Battles have announced the next phase of their Gloss Drop remixes, aptly titled Dross Glop. When they say remix, they MEAN IT, even with the title. | STREAM
Check out the new Busdriver song “Superhand's Mantra (F**k Us All)” that was done with Aesop Rock. Its part of the full album release Beaus$Eros, which arrives on Feb. 14 via Circle Into Square. Busdriver is touring this month and will eventually arrive at SXSW in Austin, which leads to the inevitable question ... who's driving the bus on a Busdriver tour? | STREAM
Check out Timbaland and Lyrica Anderson on the song “Mentally” ...
they’ve worked together before on Timbalands’ Shock Value 3. Mentally
has over 10,000 downloads on iTunes and Lyrica is currently working on
an album that includes the song “Love Me.” Together, they’re like
Bonnie and Clyde. | STREAM
Check out the new EP from A Place to Bury Strangers EP titled Onwards to the Wall. It's their first release after signing to Dead Oceans last Fall, and is the much-anticipated follow up to the classic Exploding Head album in 2009, which had exactly that effect when listening to it. | STREAM
The song takes a sharp and serious turn about half way through, breaking from the verse chorus verse pop format and providing some interesting and dark corners. | STREAM
The indie pop - indie rock - punk -post punk stylings of Howler weave an interesting cocktail of elements into their sound on their new album “America Give Up.” They're being compared to The Strokes, Guided by Voices, The Jam and The Buzzcocks ... and that's just the beginning of their sound. | STREAM
More Radiohead tracks have surfaced online ... "Fat Girl" and "Fragile Friend," songs that are supposedly from before guitarist Jonny Greenwood joined the band. The band name was supposedly On a Friday at that point ... leading us to believe that the move to call themselves Radiohead was a good choice. | STREAM
Check out new music from by Karin Dreijer Andersson (The Knife, Fever Ray) with the song “No Face,” from the new We Are the Works in Progress compilation. | STREAM
Trent Reznor was the guest on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross today, and Trent actually was comical in his ability to laugh at himself in a self-depricating way. They covered his new The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack with Atticus Ross, Gene Simmons, growing up in (and escaping) Cleveland and a lot of Nine Inch Nails history. | STREAM
Guided by Voices reunited over the past year and played a few shows, and they've decided that the show must go on. They're releasing a new GBV album titled Let's Go Eat the Factory on Jan. 1, with the classic lineup: Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell and Kevin Fennell. Listen to the album in full today. | STREAM
The new Arcade Fire video(s) for "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" come in three varieties -- 2 traditional video and one interactive. Or as Arcade Fire and director Vincent Morisset call it, "interactive" and "traditional." | VIDEO
The new Matthew Dear song “Headcage” is interesting. It sounds warbly and synthy, all slowly upbeat and plodding along. It's part the upcoming Matthew Dear EP coming out on Jan. 17. | STREAM
If only somebody out there was combining the sounds of latin and jazz with the ferociousness of metal into one musical vehicle ... but wait! It's Rodrigo y Gabriela! | STREAM
Jonsi has been working with Cameron Crowe to soundtrack the upcoming We Bought A Zoo movie ... Today a new collaboration between Jonsi and Cameron Crowe hits the web with “Gathering Stories.” | STREAM
The song is instrumental, and it deviates from anything you might hear on the Deadmau5 live show due to the fact that it's introspective and dark, as opposed to the bright bleeps and popping of most of Deadmau5's music. What's going on inside that Deadmau5 head?
The complete Karen O media package -- she perfoms live music from her recent psych opera Stop the Virgens during an interview, plus a video about how the production was done. | VIDEO | STREAM
If the Phantogram vibe is "street beat, psych pop" then they're doing that up in a fresh way here. They always mix the shoegaze aesthetic with a more uptempo / hip hop style that favors a little bit of sampling and keeps you moving. And guessing. | MP3
Deru does double time as a sound designer and film-scorer, and you can hear how he brings that to “Spliff,” so his music becomes a film narrative backdrop for Casual to do his thing. | STREAM
The album is due for release this week, and is the first Tom Waits studio album with completely new music in seven years. | STREAM
Bjork and Dirty Projectors collaborative EP Mount Wittenberg Orca was released last year in a download-only format, and next week sees through an actual limited edition physical EP. Preview a track.
Parts and Labor will go on an indefinite hiatus just as they're celebrating their tenth anniversary. They've planned a series of shows and released a final song to go out in a blaze of glory, with the aptly titled "No Nostalgia."
New Massive Attack for your mind on a Monday. Talk about starting the week off right! It's taken from an upcoming single that includes the song "Paradise Circus" from the Massive Attack album Heligoland, plus a new track with "Four Walls."
One part LTJ Bukem and another part new school samples of old school jazz piano riffs. Throw in a loop of drum n' bass rhythms with a soul-inspired vocal loop and BOOM! Soundtrack for a rainy day.
Sigur Ros have released a new track from their upcoming live concert film Inni, a concert film and double live album from a performance at Alexandra Palace in London in 2007. It's the classic “Ný Batterí” and it's available as a MP3.
If you've been digging the 4AD Sessions, you'll love the fact that they're compiling them into a limited edition collection titled 4AD Sessions: 2008-2011. Check out the full album stream.
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