Ásgeir - Torrent

Last September, Icelandic artist Ásgeir made his native debut, in relatively explosive terms. His album Dyrd í dauðathogn, which will be released in the States October 28 as The Silence, was the fastest selling debut in his native island's history, surpassing even the triumphant legends of Sigur Ros and Bjork. To give some perspective, Ásgeir's debut is already owned by one out of every 10 Icelandic residents.

After being released in several other European countries and being nominated for numerous awards, Ásgeir has booked his first official UK headlining show, with a tour commencing later in October. Check out the tour dates here, as well as "Torrent," the electric first single from Dyrd í dauðathogn below.

Mixtape: Natural Self - Neon Hurtz

Bridging off his recently released Neon Hurts My Eyes LP, UK producer Natural Self released a bonus accompanying mixtape Neon Hertz. In the mix, he included a few of his own originals, along with tracks from Colin Stetson, Thom Yorke, Beak>, Portishead, Bjork, and plenty more.

The entire mixtape is free to stream and/or download below. Check out the full tracklist here, courtesy of Potholes In My Blog.

Bonnaroo, Firefly reveal 2013 lineups

Earlier today, both the 2013 Bonnaroo Music Festival and Dover, Delaware's Firefly Festival announced their annual lineups.

Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mumford and Sons, Bjork, and Wilco will sit at the top billing of the Manchester, Tennessee festival, which is the second of the three major U.S. music festivals to be announced (the third, of course, being Lollapalooza).

Firefly will also boast Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as well as Coachella and Lollapalooza 2012 headliner Red Hot Chili Peppers. Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foster The People, MGMT, and Kendrick Lamar will also be on top of the billing. For the full lineups, go to the official festival websites linked below.

Bonnaroo will take place June 13-16, with tickets going on sale February 23 at noon EST (here). Firefly will take place the following weekend, June 21-23, with tickets going on sale February 21 (here).

Festival News: Pitchfork Music Fest announces headliners, Lightning In A Bottle moves

A week after Coachella threw its spectacular lineup in all of our misshapen faces, Pitchfork announced the headliners for their annual Chicago festival. R. Kelly, Bjork, and Belle and Sebastian, three not-so-similar but still pretty big names will be headlining the three day event, with many more acts soon to be named to the billing.

In case you've forgotten, whatever happens at Pitchfork cannot happen at Lollapalooza, do to clauses in the festivals' contracts. So for any fans hoping for some combination of those three names - maybe next year.

Tickets for the July 19-21 fest are on sale now, with three-day passes coming in at $120, and single-day passes for a modest $50.

New Björk video - Mutual Core

Bjork, in partnership with the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, bring this visually stunning video for her Biophilia track "Mutual Core." The release comes a day after it was announced that Bjork would be releasing her Biophilia remix compilation, bastards, next week.

Stream Björk's 'Biophilia' remixes, 'Bastards'

Next week, Björk will release a collection of stellar remixes from her most recent album Biophilia. Included in the 13-track collection are reworked songs from Death Grips, Matthew Herbert, These New Puritans, and more. You can stream the entire collection over at The Guardian, or just listen to a few below.

New videos from Bjork, Odd Future, and more

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.

Bjork - Hollow



Odd Future - NY (Ned Flander)



Here We Go Magic - Make Up Your Mind



Bowerbirds - Tuck the Darkness In

Lollapalooza Brazil lineup released

With yesterday's release of the Lollapalooza Chile lineup, promoters have also dished out the newest Lolla expansion - Lollapalooza Brazil - Sao Paulo, specifically.

For those familiar with the Santiago, Chile lineup, the Sao Paulo version isn't much of a shock. The majority of the well-known names (Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, MGMT, others) are on both billings with only a few minor alterations. Instead of Bjork, the festival's second headliner will be the Perry Farrell-led (there's some kind of theme here) Jane's Addiction, which performed in Santiago last spring.

You can see the whole lineup and grab tickets here.

Lollapalooza Chile 2012 lineup announced

It's been over three months since the 20th annual Lollapalooza commenced and the Perry Farrell brand continues its new tradition of expansion. Last April, the festival launched it's first non-Chicago venue since its mid-2000s hiatus in Santiago, Chile, and luckily enough is making its way back.

Lollapalooza Chile 2011 saw previous Lolla performers Kanye West, Jane's Addiction, and The Killers headline alongside acts like The National and Flaming Lips. And while those acts have performed at multiple Lolla's in recent past, of the 57 artists who performed there last year, only four were also found on the next Chicago billing (roughly .07 percent turnover rate). So those looking for early clues to the August 3-5 lineup may not find much.

Regardless, the 2012 lineup was released just a few moments ago, and the model is similar to last year. Several artists from the last Chicago event are on the billing, including; headlining act Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, Cage The Elephant, Skrillex and more. Alongside Dave Grohl and Co., Bjork will be Santiago's other headliner, marking the very first Lolla-anything that Bjork will be performing. If that's worth any clue, you can expect her to make the billing on at least one other major concert festival next summer.

You can read the entire lineup and look for tickets here.

Wednesday Bears: Biophilia - Full NPR Stream

Head on over to NPR now for a full, free stream of Bjork's hugely anticipated Biophilia. A few may remember that the original release date for the "app album" was September 27, but was pushed back to next Monday, October 10.

Stream the new album here.

New Bjork video - Crystalline

Before the heavily-anticipated release of Bjork's ultimo (the only word suitable) album/app/show/thing, Iceland's icon released the first video from Biophilia for "Crystalline." Famed director Michel Gondry directed the video (his eighth for Bjork), in which, well, it's hard for me to explain.

"Shot on 16mm Bolex cameras, “Crystalline” feels more like an experimental sci-fi film than a typical music video. Lighting effects were achieved through multiple exposures that involved backwinding or capping the lens to painstakingly capture numerous passes on one frame of film. To ensure repeatable but modifiable actions, servo controlled LED rigs were custom designed and built.

Bjork’s performance was initially recorded against black on multiple cameras and then projected into the set against a spinning disc hovering above a cratered moonscape. Three projectors, arrayed along an arc at 30 degree intervals with synched performance create perspective shifts when the camera moves around the disc giving Bjork an ethereal, holographic presence.

Additionally, fabricated ice crystals, streaking comets, hammered metal drums nestled in moon craters, concentric sand patterns, and Gondry’s abstract 2D drawings all contribute to the cosmic vibe."

Biophilia will be released in multiple forms late September.

Bjork - Crystalline

Tuesday Bears: Dirty Projectors on Fallon

You may remember Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors performing "Cannibal Resource" from their already acclaimed album Bitte Orca earlier this month on Letterman. Well, the band stuck around NYC to bring a new gem, "Mount Wittenberg Orca" (explained here), renamed "When the World Comes to an End," to the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon stage.

Amber, Haley, and Angel stutter their soft-voiced harmonies to a vocal beat as lead singer Dave Longstreth moves through the off-kilter tempo of the song, originally featured in the band's six song bookstore show in SoHo for Björk.

Dirty Projectors - When the World Comes to an End (Live on Fallon)