Last month, Jay Reatard's rhythm section-- bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes-- quit Reatard's band. (It led to this spectacularly irate Tweet from Reatard himself.) But now, it looks like the dust has settled. As previously repo…

We're not exactly sure how much a recent Radiohead diss by the Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger inspired Beck to release a 10-minute-plus tribute to experimental composer Harry Partch, but we're glad this thing exists. And it's up on Be…

The bathroom-door-sleeved follow-up to the Magnetic Fields' 2008 album Distortion is called Realism and it is out January 26 on Nonesuch. It features a song called "The Dada Polka" which may or may not be an actual polka song. Click the bu…

Late last month, we reported that the hushed, skeletal buzz band the xx had been forced to cancel a few shows due to exhaustion. The band had played a London show without keyboardist-guitarist Baria Qureshi, the exhausted party in question…

Animal Collective's "Brothersport" 10" single is out now, and the best reason to cop it might be the B-side, a 10-minute extended live version of "Bleeding" that the group taped in Big Sur, California. Check it out at the Hype Machine, via…

If Solange Knowles isn't sampling Boards of Canada or getting Jay-Z and Beyoncé into Grizzly Bear, she's jamming out to Dirty Projectors. She's been bumping DP so much, in fact, that she decided to go ahead and cover the Brooklyn band's Bi…

The new album from London genre-benders Hot Chip is excellently titled One Life Stand and will hit stores both physical and ethereal on February 9 via Astralwerks. (In the UK, it will be released February 8 via Parlophone.) Right at this v…

IRM, the album that French singer and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg made with Beck, is out in January via Because. We've already dropped a BNM on the album's whirring, beeping title track. Now, another taste of the album is available: first…

The always-evolving experimental rock crew Liars move in mysterious ways. This morning, the band updated their MySpace page, posting several links to the website Thesisterworld.com, as OneThirty BPM points out.

Slowly but surely, Vampire Weekend's hotly anticipated sophomore album Contra is coming together. The LP isn't due until January 12 (via XL), but we've already heard "Horchata", the busy and uptight first single and album opener, and we've…

As previously reported, Brooklyn head-wreckers Yeasayer have a new album called Odd Blood coming February 19. In North America, it'll be on Secretly Canadian, and Mute will carry it everywhere else. Below, you can hear "Ambling Alp", the f…

Just when it looked like side projects were occupying most of Jamie Stewart's energy, the man's always-disturbing art-pop crew Xiu Xiu shudders back to life. Yesterday, the band's website reported that there's a new Xiu Xiu album on the wa…

This summer, the Pitchfork staffers who traveled to Barcelona for the Primavera Sound Festival came back calling it one of the best festivals they'd ever seen. Those who attended the 2009 shindig got Neil Young, My Bloody Valentine, a Pitc…

NYC psych merchants Yeasayer have signed to Secretly Canadian for the North American release of their highly anticipated sophomore album. The follow-up to 2007's All Hour Cymbals (which was released on We Are Free) is called Odd Blood, and…

Given that they named their band "Animal Collective", it's probably not all that shocking that the members of Animal Collective would feel an affinity for wildlife. In a new ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Avey T…

Hey, more new Vampire Weekend! Contra, the band's sophomore album, isn't due until January 12, but we've already heard and argued about the leadoff track, "Horchata". And now MBV reports and Vampire Weekend's publicist confirms that the in…

Featuring members of Animal Collective, Modest Mouse, TV on the Radio, Man Man, High Places, Unwound, !!!, Hole, Metric It's gonna take a whole lotta drummers--88 of 'em on each coast!--to fully achieve the epic sonic assault the Boredoms …

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