending with Primavera in May. The dates are in advance of his second album, due out on Republic later this year.

James Blake:

 04-14 Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04-16-17 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
04-18 Santa Cruz, CA - Rio Theatre
04-21 Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04-23 Seattle, WA - Neptune
04-24 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
04-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
04-27 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
04-28 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
05-01 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
05-02 Chicago, IL - Metro
05-03 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
05-04 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall
05-06 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
05-08 Boston, MA - House of Blues
05-09 New York, NY - Terminal 5
05-11 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
05-12 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
05-13 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
05-24 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
05-29 Madrid, Spain - Sala Capital

Watch a Pitchfork.tv video about Blake at 2011's Primavera:

Photo by Tom Spray

How to Dress Well: "& It Was U" (Elite Gymnastics remix) on SoundCloud.

Following the dates he's co-headlining with Sky Ferreira, How to Dress Well's Tom Krell will continue touring in Europe and North America until June. Dates below. He's also shared a new remix from Acéphale pal Elite Gymnastics, who did a new version of Total Loss cut "& It Was U". Listen to that above.

How to Dress Well:

02-20 Perth, Australia - International Arts Festival at The Bakery
02-21 Adelaide, Australia - Rocket Bar
02-22 Melbourne, Australia - The Corner Hotel
02-23 Sydney, Australia - Oxford Art Factory
03-01 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The Bee
03-02 Manila, Philippines - B-Side
03-03 Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Megaport Festival
03-06 Hong Kong, China - Hidden Agenda Live House
03-08 Shanghai, China - Jue Festival at 390 Live
03-09 Beijing, China - Jue Festival at 2 Kolegas
03-13 Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya O-Nest
03-19 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall *
03-20 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
03-23 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
03-24 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *
03-25 Montreal, Quebec - La Salla Rossa *
03-27 Toronto, Ontario - Wrong Bar *
03-29 Columbus, OH - Basement *
03-30 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
03-31 Madison, WI - The Frequency *
04-01 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club *
04-03 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge *
04-05 Vancouver, British Columbia - Biltmore Cabaret *
04-06 Seattle, WA - Barboza *
04-07 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios *
04-10 Silverlake, CA - Los Globos *
05-02 Berlin, Germany - Berghain
05-03 Vienna, Austria - Donau Festival
05-04 Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits Botanique Festival
05-06 Poznan, Poland - Minoga
05-07 Warsaw, Poland - 1500m2
05-08 Riga, Latvia - Palladium
05-10 Aarhus, Denmark - Pop Revo Festival
05-11 Umea, Sweden - Made Festival
05-14 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club
05-15 Manchester, England - Whitworth Art Gallery
05-16 Brighton, England - Great Escape Festival
05-18 Glasgow, England - Stag and Dagger Festival
05-20 Liverpool, England - Leaf
05-24 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival
05-25 London, England - Field Day Festival
06-01 Philadelphia, PA - The Roots Picnic

* with Sky Ferreira

Watch How to Dress Well on an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "+1":

Rihanna's seapunk-style "Saturday Night Live" green screen has nothing on Mykki Blanco's hallucinatory backdrop. Watch the rapper give a special green screen-enhanced live performance of Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss tracks "HAZE.BOOGIE.LIFE" and "Kingpinning".

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"HAZE.BOOGIE.LIFE":

"Kingpinning":

At the Drive-In's reunion tour may have ended, but the band members aren't finished with their past just yet. (And with the Mars Volta's recent breakup, might there be more of a future for ATDI than we thought?) This spring, the band will reissue their 1996 debut album Acrobatic Tenement and their final album, 2000's Relationship of Command.

Acrobatic Tenement will be released March 5 worldwide and March 25 in the UK, while Relationship of Command will be released on April 22. Both will be available in digital, CD and vinyl formats, and Relationship of Command will be sold on limited color vinyl for Record Store Day on April 20.

The band's own label, Twenty-First Chapter Records, will release the reissues in the U.S. Transgressive will release them in the UK and Europe. In Canada, they will be released by Dine Alone, Stop/Start in Australia and New Zealand, and in Japan, Daymare Recordings/Disk Union.

In a press release, guitarist Jim Ward said, "It was interesting to revisit the recordings that bookended the first chapters of our band. The earnest and pure excitement of the beginning and the level of craftsmanship we achieved by Relationship of Command leaves me nothing but proud. I am happy these records have found their way to continue to feel new as people discover music they love and embrace our work."

"First chapters," huh? Does that mean there will be... more chapters?

Watch the video for "One Armed Scissor" after the tracklist.

Acrobatic Tenement:

01 StarSlight
02 Schaffino
03 Ebroglio
04 Initiation
05 Communication Drive-In
06 Skips on the Record
07 Paid Vacation Time
08 Ticklish
09 Blue Tag
10 Coating of Arms
11 Porfirio Diaz

Relationship of Command:

01 Arcarsenal
02 Pattern Against User
03 One Armed Scissor
04 Sleepwalk Capsules
05 Invalid Litter Dept.
06 Mannequin Republic
07 Enfilade
08 Rolodex Propaganda
09 Quarantined
10 Cosmonaut
11 Non-Zero Possibility
12 Catacombs (Bonus Track)

Photos by Erez Avissar

Former teen pop queen and "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus has a new album out this year. Tyler, the Creator of Odd Future is featured on that album. In an interview with the magazine Cosmopolitan (via MTV), Cyrus said Tyler guests on a track she wrote with Mary J. Blige, of all people.

Cyrus told Cosmopolitan:

I wrote this song with Mary J. Blige, and Tyler, the Creator heard it and said, 'I am obsessed with this song, and I will guest on it if you promise me that you will keep it on the album.' And he killed it!

If Miley Cyrus was still the teen idol she once was, the idea of Tyler, the Creator having direct access to the ears of a predominantly teenage/female fanbase is literally my worst nightmare; hopefully her audience has changed in recent years.

For Blige, this is at least less weird than that Burger King commercial she tried to do last year.

Tyler, the Creator does "French" with Odd Future at the Pitchfork Music Festival:

On February 4, Pitchfork.tv will premiere a new short film by Beach House, "Forever Still". The film finds the band performing out in the desert, near the Tornillo, Texas studio where they recorded 2012's Bloom. Check out a trailer for the film below.

The band wrote on their website:

We performed/recorded four songs from Bloom outdoors, in various locations that are special for us around El Paso and Tornillo, Texas. The film follows the passing of one night, starting at sunset and ending at dawn.

Check out two stills from the film after the clip.

Le1f: "Coins" on SoundCloud.

New York rapper Le1f's got a new mixtape, Fly Zone, to follow last year's debut Dark York. It's out today on Greedhead and Camp & Street. It features Kitty (formerly Kitty Pryde), Spank Rock, Haleek Maul and others. Have a listen to the first single "Coins" above, stream the mixtape at Soundcloud, or download the whole thing for free over at The Fader. 

After the tracklist, watch a recent episode of Pitchfork.tv's "+1" featuring Le1f.

Fly Zone:

01 Float
02 Spa Day
03 Cloud So Long 
04 Airbending
05 Star Alliance [ft. Spank Rock]
06 Breezy
07 Psy Lock
08 Tha Whip [ft. Haleek Maul]
09 Pocahontas [ft. Kitty Pryde]
10 Coins
11 So Fly [ft. Don Jones]
12 Autopilot ft. SAFE
13 Air Max [ft. Rahel]

Björk's album/multimedia project Biophilia just keeps going. She's now launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of the Biophilia app for Android and Windows 8 to make it more accessible in schools across the world. (It's already available through Apple's App Store for iOS devices.)

The app, which features a mini-app to go along with each of the album's ten songs, is being used as part of the Biophilia Educational Program, a program developed by Bjork to teach children about science and music. In addition to the iPad versions being implemented in schools, the creators have "received lots of international requests for alternate versions of the app, many of which have come from areas with families on low incomes and schools with low budgets," the Kickstarter page reads.

Björk writes:

the biophilia educational program is a new way to teach children about science and music . it has met with success in many cities, sparking interest from kids and educators all over the world, from south america to east asia to africa. the most interest has come from students from low-income households and schools with underfunded art budgets, and the only way to bring the project to those people is to have biophilia reprogrammed for android and windows 8. the biophilia educational project is strictly non-profit and volunteer-based, and that's why we need your help.

The Kickstarter's funding goal is £375,000; pledging ends on February 27. Prizes awarded to funders include the app itself, t-shirts, picture discs, lithographic prints, DVDs, credit within the app, and much more. 

In a press release announcing the Kickstarter, it's mentioned that Björk will bring the Biophilia live experience to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, in addition to the previously announced Paris residency. Those who pledge £800 or more to the Kickstarter will get a VIP pass to one of those shows.

Watch Björk's video for the campaign:

On the heels of Putrifiers II, prolific Bay Area garage weirdos Thee Oh Sees have announced their next LP. Floating Coffin is out April 16 via John Dwyer's Castle Face Records, and yes, that terrifying kaleidoscopic strawberry face up there is the album cover.

In a press release, here's what Dwyer said about the new album: "These songs occur in the mindset of a world that's perpetually war-ridden. Overall, it's pretty dark, and much heavier than our other albums."

Floating Coffin:

01 I Come From the Mountain
02 Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster
03 Floating Coffin
04 No Spell
05 Strawberries 1 + 2
06 Maze Fancier
07 Night Crawler
08 Sweet Helicopter
09 Tunnel Time
10 Minotaur

Check out the band's music video for "Lupine Dominus":

Surfer Blood are back with the follow up to last year's Tarot Classics EP and 2010's Astro Coast. Pythons is their debut on Warner Bros. (who they signed with back in 2010), and it's due out sometime this summer. Below, check out the first taste from the new album, "Weird Shapes", via the band's website.

The album was produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo and the Bunnymen) and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Guided By Voices). Here's what frontman John Paul Pitts had to say about the new song: "'Weird Shapes' is a left of center pop song about someone who is about to go through a manic episode." 

Below the track, check out the band's upcoming string of tour dates.

Surfer Blood: 

02-24 Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Palace
02-25 San Francisco, CA - Brick and Mortar
02-26 Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp
02-27 Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters
03-01 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
03-03 San Diego, CA - Casbah
03-12-17 Austin, TX - SXSW

It was reported that Pixies' Kim Deal and her twin sister Kelley were reuniting the Breeders' 1992-1994 lineup (including Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson) to play their classic LP Last Splash in its entirety on tour. Today, they shared a string of dates for the album's 20th anniversary tour, which lead up to their appearance at Deerhunter's ATP.

A deluxe Last Splash reissue, LSXX, is due out in April via 4AD.

The Breeders:

03-29 Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House
05-24 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera
05-27 Toulouse, France - Le Bikini
05-28 Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher De Palmer
06-01 Paris, France - Trianon
06-02 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique   
06-03 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso
06-21 Camber Sands, England - All Tomorrow's Parties

Watch the Kim Gordon- and Spike Jonze- directed video for "Cannonball":

As Pusha-T said in his "Update" interview, he's got a new album on the way this year. But first, he's offering a mixtape, Wrath of Caine. It features guest spots from Rick Ross, Wale, and French Montana, plus production from Young Chop, the Neptunes, and of course, Kanye West. Listen to it below, and download it here.

Front page photo by Cat Roif

Wavves: "Demon to Lean On" on SoundCloud.

Wavves' new album Afraid of Heights is out March 26 via Mom + Pop. And after divulging a few album details and sharing the track "Sail to the Sun", the band has offered the tracklist, artwork, and a new song from the King of the Beach follow up. Check out "Demon to Lean On" above.

Afraid of Heights is available for pre-order now. You can buy it on vinyl, with a bunch of pins, with a t-shirt, and with Nathan Williams' Negative Dad comics. Or on iTunes.

The duo of Williams and Stephen Pope are heading out on an enormous North American tour behind the album. Check out their dates with FIDLAR and Cheatahs below.

Williams discussed the overall tone of the new album in a press release:

"The general theme of the record is depression and anxiety, being death-obsessed and paranoid of impending doom. I feel like the narration is almost schizophrenic if you listen front to back; every word is important, even the constant contradictions and lack of self-worth. That's all a part of this record-questioning everything not because I'm curious, but because I'm paranoid."

The press release also notes that Williams paid for the album's sessions out-of-pocket. As previously reported, Afraid of Heights will feature guest work from Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley frontwoman and bearer of pot cookies.

Afraid of Heights:

01 Sail to the Sun
02 Demon to Lean On
03 Mystic
04 Lunge Forward
05 Dog
06 Afraid of Heights
07 Paranoid
08 Cop
09 Beat Me Up
10 Everything Is My Fault
11 That's On Me
12 Gimme a Knife
13 I Can't Dream
14 Hippies Is Punks (iTunes Bonus)

Wavves:

03-12-16 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-17 Dallas, TX - Prophet Bar *
03-19 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *
03-20 Los Angeles, CA - Echo *
03-21 San Diego, CA - Casbah *
03-22 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
03-23 Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones *
03-27 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge *
03-28 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room *
03-29 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry *
03-30 Milwaukee, WI - Rave Bar *
04-01 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *
04-02 Columbus, OH - Basement *
04-03 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *
04-04 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick (Lounge) *
04-05 Toronto, Ontario - Horshoe *
04-06 Montreal, Quebec - Salla Rosa *
04-08 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *
04-09 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brendas *
04-11 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands *
04-12 Brooklyn, NY - Shea Stadium *
04-13 Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel *
04-15 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
04-16 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge *
04-18 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's *
04-20 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom *
04-21 Los Angeles, CA - The Smell *

* with FIDLAR and Cheatahs

Watch the video for "Sail to the Sun":

David Byrne and St. Vincent, fresh off an Australian tour for Love This Giant, made an appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" last night. They performed "I Should Watch TV". (In a newsletter, Byrne wrote, "The meaning and significance of doing that song on TV is making my head go funny.")

For indie rock bands, the stigma that once came along with licensing music to commercials has faded a bit over the years. However, most commercials don't actually star the band members themselves.

The Flaming Lips have partnered with Hyundai for a 60-second commercial that will air during the Super Bowl on February 3. They have written the new song "Sun Blows Up Today" for the ad. They also appear in the commercial, which has now surfaced, and is available to check out below, via Billboard. (The embed isn't working at the moment, but you can watch it on Billboard's site.)

The spot sees the band pop up in a family's kitchen, around breakfast, before jamming on their roof (as depicted above) and embarking on an "Epic Playdate", as the commercial has been pegged. The adventure involves skateboarding and several chase scenes with cops, bikers, and animals. Wayne Coyne's famous space bubble even makes an appearance.

"Sun Blows Up Today" will be included as a bonus track with the iTunes release of Flaming Lips' upcoming record The Terror, out April 2 in the U.S. and April 1 in the UK via through Bella Union and Warner Bros.

Here's the Hyundai-funded lyric video for "Sun Blows Up Today":

Watch an episode of Pitchfork.tv's animated series "Frames" with Wayne Coyne:

Photo by Will Deitz

The new issue of Rolling Stone features an interview with MGMT, who are readying the follow-up to 2010's bizarre gear-shift Congratulations. Rolling Stone says that the album is tentatively scheduled for release in June, following nearly a year of work at producer Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios in upstate New York.

Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden recorded the whole thing themselves, rather than using a full band, as they did on Congratulations. They told RS that the new songs are influenced by Aphex Twin and house music.

Songs have titles like "Mystery Disease" and "Alien Days", and  there's also a cover of "Introspection" by the 60s garage band Faine Jade. Ben Goldwasser says the band are "not trying to make music that everyone understands the first time they hear it... There's no illusion on [Columbia Records'] part that that we're going to turn into a Top 40 band." 

Watch the video for "Congratulations":

Animal Collective have collaborated with filmmaker Gaspar Noé (who directed Enter the Void and Irreversible) on their video for "Applesauce" from Centipede Hz. The video stars model Lindsey Wixson and features elements from Paul Sharits' 1968 short film “N:O:T:H:I:N:G”. It is intended to be viewed in complete darkness. 

Check out the band's tour dates with Dan Deacon below the video, and subscribe to Pitchfork.tv on YouTube here. 

Animal Collective:

03-07 Boston, MA - House of Blues *
03-08 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis *
03-09 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall *
03-11 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues *
03-12 Covington, KY - The Madison Theater *
03-13 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works *
03-15 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall *
03-16 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre *
03-17 Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre *
03-18 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
03-20 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant *
03-21 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater *
03-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre *
03-23 Salt Lake City, UT - Depot *
03-24 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest
05-23 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
05-25 London, England - Field Day Festival
06-07-09 New York, NY - Governors Ball Festival
07-02 Helsinki, Finland - The Circus
07-04 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-06 Gdynia, Poland - Heineken Open'er Festival

* with Dan Deacon

!!! will release their fifth long-player on April 30 in the U.S. and April 29 in the UK via Warp, and here's what it's called: THR!!!ER. Yes, THR!!!ER. In addition to having the best album title of 2013 (other than The Chronicles of Marnia), one of the songs on it is called "Californiyeah". Awesome. 

Guitarist Mario Andreoni spelled out the ambitious meaning of the album title in the LP's press release:

Over the course of many long van rides and post-coffee verbal riff sessions, Thriller didn't merely come to represent the selling of a lot of records...it became synonymous with an artist(s)' and/or genre(s)' artistic high-watermark. INXS' Kick is the Australian Thriller...Alanis' Jagged Little Pill is the Canadian Thriller...Wham!'s Make It Big is the blow-dryer's Thriller...every recording by the 13th Floor Elevators is the dosed-man's Thriller..."Sister Ray" by the Velvet Underground is the Thriller of musical fever dreams. One day at the studio, Nic [Offer, vocalist] drew THR!!!ER on a napkin and I liked it...then we made our THR!!!ER.

The follow-up to 2011's Strange Weather, Isn't It? was partially recorded with Spoon's Jim Eno.

THR!!!ER:

01 Even When the Water's Cold
02 Get That Rhythm Right
03 One Girl/One Boy
04 Fine Fine Fine
05 Slyd
06 Californiyeah
07 Except Death
08 Careful
09 Station (Meet Me at The)

Watch a trailer for the album:

Watch the band on Pitchfork.tv's "+1":