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Japandroids Plot North American Tour

Japandroids Plot North American Tour

Photo by Andy Mueller

Amped-up Vancouver fuzz-rock duo Japandroids are back to wreck a few more stages. In late August, they'll take their frantic live show on the road through North America on a tour that includes more than a few Canadian dates. Bass Drum of Death, another noisy and excitable two-man unit, will open most of their dates. Below, we've got Japandroids' touring itinerary, as well as a download of their 2010 single "Heavenward Grand Prix"

 

TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene Link for Tour

The two bands get together for a run of North American dates

TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene Link for Tour

Broken Social Scene photo by Danielle St. Laurent

Get ready for a night packed full of soaring indie rock melodies. TV on the Radio, touring hard all year behind new album Nine Types of Light, have just announced another run of North American dates. For many of those shows, they'll bring along another festival-conquering group: Canadian guitar-fuzz battalion Broken Social Scene.

TVOTR will also play a massive Hollywood Bowl show in September with Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Smith Westerns, and Warpaint. And, lest we forget, TVOTR will also serve as headliners at next month's Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

Below, we've got dates for both bands, as well as TVOTR's video for "Will Do".

 

R.I.P. Producer Martin Rushent

R.I.P. Producer Martin Rushent

The BBC reports that British record producer Martin Rushent died on Saturday. He was 63.

Rushent was best known for working with synthpop greats the Human League on their blockbuster 1981 album Dare. After that album blew up, Rushent won the Brit Award for Producer of the Year in 1982.

 

Listen: Fuck Buttons Remix Jónsi

Fuck Buttons give beat-heavy treatment to Go's "Tornado"

Listen: Fuck Buttons Remix Jónsi

Jónsi: "Tornado (Fuck Buttons Remix)"

Abeano points out that UK noise mongers Fuck Buttons' remix of "Tornado", a cut from Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi's solo album, last year's Go, has been made available for streaming on Jónsi's Soundcloud. The remix originally saw release in April as part of the Record Store Day remix EP Go Out. Listen above-- and of all the Jónsi songs, doesn't it make perfect sense that Fuck Buttons chose to remix the one that's called "Tornado"?

Posted by Larry Fitzmaurice on June 6, 2011 at 11:35 a.m.

Tags: Remix, Audio, Jónsi, Fuck Buttons

 
 

Photos: The Roots Picnic

With the Roots, Ariel Pink, Dismemberment Plan, Man Man, Wiz Khalifa, and more

Photos: The Roots Picnic

This past weekend in Philadelphia, the Roots hosted their fourth annual Roots Picnic festival, which went down at Festival Pier at Penn's Landing. The Roots performed a headlining set and also backed up Nas and Esperanza Spalding, and the festival also featured performances from Ariel Pink, the Dismemberment Plan, Man Man, Little Dragon, Wiz Khalifa, Yelawolf, and many more.

Photos by Colin Kerrigan. Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to our photo book for more full-size snaps. And don't forget to stop by our Facebook page for even more photos.

In other news from the Roots, ?uestlove recently told Billboard that the next Roots album will be "our first full-fledged narrative concept album." He added, "It's going to be heavy on sort of orchestral chamber music with harder beats in it." They hope to have the album out by late this year or early next year.

 

Listen to New Battles, Junior Boys Albums

Also hear new releases from Marissa Nadler, Oneida, Depeche Mode, more

Listen to New Battles, Junior Boys Albums

Gloss Drop, the new album from post-rock groove monsters Battles, arrives June 7-- tomorrow-- in North America, via Warp. (It's already out in the rest of the world.) And right now, the full LP is streaming at Spinner.

Below, we've also got links to some other new albums streaming online right now.

 

The-Dream Plans New Album

The-Dream Plans New Album

Complex reports that R&B auteur The-Dream plans to release his fourth solo album, the confusingly titled The Love, IV (Diary of a Mad Man), on September 20-- his birthday. Earlier this year, The-Dream told MTV News that he's attempting to round up a star-studded guest list for the LP, including Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Drake, Mary J. Blige, and Dr. Dre. Complex reports that the first track, the R. Kelly collaboration "T.T.S.", is due soon. (Something tells me that doesn't stand for "text to speech.")

 

Video: Bat for Lashes Performs New Song

Video: Bat for Lashes Performs New Song

Over the weekend, Bat for Lashes played a pair of shows at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia as part of the Vivid Live Festival. During one of those shows, she trotted out an unidentified new song, which was characteristically slow-burning and atmospheric. Below, we've got a fan-made video of that song, as well as another performance from that show, of her cover of Radiohead's "All I Need".

 

Björk Reveals First Biophilia Track

"Crystalline"

Björk Reveals First <I>Biophilia</i> Track

Details on Björk's new album/multimedia project Biophilia have slowly been leaking out-- and now we get to hear some new music, in typically unique fashion. Björk posted a video to her newfangled site over the weekend that features her driving in a car, listening to what appears to be a new song titled "Crystalline". Watch the 30-second clip below. Yes, Björk even drives cooler than you.

Björk's Twitter reports that "Crystalline" will "appear" by the end of the month.

 

Watch My Morning Jacket on "VH1 Storytellers"

Watch My Morning Jacket on "VH1 Storytellers"

Photo by Danny Clinch

My Morning Jacket's whirlwind release week for their latest LP, Circuital, continued with their episode of "VH1 Storytellers", which aired on VH1 Friday night. If you missed the broadcast, watch it here-- and check out a clip of MMJ doing Circuital's title track on the show below.

 

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