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Mogwai, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Yo La Tengo, Thee Oh Sees, Ladytron on Occupy...
Mogwai: "Earth Division" (via SoundCloud) The organization Music for Occupy will release a compilation of music inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement on May 15. (May 1 is the designated day of...
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Blur Announce Massive Retrospective Box Set
Blur have just announced Blur 21. It's a massive career-retrospective box set that collects all seven of the band's studio albums, four discs of rarities, three DVDs that feature unreleased footage, a...
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Jesus and Mary Chain, Death Grips, Danny Brown, Roots, Yo La Tengo, Julia...
Raleigh, North Carolina's Hopscotch Festival takes place September 6-8. The lineup features the Jesus and Mary Chain, Danny Brown, Death Grips, Liars, Yo La Tengo, the Roots, Built to Spill, Julia...
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Daniel Johnston Releases New LP
Last March at SXSW, Daniel Johnston unveiled his comic book Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness and its accompanying iPad video game. Now, the Space Ducks have a soundtrack....
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Watch Girls on "Conan"
Last night's episode of "Conan" featured a performance from Girls, who are fresh off the first weekend of Coachella. Christopher Owens and co. performed the soulful Father, Son, Holy Ghost cut "Love...
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Interpol's Paul Banks To Release New EP, Album
Photo by Helena Christensen Back in February, it was reported that Interpol frontman Paul Banks was readying another solo LP for later this year, following 2009's comparatively exuberant Julian Plenti...
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Leonard Cohen's Former Business Manager Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
Last week, Leonard Cohen's former business manager was found guilty by a Los Angeles court of harassing the 77-year old singer. Kelley Lynch had violated restraining orders, and deluged Cohen with a...
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Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio to Release Solo EP
Front page photo by Thom Kaine Baio: "Tanto" [ft. Matias Aguayo] (via SoundCloud) Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio will release a solo EP under his DJ name, simply Baio. It's called Sunburn and is...
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Das Racist's Kool A.D. Announces New Album
Kool A.D.: "Ticky Ticky" [ft. Main Attrakionz and Green Ova] At the beginning of the year, Das Racist member Victor Vazquez, aka Kool A.D., released his mixtape The Palm Wine Drinkard. It's April, and...
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Watch Bon Iver on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"
Today, Bon Iver appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". For a web bonus, they performed "Michicant" from last year's Bon Iver. Update: On the actual show, they performed "Towers".
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Rustie Announces Tour, Shares Essential Mix
Photo by Mads Perch Rustie: BBC Essential Mix (via SoundCloud) Since the release of his debut Warp album Glass Swords last fall, Scottish producer Rustie has become a figurehead for electronic music's...
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Watch the Drums Make Balloon Animals
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 minute with the...
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Beastie Boys' Mike D Curates Festival Featuring Santigold, James Murphy,...
The Beastie Boys were inducted into the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last weekend, but they aren't resting on their laurels. Mike D has been tapped to curate "Transmission LA: AV Club", a free 17-day...
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R.I.P. Levon Helm
The Hudson Valley newspaper the Times Herald Record (via Spinner) reports that Levon Helm, the drummer/vocalist for the Band, has died after a long battle with throat cancer. He was 71.
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Field Music to Release Covers Album
Field Music: "Terrapin" (Syd Barrett cover) Having shown off their takes on the Pet Shop Boys' "Rent" and "Heart" for a Record Store Day single, Sunderland's Field Music have announced that they...
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Watch/Listen: Sufjan Stevens Creates a New Song With Cat Martino, Man Man's...
This installment of Weathervane/WXPN's "Shaking Through" features singer-songwriter Cat Martino creating a new song called "I Promise". Martino enlisted Sufjan Stevens to play keyboards and drum...
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Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Condom
The headline speaks for itself: Drag City's website notes that, for this year's Record Store Day (this Saturday, April 21), participating stores will be selling Bonnie "Prince" Billy condoms that will...
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Listen: Feist and Mastodon Cover Each Other
Feist: "Black Tongue" (Mastodon cover) (via SoundCloud) Mastodon: "A Commotion" (Feist cover) (via SoundCloud) A couple weeks back, we showed you the awesome artwork for Feist and Mastodon's Record...
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The Top 45 Releases of Record Store Day 2012
Tomorrow is Record Store Day, the annual holiday celebrating independent record stores. In honor of the occasion, many artists and labels will have special releases available at indie stores around the...
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Watch Tyler, the Creator's "Punk'd" Episode in Full
Odd Future's Tyler, the Creator hosted last night's episode of the MTV prank show "Punk'd". The full episode is available to check out now, in which Tyler does a bunch of things you could probably...
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