Giant Henry: "Super Nova" on SoundCloud.

This fall, obscurities and reissues label the Numero Group will reissue the complete recordings of the Washington State post-hardcore act Unwound. Their seven albums (1992's Unwound, 1993's Fake Train, 1994's New Plastic Ideas, 1995's The Future of What, 1996's Repetition, 1998's Challenge for a Civilized Society, and 2001's Leaves Turn Inside You) will all be given the full Numero treatment-- expanded, remastered, and annotated.

In advance of the reissue campaign, on Record Store Day (April 20), Numero will put out a previously unreleased LP by Giant Henry, Justin Trosper and Vern Rumsey's high school band that eventually became Unwound.

The Giant Henry album Big Baby was recorded in then-drummer Brandt Sandeno's parents' basement in 1991. The Numero Group Record Store Day version is a limited edition LP that will be hand-screened with three cover variants, including the one above. Check out album opener "Super Nova" above.

Here's what guitarist/vocalist Trosper writes about that period in the LP's liner notes:

Tumwater High has always been known as a 'redneck' school. People took football and AC/DC equally seriously. The smoking area was rich in facial hair. We were into punk rock but we weren't really 'punk.' We thought punk was funny. After all, this was the late-'80s. Post-punk was a memory, and everything was totally damaged and weird. We were kind of more with the times than the catalog-punks with mohawks and bondage pants.

In December, Unwound released Live Leaves, a live album recorded during the band's final tour in 2001. Read a comprehensive oral history about that tour in the latest issue of Maura Magazine.

Big Baby: 

01 Super Nova
02 Gas Cap
03 Listenator
04 Stopt
05 No Duh
06 Huckleberries
07 Beautiful Name
08 Thumb Question
09 Linoleum
10 Refrigeration Scheme
11 Fathom It Again
12 Chris Jordan

Colin Stetson: "High Above a Grey Green Sea" on SoundCloud.

Saxophone savant Colin Stetson is about to unleash the final installment in his New History Warfare series. New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light is out April 30 via Constellation, and four tracks on the album feature vocals from Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. (Stetson has been a member of Bon Iver for the past couple of years.) Check out the album track "High Above a Grey Green Sea", which does not feature Vernon, above.

The LP was recorded live in single takes, with Vernon's vocals being the only sounds overdubbed. It was mixed by Ben Frost, the Australian composer who has worked with Nico Muhly and Tim Hecker, and worked with Stetson on Judges. The title track, "To See More Light", is 15 minutes long-- the longest piece Stetson has recorded to date.

A press release describes the track "Brute" as a "hardcore blast" that features "Vernon's Cookie Monster barking." He also appears on the opening track "And in Truth", the track "Who the Waves Are Roaring For", and on a cover of gospel singer Washington Phillips' "What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?"

Below the tracklist, check out Stetson's upcoming tour dates.

New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light:

01 And in Truth
02 Hunted
03 High Above a Grey Green Sea
04 In Mirrors 
05 Brute 
06 Among the Sef
07 Who the Waves Are Roaring For
08 To See More Light
09 What Are They Doing in Heaven Today
10 This Bed of Shattered Bone
11 Part of Me Apart From You

Colin Stetson:

03-01 Copenhagen, Denmark - Jazz House Copenhagen
03-02 Hasselt, Belgium - Cultuurcentrum Hasselt
03-03 Vendome, France - Chapelle St.-Jacques
03-05 Metz, France - Caveau des Trinitaires
03-06 Kortrijk, Belgium - De Kreun
03-07 Paris, France - TBA
03-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Muziekgebouw aan´t IJ main hall
03-09 Stavanger, Norway - Tou Scene/Maskinhallen
03-10 Bergen, Norway - TBA 
03-12 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - TBA
03-13 Marostica, Italy - Panic Jazz Club
03-14 Venezia, Italy - TBA
03-15 Reykjavik, Iceland - TBA 
04-05 Montreal, Quebec - Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
05-02 Quebec, Quebec - Le Cercle *
05-03 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rosa *
05-07 Burlington, VT - Burlington City Arts Center *
05-08 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge 
05-09 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts *
05-10 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live * 
05-11 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum *
05-14 Cincinnati, OH - Contemporary Arts Center *
05-16 Chicago, IL - Schubas %
05-17 Ann Arbor, MI - The Blind Pig %
05-19 Toronto, Ontario - The Great Hall
06-29 Honolulu, HI - Honolulu Museum of Art 

* with Sarah Neufeld 
% with Justin Walter

Next week, electronic outfit Darkstar will release their new album News From Nowhere via Warp. It's the follow-up to 2010's North. Today, we're streaming the record in full via Pitchfork Advance, our new immersive music streaming platform designed to emulate the classic album experience. Listen to the record here.

Also at Pitchfork Advance, stream No Thrills, the debut album from Amateur Best (formerly known as Primary 1), out next week on Double Denim (a label run by former Pitchfork contributor Hari Ashurst).

Country Sleep, the debut album from Nashville's Winston Yellen, aka Night Beds, is also streaming at Pitchfork Advance. It's out next week on Dead Oceans.

Veronica Falls' new album Waiting for Something to Happen, out February 12 on Slumberland/Bella Union, is also available to stream.

Also, the debut album from Guards, In Guards We Trust, is streaming on Pitchfork Advance. It's out next week on Black Bell, the label run by former Passion Pit keyboardist Ayad Al Adhamy. Guards is fronted by Richie Follin, brother of Cults' Madeline Follin and formerly a member of Willowz.

Guards, Amateur Best, and Night Beds will be available until February 4, while Darkstar and Veronica Falls will be available until February 5.

Pitchfork Advance showcases an interactive listening environment featuring pre-release albums streams with dynamic graphics and a host of tools that allows fans to engage with album art, lyrics, credits, track listings, artist info, and more while they listen.

M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel have teamed up once again for a new She & Him album. The creatively titled Volume 3  follows in the footsteps of Volume One and Volume Two. (They also released the 2011 Christmas adventure A Very She & Him Christmas. It's out on May 7 through Merge (May 13 through Double Six in the UK and Europe). They'll follow the album's release with a North American summer tour supported by Camera Obscura and Emmylou Harris with Rodney Crowell.

The record consists of 11 originals and three covers , and features contributions from Mike Watt, Tilly and the Wall, Rilo Kiley's Pierre de Reeder, Devotchka's Tom Hagerman, and NRBQ's Joey Spampinato.

After the tracklist and tourdates, watch the video for "In the Sun". 

Volume 3:

01 I've Got Your Number, Son
02 Never Wanted Your Love
03 Baby (written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and George Morton)
04 I Could've Been Your Girl
05 Turn to White
06 Somebody Sweet to Talk To
07 Something's Haunting You
08 Together
09 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (written by Ray Noble)
10 Snow Queen
11 Sunday Girl (Blondie cover)
12 London
13 Shadow of Love
14. Reprise (I Could've Been Your Girl)

She & Him:

06-13 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
06-15 Grand Prairie, TX - Verizon Theater at Grand Prairie
06-16 Austin, TX - ACL Live at the Moody Theatre
06-18 Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theater
06-19 Las Vegas, NV - The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
06-21 San Diego, CA - SDSU Open Air Theatre
06-22 Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre *
06-23 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl *
06-25 Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Gardens
06-27 Council Bluffs, IA - Hurrah's Stir Cove
06-29 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom #
07-01 Ann Arbor, MI - Hill Auditorium #
07-03 Montreal, Quebec - Montreal Jazz Festival – Symphony Hall #
07-04 Toronto, Ontario - Toronto Urban Roots Festival #
07-06 New York, NY - Central Park Summerstage #
07-09 Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for Performing Arts #
07-10 Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion #
07-11 Vienna, VA - Filene Center at Wolf Trap #

* with Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
# with Camera Obscura

"In Real Life", a track from the Ruby Suns' Christopher, is about escapism. The video, directed by Simon Ward, features frontman Ryan McPhun inside of a surreal virtual reality world, participating in a game show called "Are You Good At Something?".

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This Friday, February 1, Pitchfork.tv on YouTube will webcast a "Safe For Work" session from Mac DeMarco, live from Pitchfork.tv's office in Brooklyn. Tune in at 2:30pm Eastern Time to watch

Check out a teaser for the webcast below:

Photo by Dusdin Condren

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck and his band have announced a spring tour of North America and Europe in support of the upcoming Muchacho LP, out March 19 via Dead Oceans (and one day prior in the UK). The tour will begin at SXSW.

Muchacho follows 2010's great Here's to Taking It Easy, and last month the band shared the album's first cut, "Song for Zula". Check it out after the dates.

01-30 London, England - St. Pancras Old Church
03-12-17 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-25 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
03-26 Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel 
03-27 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
03-28 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop
03-30 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
04-01 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
04-03 San Diego, CA - Casbah
04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
04-06 San Francisco, CA - The Independent 
04-08 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
04-09 Seattle, WA - Neumos
04-12 Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club
04-13 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
04-15 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
04-16 Montreal, Quebec - Petit Campus
04-17 Boston, MA-  Brighton Music Hall
04-18 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
05-05 Kilkenny, Ireland - Set Theatre (Kilkenny Roots Festival)
05-07 Manchester, England - Ruby Lounge
05-09 Brussels, Belgium - Rotonde (Les Nuits du Botanique)
05-10 Amsterdam, Holland - Bitterzoet
05-11 Berlin, Germany - Kantine am Berghain
05-12 Cologne, Germany -  Blue Shell
05-14 Paris, France -  Espace B
05-15 London, England -  Village Underground

Watch Phosphorescent on Pitchfork.tv's "60 Seconds Left":

My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James is releasing his debut solo full-length, Regions of Light and Sound of God, on February 5 via ATO. Now, in addition to February dates in New York and Philadelphia, he's announced a North American tour for April and May.

At every show, $1 from each ticket sale will benefit City of Hope, a cancer research hospital and treatment center.

Also, James will be the musical guest on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on February 4, backed by the Roots. Then he'll return to the show on February 5 to sit in with the band for the whole episode.

After the dates, watch a visual for "Know Til Now" off the new record.

Jim James:

02-18 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
02-19 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
02-20 New York, NY - McKittrick Hotel
02-21 New York, NY - Carnegie Hall
04-17 Louisville, KY - Brown Theatre
04-19 Milwaukee, WI - The Pabst Theater
04-20 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
04-21 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
04-23 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
04-24 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre
04-26 Boston, MA - Royale
04-27 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
04-29 New York, NY - Webster Hall
04-30 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
05-02 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
05-03 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
05-06 Austin, TX - Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheatre
05-07 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
05-09 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
05-11 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre
05-12 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
05-14 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
05-15 Seattle, WA - Neptune

Photo by Dan Rawe

Former hardcore/noise artist Wesley Eisold has announced a new EP under his Cold Cave moniker. Oceans With No End will be out soon via Deathwish, the label run by Jacob Bannon of Converge (who themselves released the excellent All We Love We Leave Behind last year).

According to a press release, the EP comes in the form of two "morose" industrial tracks, the upbeat "Oceans With No End" b/w the angrier "People Are Poison". Eisold sings and plays all the instruments. The press release also features handwritten lyrics from Eisold (below).

As mentioned last fall, Cold Cave will have a new record out later this year, the followup to 2011's Cherish the Light Years. They'll also tour Asia this spring.

Watch Cold Cave do "Life Magazine" for Pitchfork.tv's "Tunnelvision":

Photo by Charlotte Zoller

Washed Out: "The Sound of Creation" on SoundCloud.

Washed Out's Ernest Greene has been fairly quiet since 2011's Within and Without. But as Consequence of Sound reports, he was commissioned by Philips to contribute a track to their Sound of Creation campaign. The result: "The Sound of Creation". Check it out above.

Watch the band on Pitchfork.tv's "60 Seconds Left":

Last summer, the late Capital STEEZ joined Joey Bada$$ on 1999's "Survival Tactics", where he offered this verse: "They say hard work pays off/ Well tell the Based God don’t quit his day job." Now, as Fader reports, Lil B has offered a belated response with "I'm the Bada$$". (The YouTube video title continues, "(joey bada$$ DISS AND WARNING SHOTS) REAL HIP HOP".)

The track's from his upcoming mixtape Pink Flame, and yes, that's the disturbing artwork for it above. Aside from the track's title, the only line specifically about Joey is this one: "If you really think you a badass/ I turn you into trash, you little bitch." In the video's description, he warns Joey not to be "THE NEXT JOE", referencing his feud with Joe Budden.

Joey already responded on Twitter, writing, "Truthfully basedgod, your not worth the time.. Im glad eye was tho.. Keep bangin… A lil offended that he didnt go harder than that."

Check out the track, followed by "Survival Tactics":

Here's Lil B's NYU lecture:

Variety reports that Amoeba Music, the California record store chain, has digitized thousands of rare and out-of-print records, and they're now selling them in the "Vinyl Vaults" section of their revamped website (via FACT). But since most of these records have fallen into obscurity, they're selling them now and figuring out the rights for each release later.

When a sale is made, Amoeba puts the money into an escrow account. Owner Jim Henderson told Variety that he's more than willing to work with whoever owns the rights to the music. "If (someone says), 'That's mine,' well, OK, we can either take it down or we'll sell it, and you've got this nice (digital) master. We'll sell it, we'll promote it; let's sign a contract."

Many of the records are given remastered upgrades, and Amoeba are adding around 10 or 15 new releases to the website every day. Each track is offered as either an .MP3 ($0.78), .M4A ($1.18), or .WAV ($1.58) file. Variety reports that the new website was estimated to cost the company $11 million and employed around 200 people. 

Here's how Henderson describes their offerings: "What you see now is the lost-between-the-cracks, underappreciated, undervalued (music) from dead labels, (obscure) artists, stuff that we really stand behind. It's mostly in the rock genre, with a lot of jazz, a lot of blues, some country, some spoken word. There are some oddities for sure."

While there are definitely familiar names in the vaults, like Louis Armstrong, there are way more obscure and unknown artists. Definitely spend some time browsing and listening to previews, because of course you want to hear what the Humphries Brothers' "St. Louis Tickle" sounds like.

Here's a video from Amoeba's long-running "What's In My Bag" series featuring Ty Segall:

The Strokes: "One Way Trigger" on SoundCloud.

The Strokes' new album is called Comedown Machine. That's the artwork, above. The album is scheduled for release on March 26 through RCA. The first official single is "All the Time", which will be released on February 19 in conjunction with the album's iTunes pre-order. The song we heard last week, "One Way Trigger", will also appear on the record.

The album is the band's follow up to 2011's Angles. Watch the video for that album's "Taken for a Fool":

There's quite a game of internet cat-and-mouse going on with the Strokes at the moment, as various bloggers and messageboard users claim to have unearthed details of their new record hidden in less-than-secure parts of the band's website. In terms of concrete information, however: Last week they released "One Way Trigger", for which a pretty great B movie-style lyrics poster has now appeared on Julian Casablancas' solo website, which you can view below. That's the artwork for the single above.

Yo La Tengo have shared the new video for Fade's "I'll Be Around", directed by Phil Morrison (who directed Junebug). It stars Superchunk/Merge head Mac McCaughan, and it features a bunch of text, including a pretty delicious-sounding recipe.

In other Yo La Tengo news, two early albums by James McNew's solo project Dump are getting the remastered reissue treatment. 1993's Superpowerless and 1995's I Can Hear Music-- will be available on CD, digital download and, for the first time ever, vinyl, on March 19 and April 16 respectively, via Morr Music. 

Watch Yo La Tengo perform "I'm on My Way", sung by McNew, from Popular Songs on Pitchfork.tv's "Don't Look Down":

Joey Bada$$: "Don't Quit Ya Day Job!" on SoundCloud.

Despite his claims that a Lil B feud was "not worth his time", Joey Bada$$ has responded to Lil B's "I'm the Bada$$" with a diss track of his own. He's posted a song named after the line that initially started the tiff, "Don't Quit Ya Day Job". "You pink flame-ass nigga/ Lame-ass nigga", he raps. (Azealia, is that you?) Have a listen above.

"It doesn't matter how irrelevant this shit is.. he came at me and I came right back.. nigga u hit my once i hit you twice... that shit was fun nonetheless", Joey wrote on Twitter last night. "Done with the topic tho.. thanks for the promo". 

Lil B has since kept the spat lighthearted, pointing to the silver lining: "THE TASK FORCE HAS THERE FIRST USA TREND!! LOVE THE TASK FORCE BITCH MOB! CONGRATS TASK FORCE!!", he wrote on Twitter. "SHOUTS OUT TO THE REAL NEW YORK REAL HIP HOW YOU NO WHERE ITS AT ! EAST SIDE I SEE YOU OKAYYY IMA TELL YOU BOUT MEEEEEE... NOBODY IN THE RAP GAME FUCKING WITH LIL B LYRICALLY THATS JUST THAT POINT BLANK... I LOVE EVERYONE - Lil B". Keep killing 'em with kindness. 

Watch Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era on Pitchfork.tv's "Selector":

Watch Lil B's NYU lecture:

Christopher Owens, formerly of Girls, has released many self-made YouTube tour diaries over the past several years. His latest, documenting his recent tour in support of his solo debut Lysandre, is a particularly interesting watch. 

It's soundtracked by Nina Simone's exceptionally sad, powerful cover of Janis Ian's "Stars", using footage from Owens' life on the road to interpret the song. There are typical tour diary things, like footage taken inside empty venues, on the bus, and backstage, and of his bandmates eating pizza. But there are also more personal moments, like Owens looking over his own review from The New York Times as Simone sings "You never can believe they really loved you," or when the camera pans an ecstatic audience from stage, as she sings, "But you'll never know the pain/ Of using a name you never owned."

After the video, watch a Pitchfork.tv interview with Owens about the new record.

Absolutely Free, a band featuring former members of Toronto art-punks DD/MM/YYYY, have shared the appropriately low-budget, sci-fi, rock'n'roll clip for their track "UFO". Watch the band perform in front of giant lizards, rock formations, and flying sparks.

"UFO" is on a new single released by One Big Silence, the label run by Fucked Up's Mike Haliechuk.

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Photo by Charlotte Zoller

Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet has a new 12" single out February 4, under the moniker KH and via his own Text Records. As FACT reports, it has an incredible title: "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About and That Joy Used in His RA Mix and Daphni Played on Boiler Room." Yes, that's the track's title.

Not exactly Fiona Apple's poetry, but just as lengthy and smart. As FACT notes, the title offers good commentary on how dance music is often consumed these days, via internet mixes and webcasts rather than out at actual clubs. It refers to Joy Orbison's Resident Advisor mix from this fall and a set that Daphni (aka Caribou's Dan Snaith) did at Boiler Room, also this fall.

Watch Four Tet in a documentary about the Manchester club series the Warehouse Project, via Pitchfork.tv:

Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "City of Music", the Minneapolis-based live music program produced by Dan Huiting. This episode features the electro-punk band the Faint, who perform the opening two tracks from their recently reissued 2001 album Danse Macabre: "Agenda Suicide" and "Glass Danse".

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