Veteran German electronic duo Mouse On Mars will release their tenth studio album, Parastrophics, next week, and today the group unleashed that affair’s lead single, “Polaroyced.” Stream the skittering, pulsating track below.
Last month, we reported that ’90s alt-pop all-stars Garbage were on their way back with the self-released “Not Your Kind Of People,” their first new album since 2005. Now they’ve posted a quick minute-long preview for their new song “I Hate Love” — a song title that’s only appropriate from the group who made “Only Happy When It Rains.” They’ve set it to fan-made artwork inspired by that title; watch the video below.
A little while back, TVOTR’s Dave Sitek remixed a collaboration between producer Jneiro Jarel (of the underrated Willie Isz with Khujo Goodie) and oddball rapper DOOM called “Rhymin’ Slang,” a song which made Lex Records’ 10th anniversary compilation. Now, Jarel and DOOM have announced a full collaborative album under the name JJ DOOM, and its first single, “Banished” is streaming below.
The members of New York’s suddenly-awesome underground rap scene aren’t exactly the most conventionally attractive group of dudes on the face of the earth, but they do know how to look cool. And the great New York streetwear designer Mishka has lately been releasing a number of excellent rap mixtapes like Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire’s Lost In Translation, which means they’re pretty deeply connected to this scene. So it makes sense that, for Mishka’s spring 2012 lookbook, they’ve enlisted a ton of the city’s best rappers to model their clothes, including Das Racist, eXquire, Action Bronson, and Detroit import Danny Brown. Check the gallery above and the video below.
The former Royal Trux member Jennifer Herrema now leads the trash-rock band Black Bananas. In their new “TV Trouble” video, she and her homies sit around watching TV Carnage-style montages of trash television while looking extremely stoned. There are also a whole bunch of scenes where a caveman wears bloody underpants on his head and jerks off with raw chicken juice, so I’m going to go ahead and call this one NSFW even if you don’t see any actual caveman schlong. Don’t make my mistake and watch this one while eating. Daniel Perez directs. It’s below.
Knicks point guard, current media sensation and gloriously triumphant underdog Jeremy Lin is a pretty religious dude, so don’t pile on him for his choices too much cuz, yeah, both Lecrae and Hillsong are Christian acts that I’m not aware of. Fuse.tv caught up with hoops’ (and the Internet’s) hottest dude to ask the Harvard man about his music recommendations. It should be noted that, Lin has been doing very little press in this hot streak, which a friend best described as an insane NCAA Tournament run embedded into an NBA regular season, so getting him to sound off on anything lately is a pretty tough task, despite the fact that he’s unnervingly charming. Hope he’ll hook up a top-notch sound system in his new pad, which is no longer his brother’s couch. Check it out after the jump.
There was a moment in the middle of the last decade where just about every mainstream rap song took place in the club. That moment is over, but it’ll never end for Alabama bulldozer Jackie Chain. “Rollin’,” Jackie’s breakout underground hit, might just be rap’s greatest-ever ode to ecstasy, and it has plenty of competition in that respect. And from that moment on, Jackie has stayed steadfastly in a very narrow lane, rapping almost exclusively about subjects within the clubs/cars/girls/drugs axis but sounding utterly overjoyed whenever he gets to talk about this stuff. Jackie is no great rap technician, and he usually uses the same basic flow, a hammering all-caps reveler’s bellow. But he rarely gets boring because there’s so much excitement and wonder in this voice; every time he steps in the club, it apparently feels like the first time. And the new mixtape After Hours is the best full-length he’s ever done because it’s the one where the aesthetic finally matches the subject matter completely.
Katy Goodman’s La Sera project has another record due out later this spring, from which we previously heard (and saw the video for) lead single “Please Be My Third Eye.” Today she another sun-splattered, quick-hitting garage jam called “Break My Heart,” which you can download below. She’s also got some tour dates out west pre-SXSW, so check those out as well.
