Slowly but surely, Merriweather Post Pavilion is creeping into the speakers of eager Animal Collective fans across the world. Although the highly-anticipated and extremely hyped—yes, even by yours truly—album does not see a formal released until January 20th, listeners soon may have the entire album by the end of the week. (Assuming things look up.)
Tonight, [...]

Of Montreal releases Skeletal Lamping, its highly anticipated follow-up to 2007’s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, on October 7, but Polyvinyl Records has leaked the album’s first single to eager fans.

Entitled “Id Engager,” the song sounds like a shameless mash-up of Hissing Fauna’s easily recognizeable synth pads peppered with frontman Kevin Barnes’ usual arsenal of [...]

After a noted absence from the Los Angeles area, Brazillian girl-fronted dance poppers Cansei de Ser Sexy—or, more simply, CSS—have announced plans to return to Southern California on their North American and European tour this upcoming fall.

Despite the unexpected departure of bassist Ira Trevisan in early April, CSS has signed on to play numerous summer festivals, [...]

The number of media-touted “buzz bands” playing this weekend’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is astounding; once tragically hip underground groups known only by self-proclaimed hipster scum now pepper the lineup like silver sedans on the 110 freeway. Quite possibly the most anticipated performance by one of these rising bands comes from Ivy League [...]

The long-awaited Water Curses EP from Baltimore experimental ethnoclash poster children Animal Collective does not hit American shelves until May 5th. That, however, did not stop the slimy tentacles of the Internet from grabbing hold of the four track sampler and dispersing it across all music-centric exits on the Information Super Highway this morning.

Water Curses is, as the EP’s [...]

Now here’s something you never expected to read about on the internet. Nearly forty-one years after the release of their landmark debut album The Velvet Underground and Nico, a long-vanished Velvet Underground bootleg session recorded at the Gymnasium in New York City in 1967 has leaked onto the internet. The five-song recording features a stunning [...]

After the surprising ticket demand for their February 29th show at the Henry Fonda Music Box, Canadian electronica duo MSTRKRFT(pronounced “master -kraft”) has added a second show date for March 2nd at the El Rey Theatre.

Known for their super dancetastic, bleep-infused triptronica style, MSTRKRFT took hold of the electronica scene with the 2006 release of [...]

The formula seems tried and true: adorably cute girl sits in front of a piano and sings quirky songs about love, life, and everything in between. Those familiar with such a music model might be quick to dismiss UK import Kate Nash as a label-made carbon copy of female musicians in the same school as [...]

Pennsylvania psychedelic dreamscape weavers Black Moth Super Rainbow might bring their sugary-sweet, retrotastic stage show to a small piece venue near you this spring. The five-piece band based out of Pittsburgh is hitting the road in support of their newest record, Dandelion Gum, released in the Summer of 2007 on Graveface Records.

Black Moth Super Rainbow—or, more [...]

Hot Chip, everyone’s favorite electropoppers from across the pond, release their newest album, titled Made in the Dark, on February 5th.

The album, a follow-up to 2006’s acclaimed hit The Warning, has hit downloading sites with tracks overdubbed by an annoying robot voice announcing the album’s release every thirty seconds. Luckily, we were able to pull some [...]