Video: Cass McCombs: "Robin Egg Blue"
Domino has posted the new video for Cass McCombs' "Robin Egg Blue", from his second 2011 LP Humor Risk. Directed by Tres H. Zour, it's a collage-like clip of home video-style footage of all kinds of...
View ArticleLes Savy Fav's Tim Harrington Pens Children's Book
Photo by Natalie Kardos From the people who brought us If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: 25th Anniversary Edition comes the forthcoming children's book from Tim Harrington, frontman of Les Savy Fav and...
View ArticleListen to a Song by Jeff Tweedy's Son Spencer
Spencer Tweedy: Rushmore (via SoundCloud) Stream Spencer Tweedy, the teenage son of Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, most recently appeared on these pages for the video he created for his dad's band's...
View ArticleOf Montreal to Play The Sunlandic Twins in Full
Of Montreal fans are in for a treat at this year's SXSW. The band has announced they'll play their 2005 album The Sunlandic Twins in full at Under the Radar magazine's day party on Friday, March 16 at...
View ArticleLe Tigre Announce Retrospective Live EP
Le Tigre, the feminist electronic group comprised of Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson (now of MEN), have broken a long stretch of inactivity with the announcement of a brand new live EP....
View ArticleCaribou to Tour With Radiohead
A lot of people have announced tours with a lot of other people today! First Frank Ocean and Robyn link up with Coldplay, now it's been announced that Caribou will join Radiohead on their newly...
View ArticleMastodon Cover Flaming Lips for Record Store Day
It looks like Mastodon isn't only covering Feist for Record Store Day (April 21). Warner Bros. has also announced a baby pink (!) 7" of Mastodon covering the Flaming Lips. The A-side will feature the...
View ArticleVideo: Odd Future: "NY (Ned Flander)"
Here's the video for Tyler, the Creator and Hodgy Beats' "NY (Ned Flander)", the second single from the upcoming Odd Future collective album OF Tape Vol. 2 (out March 20 on Odd Future Records)....
View ArticleBest Coast Announce New Album
On May 15, Best Coast will follow up their excellent 2010 debut Crazy for You with a brand new full-length record, The Only Place, via Mexican Summer. The record, produced by Jon Brion, is "grown-up"...
View ArticleListen to "Museum Day", a New Song From s / s / s (Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux,...
s / s / s: "Museum Day" (via SoundCloud) Stream On March 20, Anticon will release Beak & Claw, the new EP from the trio of Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux and the rapper Serengeti. (The group is calling...
View ArticleWatch: Two More Live Radiohead Songs
Photo by Erez Avissar At a show last night in Dallas, Texas, Radiohead played two new songs, "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy" and "Skirting on the Surface", the latter of which Thom Yorke had previously...
View ArticleVideo: Björk: "Hollow"
Björk has released a video for "Hollow" from her 2011 multimedia release Biophilia, via NPR. The clip is a collaboration with the biomedical animator Drew Berry, and makes use of molecular DNA and...
View ArticleWatch a New Episode of "+1" With Lee Ranaldo
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "+1", which offers footage of performances along with interviews with the bands about the experience of playing live. This episode features...
View ArticleVideo: Bowerbirds: "Tuck the Darkness In"
Here's the video for "Tuck the Darkness In", from Bowerbirds' The Clearing, which is out today via Dead Oceans. The clip, directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, follows a young boy as he mournfully and...
View ArticleDiplo's Express Yourself EP Out in May
Express Yourself, the new EP Diplo began teasing back in December, is finally appearing on a release schedule. It'll be out in May on Mad Decent and features guest spots from Nicky Da B, Elephant Man...
View ArticleFestivals In Brief: 35 Denton, Savannah Stopover, Under the Snow,...
WHAT: 35 DentonWHEN: March 8-11WHERE: Denton, TXWHO: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Built to Spill, Atlas Sound, Bun B, Best Coast, the Mountain Goats, Dum Dum Girls, Thee Oh Sees, Julianna Barwick, Danny...
View ArticleNew Free Energy: "Electric Fever"
Free Energy: "Electric Fever" (via SoundCloud) Stream This year, retro-rock enthusiasts Free Energy will follow up 2010's debut LP Stuck on Nothing with a new album, Love Sign. The LP was produced by...
View ArticleBuy a Van Once Used by Kurt Cobain and Melvins
Today in Shopping Wish Lists: Brooklyn Vegan points to a listing on eBay for what claims to be the 1972 Dodge Sportsman Royal Van used by the Melvins on tour. Nicknamed the "Melvan", the vehicle is...
View ArticleListen to Lykke Li Sing on a Track With Swedish Band Deportees: "A New Name...
Photo by Pooneh Ghana Deportees: "A New Name to Go By" [ft. Lykke Li] (via SoundCloud) Stream Here's a nice little treat from Lykke Li. Earlier today, she Tweeted a link to an airy, steel-drummy song...
View ArticleWatch: Bradford Cox Shocks Audience in Minneapolis, Covers "My Sharona" for...
Deerhunter and Atlas Sound mastermind Bradford Cox has never been one to restrain his feelings. "I need punk rock," he told Pitchfork last year. "I am not an indie rock musician. I don't even know what...
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