First Unitarian Church, April 19 - Iceage (Preview)

Culminating an impossibly stellar lineup of garage punk up-and-comers Night Birds, White Lung, and METZ, is frequent buzzing Dutch four-piece Iceage tonight at Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church. The outstanding youth of the group is still well known, despite crossing over on the U.S. scene roughly two years ago. Still, the power and brevity of the band's most recent LP You're Nothing on a jump to Matador makes Iceage leading the other bands almost unquestionable.

The Copenhagen band, led by workaholic at-heart Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (who's still churning out stuff as part of Marching Church and Vår), feeds on torrid momentum on You're Nothing, taking the exhausted jubilant nature of New Brigade without relinquishing the - as Anthony Fantano says it best - "chaotic apathy." The sounded is refined - something fairly improbable for any version of punk - but patterns and melodies don't just seem thrown in from varying minds of the band, rather, sticking as a whole scheme.

Whether or not that tooling of the technique means anything for the band's live persona should hold high, given the years of touring and the vigorous attitude the band has towards moving forward. It has to, regardless, because a lineup featuring White Lung and METZ will have plenty craving for a righteous finale.

Tickets for the show are still available, with doors opening at 7 p.m. and beginning at 7:30.

New The Knife video - A Cherry On Top

For those that haven't attempted to divulge into The Knife's Shaking The Habitual, there's still time. While it is a taxing album in many ways, the sheer brilliance and unfiltered outpouring of originality oozing from its seams is unignorable. The newest video from the Swedish group for "A Cherry On Top," while more of a .gif than a video, doesn't overwhelm the user on visual alone (the stirring pink and green neon contrasts on the cover are used here), but the menacing dark churns are something totally unfamiliar. Simply put, it's a whole different level of what we aesthetically understand as production.

Check it out below and grab Shaking The Habitual today.

New Babies video - Mess Me Around

From last year's Our House On The Hill LP, the second from the side-project of Woods and Vivian Girls members Cassie Ramone and Kevin Morby as The Babies, has a brand new video for "Mess Me Around."

Directed by Scott Jacobson, the free-flowing catchy West coast garage pop soundtracks the nervous misadventures of carpooling with complete strangers on the way to a show at sunset. Check it out below and grab Our House On The Hill today via Woodsist.

New Fat Tony - I Shine

The second Smart Ass Black Boy track from Fat Tony doesn't feature the welcome help of Despot and Kool A.D. like "Hood Party" did, but some stylish production from Tom Cruz does its duty to set it apart. Stream/download the new track below and grab Tony's upcoming album June 11.

Gorilla Warfare Tactics - drugDILLA

Quiet since their debut in 2011, Gorilla Warfare Tactics, a trio of NYU students (still in school!), released the "drugDILLA," the first from the upcoming Zoology mixtape at the end of April (which you'll be sure to grab here). Clever, precise, and free-flowing, "drugDILLA" is as good as any track that references the Detroit great should be.

Check it out below and grab Zoology April 30.

New Laurel Halo - Throw

Less than a year after debuting her full-length Quarantine, New York producer Laurel Halo released the first cut from her upcoming Behind The Green Door EP, with "Throw."

The skewed piano-laden track splits the seem of unconscious house with deceptively dark undertones, finishing with a unconventional sendoff. It's a rigid line between iconoclastic Detroit techno (she is originally from Michigan) and UK house dubs, which she often prefers as a contrasting style.

Check out "Throw" below and grab the four-track EP next month on Hyperdub.

New Bibio - You

From Bibio's forthcoming seventh studio LP Silver Wilkinson is "You," a sample-polished beauty pleasantly reminiscent of his early work. The album is set for release May 14, which is available to pre-order at Bleep. Listen to "You" along with a a sampler of Silver Wilkinson below.

New Solar Year - Global Girlfriend

It's been three year's since the relatively unknown Solar Year released the mind-splitting, transcendentally chaotic "Hands Out," which even in internet circles has become a rarity. Luckily, not settling as a undiscovered one-and-done, the group is planning the release of a debut LP later this year via Brooklyn's Ceremony Records.

"Global Girlfriend" is a decidedly different outlook than "Hands Out," offering more vocal resonance and pop humility. Listen to the new track below and grab Waverly June 25.

88-Keys - Rhythm Roulette (Mass Appeal)

Early last month, we got our first taste of the ongoing and totally awesome Rhythm Roulette series from Mass Appeal, featuring Party Supplies. The premise of the series is to take some of today's best young producers, head over to a record store, have them pick three records blindfolded, and turn those records into a track.

Party Supplies made it out fine, coming out with obscure disco-era funk LPs. 88-Keys, however, "bombed" his picks, even ending up with a Steve Martin's 1977 Grammy-winning comedy album Let's Get Small. In the end, 88-Keys isn't terribly happy with it.

Check it out below.

New Thundercat - Heartbreaks + Setbacks

Brainfeeder's resident bass funk and soul standby Thundercat has announced the follow up to his 2011 breakout Golden Age of the Apocalypse with the shortened Apocalypse. The first single, "Heartbreaks + Setbacks," features frequent Thundercat collaborator and all-around great guy Flying Lotus on production, which gives a wonderfully distorted atmosphere to the liberating vocals.

Check the single out below and grab Apocalypse July 9.

New Empire of the Sun - Alive

Nearly five years after the jubilant Walking On a Dream, Empire of the Sun have finally debuted the first single from the upcoming Ice Dune, "Alive." Dutifully, the song is alive and invigorating, tracing back to why the band's 2008 release became so endearing.

Check out "Alive" below and grab Ice Dune this June.

Pharrell Williams on Daft Punk

There's no trying to escape it, the campaigning Daft Punk have done for Random Access Memories is totally engrossing. No album in recent memory has done so much to garner this amount of hype and done it so effectively well as have the electro pioneers, asking the question, are Daft Punk ready to be the biggest thing in music?

After teasing fans at Coachella and during Saturday Night Live with a preview of "Get Lucky" with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, the first and only song fans have heard from the album, the star-studded tracklist was unveiled. Then, the duo's Saint Laurent ad campaign debuted. And now, we have the fourth installment in the Creators Project series, featuring the aforementioned Williams.

Watch below and keep waiting until May 21.