WATCH: Tyler, The Creator performs “Orange Juice” with BADBADNOTGOOD

A few months ago we shared videos of young jazz prodigies BADBADNOTGOOD collaborating with Tyler, The Creator on his tracks “Fish” and “Seven” during OFWGKTA’s tour stop in Toronto. Now here's another brand new video from that session, in which Tyler joins the band for a performance for “Orange Juice” from OFWGKTA’s mixtape Radical. BBNG caught...
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WATCH: A clip of James Murphy acting in The Comedy has surfaced!

This year’s Sundance Film Festival found LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy in not one, but two separate films, one of which is the previously reported on Shut Up, and Play the Hits, a documentary on the titular group’s final show. The second is Rick Alverson’s new film The Comedy, which features Murphy in a supporting role, alongside Tim Heidecker...
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WATCH: Young Magic - “Night in the Ocean” official music video

Coastal landscapes and morphing geometry make up Young Magic’s new music video, the follow up to their previous, equally striking clip for “Sparkly”. Their second go at it, directed by Andrew De Freitas, departs from the clean look of time-lapses and slow motion, and goes into an abstract performance of shape and pattern – on bodies, and over...
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YouTube/Google rejects Perfume Genius' mildly homoerotic video ad; R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe reacts

In an offensive effort to be inoffensive, Google/YouTube has rejected a 15-second ad for Seattle singer-songwriter Perfume Genius’ hotly anticipated follow-up Put Your Back N 2 It, insisting it “contains non family safe material.”  The ad, which depicts Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas and gay porn star Arpad Miklios embracing shirtless, was...
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LISTEN: Stream a 20-song mixtape from The Jesus and Mary Chain; 'The Way We Were: 1980-85'

I know you were planning to spend five bucks to go hear some DJ with neck tattoos play his collection of '70s funk MP3's tonight, but here's something even better!Two former members of the iconic noise/shoegaze outfit The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bobby Gillespie (drums, 1985-86) and Douglas Hart (bass, 1984-91), assembled this excellent mixtape that...
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Ben Folds Five Reunite For New Album, Spring Release

In the spirit of 2012 reunions from the likes of Van Halen, Black Sabbath, At The Drive In, Beach Boys, No Doubt, Refused, Mazzy Star, and Pulp, Ben Folds Five have now confirmed that a fourth studio album is set for a spring release.Folds tweeted yesterday, "It's happening fo sho - Day 1 in the studio with Robert and Darren through March #...
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WATCH: Tennis perform “Origins” live in Portland

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On February 14, Denver’s indie pop band Tennis will release their Patrick Carney-produced sophomore album, Young & Old. Along with their new drummer James Barone, husband-and-wife Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore wrote this album while touring their well-received debut, Cape Dory. Moore said “each song is a vignette, a glimpse into a personal...
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MP3 Roundup: New music from The Polyphonic Spree, Patrick Watson, and Eight and a Half

The Polyphonic Spree - “What Would You Do” The Polyphonic Spree are back. The orchestral rock collective have announced their first tour since 2007, and to celebrate we get “What Would You Do,” a triumphant and dangerously catchy single that will soon be released physically and digitally (along with a “surprise B-side”). If this single doesn't...
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WATCH: Desire - “Don't Call” official music video

Desire’s brooding song “Don’t Call” gets distinctively retro visuals to match its nostalgic sound, courtesy of director Alberto Rossini, the go-to guy for Desire's label, Italians Do It Better. After having been featured on the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed film Drive (“Under Your Spell”), this music video should continue to pique...
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WATCH: Wilco and Popeye team up for “Dawned On Me” official music video

You are about to witness a match made in cartoon heaven. At long last, Wilco are finally paired with your favourite swashbuckling, spinach-overdosing, muscle freak Popeye the Sailor Man in the music video for “Dawned On Me”. The track comes off Wilco's latest effort The Whole Love and is the band’s first music video since 1999! It was worth the...
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WATCH: The Flaming Lips cover The Beatles' “She's So Heavy” (ft. Wilco's Nels Cline!)

The Flaming Lips have already taken on the Beatles with their weirdo cover of “I Am The Walrus,” and now video has surfaced of the band's take on “She's So Heavy,” which they performed during their NYE 2012 dates.Joined by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, the Lips deliver a faithful rendition, minus the fact that it lasts seventeen minutes. All the...
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WATCH: The Cast of Cheers - “Family” official music video

It's easy to write off The Cast of Cheers because of their goofy band name, but one listen to “Family” -- a track we posted not too long ago -- and your raised eyebrow will become two raised eyebrows, forming the coveted double eyebrow raise and communicating your inevitable surprise.Created by Russell Weekes (whose illustration work is quite...
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MP3 Roundup: New music from Andrew Bird, Dr. Dog, and (Fleet Foxes side-project) Poor Moon

Andrew Bird - “Eyeoneye” Two weeks ago, we announced that Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird was set to release his sixth album, Break It Yourself, on March 6. Now we have the first taste of what the album will sound like with "Eyeoneye." The track has some surprisingly rockin' drums, but Bird still keeps it real with his...
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Quoteworthy: Kathleen Edwards on boyfriend and collaborator, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon

“There are times when you do feel, like, ‘oh, is this person only interested in my project because I’m somebody’s girlfriend?’ That feels bad... I’d be lying to myself if I didn’t acknowledge that more doors are open because of him. But I also am really proud of the fact that I’ve been making records for ten years. And I’d like to believe that...
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WATCH: Kate Bush - “Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe” shadow puppet music video

Even at age 53, English art-rocker Kate Bush is still a master of her art -- both sonically and visually. She dropped her tenth studio album 50 Words For Snow late last year, and has now released this shadow puppet music video for album cut “Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe.”As Bush explains, “[i]t is all done in camera with shadow puppets, one of my...
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WATCH: La Sera - “Please Be My Third Eye” official music video

Brooklyn musician “Kickball Katie” Goodman, will be releasing her second album as La Sera in March. Goodman, who also performs in Vivian Girls, appears front-and-center in this new music video for album cut “Please Be My Third Eye,”directed by Vice Cooler. The infectious pop tune is just as cute as La Sera herself (see photo above), making this...
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WATCH: Sleigh Bells – “Comeback Kid” official music video

Behold: the new music video for Sleigh Bells' newest, riff-ready single “Comeback Kid,” which we posted last week. Directed by Derek Miller and Gregory Kohn, the video sees Alexis Krauss embracing pop stardom, with an ever-changing wardrobe that includes a leather jacket and short acid washed jeans, a red bathrobe, and even a blonde wig for...
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Get To Know... Actual Water

After a half-hour phone interview with Anthony Price, Gary Arthurs and Siena DeCampo of Actual Water, it’s easy to see the real motivation behind their haphazard garage-rock outfit: They just want to hang out with one another. It’s also easy to incorrectly assume that they have zero ambition, that they don’t expect to be heard, and that, in...
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WATCH: Cloud Nothings speaks to Pitchfork and performs “Wasted Days” in Brooklyn

Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings releases their third album, Attack on Memory, today.  The group had become known as a lo-fi act, but on this record they deliver a cleaner, garage-punk sound, courtesy of producer legend Steve Albini (who apparently played Scrabble on his phone throughout most of the recording process.)  You can get a taste of...
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CHARTattack VIDEO | An Interview With Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bundick

Chaz Bundick, the 25-year-old South Carolina artist behind Toro Y Moi, was initially touted as a pioneer of chillwave. But after a sonic shift on his latest full-length Underneath The Pine, it's a bit harder to place him. Bundick's groovy pop lives somewhere inside the Bermuda Triangle of sixties psychedelia, seventies funk, and contemporary dance...
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