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Last night TV On The Radio performed a 41-minute set for David Letterman's "Live on Letterman" concert series. They opened with "Young Liars" into "Dancing Choose" before moving into Nine Types Of…   Read Story »
"People want my power, and they want my station." The first listen from Santigold's Santogold followup is a call to arms and a declaration and its credits read like the intersection of aural worlds…   Read Story »
The final day of 2010's Pitchfork Festival was just as hot as Saturday, with stages that needed quick shots of energy to pull the audience out of its languor. Girls were pretty but wispy -- though…   Read Story »
The DayGlo Ferry Gouw/Jason Miller-directed clip for Diplo & Switch's zombie jam was pretty rad, but Eric Wareheim (who previously set "Pon De Floor" to dancehall dry humping) also did a Great Job.…   Read Story »
London pop duo Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, aka the Big Pink, release their full-length debut A Brief History Of Love this September via 4AD. It's a difficult album to pin down: You'll catch…   Read Story »
Tim & Eric's Eric Wareheim continues stockpiling hipster cred by taking a directorial credit on this new Major Lazer video. He brought a bit of an Awesome Show Great Job! sensibility to that clip for…   Read Story »
As we've mentioned, Major Lazer is "Paper Planes" producers Switch and Diplo's collaborative and conceptual dancehall project. As the concept goes, he's "a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the…   Read Story »
"Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed experimental lazers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has…   Read Story »
In mid-October we posted about Björk's Náttúra," a song that included extremely ambient vocal noises from Thom Yorke and prominent drums from Lightning Bolt and "Dull Flame Of Desire"'s Brian…   Read Story »