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Is This a New Mixtape From the Avalanches?
Is this new music from the Avalanches? Over the weekend, the mysterious Australian crew posted a cryptic link on their Twitter to a mix called "Sleepy Bedtime Mix for Young Ones", saying that it "may...
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Watch the War on Drugs on "Letterman"
Last night, the War on Drugs made another late night TV stop in support of Slave Ambient, appearing on the "Late Show With David Letterman". (They played "Fallon" earlier this year.) They performed...
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Watch: Julia Holter Collaborates With Jib Kidder
TinyMixTapes points to a new collaboration between L.A. sound collagist Julia Holter and loop-loving experimental artist Jib Kidder. Holter wrote the song, titled "My Baby", using material from Jib...
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The Weeknd Working With Wiz Khalifa, AraabMuzik
Photo by Natalie Kardos In a recent interview with HipHopWired (via FACT), Wiz Khalifa explained that his upcoming full-length O.N.I.F.C. will include a guest appearance from one very "trippy dude,"...
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The Bug Collaborates With Death Grips, Grouper, Gonjasufi, Hype Williams,...
The Bug: "Can't Take This No More" [ft. Daddy Freddy] [clip] (via SoundCloud) A few months ago, Kevin Martin, aka the Bug, teased an unexpected collaboration with Grouper's Liz Harris. Turns out that...
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Watch the Trailer for New Film Lawless, With Screenplay and Music by Nick Cave
Nick Cave is flexing his film muscles once again. He's written the screenplay and music for Lawless, the new film adaptation of Matt Bondurant's prohibition-era novel The Wettest County in the World....
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The Killers' Saxophonist Tommy Marth Commits Suicide
Las Vegas Weekly (via the Hollywood Reporter) reports the news that Thomas Marth, a saxophonist who recorded and toured with the Killers, was found dead in his Las Vegas home of an apparent suicide. He...
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Robin Pecknold to Score Existential LOLcats Film
Fleet Foxes' Facebook today points to the Kickstarter page for an in-the-work film project, The Internet - A Blog Cats WTF Universe, that frontman Robin Pecknold is set to score. The concept was...
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Listen to Clams Casino's BBC Radio 1 Mix
Photo by Loren Wohl Clams Casino appeared as today's guest on Benji B's BBC Radio 1 program, offering up a 25-minute mix called "The Evolution of Clams Casino". On his Facebook page, Clams writes that...
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Listen: Azealia Banks and Lana Del Rey Team Up
Azaelia Banks photo by Chris Tuite Lana Del Rey: "Blue Jeans" [Smims&Belle Extended Remix ft. Azealia Banks] (via SoundCloud) So Mark Foster and Isom Innis from Foster the People have a new DJ...
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Watch Jack White on "The Colbert Report"
Jack White stopped by to visit his buddy Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report" last night, performing Blunderbuss track "Freedom at 21", and slipping backstage for a goofy chat with Stephen.
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Grimes Launches Jewelry Line With "Pussy Rings"
Grimes has launched a jewelry line in collaboration with the Montreal-based jeweler and sculptor Morgan Black. Their first creation: "Grimes Pussy Rings", pictured above. Grimes appears to have worn...
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Eric Copeland of Black Dice Announces New Album
Eric Copeland: "Louie, Louie, Louie" Black Dice's Eric Copeland will put out a new solo record, Limbo, on June 5 thought Underwater Peoples. (He's also put out a few 7" single's on Dean Spunt of No...
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Domino, Sacred Bones, Captured Tracks, DFA, True Panther, RVNG Set for...
Brooklyn Flea is making its record fair a twice-a-year event. On May 19, at Smorgasburg in Williamsburg, labels such as Domino, Sacred Bones, Captured Tracks, RVNG, DFA, True Panther, Temporary...
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Azealia Banks Cancels Summer Festival Appearances
Photo by Chris Tuite Lana Del Rey: "Blue Jeans" [Smims&Belle Extended Remix ft. Azealia Banks] (via SoundCloud) In the months leading up to her much-anticipated debut full-length Broke With...
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Listen: Best Coast Cover Fleetwood Mac's "Storms"
Best Coast have been vocal about Fleetwood Mac's influence on their forthcoming record The Only Place, and now they are offering their own take on the band's 1979 Tusk track "Storms". The track just...
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Sale of J Dilla's Vinyl Collection Delayed
Detroit-area vinyl obsessives will have to hold on to the contents of their piggy banks, at least for now. The sale of pieces from the vinyl collection of the late production legend J Dilla-- aka James...
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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 Lotus Plaza's Lockett Pundt teaching us how to play "Strangers", a tour of Black Dice's...
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Big K.R.I.T. Reissues Mixtapes, Reveals Album Art
Nature Sounds will offer deluxe physical editions of Big K.R.I.T.'s 2010 mixtape Krit Wuz Here and his most recent tape 4eva N a Day on May 8. The releases will be available as remastered 2-CD sets or...
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Gojira Announce New Album
Gojira: "L'Enfant Sauvage" The French extreme metal band Gojira will release their new album L'Enfant Sauvage June 26 via Roadrunner. It's the group's debut for the label, and its title translates to...
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