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Watch Jack White Perform on German TV
Last night, Jack White performed on the German TV show "Die Harald Schmidt Show", as Consequence of Sound points out. He played "Sixteen Saltines" with his all-female band and "Freedom at 21" with his...
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DJ Jonathan Toubin Returns After Freak Accident
Photo by Brian "B-Dub" Williams The much-loved New York soul DJ Jonathan Toubin has spent the past four-and-a-half months recovering from a freak car accident, in which a taxi crashed into his hotel...
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Video: Liars: "No. 1 Against the Rush"
Here's the video for Liars' "No. 1 Against the Rush", the first single from the band's forthcoming LP, WIXIW (which is out June 5 on Mute). The clip was directed by Todd Cole and features a murderous...
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Anonymous Hacker Group to Launch Music Platform
The Anonymous "hacktivist" group has begun work on a social music platform called Anontune, as Wired reports. The service will allow users to create streamlined playlists that draw from third-party...
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Listen: Dirty Projectors' Record Store Day Release
Photo by Jason Frank Rothenberg Just a few minutes ago, Dirty Projectors main man Dave Longstreth took to Twitter to post this YouTube of a turntable playing the band's contribution to Domino and...
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Conor Oberst to Open a Bar in Omaha
One of emo's most unabashed drinkers, Conor Oberst, will open a cocktail lounge in his native Omaha, Nebraska, as the Omaha World-Herald reports. The bar will be called Pageturners Lounge, after the...
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Composer Pauline Oliveros Gets 12-Disc Box Set
Photo by Pieter Kers On May 22, Important Records will release a 12-disc retrospective box set celebrating the pioneering electronic composer Pauline Oliveros. Titled Reverberations: Tape &...
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Watch the Video for the Flaming Lips and Prefuse 73 Collaboration "Supermoon...
The animated video for the Flaming Lips and Prefuse 73's "The Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee", which appears on the Lips' collab-heavy Record Store Day release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, is very...
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Preview Radiohead on "Austin City Limits"
Last month, Radiohead taped an appearance on the performance-based TV show "Austin City Limits". That episode's scheduled to air this fall on PBS, but for now the "ACL" folks are offering a preview of...
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POP ETC, Formerly Known as the Morning Benders, to Tour With Dirty Projectors...
Pop Etc: "Everything Is Gone" (via SoundCloud) POP ETC, the atmospheric indie pop group formerly known as the Morning Benders, will join Dirty Projectors' North American tour in August. (Purity Ring...
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Watch Bon Iver Cover the Band's "Ophelia"
Photo of Bon Iver at Coachella by Natalie Kardos Bon Iver performed at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco last night, and played a cover of the Band's Northern Lights -- Southern Cross...
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This Week on Pitchfork
Today, we bring you the latest episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Pitchfork Weekly". This week's installment features Best Coast shopping for "dad rock" and the director Tony Lowe, who offers commentary on his...
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Das Racist, Dan Deacon, Tom Morello, Immortal Technique to Play Occupy Wall...
Photo by Lee Ranaldo Occupy Wall Street movements throughout the world will participate in a General Strike on May 1 in honor of International Workers' Day (a.k.a. May Day). Das Racist, Dan Deacon,...
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Coachella Weekend Two Friday Photos: Pulp, M83, Refused, Girls, Neon Indian,...
Photos by Lindsey Best; above: Girls by Lindsey Best The second weekend of Coachella kicked off yesterday with performances by Pulp, M83, Refused, Girls, Neon Indian, Explosions in the Sky, Arctic...
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Listen: Mastodon Cover the Flaming Lips
For Record Store Day (today!), Mastodon released two covers: one of Feist's "A Commotion" and one of the Flaming Lips' "A Spoonful Weighs a Ton". Now, their take of the Soft Bulletin cut is available...
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Listen to the Flaming Lips' Record Store Day Collaborations
For Record Store Day yesterday, the Flaming Lips released the all-collaboration album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. A few tracks have already been made available, like their collaboration with Bon...
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Listen: Beach House: "Equal Mind"
Photo by Liz Flyntz For Record Store Day, Beach House released their latest single "Lazuli", which was paired with a new song, "Equal Mind", on the B-side. The track has surfaced online-- listen to it...
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Listen: St. Vincent: "Krokodil" / "Grot"
Yesterday, for Record Store Day, St. Vincent released a 7" featuring two brand new songs: "Krokodil" (which she performed at Coachella) and "Grot". Both songs have now surfaced online, and they're...
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Listen: Sigur Rós: "Kvistur"
Yesterday's Record Store Day release of Sigur Rós' "Ekki Múkk" featured an unheard, non-Valtari song called "Kvistur" on the B-side. The atmospheric song has just surfaced online. Listen to it here.
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Listen: Animal Collective: Transverse Temporal Gyrus
Yesterday, Animal Collective released the Transverse Temporal Gyrus LP for Record Store Day. The album is made up of collaged material from their March 2010 performances at New York's Guggenheim...
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