--- - |- It's that time again-- another month brings another single by the Cure, this one called "The Perfect Boy", which also happens to be the final entry in the series. As with last month's "Sleep When I'm Dead", the new single, which sounds quite nice on first listen, comes with a simple performance video. (via Stereogum) [from "The Perfect Boy" single; out now on Geffen] ...
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--- - |- Photos by Eirik Lande For the full-fledged report on this year's Øya Festival in Oslo, Norway, check out Brian Howe's feature writeup . For a whole bunch of sweet photos from the event, just scroll on down! Shot of My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Clipse, the National, Girl Talk, Okkervil River, Diplo, Sunn O))), Cut Copy, No Age, Yeasayer, Los Campesinos!, and more awai..
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Michael Cera, Matt Damon, and Mary-Louise Parker haven't joined Man Man (yet), but the junkyard troubadours seem fine without them. They've played shows upon shows in support of their Anti- debut, Rabbit Habits , and after spending recent months in Europe, the Philly band will return to North America this summer and fall. Man Man have headlining dates and festival appearances scheduled un...
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Our fingers are crossed real hard for Metallica's Death Magnetic to be the comeback album that returns them to pre-"Black Album" form. The record comes out September 12 via Warner Bros., and all the band's live shows before then are in Europe.Planning for Death's success, Metallica have announced more than a few North American tour dates [via Rock & Roll Daily]. The tour begins in Glendale, Ari...
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Photo by Steve Gullick The shore may appear familiar, but the waters run deep on "Lost Coastlines ", the lead single from Okkervil River 's upcoming The Stand Ins (you can check out the video trailer for the release here ). If the new record is the second part of a double album begun with last year's great Black Sheep Boy follow-up The Stage Names , it's possibly significant that th...
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As Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard continues on his quest to look like Stephen Stills , his band continues to promote Narrow Stairs on tour. The Washingtonian foursome is busy with an Asian and Australian jaunt at the moment, but not too busy to look forward to the fall and schedule some U.S. dates. Said tour begins October 3 in Boston, a month after Death Cab play Seattle's Bumbe...
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A couple of weeks back Pitchfork news reported on the Alex Karpovsky-directed independant film Woodpecker , the soundtrack for which by composer James Lavino features the unlikely convergence of Radiohead and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Both Colin Greenwood of the former and Lee and Tyler Sargent of the latter played on Lavino's score for the film. The entire thing is up now for streaming at L...
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Photo by Joseph Mohan With a pared down live lineup and minds set on switching things up, the strange sorts that comprise Gnarls Barkley took to the stage at a New York City Apple Store in June for a five song set. The affair is captured on Live From Soho , an EP available for purchase in the iTunes Music Store now. Taking great liberties with five faves, Gnarls knocked out "Run (I'm a ...
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Vampire Weekend and White Williams are teaming up for what is sure to be the best-dressed tour of the year. The sartorially savvy bill comes to Midwestern and West Coast cities in September, capped by two L.A. performances with equally rad dudes Abe Vigoda.Both VW and WW have solo dates before and after their tour together. Vampire Weekend's next show is August 22 in Reading, England, and Willi...
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Tucson, Ariz., has a long history as a cinematic setting, from classic Westerns like 1956's Gunfight at the OK Corral to more recent films like ¡Three Amigos!, Tombstone, and The Quick and the Dead. It's close enough to Phoenix and, by extension, Los Angeles, but it's got a slightly more temperate climate than the Phoenix area, and it's about an hour drive from Nogales, Mexico, which informs th..
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Ruby Isle don't exactly trade in subtlety. Instead, the recently formed trio of ex-I Am the World Trade Center multi- instrumentalist (and Kindercore co-founder) Daniel Geller and pals Aaron Lemay and Mark Mallman seems to revel in cheese. Take, for instance, the cover of their forthcoming debut LP, Night Shot, due September 16 from Kindercore. Or the fact that Geller and his former IATWTC band...
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This is it, the first song from the new Marnie Stern album, called-- deep breath-- This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That. Long titles aside, the finger-tapping New York guitar shredder hasn't gone all Fiona Apple (not that there's anything wrong with that) since last year's In Advance of the Broken Arm. And "Transformer", b...
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Though he's probably better known for his remixes of Klaxons, Love Is All, Lykke Li, and many others, Metronomy's Joseph Mount has never underestimated the power of visuals. In live shows, the English electronic artist and his bandmates flash some synchronized dance moves and shine Green Lantern-esque lights from their chests. And Metronomy videos, whether the purplish horrorshow of recent sing...
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Photo by Kirstie ShanleyLet me get this straight, Radiohead: according to a BBC 6 Music report [via At Ease], you went and wrote a brand new song for the forthcoming movie Choke-- based on the rather twisted novel of the same name by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk-- at the behest of actor-turned-director Clark Gregg? And this song is to play over the film's closing credits? And, again, this ...
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--- - |- With the title of their fourth album (4) making way for the Led Zeppelin comparisons, Dungen have done something the Zep haven't done in ages: They've scheduled a tour. The Swedish foursome begin a jaunt across North America at CMJ on October 24 and continue across the continent into November.Before the tour begins, 4 comes out via Kemado on September 30. Album-opening first single "S...
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Didn't Jay-Z already do his "A Milli" remix? Just kidding, he totally did, and it was called "A Billi". A financial goal he has yet to achieve-- unless those rich-person-counters at Forbes are hating on Hova, too, but if so wouldn't he have rapped about it?-- which could go some way to explain this new, Kanye West-produced single. It was impossible to ignore the marketing brilliance of premieri...
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The 10th Øya Festival featured a diverse range of indie-friendly music from Sonic Youth to Clipse, the National to Girl Talk, My Bloody Valentine to Sigur Rós, Okkervil River to Sunn 0))) as well as a host of big Now artists-- Cut Copy, Fleet Foxes, No Age, Yeasayer, Lykke Li, the Bug, and Lindstrøm, among others.read more~~
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Brian Wilson and Wilco lead the charge of the inaugural Jackson Hole Music Festival. The festival descends on Teton Village, Wyoming in the Jackson Hole valley on August 16 and 17, and the lineup also includes Son Volt, the Black Crowes, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, and Kaki King. Apparently, someone thinks Wyoming residents are allergic to music that ...
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The Steely Dan-sampling "Champion" was released as a single some time ago, but it's just now become a video and Kanye posted it to his blog. He must have been holding the clip until the Olympics were in full swing: It finds a puppet version of Kanye competing in the "Unified Games". We watch as he trains (man, that peg board shit is hard) and eventually becomes, yes, a champion. He also does so...
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Beam us up, Sammy! Bearded Floridian songwriter Sam Beam is keeping his Iron & Wine crew even busier than expected this fall with the addition of more U.S. tour dates in November.In keeping with their newfound propensity for hitching their wagons to fairly bright stars, Blitzen Trapper will open these newly announced Iron & Wine gigs. Before Iron & Wine can start thinking about their home conti...
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