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Watch Divine Fits Perform a New Song at SXSW
The members of supergroup DivineFits (Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs' Dan Boeckner, Spoon's Britt Daniel, and New Bomb Turks' Sam Brown) are SXSW veterans by now, but this marks their first year playing the...
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Phoenix's New Album Bankrupt Will Feature 71 Bonus Tracks on Its Deluxe Edition
The new album from French rockers Phoenix, Bankrupt!, is out April 23 in the U.S. and April 22 in the UK via Loyaute/Glassnote. Today, they announced they'll be releasing an extensive deluxe edition of...
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Watch Justin Timberlake Perform "Let the Groove Get In" and Sing With Michael...
Justin Timberlake made his third appearance this week on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last night. Following his performances of The 20/20 Experience songs "Pusher Love Girl" and "Mirrors", he did...
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Watch Yeah Yeah Yeahs Perform New Songs at SXSW
Last night at SXSW, Yeah Yeah Yeahs appeared at NPR's Stubbs showcase, alongside Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Youth Lagoon, Waxahatchee, and Le1f, among others.YYYs performed several new songs from...
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Hear a Clip of Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar's Joint "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" Remix
Photo by Ebru YildizLongtime Jay-Z associate Young Guru DJ'd SXSW last night, and snuck a preview of a pretty exciting collaboration into his set: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar appear to have worked...
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Preview the Track TNGHT Produced for the New Lil Wayne Album, Featuring Nicki...
What 2013-era Lil Wayne lacks in judgment or music quality, he makes up for (sort of) in collaborative savvy. Turns out he's recruited production duo du jourTNGHT (Hudson Mohawke and Lunice) for his...
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SXSW: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Photos by Colin Kerrigan. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here. It's fun watching people trying to dance to Unknown Mortal Orchestra's "Ffunny Friends". On its face, it's a track that's just...
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SXSW: Wavves
Photo by Colin Kerrigan. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here."Can you ever get tired of moshing along to 'Idiot'?", we asked last year. It's 2013, Wavves are back at SXSW, and here's a firm...
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SXSW: Earl Sweatshirt (With Flying Lotus as Captain Murphy)
Photos by Colin Kerrigan. For all of our SXSW coverage, head here.The crowd watching Earl Sweatshirt waited to go nuts. While he rapped a series of new songs standing next to Flying Lotus, the audience...
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SXSW: Iggy and the Stooges
Photos by Colin Kerrigan. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here. By this point, of course a Stooges concert is formulaic: They break out some gems from their back catalog and Iggy flails around...
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Watch: Joanna Newsom Covers Sandy Denny's "The North Star Grassman and the...
Joanna Newsom's music-making engine is slowly revving back up. She's recorded a gorgeous cover of "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens", originally by British folk singer-songwriter Sandy...
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SXSW: Kathleen Hanna Doc The Punk Singer Reveals Truth Behind Hanna's Retreat...
For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.The Punk Singer is Kathleen Hanna's life story so far, but it's also a coming out journey of sorts. Directed by Sini Anderson, the film chronicles Hanna's...
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SXSW: Waxahatchee
Photo by Erez Avissar/Weird Magic; for all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.If Waxahatchee's new record, Cerulean Salt, has cast its spell on you, then it's perfectly reasonable to consider seeing...
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SXSW: White Lung
Photo by Erez Avissar/Weird Magic. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.The conditions of last night's White Lung show at the Enabler PR showcase at Holy Mountain were ideal by SXSW standards....
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SXSW: Nü Sensae
Photo by Erez Avissar/Weird Magic. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.Nü Sensae accomplished more in 15 minutes last night than some bands of similar raging noise-punk nature will manage all...
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Listen: The-Dream Raps, Gets Pissed Off on New Track "Tron"
The-Dream: "TRON" on SoundCloud. The-Dream: "Parental Advisory" on SoundCloud. Update: The-Dream has also shared "Parental Advisory", a 50-minute "retrospective mix" he made with Mick Boogie. It...
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SXSW: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Photos by Trent Maxwell. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.Karen O should never, ever be taken for granted. Ten years into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, she has reached national treasure status-- a...
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SXSW: Chvrches
Photo by Trent Maxwell. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.Up and coming Glasgow three-piece Chvrches have songs. Good ones. And quite a few. Several of the songs they played last night are...
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SXSW: Blue Hawaii
Photo by Trent Maxwell. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here."Is that Grimes?" asked a fellow concert-goer upon seeing Blue Hawaii frontwoman Raph Standell-Preston flail and wail in front of...
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SXSW: Eddi Front
Photo by Trent Maxwell. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.Behind the record-hiss atmospherics of singer-songwriter Eddi Front's recent self-titled EP, her songs take on an air of mystery....
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Lil Wayne Was Hospitalized for Seizures Again
TMZ reports that Lil Wayne was taken to a Cedars-Sinai hospital in L.A. on Tuesday night after apparently suffering "multiple seizures" following a music-video shoot. He was apparently released a few...
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SXSW: Eagulls
Photo by Erez Avissar/Weird Magic. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.The Leeds-based melodic punk band Eagulls are not the sort of group that seems to be comfortable inside the corporate...
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Echo Chamber: DIIV: "Fuck SXSW"
Photo by Erez Avissar"Hi Austin. Fuck SXSW. There… I said it.Here, the music comes last. 5 minute set-up, no sound check, 15 minute set. The 'music' element is all a front, it's the first thing to be...
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SXSW: Pitchfork's Show No Mercy With Skeletonwitch, Trash Talk, Pallbearer,...
Photos by Trent Maxwell. Above: Trash Talk. For all of our 2013 SXSW coverage, head here. There were blues skies and warm spring breezes for a packed house at Pitchfork's Show No Mercy Day Party at...
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Tyler, the Creator Expands Spring Tour, Adding Dates With Earl Sweatshirt
Photo by Erez AvissarOdd Future kingpin Tyler, the Creator, who's about to release his sophomore album, has added more dates to his international spring solo tour. He'll also be joined by Earl...
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