In terms of "work ethic," 99 percent of the music industry takes a backseat to Robert Pollard. The front man for Guided By Voices, and solo artist with 18 albums (one coming out later this year) to his own credit was at the helm of the reunited band, which came back with Let's Go Eat at the Factory last year. Unsurprisingly, they're on the cusp of releasing another album this June, Class Clown Spots a UFO. Listen to the album's first single "Keep It In Motion" below.
Beach Fossils debuted their cheaply shot collage of their fun times and recent gigs for their "Shallow" video. The single is also available now as a 7" on Captured Tracks. Watch the video below.
I guess this is as good of a warning as ever that Beach House are about to explode. Their upcoming fourth album Bloom already has a good deal of hype behind it, and now with yesterday's late-night release of "Myth," the album's first single, all signs point to the Baltimore duo becoming more and more well-known.
Listen to the single that made the band briefly trending world-wide on Twitter earlier today below, and grab Bloom, May 15.
In his move over to Sub Pop, King Tuff has released "Bad Thing," the catchy first single from his upcoming sophomore LP, which is due out May 29. Listen to the single below and just click+add your email for a free download. It's worth it.
Bjork, Odd Future, Here We Go Magic, and the Bowerbirds all premiered new videos within the last few hours, so I think you should be caught up. Watch all four new videos below.
Several weeks before Radiohead are scheduled to headline this year's Coachella and Bonnaroo music festivals, the most-mentioned band on this site have released their expanded tour dates for the remainder of the calendar year. Included in that list is a June 10 date at the First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois.
Now for anyone familiar with the oft-mentioned radius clause enacted for major U.S. festival, all that means is that Radiohead will not be on this year's Lollapalooza billing. Speculation over who might be booked as the #1 headliner is still up in the air, and there are zero confirmations as of now, but Radiohead will not be among them.
The band will still play plenty of shows in the coming months, including three stops in New Jersey. You can check out the expanded tour dates here.
Bonus: The band also premiered a completely new song during their Dallas performance last night called "Skirting on the Surface." You can watch that live performance on a surprisingly not that bad crowd shot below.
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It's just good to know that Burial and Four Tet will work together on anything, given their other-worldly abilities. Listen to the duo's newest mix, "Nova," below, via Four Tet's Soundcloud page.
Last weekend, Jack White made his highly-anticipated solo debut on Saturday Night Live with an attempting to redeem herself Lindsay Lohan. And while the noted problems with the show's tech-crew on musical performances continues to be completely apparent, White's rendition of "Love Interruption" with Ruby Amanfu went off pretty well.
His second song (with a completely different backing band) from Blunderbuss -pretty much the first time any of us heard it - wasn't quite as clean. But for anyone who's a fan of White's past work, that's not a problem. Check out both performances below.
Jack White - Love Interruption (Live on SNL ft. Ruby Amanfu)
