This week we've got new videos from Times New Viking, The Chap, Matt & Kim, and As I Lay Dying. A lot of this week's videos are pretty violent. And usually it's the band's members getting beaten up.…   Read Story »

This is getting meta. A few months ago Times New Viking made like labelmates Yo La Tengo at an Ohio in-store for the latter's "Nothing To Hide" video. Now Ira, Georgia and James return the favor,…   Read Story »

Pavement's on their way to a long summer of festivals and one-off gigs, but curating an ATP is a sweet way to get things started. (It's also a sweet way to get in some time with their side projects…   Read Story »

Times New Viking showed considerable acting chops in the video for Yo La Tengo's "Nothing To Hide." This time Pelham Johnston and Brandon Reichard place the Ohio trio behind a sepia-toned haze while…   Read Story »

After helping Yo La Tengo promote "Nothing To Hide" in Ohio, Times New Viking are ready to "Move To California" to possibly "have a better time." The hazy, stoned, let's-get-out-of-this-town anthem…   Read Story »

Yo La Tengo's Pelham Johnston and Brandon Reichard-directed video for Popular Songs' "Nothing To Hide" was shot at Lost Weekend Records in Columbus, Ohio with labelmates (and Columbus residents)…   Read Story »

Lo-fi Columbus, Ohio noise-pop trio Times New Viking are following up their 2008 breakthrough Rip It Off and subsequent Stay Awake EP with their fourth proper full-length, Born Again Revisited. In…   Read Story »

Merge Records turns 20 this year and the celebration is well underway. Last week we told you about the five-day summer fest in North Carolina with Superchunk, Spoon, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Destroyer,…   Read Story »

I couldn't make Siren Festival this year and Amrit and Brandon were at Pitchfork, so ... how was it? Based on the photographic display from Kyle Dean Reinford I guess sweaty? How was the sound? Did…   Read Story »

It wasn't too long ago that MTV hipped us to that crazy Brooklyn scene. Now, years after Guided By Voices, Shrimper cassettes, the Grifters' One Sock Missing, Peter Jefferies, Harry Pussy, Sebadoh…   Read Story »