A year ago at the All Tomorrow's Partis show in New York, Dan Snaith brought together a bunch of big names to play as an entity called Caribou Vibration Ensemble. Now they're releasing a copy of that show!
College Music Journal has announced it's initial lineup for this year's CMJ Marathon, and they include Four Tet, Helmet, Dean & Britta, The Drums, DeVotchka and more.
They each received 1 million kronor (135,000 dollars) at a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on August 30. The award was presented by Swedish King Carl Gustaf.
Cornershop have announced a set of U.S. shows in November, hitting big cities on both coasts. Although the tour is in support of Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, Cornershop have also recently released a Naked Ape reworking of their classic "Brimful of Asha," as well as an upcoming single with Matsuki Ayumu.
Google is currently working on a deal with major movie studios to offer pay-per-view video through its YouTube Store, which quietly launched earlier this year.
With LCD Soundsystem winding over the next year while touring, the future of LCD seems limited. But there's no slowing down for front man James Murphy, who's doing an LCD "break" so that he can do other things in music.
With Summer slowly fading away, it seems kind of fitting that the latest Wavves video is one last chance to grasp on to a Summer song. It's called "Post-Acid."
The Federal Trade Commision (FTC) has dropped its investigation in P2P service LimeWire. The investigation centered around ID theft and the inadvertent sharing of sensitive files in the LimeWire network.
YouTube's Vevo app for iPhone was launched a little over a week ago, and has already had over a million downloads. It gives both iPhone and iPod touch people a chance to view all of the Vevo content from its site.
Ariel Pink is our first postmodern rock star. The self-revered Godfather of the chillwave genre has made an impressionable mark on the Los Angeles music scene despite a reclusive and hermitic lifestyle.
There's a new film coming out titled The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González. It was shot over a three year period in his studio, at home and on tour.
Brian Eno is set to release Small Craft On A Milk Sea in November. It's a limited edition box set that includes collaborations with producer Jon Hopkins and guitarist Leo Abrahams.
Blonde Redhead are returning from the collective unconscious with their new album Penny Sparkle on September 14. The track "Not Getting There" is from that album.
Not Music a raiding of the vault for Stereolab, a release of songs that were recorded in the studio while the band was creating the album Chemical Cords.
The new video for Arcade Fire's "Ready to Start" was filmed at Hackney Empire in London on July 7th. It's off of their new album The Suburbs. Have you heard? Arcade Fire are taking over the world.
Of Montreal as you've never seen them before (which is a lot, if you've seen Of Montreal before). The video is for the song "Coquet Coquette," of the upcoming album False Priest.
We see some of the smoothness that Tricky has to offer, with multiple vocalists, the intertwining of various musical styles from an almost Caribbean pop sound to vampy guitar riffs to the endless build up of intensity throughout the song. The video's pretty good, too.
The album is titled Sex with an X, and will arrive in September. They've released the video "Sex With an X," just to prove that the new Vaselines are every bit as good as the old one.
Way back in the early 2000's Sub Pop did a revolutionary thing and encouraged people on the web to post MP3's of their bands. This sounds normal right now, it was new to a music industry that jealously gaurded every recording as copyrighted work that was not to be given away for free. Now Sub Pop is toying with the idea of giving it all away.
MySpace has been taking design lessons from the clean look of Facebook, as they've previewing the new look and feel in the run up to their August 19th relaunch. ALSO: take our poll on whether MySpace will survive.
Tired of compressed, cold-feeling music that comes from hacking up tracks digitally and spitting them out in a copy and paste approach? Helmet front man Page Hamilton hears you.
Deerhunter will release a new album titled Halcyon Digest on September 28th, via 4AD. They'll set out next week on the start of a tour to support the new album.
Google & Verizon are suggesting that companies with cash get better service, and the bootstrappers of the world get the shaft (albeit a neutral shaft). They're proposing the Internet Neutral-Ghetto.
Shortly after Soundgarden wrapped up their set at Lollapalooza, they launched carefully laid plans for the rest of 2010. They offered up a stream of their new song "Black Rain," a track from their forthcoming album Telephantasm – A Retrospective.
Wrap the tentacles of your headphones around this: The Octopus Project will release a new album titled Hexadecagon, based on the crazy surround sound (based on 8-way sound) show they did at SXSW last year.
Frankie's moved on from her lo-fi past with Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls, and is exploring a bigger, more dynamic sound. Call it Frankie hi-fi. Check out the sound with and advance track..
Until very recently, I had become disgruntled with the state of blues-rock. I had convinced myself – as well as many of my other musically like-minded confidants – that the only quality modern day blues was found in Jack White’s tenacious efforts in the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, and then of course in the Black Keys. Enter Wolf People.
Is Animal Collective in break up mode? Multiple side projects by band members is either a sign of moving on after a band has stopped existing, or an opportunity for the members to flex their creative muscle on other projects while the central band takes a *collective* break.
The garage band trio are venturing out from their comfortable California surroundings and venturing out into the beautiful United States for a gigantic two and half month tour in support of their second record, the wonderful King of the Beach.
Neon Indian - the band now known for playing one of the most epic Bonnaroo sets of all time, ranking up there with Radiohead's 2006 mind bending show - is currently touring with indie poster boys Phoenix, with stops in Los Angeles, Boston, Las Vegas and several other cities.
This tour is being billed the Gorillaz "Escape to Plastic Beach" tour, and will involve dates in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Foals are embarking on their first North American tour in support of their gorgeous new record, Total Life Forever. It begins September 23rd in Minneapolis, and includes stops in New York, Chicago, and the Austin City Limits festival.
The 2010 Mercury Music Prize has announced its nominees, which includes The xx, Foals, and Corinne Bailer Rae. Find out more and place your vote for the winner!
The Virgin Mobile FreeFest has announced its 2010 lineup, which includes Thievery Corporation, Neon Indian, M.I.A., Pavement, LCD Soundsystem and more.
The U.S. Copyright Group has recruited over a dozen smaller firms around the United States to go after BitTorrent users who downloaded the movies "Far Cry," "The Hurt Locker," "Steam Experiment," and "Uncross the Stars." Did you download any of these?
By now you've probably heard of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB1070, known as the “Fremont Law.” Rage andConor Oberst are playing a protest benefit ....
A David Bowie tribute album is set for release on October 11th, in conjunction with War Child. Good music, good cause. There are 34 contributors to the 2-disc set, and today we preview three of them.
