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New Release: School of Seven Bells: GHOSTORY
Artist: School of Seven BellsAlbum: GHOSTORYRelease Date: February 28Label: Vagrant
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Memphis Industries Celebrates 13th Birthday With Performances by Field Music,...
UK-based indie label Memphis Industries, home to artists including Tokyo Police Club, Field Music, and the Go! Team, celebrates its 13th birthday this year. Instead of a Bar (or Bat) Mitzvah, the label...
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Gruff Rhys Announces Alternative Christmas EP
Gruff Rhys: "Slashed Wrists This Christmas": Here's a nice antidote to the She & Him Christmas album for the Scrooges among us. Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys is putting out an...
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Air to Release Album Inspired by Silent French Film From 1902
French dream-pop outfit Air are set to release an album on February 7 through Astralwerks, their first since 2009's Love 2. Titled Le Voyage Dans La Lune after Georges Méliès' 1902 silent short French...
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Daptone Records Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Six Shows, New Releases
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, soul-revival label Daptone Records is putting on six shows in New York City this December. The label is also rolling out a handful of special releases including a...
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Lollapalooza Announces Initial Lineup for Brazil and Chile
The initial lineups for Lollapalooza's Santiago, Chile and Sao Pãulo, Brazil incarnations have been announced. Both South American Lollas will feature MGMT, TV on the Radio, Band of Horses, Peaches,...
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Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Made an EP Together, and It's Here
Madlib and Freddie Gibbs: "Thuggin": Freddie Gibbs is a man who does not putz around with release dates. HipHopDX reports that during a show in San Francisco on Friday, producer Madlib brought out...
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Gallagher Brothers Resume Legal Disputes Surrounding Oasis Breakup
The Gallagher brothers have resumed the legal disputes surrounding the 2009 breakup of Oasis, according to new court reports printed in the Daily Mirror (via NME). According to the documents, Noel has...
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Leonard Cohen Reveals Album Details
Leonard Cohen: "Show Me the Place": Leonard Cohen's new album Old Ideas will be released January 31 on Columbia. His first studio album since 2004's Dear Heather, it is "arguably the most overtly...
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Watch M83 on "Jimmy Fallon"
Supporting their recent BNM'd album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, M83 hit "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last night, performing the BNT'd lead single "Midnight City", complete with an appropriately epic...
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Watch Tyler, the Creator as a Cartoon Character on "Regular Show"
Behold, one of the very rare instances you're not going to hear Tyler, the Creator cursing constantly. The rapper did a voiceover for a character based on himself for last night's episode of Cartoon...
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Watch: The Roots Play "Lyin' Ass Bitch" for Michele Bachmann on "Fallon"
It looks like GOP presidential candidate/Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann isn't all that familiar with the work of Fishbone. Spin points out that last night when she appeared on "Late Night...
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Sonic Youth, tUnE-yArDs, Fugazi, Lou Reed, Talib Kweli Join Occupy Musicians
Photos by Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley, Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Fugazi's Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, and Talib Kweli are...
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Biopic About Joe Strummer From the Clash to Be Directed by Julie Delpy
Variety reports that actress/director Julie Delpy (Before Sunrise, 2 Days in Paris) is set to direct a biopic based on the life of the Clash's Joe Strummer. The film is titled The Right Profile, after...
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Gucci Mane and Kreayshawn Sidekick V-Nasty Announce Joint Album
UPDATE: This collaboration is the first piece of a partnership between Vice Music and Warner Bros. The partnership will include three years of collaboration on music distribution, marketing, touring...
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Video: Charli XCX: "Nuclear Seasons"
Here's the video for "Nuclear Seasons", the latest single from UK electro-pop songstress Charli XCX. It features wolves, sunrises, VHS-warped effects, and more pointy shapes than a witch house...
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R.I.P. Disco Singer Andrea True
According to the Hudson Valley newspaper the Daily Freeman (via Spinner), disco artist Andrea True died November 7 at a hospital in Kingston, New York. She was 68. The cause of death is unknown.
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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Announce "Portlandia" Tour
The second season of "Portlandia" launches on Friday, January 6 on IFC. To support the show, co-stars Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen are hitting the road. Beginning in Portland, Oregon (duh) on...
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Animal Collective Post Video From Last Year's Guggenheim Installation
Animal Collective has posted a six-minute video documenting last year's three-hour performance piece, "Transverse Temporal Gyrus", a collaboration with visual artist Danny Perez for New York's Guggheim...
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Echo Chamber: Big Boi on Kate Bush
"Knowing her music and being a fan, it's very, very deep Kate Bush for me. It's concentrated. It's raw emotion. It's almost like a scene from her diary – she seems to be in love like a motherfucker....
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