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Julia Holter announces new album; listen to opening track “World”

While it was her second proper LP, Julia Holter’s Ekstasis in many ways served, and had the feeling of, a debut, both in introducing her to a wide audience and as the true genesis of a developing ethereal sound. For those proud few intimately familiar with Linda Perhacs, the influence is clear, and an exciting [...]

Kanye West premieres new song “New Slaves” on buildings around the world

Listen to a bootleg recording of it in full

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Franz Ferdinand announce first album for four years; watch the trailer

When Franz Ferdinand first arrived in the mid-2000s, they released a pair of albums just over a year apart. Then they slowed things down, taking almost four years to release their third album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, and now they’ve taken another four years before today announcing their fourth full length Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right [...]

Fuck Buttons announce new album due in July

After the fairly quick one-two punch of Fuck Buttons’ first two albums, 2008′s Street Horrrsing and 2009′s Tarot Sport, the duo went quiet for a while, releasing a few things here and there under different names. Although they never announced a split, we never knew when they would return. Now we do: July 23rd will [...]

Italians Do It Better compilation After Dark 2 out this week; hear a new Mirage song

Johnny Jewel’s label Italians Do It Better have been promising us a new After Dark compilation for a long time now. They’ve let out new tracks from it by Chromatics and Glass Candy without ever giving us a concrete date for its release. Finally Jewel has said that it will be released this Friday. The [...]

The Dodos return in August with fifth album; hear a new track

The Dodos’ 2011 album No Color was one of their strongest to date and left us with the feeling that despite the fact that they’re a mere duo, they could produce all sorts of different styles with their abilities. We’ll find out what they’ve produced in the last couple of years when they return with [...]

Superchunk announce new album I Hate Music; watch the trailer

After a nearly 10 year absence, alt-rock stalwarts Superchunk returned in 2010 with a new album called Majesty Shredding that showed that they had lost none of their pep or chops in their time out. The band has today announced the follow up to that record, and their tenth overall, I Hate Music, which will [...]

Spoon give update on new album progress

Back at the start of the year we put together a feature detailing our most anticipated albums of 2013. Under the ‘Speculative’ section we hoped for a new album from Texan art rockers Spoon, with singer Britt Daniel having divulged that the band would meet in February, even while his new band Divine Fits was [...]

Kanye West’s new album set for June 18 release?

June Eighteen — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 2, 2013 Musically, how much stronger can this year get? Just a bit ago, Kanye West revived his Twitter account to cryptically tweet out a date — June 18th — which instantly launched a barrage of speculation about a new album. And, well, it wouldn’t be the first [...]

Pepsi Pulse Artist of the Week: Kingdom

Hey folks, last month we posted about R&B-revivalist producer Kingdom, this week he’s one of our new content partners, Pepsi Pulse’s artist of the week! On his latest single, “Break Head,” Kingdom (Ezra Rubin) features NYC-based vocalist Kelela, who sings, “And I need to let it out.” It’s a phrase that seems to apply quite [...]