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Festivals In Brief: Northside, Spring Awakening, Make Music Pasadena, Body&Soul
WHAT: Northside FestivalWHEN: June 14-21WHERE: Brooklyn, NYWHO: ?uestlove, GZA, Frankie Rose, Jens Lekman, Of Montreal, Cold Cave, Twin Sister, Niki & the Dove, Black Dice, Dam-Funk, the Atlas...
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Morrissey and NME Settle Libel Case
Morrissey's libel case against the NME now comes to an end. Music Week reports that following NME's apology to Morrissey, over a 2007 article that the singer believed portrayed him as racist, the...
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Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier Shares New Song, Tour
Laetitia Sadier: "There Is a Price to Pay for Freedom (and It Isn't Security)" On July 24, Drag City will release Silencio, the sophomore solo album from Stereolab frontwoman Laetitia Sadier. Here's a...
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Watch El-P Perform "The Full Retard" at His Album Release Party, Chat, Tickle...
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "+1", which offers footage of performances and interviews with artists about the experience of playing live. This installment features El-P, who...
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The Hood Internet Recruit AC Newman, Class Actress, More, for Debut Album of...
The Hood Internet, the Chicago production duo known for their mashups, will release their first album of fully original material, free of samples. Decon will put out the record, called FEAT, on...
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Menomena Announce New Album, Tour
Portland indie act Menomena will follow up their solid 2010 record Mines with a new one on September 18 through Barsuk. The record, which was written and recorded by the duo of Justin Harris and Danny...
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Video: AlunaGeorge: "Just a Touch"
Here's the video for glitchy UK R&B duo AlunaGeorge's "Just a Touch". Directed by Laurence Matthew Blake and Matilda Finn of the AU Agency, it's very much in the same style as the video for...
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Watch: New Video From Radiohead Producer Nigel Godrich's Band Ultraísta
Last month, super-producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck, etc.) unveiled a new project with Joey Waronker and Laura Bettinson called Ultraísta. We've already heard the track "Smalltalk"; now, watch...
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Listen: Vampire Weekend's Rostam Mashes Up Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"...
Vampire Weekend's Rostam has made made a mashup of Carly Rae Jepsen's radio-crusher "Call Me Maybe" and Annie Lennox's 1992 single "Walking on Broken Glass". Rostam has aptly titled his creation "Call...
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Found Footage: Bobby Womack
With Found Footage, we dig through the depths of archival video on the internet in search of the best performances, interviews, and music videos floating around the web. This week, 68-year-old soul...
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Festivals In Brief: Spy, VOLT, Les Siestes Electroniques, Hideout
WHAT: Spy Music FestivalWHEN: June 29 - July 15WHERE: New York, NYWHO: Rhys Chatham, Magik Markers, Dustin Wong, Loren Connors, Dan Friel, Chicago Underground, Neptune, Man Forever, more WHAT: VOLT...
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Shellac to Curate Winter ATP
ATP have announced a second three-day event to take place this winter. From November 30 to December 2, Shellac-- or Shellac of North America, as they're styling themselves-- will curate the festival...
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Video: Passion Pit: "Take a Walk"
Passion Pit have released the first two tracks from their upcoming album Gossamer, "Take a Walk" and "I'll Be Alright". And now we've got the accompanying visual for "Take a Walk". Directed by David...
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Video: Eternal Summers: "Wonder"
Virginia indie pop trio Eternal Summers have a new record, Correct Behavior, out July 24 via Kanine. We've already seen the video for its lead-off track "Millions", and now the band has offered a...
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Dan Deacon Shares Album Cover, Tour Dates
On August 28 (and August 27 abroad), Domino will release Dan Deacon's America. Above is the cover art for the LP, which features a photo of Lake Placid shot by Richard Endres. Anyone who pre-orders...
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Video: Best Coast: "The Only Place"
The breezy clip for Best Coast's "The Only Place", directed by Ace Norton, functions like a direct interpretation of the California-obsessed song itself: Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno cruise around...
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Bon Iver to Release iTunes Session
Photo by Mitch Manzella Bon Iver will release an iTunes session on June 19, as Consequence of Sound points out. Its seven songs are made up of material from the band's self-titled 2011 record and a...
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David Byrne and St. Vincent Detail Collaborative LP, Announce North American...
The long-awaited collaboration between David Byrne and St. Vincent will finally arrive September 11 via 4AD/Todo Mundo. It's called Love This Giant, and has been in the works for two and a half years....
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Report: Bat for Lashes Live in Cambridge
Photos by Anna Weber The photograph of Natasha Khan released yesterday alongside news of Bat for Lashes' forthcoming third album couldn't have been more different from the heavily symbolic image that...
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Watch: Danny Brown Talks MDMA and McDonald's, Performs at Primavera, on...
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "+1", which offers footage of performances along with interviews with artists about the experience of playing live. Today's installment was...
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