At Coachella last night, a commercial for Daft Punk’s highly anticipated Random Access Memories played on festival screens. We’ve heard brief bits of its music via a series of SNL commercials and interviews with album players Giorgio Moroder and...
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Guards On The Joys Of Touring, Leaving Cults, And In Guards We Trust
After spending time as a member of both Willowz and Cults (alongside his sister, Madeline), Guards’ front man Richie Follin is happy to be seeing his own personal vision — widescreen indie-pop garnished with epic hooks and hum-along melodies...
Eluvium – “Envenom Mettle” (Stereogum Premiere)
The Pacific Northwestern ambient-music enigma, who’s been recording as Eluvium for long enough to earn veteran status, is getting set to release Nightmare Ending , the massive new double-disc album that returns him to instrumental music after experimenting with...
Tame Impala – “Mind Mischief (The Field Remix)”
The Field makes metronomic minimal techno, and Tame Impala make choogling fuzz-pedal rock. But both the Swedish producer and the Australian band bring a certain starry-eyed, warm-hearted psychedelic sweep to their work, so they aren’t as counterintuitive a pairing...
Peals – “Blue Elvis” (Stereogum Premiere)
William Cashion plays bass in the great Baltimore art-pop band Future Islands, and Bruce Willen used to play bass in the great Baltimore graphic design-addled punk band Double Dagger. The two of them have now joined forces to form...
Stream Biffy Clyro Opposites
I wrote a lot about Biffy Clyro last week, when we premiered “Modern Magic Forumla,” from their new album Opposites . Since then, that album has gone to No. 1 in the UK and Biffy has won the NME...
Coliseum – “Doing Time” (Stereogum Premiere)
The excellent Louisville trio Coliseum were responsible for one of 2010′s most exciting releases, House With A Curse — a raging inferno of massive hardcore anthems with enough energy to power a small revolution, but with a mineshaft depth...
Download Antwon In Dark Denim Mixtape
If you’re the San Jose MC Antwon, apparently Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to release your mixtape of bent, disheveled, breaking-apart pimp-rap. We’ve already posted his “Still Guarded” video, and now we’ve got all of In Dark Denim...
Alex Bleeker And The Freaks – “Don’t Look Down”
When he’s not playing bass in Real Estate, Alex Bleeker leads Alex Bleeker And The Freaks, a loose crew that includes various Real Estate bandmates and other buddies from the band’s orbit. They’ve got a new album called How...
Selebrities – “Everywhere” (Feat. Erika Spring & Lissy Trullie) (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
As a kind of Valentine’s Day gift to the world, the Brooklyn-based designer-pop trio Selebrities have covered Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 trifle “Everywhere,” enlisting New York singers Erika Spring and Lissy Trullie to help out on the spectral harmonies. If...
Jessie Ware – “Diamonds” (Rihanna Cover)
The elegant British soul crooner Jessie Ware isn’t the first indie-universe fixture to cover “Diamonds,” Rihanna’s massive 2012 ballad; Zola Jesus already got there. But Ware’s cover, recorded for a recent BBC Live Lounge session, is the smallest and...
Watch Johnny Marr Play “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” For The 1st Time In 25 Years
Well, we got the My Bloody Valentine album, so a Smiths reunion must be at least a thing that could happen, someday, right? Wrong? Still, for a couple of dudes who have turned down millions of dollars and messiah-level...
Grizzly Bear – “Gun-Shy (Lindstrøm Remix)”
Grizzly Bear have launched a brand new Tumblr, which they will be using for announcements and to preview and debut new material. Its debut includes GIFs of scenes from their upcoming video for “Gun-Shy,” as well as a remix of...
Lady Gaga Wears Another Meat Dress, Turns Her ‘Born This Way Ball’ Stage Into A Full-Blown Meat Locker (PHOTOS)
Lady Gaga, just hanging out in a meat grinder. As long as we've been Lady Gaga fans, we've been asking ourselves questions like, "How does Lady Gaga create meat dresses?," "How does she keep them from developing salmonella?," and...
Roots Picnic 2013 Lineup
Questlove, bandleader of the Roots, took to Instagram to announce the lineup for the sixth annual Roots Picnic. Aside from the Roots, performers will include Grimes, How To Dress Well, Gary Clark Jr., Naughty By Nature, Solange, and more. The...
Veronica Falls – “Buried Alive”
The fuzzy, sprightly British indie-pop revivalists Veronica Falls have a sophomore album called Waiting For Something To Happen waiting to come out, and first single “Teenage” promised good things. And now they’re sharing a fizzy, sugary burst of harmony called...
Beyoncé Strips Down To A Bra And Undies In A ‘GQ’ Outtake (PHOTOS)
Oh, just Blue Ivy's mom looking SMOKIN'. It's not enough that Beyoncé slayed The National Anthem at President Barack Obama's inauguration. But now, Queen B continues to rule the world in a brand-new set of impossibly perfect outtakes from her...
Stream Bleeding Rainbow Yeah Right
On their last two albums, released under the lawsuit-inviting name Reading Rainbow, the Philadelphia band Bleeding Rainbow bashed out catchy, lo-fi garage-pop. But the new LP Yeah Right, the first recorded under their new name, is more fleshed-out and expansive,...
Kvelertak – “Bruane Brenn”
Kvelertak’s forthcoming sophomore album, Meir, made our list of 2013′s 50 Most Anticipated Albums, and it would be in the single digits of my own personal list. The Norwegian black ‘n’ roll band’s self-titled 2010 debut was one of...
Governors Ball 2013 Lineup
Kanye West, Kings Of Leon, and one secret act that will be announced in a few weeks are headlining this year’s Governors Ball on Randall’s Island in New York, 6/7-9. On top of the main acts, the festival boasts...
Vampire Weekend LP3 Out 5/6
We’ve been hearing rumblings about a new Vampire Weekend album for a while, and they even played a new song called “Unbelievers” on Kimmel on Halloween. And today, we get our first bit of concrete information about the new...
Takka Takka – “When You Leave” Video (Stereogum Premiere)
Takka Takka have released an animated collage clip for “When You Leave” from their 2012 release A.M. Landscapes. The video, which is filled mostly with newspaper clippings, red silhouettes of women, and cityscapes, was directed by Malcolm Hearn, whose other...
Stream Gold Panda Trust EP
British electronic producer Gold Panda has been relatively quiet lately, though his moody and zoned-out productions continue to echo in weird places; check the sample on Charli XCX’s “You (Ha Ha Ha).” But he’s just announced the impending release of...
Star Spotting: When Kelly Clarkson And Beyonce Looked Like Two Angelic Besties At The 2013 Inauguration (PHOTO)
Oh, just two, without-flaw queens having a laugh at the Inauguration! So, it's a little hard for us to even look at this picture, let alone write any coherent words about it, without making a continuous streak of what...
New Song: Paramore, ‘Now’
Listen to Paramore's new single "Now," NOW! As y'all are well aware, we've been waiting approximately TWO YEARS for some new Paramore material to surface, but thankfully, the insanely long wait ends right NOW with the band's appropriately named track, "Now." Slated to appear...
Passion Pit – “Carried Away (Tiësto Remix)” Video
The cheesed-out trance-master and ridiculously well-paid human being Tiësto recently worked his magic on Passion Pit’s gleaming Gossamer gem “Carried Away,” and you can probably guess what the result sounds like before you hit play. One thing you cannot guess,...
Buzz Bites (1/22/13): Watch Fun., Jennifer Hudson Perform At President Obama’s Inaugural Ball
Fun. performed during last night's Inaugural Ball. + Watch a clip of fun. performing "We Are Young" during President Obama's Inaugural Ball last night, which ended in a rousing crowd sing-along finale. Also hear Jennifer Hudson sing Al Green's "Let's Stay Together"...
Ghost – “I’m A Marionette” (Abba Cover) (Feat. Dave Grohl)
A few months ago, we learned the ridiculously badass news that Dave Grohl would, once again, play drums on a forthcoming Queens Of The Stone Age album. And Grohl has apparently found a fun way to shake off any drum...
Disclosure – “White Noise” (Feat. AlunaGeorge)
Disclosure are a British duo twisting late-’90s UK garage into fun new shapes. AlunaGeorge are a British duo doing similar things with late-’90s R&B. And given how close late-’90s UK garage and R&B always were anyway, maybe it was...
Battles Soundtrack Target Commercial
A long time ago, So You Think You Can Dance was a pretty cool show, and I used to watch it religiously. Back then, they had this one choreographer on the show named Wade Robson who created really weird...
Flying Lotus – “Such A Square”
The people at Moog have just introduced a new handcrafted synth that they’ve unfortunately decided to call the Sub Phatty. Fortunately, though, they let Flying Lotus get his hands on the thing before anything else, and he used it to...
Morrissey @ The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester 1/19/13
12 Photos »Over the weekend, Morrissey performed at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, just a few miles north of the city. His set included a grip of the Smiths songs, as well as a Frankie Valli cover. Check...
Stream Buke & Gase General Dome
New York skronk-pop tinkerers Buke & Gase are a week away from releasing their seesawing sophomore effort General Dome, the title of which has me wanting to make Too $hort-style puns. We’ve already posted the title track, and now...
Watch Dave Grohl’s Sound City Live Concert In Park City
Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players will be one of early 2013′s more unavoidable events, and the band kicked off their ubiquity Friday night in Park City, Utah, where they made their live debut (coinciding with the premiere of Grohl’s new...
Shugo Tokumaru – “Katachi” Video
The video for “Katachi,” an orchestral psychedelic song from the Japanese avant-popper Shugo Tokumaru, is a delightfully hypnotic thing, entirely stop-motion animated with cut-out paper shapes. The video adds another cut-out to its ever-shifting kaleidoscopic landscape every split-second, which means...
