Sufjan Stevens Teams With Son Lux and Rapper Serengeti as s / s / s, EP Due...
Sufjan Stevens has teamed up with two Anticon artists, Son Lux and the rapper Serengeti for a new project called s / s / s. They'll release the four track Beak & Claw EP on March 20 via Anticon.
View ArticleDestroyer Announces Tour
Photo by Eirik Lande Destroyer's Dan Bejar will soon hit the road once again in support of his extra-wonderful 2011 LP Kaputt, kicking off the schedule with two Coachella shows and then routing through...
View ArticleShabazz Palaces, the Field, Boredoms, Gang Gang Dance, Kode9 on Battles Remix...
Battles: "Africastle" (Kode9 remix): Battles will collect remixes of every track from the 2011 LP Gloss Drop on a compilation appropriately titled Dross Glop, out April 17 via Warp. The CD and digital...
View ArticleListen: Damon Albarn, Flea, and Tony Allen's Band Rocket Juice and the Moon...
Rocket Juice and the Moon: "Hey Shooter" [ft. Erykah Badu]: Stream of "Hey Shooter [ft. Erykah Badu]" unavailable on this device. Rocket Juice and the Moon, the supergroup of Damon Albarn, Red Hot...
View ArticleListen: Washed Out, Saint Etienne, Twin Shadow, Violens Remix the Pains of...
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart will celebrate Record Store Day by releasing the Acid Reflex remix EP. The record collects versions of tracks from their slick 2011 album Belong. It features remixes...
View ArticleWatch Radiohead Play Two New Songs
Radiohead kicked off their tour last night in Miami, where they performed two new songs, "Cut a Hole" and "Identikit". At East Web has video of both songs, as well as the full set list. According to At...
View ArticleErykah Badu Banned From Performing in Malaysia
Erykah Badu, no stranger to bare skin-related controversy, has pissed off Malaysian authorities with a publicity photo. The Associated Press (via Entertainment Weekly) reports that after seeing this...
View ArticleBroken Social Scene's Brendan Canning Readies New Album With His Old Band...
Cookie Duster: "Two Feet Stand Up" Stream of "Two Feet Stand Up" unavailable on this device. Back before Brendan Canning was Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning, he was part of a number of other...
View ArticleRetribution Gospel Choir Give Away New EP
Low's Alan Sparhawk's other band Retribution Gospel Choir have a new EP, The Revolution, to follow their 2010 album 2, out on March 27 via Sub Pop. Download the entire thing below. They've also...
View ArticleSquarepusher Announces New Album
It looks like Tom Jenkinson-- aka Squarepusher-- is cultivating his bass-and-robots aesthetic more seriously than ever. He's announced a new album called Ufabulum, out May 15 in North America and May...
View ArticleSleigh Bells Announce Spring Tour
Photo by Julie Matheney Sleigh Bells have added a ton of North American spring dates in the weeks leading up to their gigs with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Spin reports. They'll route through the U.S. and...
View ArticlePitchfork Festival Announces Dates, Initial Lineup
It's the end of February-- time to get psyched for summer! The Pitchfork Music Festival will return to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. And we're proud to announce the lineup for this year's festival.
View ArticleXiu Xiu Tour With Dirty Beaches, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Release Split...
Xiu Xiu and Dirty Beaches have announced a limited edition split 7" release for Record Store Day. It features Xiu Xiu's cover of Erasure's 1994 new wave ballad "Always", backed by Dirty Beaches' take...
View ArticleCheck Out the Cover Art for Santigold's New Album
Santigold has offered a look at the cover of her forthcoming album, Master of My Make-Believe (out May 1 on Downtown/Atlantic) via The New York Times' T Style blog. The cover, shot by photographer...
View ArticleDie Kreuzen Reunite
Seminal 1980s hardcore punk act Die Kreuzen are getting back together for a one-off show in their hometown of Milwaukee this May, as Brooklyn Vegan points out. Bassist Keith Brammer writes on his...
View ArticleVideo: Schoolboy Q: "Druggys Wit Hoes Again"
Here's the new video for Black Hippy members Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul's "Druggys Wit Hoes Again", from Schoolboy's excellent new album Habits and Contradictions. Directed by Jerome D. Hurd, it's every...
View ArticleAzealia Banks Working With M.I.A.
Following yesterday's report that the debut full-length from Azealia Banks is called Broke With Expensive Taste and will be out via Universal in September (according to Nylon), Banks noted on Twitter...
View ArticleLate Women Guitarist Christopher Reimer Memorialized With Music, Website,...
Representatives from Jagjaguwar report that the death of Women guitarist Christopher Reimer last week resulted from complications due to a heart condition. He passed away in his sleep on February 21 at...
View ArticleWatch the Video For the Gorillaz/James Murphy/André 3000 Converse Collaboration
The team of Damon Albarn, James Murphy and André 3000 now have a visual to go along with "DoYaThing", their freewheeling collaboration for Converse. Albarn's Gorillaz partner Jamie Hewlett directed the...
View ArticleWatch a New Episode of Pitchfork.tv's "60 Seconds Left", Starring HEALTH
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "60 Seconds Left", which offers artists the opportunity to express themselves creatively in one minute's time. Here, we spend a moment with...
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