Supergroup news is always interesting news, and this time it’s movement in the indie scene. Here is your line-up: Brian Chase, drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Colin Stetson, touring saxophonist for the Arcade Fire Stuart Bogie, tenor saxophonist for Antibalas Jordan McLean, trumpeter for Antibalas Jeremiah Lockwood, guitarist for Balkan Beat Box Already wondering [...]

With all the problems in the music industry: high royalties causing revolutionary radio services like Pandora to break down, widespread illegal downloading, and bands getting stuck in record label contracts (Nine Inch Nails) just to name a few, it seemed as if Radiohead’s music model solved the problem quite nicely, allowing the people to pay [...]

Building up some momentum for their September 23 release of Dear Science, TVOTR now has “Dancing Choose” streaming at MOG.com (notice the pun). The song has a good steady build up with saxophones, horns, all the bells & whistles you’re used to, but it ends on a really.. weird note. It just stops. But don’t [...]

As we promised, here’s the last part of Beach House’s 3-song set, live in the small confines of Juan’s Basement. This time, it’s “Apple Orchard”, another song from their 2007 LP Devotion. Accompanying the track is, you guessed it, another interview.  This time the band talks about their day jobs, something that is obviously quite [...]

‘Orgasmic Sensory Overload’ is an effective way to describe The Flaming Lips’ fanatical, awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping live shows. Hopefully, the Lips ability to euphorically overwhelm your senses will transfer over to their new science fiction feature film, Christmas on Mars. The brain child of lead singer Wayne Coyne, Christmas on Mars has been in development since [...]

At the recent Rock The Bells rap/hip-hop festival, Q-Tip rocked the stage with some new jams off his upcoming album The Renaissance, which is due out 11/14. The song is called “Gettin’ Up”. A few weeks ago rumors began buzzing about it and now it’s yours in full form. Check it out: Q-Tip with Mos [...]

Strokes’ rhythm guitarist is keeping a steady pace nowadays. Ever since releasing Yours To Keep in 2007, Albert has headlined a 128-gig tour that has now included two North American stints along with an extensive European jaunt. Albert hit the recording studio towards the end of 2007 and released ¿Cómo Te Llama? in July 2008. [...]

The weekend was an interesting time for rock trio We Are Scientists, who performed at the Reading/Leeds festivals Saturday and Sunday. At Leeds, the band was “caught on camera by NME as they got into a fight and trashed their own dressing room” (NME recently took down the footage). At Reading, frontman Keith Murray had [...]

In a Pitchfork exclusive, Baltimore dream pop duo Beach House take a trip to Juan’s Basement and play three lovely songs: “Gila”, “Holy Dances”, and a yet-unknown song to be posted tomorrow. In addition, there are two short interviews to give some personality to the sweet tunes of Beach House. Interview 1: on their new [...]

Following the Oasis Jay-Z feud at Glastonbury, several DJ’s have taken on the task of remixing the two.. dissimilar artists. The project is called OJAYZIS and can be downloaded for free HERE. The 10-song mixtape is presented by 2Dopeboyz and HipHopDX. [via Prefix]