Photo by Ebru Yildiz

Tame Impala will expand their tour in support of last year's Lonerism into the spring, playing dates across the U.S. through June. They'll also perform on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on February 18. The "Mind Mischief" single will be released on March 5 in the U.S., March 4 in the UK and Europe, and March 1 in Australia. It features remixes from the Field and Ducktails.

After the dates, watch Tame Impala do a special in-studio performance of "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" for Pitchfork.tv.

Tame Impala:

02-19 New York, NY - Terminal 5
02-20 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
02-21 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
02-22 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
02-23 Athens, GA - The Georgia Theater
02-25 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's
02-26 Austin, TX - Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater
02-27 Dallas, TX -  Granada Theater
02-28 Tulsa, OK - Cain’s Ballroom
03-02 Louisville, KY - Headliner’s Music Hall
03-03 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Ballroom
03-04 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
03-06 Chicago, IL - Vic Theater
03-07 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
03-08 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
03-09 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
03-11 Montreal, Quebec - Corona Theater
03-12 Boston, MA - House Of Blues
03-15 Guadalajara, Mexico - Estudia Caveret
03-15 Guadalajara, Mexico - Estudia Caveret
03-16 Mexico City, Mexico - Vive Latino Festival
04-14 Indio, CA - Coachella Festival
04-21 Indio, CA - Coachella Festival
04-27 Maitland, Australia - Groovin’ the Moo
04-28 Canberra, Australia - Groovin’ the Moo
05-04 Bendigo, Australia - Groovin’ the Moo
05-05 Townsville, Australia - Groovin’ the Moo
05-11 Bunbury, Australia - Groovin’ the Moo
05-23 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera 
05-25 The Gorge, WA - Sasquatch Festival 
05-26 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom 
05-27 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
05-29 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 
06-17 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle 
06-18 Richmond, VA - The National 
06-19 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory 
06-25 London, England - Hammersmith Apollo
06-26 Paris, France - Olympia Hall
07-03 Berlin, Germany - Astra
07-04 Gdynia, Poland - Open’er
07-11 Toulouse, France - Le Bikini
07-13 Madrid, Spain - La Riviera
07-14 Lisbon, Portugal - Optimus Alive

The folks behind the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona also host a festival in Porto, Portugal. The 2013 Optimus Primavera Sound Festival takes place May 30 - June 1 at Parque da Cidade.

The lineup includes My Bloody Valentine, Blur, Grizzly Bear, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Swans, Deerhunter, Fucked Up, James Blake, Dead Can Dance, Neko Case, Local Natives, Four Tet, Liars, the Breeders (playing Last Splash), Dan Deacon, Metz, Dinosaur Jr., Titus Andronicus, Wild Nothing, Fuck Buttons, Merchandise, Savages, Foxygen, Daughn Gibson, Shellac, Daniel Johnston, Nurse With Wound, the Sea and Cake, White Fence, Melody's Echo Chamber, Meat Puppets, Glass Candy, Explosions in the Sky, Julio Bashmore, Do Make Say Think, FIDLAR, Hot Snakes, Rodriguez, and more.

Pitchfork is also proud to announce that for the first time ever, we'll be curating a stage at the festival. (We've curated a stage at the Barcelona Primavera Sound festival for the past several years.) The lineup for that stage will be announced soon.

As previously reported, the lineup for Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival features My Bloody Valentine, Blur, Phoenix, the Postal Service, the Knife, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Fiona Apple, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala, and many more. It takes place May 22-26.

Back in November, AraabMuzik told Billboard that he's aiming to have a full-length followup to 2011's Electronic Dream out this year, featuring collaborations with Diplo and Skrillex. In the meantime, he's got a new mixtape, For Professional Use Only, out February 15. Here's the first tense, hard-hitting cut, "The Prince Is Coming".

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Bat for Lashes is continuing the promo cycle for her most recent album, 2012's excellent The Haunted Man. Tomorrow night, a session recorded for SiriusXMU will air at 9 p.m. EST. Below, watch Natasha Khan perform "Laura" during the session, with piano accompaniment. She also briefly discusses the things about songwriting that terrify her.

Khan also recently did a session for the New York station WFUV. Below, watch her perform The Haunted Man's opener, "Lilies", playing autoharp alongside her keyboardist with huge-sounding electronic accompaniment. Watch more video from that session here.

Revisit Laura Snapes' Bat for Lashes Cover Story here.

Check out Pitchfork.tv's interview with Khan about The Haunted Man, after the radio clips.

Photo by Arnaud Potier

Phoenix have announced a string of North American tour dates leading up to their appearance at Coachella. As mentioned, the band will release a new album in April, titled Bankrupt!

Check out the dates below and revisit the video for "1901":

Phoenix:

03-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - QE Theatre
03-29 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
03-30 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
04-02 Davis, CA - Freeborn Hall
04-08 Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater
04-09 Tucson, AZ - AVA Amphitheater
04-10 Las Vegas, NV - The Cosmopolitan Pool
04-13 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-20 Indio, CA - Coachella
05-04 New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz Fest
05-11 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Sweetlife Festival)
05-23 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-07 Nuremberg, Germany - Rock im Park 
06-08 Nürburgring, Germany - Rock am Ring
06-13 Hultsfred, Sweden - Hultsfred Festival
07-05 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-14 Lisbon, Portugal - Optimus Alive
08-24 Paris, France - Rock en Seine

Today, Pitchfork.tv presents a new video from Yours Truly. Watch as they spend some time in Nashville with Mikky Ekko, who performs his Clams Casino-produced track "Pull Me Down".

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Photo by Ebru Yildiz

TMZ got their hands on the incident report filed after the parking-spot scuffle between Chris Brown and Frank Ocean outside of an L.A. studio last week. According to Ocean's retelling in the report, Brown tried to shake Ocean's hand, Ocean turned him down, and Brown punched him in the face. At that point, two of Brown's buddies jumped in. 

At some point, according to Ocean, Brown threatened to shoot him by saying, "We can bust you too!" and one member of Brown's crew used the term "faggot". Ocean didn't receive medical care on-site, but was later taken to the hospital to treat cuts on his index finger and temple.

It's unlikely that charges will be pressed by Ocean, who is scheduled to perform at the Grammys on Sunday.  

Photo by Phil Sharp

Disclosure: "White Noise" [ft. AlunaGeorge] on SoundCloud.

Disclosure, the duo of brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, will hit the road this spring, leading up to the release of their full-length in June. They'll play across North America beginning next month, including stops at South by Southwest and Coachella. 

Above, listen to Disclosure's excellent new single with AlunaGeorge, "White Noise".

Disclosure:

02-08 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
03-01 Manchester, England - Gorilla  
03-02 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's  
03-04 Leeds, England - The Cockpit 
03-05 Nottingham, England - Stealth 
03-06 Bristol, England - The Exchange 
03-07 London, England - Heaven
03-08 London, England - Secret London Warehouse
03-12 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England - Digital
03-13-15 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-17 Miami, FL - ULTRA Music Festival
03-18 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair 
03-19 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
03-20 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
03-21 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
03-22 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall
03-23 Miami, FL - ULTRA Music Festival
03-26 Paris, France - Nouveau Casino
03-28 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Trouw
03-29 Berlin, Germany - Bi Nuu
03-30 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefahrlich
04-06 Warsaw, Poland - 1500 M2 Do Wynajecia
04-11 Toronto, Ontario - Hoxton
04-12 Detroit, MI - St Andrews Hall
04-14 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-16 Vancouver, British Columbia - Venue
04-17 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
04-18 Portland, OR - Branx
04-21 Indio, CA - Coachella
05-23-26 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
05-24-27 George, WA - Sasquatch! Festival
05-25 London, England - Field Day
07-03-07 Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
07-04-07 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
09-05-08 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival

Thomas Meluch, the singer-songwriter better known as Benoît Pioulard, has a new album called Hymnal out on March 4 through Kranky. He's shared the video for album cut "Margin", a black-and-white story of a businessman seemingly in the throes of an existential crisis. Watch it after the tracklist. Also below, check out Benoît Pioulard's upcoming tour dates.

Hymnal:

01 Mercy
02 Hawkeye
03 Reliquary
04 Homily
05 Excave
06 Gospel
07 Florid
08 Margin
09 Censer
10 Litiya
11 Knell
12 Foxtail

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Benoît Pioulard:

03-07 Seattle, WA  - Columbia City Theater 
03-10 Portland, OR - Holocene 
03-12 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern 
03-14 Los Angeles, CA - Human Resources 
03-15  Phoenix, AZ - Yucca Tap Room !
03-19 Austin, TX - Mohawk
03-20 Houston, TX - La Carafe 
03-21 New Orleans, LA - Circle Bar 
03-22 Atlanta, GA - The Earl 
03-23 Durham, NC - Casbah 
03-24 Washington, DC - Sixth & I Synagogue 
03-25 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Chapel 
03-28 Montreal, Quebec - Casa del Popolo
03-30 Dearborn, MI - Stormy Records
03-31 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick Lounge *

! with Wooden Indian
* with Foxes in Fiction

Last year, Perfume Genius released a powerful (and controversial) video for his Put Your Back N 2 It track "Hood". The clip, directed by Pitchfork.tv's Winston Case, starred the gay porn star Arpad Miklos and was listed as one of our Top Music Videos of 2012.

Today, The Huffington Post reports that Miklos was found dead February 3 at his New York apartment, of an apparent suicide. He was 45.

In an interview for "Gwissues", a program on the LGBT YouTube channel Gwist, the New York writer Randal Lynch confirmed his death and said a suicide note was found, as The Huffington Post points out. "There was a lot more to him than just that surface persona," Lynch said. "He was a very active person in the gay community." 

Speaking about the "Hood" video last year, Perfume Genius' Mike Hadreas said he wanted to show that even a hulking porn star can have feelings, too. "I don't like the idea that people would automatically think something is nasty," he said. "If I just got my boyfriend to be in there with me, people could just pass it off as cute because we're both boyish. I like the idea of not having things be so obvious."

A 16-second clip from the video, of Hadreas and Miklos embracing (both shirtless), was blocked from YouTube last year for "promoting mature sexual themes."

Below, watch the "Gwissues" interview about Miklos and revisit the video for "Hood".

Photo via Wayne Coyne's Instagram

It looks like the Flaming Lips might be celebrating the Stone Roses' reunion by covering that band's entire 1988 debut LP. The Future Heart points to a series of tweets from Wayne Coyne and his friends, who talk about covering three different songs from that record.

On Instagram (photo above), Coyne wrote, "Doin vocals for She bangs The Drum hopin to get Channy [Leaneagh] of Polica to sing on it too!!!!" According to the evidence, it looks like the album will also feature frequent Lips collaborators New Fumes and Stardeath.

It's unclear if it'll be a proper Flaming Lips album, as was the case with their take on Dark Side of the Moon, or if it's a record assisted by Coyne and the band, like New Fumes' recent version of King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King.

Read Larry Fitzmaurice's interview with Steven Drozd here. Here's video, via Future Heart, of New Fumes and HOTT MT working on "I Am the Resurrection", followed by the Stone Roses' video for "She Bangs the Drums":

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

Phoenix photo by Arnaud Potier; Mac DeMarco by Christina Hicks

Just yesterday, Phoenix announced a return to North America for a tour leading up to Coachella. Now, Mac DeMarco has been confirmed as the opener for a string of those dates in March and April-- an extension of his continued touring in support of last year's 2 and Rock and Roll Night Club EP.

After DeMarco's dates, revisit his wacky video for "Dreamin".

Mac DeMarco:

02-28 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs +
03-02 Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase #
03-03 Waltham, MA - Brandeis University #
03-04 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie #
03-05 Washington DC - DC 9 #
03-06 Durham, NC - The Pinhook #
03-07 Savannah, GA - Savannah Stopover #
03-08 Atlanta, GA- 529 #
03-10 Denton, TX - 35 Denton Festival#
03-11 McAllen TX - GALAX Z FAIR II Festival
03-12-16 Austin TX - SXSW
03-17 Norman, OK - Opolis #
03-18 Lawrence, TX - Replay Lounge #
03-19 Iowa City, IA - The Mill #
03-20 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon #
03-21 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle #
03-22 Toronto, Ontario - Canadian Music Festival 
03-23 Toronto, Ontario - Canadian Music Festival
03-24 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
03-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre *
03-29 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre *
03-30 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
04-02 Davis, CA - Freeborn Hall *
04-03 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
04-06 Santa Ana, CA - The Constellation Room
04-07 San Diego, CA - The Void
04-08 Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater *
04-09 Tuscon, AZ - AVA Amphitheatre *
04-10 Las Vegas, NV - The Pool - The Cosmopolitan *
04-13 Claremont, CA - Pomona College

+ Calvin Love
# with Naomi Punk, Calvin Love
* with Phoenix

Last night, "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" welcomed Local Natives, who performed "Heavy Feet" from their recent album, Hummingbird. Keep your eyes peeled for My Morning Jacket's Jim James, who enjoyed "Fallon" so much the other night that he joined the Roots as a guest in their house band during last night's episode (streaming in full after Local Natives' performance).

Be sure to check out our interview with Local Natives. Watch their "Fallon" performance below, followed by a Yours Truly and Pitchfork.tv live session where they peform "Airplanes", from their debut, Gorilla Manor.

In May of last year, Built to Spill confirmed that the then in-process followup to 2009's There Is No Enemy would be released in 2013 via Warner Bros. Now, the band has announced North American tour dates extending from February to May, including an appearance at the Sasquatch festival. No word about the new album yet, though.

The tour will feature a new lineup for Built to Spill. Drummer Steve Gere will replace Scott Plouf, while bassist Jason Albertini will replace Brett Nelson. A press release notes that "the shift in line up is completely amicable. Scott and Brett remain our dear friends and we wish them well on their future ventures."

After the dates, check out a performance of "Carry the Zero" from 2006.

02-06 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rickshaw Theatre
02-08 Pullman, WA - Bell Tower
02-09 Spokane, WA - Bing Crosby Theater
02-10 La Grande, OR - Big Green Barn
02-11 Boise, ID - Neurolux                                            
02-12 Boise, ID - The Crux
03-06 Ketchum, ID - Whiskey Jacques         
04-24 Arcata, CA - Humbrews                     
04-25 Sparks, NV - The Alley                      
04-26 Sacramento, CA - Harlow's                       
04-27 San Francisco, CA - Slim's                            
04-28 San Francisco, CA - Slim's                            
04-30 Santa Cruz, CA - Rio Theatre                 
05-01 Santa Barbara, CA - SoHo                           
05-02 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory          
05-03 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour                 
05-04 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour                 
05-05 San Diego, CA - The Casbah                  
05-06 San Diego, CA - The Casbah                  
05-07 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom 
05-08 Flagstaff, AZ - Orpheum Theatre           
05-09 Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad              
05-10 Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep     
05-11 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre                 
05-12 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge             
05-24 George, WA - Sasquatch Festival

Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner has a new pop project with Jon Ehrens (of Art Department and White Life) called Dungeonesse. They've announced their self-titled debut LP, which is out May 14 via Secretly Canadian. That's the art above; check out album opener "Shucks" below.

The band's previously released track "Drive You Crazy" also appears on the album; check it out below.

"Shucks":

Dungeonesse:

01 Shucks
02 Drive You Crazy
03 Show You
04 Private Party
05 Nightlight
06 This Could Be Home [ft. TT the Artist]
07 Wake Me Up
08 Cadillac [ft. DDm]
09 Anywhere You Are
10 Soon

"Drive You Crazy":

Photo by Erez Avissar

Ricky Hil: "Nomads" [ft. the Weeknd] on SoundCloud.

What do you do when you're the son of a corporate fashion mogul who made a career spinning gold from a prepster aesthetic? You tattoo your entire body, start rapping, and snag a record deal with Warner Bros. At least that's the path chosen by Tommy Hilfiger's son Ricky Hil (formerly known as Rich Hil).

Hil dropped his mixtape SYLDD yesterday via Noisey. It includes his buddy Abel Tesfaye on a song called "Nomads". It's effectively a Weeknd song with a few spaces for Hil to toss off  his own verse about girls and codeine. Listen to it above, via Noisey.

Houses' clip for their new single "The Beauty Surrounds" is, yes, surrounded by beauty. But while the central characters in the Dan Monick-directed video inhabit a gorgeous landscape, the story being told is a heartbreaker. 

"The Beauty Surrounds" is from Houses' new album A Quiet Darkness, out April 16 via Downtown.

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Last October, brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, aka Disclosure, performed what they said was their first U.S. show ever, at Glasslands in Brooklyn. Yours Truly was there, and they filmed a performance of new track "You Used to Hold Me".

The duo will soon hit the road for a big tour leading up to their full-length in June.

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Liars have shared the minimal, black-and-white video to accompany the title track off their 2012 record, WIXIW. The video, directed by Alex/2Tone, depicts a man's repeated failed attempts at landing a slam dunk. As 2Tone tells Entertainment Weekly, it's like the Greek myth of Sisyphus, in which a man is punished with unsuccessfully rolling a boulder up a hill for eternity, "as told by a young ballplayer lost in a haze of codeine and prescription weed." Watch it below, via Entertainment Weekly.

Liars guitarist Aaron Hemphill told Entertainment Weekly that, while recording WIXIW, "basketball was the only piece of the outside world we would indulge in." He elaborated on the psychological impact:

Watching the players in a finite contest, whose performance was validated with stats that showed they either played a good or bad game, provided some sense of relief and envy for us. With songwriting, there is no such way to determine if you did a good job. No rankings or points. No time limit telling you to stop... In the "WIXIW" video… we find the world of basketball may not be so clearly defined.

Check out an episode of "Pitchfork Weekly" in which Liars talk about recording WIXIW:

Some of the strongest groups to recently emerge from the underground punk world will be touring together this spring. Following a trip to Austin's Chaos in Tejas festival, Tampa's Merchandise and Olympia's Milk Music will trek through North America throughout June, along with the psychedelic noise band Destruction Unit from Tempe, Arizona. See the dates, below.

Destruction Unit, featuring former Reatards member Ryan Rousseau, have also shared a video via Pitchfork.tv for "Evil Man", the first cut off their upcoming Void LP, out February 19 on Jolly Dream. (Watch it after the dates.) The video features blown out VHS-style footage shot over two years around the world-- a Brooklyn rooftop, the Sonoran Desert, a Berlin cemetery. It also offers a tour of the Italian commune Abbey of Thelema, founded by the mystic/poet Aleister Crowley in 1920.

The clip is a production of Ascetic House, an Arizona collective affiliated with Destruction Unit and the bands Marshstepper and Body of Light, which releases music, writing, and film. This year they'll release art and literary zines from members of Merchandise, Destruction Unit, Pharmakon, and many more, as well as a split VHS tape from Merchandise and Marshstepper, and a VHS featuring Lower and Marshstepper live at the Copenhagen venue Mayhem.

Destruction Unit:

02-24 Tucson, AZ - District Tavern
02-25 Tempe, AZ - Yucca Tap Room
03-02 Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent #
03-08 Denton, TX - 35 Denton Festival
03-14 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-15 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-16 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-19 Tempe, AZ - Deadhorse Warehouse &
04-01 Tempe, AZ - Deadhorse Warehouse ^
05-30 Austin, TX - Chaos in Tejas *
05-31 Austin,TX - Chaos in Tejas *
06-01 Austin, TX - Chaos in Tejas *
06-02 Austin, TX - Chaos in Tejas *
06-04 Dallas, TX - Club Dada *
06-06 Louisville, KY - The Workhouse Ballroom *
06-07 Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups *
06-08 Pittsburgh, PA - The 6119 *
06-09 Boston, MA - TT the Bears *
06-10 Burlington, VT - The Monkey House *
06-11 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore *
06-17 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
06-18 Washington, DC - DC9 *
06-19 Richmond, VA - Strange Matter *
06-20 Charlotte, NC - The Milestone *
06-21 Atlanta, GA - 529 *
06-22 Gainesville, FL - The Atlantic *
06-23 Miami, FL at Churchill's *

# with Cult of Youth, Alberich 
& with Merchandise, Wet Hair, Rene Hell, Marshstepper, Body of Light
^ with Iceage, Milk Music 
* with Merchandise, Milk Music