Tourmates Xiu Xiu and Dirty Beaches will release a split 7'' for Record Store Day, featuring Xiu Xiu's cover of Erasure's "Always" and Dirty Beaches' cover of Françoise Hardy's "Tu Ne Dis Rien."…   Read Story »

The decomposing-rockabilly auteur Dirty Beaches has a new limited-edition single out. The A-side is a live version of "Lone Runner," and the B-side is a pounding, squalid track called "Stye Eye,"…   Read Story »

This week's music-video MVP was whoever was responsible for researching New York signage in Kindness's "Cyan" video. That must've taken a lot of work! As good as that video was, though, it couldn't…   Read Story »

Pretty much nothing is as it seems in this eerie clip for 40 Best New Bands alum Dirty Beaches' "Lone Runner," a clip that's paired perfectly with the haunted, vintage feel of the track.…   Read Story »

Last year, right around the time summer turned to fall, we at Stereogum published our list of the 40 best new bands of the year. The idea of a "new" band is a pretty nebulous one, since many of the…   Read Story »

Some more photos from the show that brought newly tagged Band To Watch Beige onto our listening docket here, by way of photographer Natasha Ryan, who captured headliner Alex Zhang Hungtai aka Dirty…   Read Story »

Click on for some thoughts and sights from a very busy Friday in Austin. Tonight's the last night here, so if you need some guidance please refer to our list of must-see bands, or our favorite…   Read Story »

We've offered our suggestions as to what bands to see this week, now we shift into the bands we are actually seeing. SXSW has begun in earnest, and is earnestly crowded. We'll try to cut through the…   Read Story »