Chemical Brothers Film Comes to CD/DVD
The previously reported Chemical Brothers live concert film Don't Think will be released March 27 on DVD/CD and Blu-Ray/CD formats, via Astralwerks and Ridley Scott's music video enterprise, Black Dog...
View ArticleSonic Youth's Kim Gordon Has a New Fashion Line
Photo by Kathryn Yu Kim Gordon returns to the world of women's apparel this month, with a new collection she's designed for the French brand Surface to Air, as the New York Times' T Style blog reports....
View ArticleHot Snakes Schedule West Coast Tour
Ex-Drive Like Jehu co-leaders Rick Froberg and John Reis will continue their Hot Snakes reunion with a West Coast tour in March and April.
View ArticleSleigh Bells Will Appear on "Saturday Night Live"
Sleigh Bells have been announced as the musical guests on the February 18 episode of "Saturday Night Live". They'll play "Comeback Kid" and the album track "End of the Line", both from the forthcoming...
View ArticleVideo: Cults: "You Know What I Mean"
Cults have posted a video for their finger-snappy 1960s ode "You Know What I Mean", from their self-titled debut from last year. The video sees a lovesick Madeline Follin taking care of guitarist Brian...
View ArticleEarl Sweatshirt Returns
As Odd Future fans and New Yorker readers both know, OF member Earl Sweatshirt has been M.I.A. since the group began attracting attention (it's presumed that he has been at a youth camp in Samoa). Back...
View ArticleGorillaz, James Murphy, and André 3000 Team Up
Gorillaz' partnership with Converse was unveiled in full today. Their contribution to the "Three Artists, One Song" series is called "DoYaThing" and features Damon Albarn collaborating with James...
View ArticleVideo: Lee Ranaldo: "Off the Wall"
Lee Ranaldo's new video for Between the Times & the Tides cut "Off the Wall" is a visual ode to New York. The clip, posted at Sonic Youth's Facebook page, mixes live footage from a performance at...
View ArticleLook Inside London's Fabric Club
The London club Fabric, renowned for its Friday and Saturday dubstep, house, and techno nights and its Fabriclive mix series, is now accessible throughout the world. Sort of.
View ArticleWatch James Mercer Play a New Shins Song, "It's Only Life"
Update: Looks like the video has been set to private, we'll re-embed if that changes. Port of Morrow, the new album from the Shins, is out on March 20 via Columbia and James Mercer's imprint Aural...
View Article"Portlandia" Is Getting a Book
"Portlandia", the IFC sketch-comedy show that's featured indie darlings ranging from St. Vincent to Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, is getting the book treatment. On November 20, Hachette imprint Grand...
View ArticleBest Coast Were a "Jeopardy!" Response
It's college week on "Jeopardy!", which means 15 students from Harvard, Columbia, M.I.T., and other schools around the U.S. are competing to win $100,000. As previously reported, "Fleet Foxes" were an...
View ArticleVideo: Jay-Z and Kanye West: "Niggas in Paris"
The video for Jay-Z and Kanye West's year-dominating 2011 anthem "Niggas in Paris" is here, and it's prefaced by the following disclaimers: "THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY EPILEPSY ACTION TO...
View ArticleListen to a Grinderman Remix Featuring the National's Matt Berninger
MP3: Grinderman: "Evil (Silver Alert Remix) [ft. Matt Berninger]" As previously reported, the disbanded Grinderman are gearing up to release a remix album, Grinderman 2 RMX, on Mute internationally on...
View ArticleListen to Tom Jones and Jack White Covering Howlin' Wolf
As reported, beloved Welsh singer Tom Jones teamed up with Jack White for an installment of the Third Man Records Blue Series, a collection produced by White at his Third Man studio in Nashville....
View ArticleKeith Fullerton Whitman Announces New Album
Experimental sound artist Keith Fullerton Whitman will release his new album Generators February 28 via Editions Mego.
View ArticletUnE-yArDs to Score Buster Keaton Films at San Francisco International Film...
Photo by Chad Wadsworth Merrill Garbus and tUnE-yArDs have announced a performance during the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival, on April 23 at the Castro Theater.
View ArticleWatch Bon Iver's Justin Vernon Play an Extended "Perth" With the Roots
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon was in New York a few weeks back, and the Roots asked him to stop by "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon". On the originally scheduled date, January 19, ?uestlove Tweeted about "a...
View ArticleStones Throw Will Release an Album From Geoff Barrow's Hip-Hop Project This...
Geoff Barrow of Portishead has a new hip-hop project, Quakers, as the Guardian (via Beats Per Minute) points out. Stones Throw will release their 41-track album this spring, samples from which are...
View ArticleChocolate Industries to Issue Electronic Soul Comp
This April, the Chocolate Industries label will release Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984, a compilation of underground, self-produced electronic soul music from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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