Last night, Motormouth Media and Domino Records sponsored a listening party in Harlem for Animal Collective’s highly anticipated new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Jessica Suarez over at Pitchfork was able to make it, and gives us a song-by-song first impression of the album. Although she said the bass was overly loud and the vocals were [...]

Despite the obvious similarity between the magical wonderland that Willy Wonka calls his factory and the average Flaming Lips show, Wayne and Wonka now also have something else in common. No, Wayne hasn’t hired little orange people as his stage crew. Instead, according to The Flaming Lip’s homepage, Wayne and the boys are hard at [...]

Pitchfork.tv just released videos of Bradford and the boys during the making of their newest release, Microcastle. They get some sweet interviews with the band and producer Nicolas Vernhes at his Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, New York. It’s a good look into the creative process that spawned what could be the album of [...]

NBC has decided to give a few bands the opportunity to play their own version of the famous chimes that play while showing the rainbow peacock during some commercial breaks. A handful of these music-themed promos were shot in Los Angeles over the last couple of weeks. Some notable artists that received their own eight [...]

Jeff Tweedy and the boys have decided to make a swing by The Colbert Report this Thursday. Mr. Colbert seems to have some excellent taste in music, previously inviting on his show the likes of Feist, R.E.M., Apples in Stereo, the Roots, and The Decemberists. Wilco are currently planning to play one song at the [...]

The Black Cab Sessions eclipsed the 50 chapter mark with The Cool Kids, hip-hop duo from Chicago that popped up in 2007 with their Totally Flossed Out EP, then the critically acclaimed Bake Sale earlier this year. They’ve been making their rounds, performing at the Pitchfork Music Festival, and in general just gaining mad popularity. [...]

As far as I’m concerned, The Killers have been losing steam ever since Sam’s Town. The band’s new record, Day & Age,  will not be better than Hot Fuss or Sam’s Town if the new songs “Human” or “Spaceman” are any representation of it. Still, The Killers have undeniable potential to craft inspiring songs. Here’s [...]

Diplo has been more than busy as of late with everything Mad Decent, releasing Top Ranking, Hollertronix 9, and remixes of Of Montreal’s “Id Engager” just to name a few, and has somehow managed to piece together his second LP Blow Your Head, which drops tomorrow! His last solo LP was 2004′s Florida. Right now [...]

The Last Shadow Puppets are the side project of Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and The Rascal’s Miles Kane, and are finally ready to make their way over to the states. Although there are only three scheduled dates and no plans to add more, the true fans (well, the reallly true fans) will get a chance [...]

It was a bit of a surprise that Billy Corgan & company chose not to play their brand new single “G.L.O.W.” live on Friday night, but thankfully we got one of the best tracks off Zeitgeist, “Tarantula”. “G.L.O.W.” debuted almost two weeks ago on Chicago’s Q-101 and comes out officially on Guitar Hero World Tour [...]