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Sufjan Stevens, National's Dessner, Nico Muhly Compose Song Cycle for Trombones and Strings

But you have to go to the Netherlands to hear it

Sufjan Stevens, National's Dessner, Nico Muhly Compose Song Cycle for Trombones and Strings

Photo by Erez Avissar

Most people would take a lengthy vacation following something as ambitious and expansive of an undertaking as Sufjan Stevens' just-concluded tour behind last year's BNM'd bleep-bloop opus The Age of Adz. Sufjan isn't "most people," though, so he's keeping busy-- by writing music for trombones and strings. Naturally.

 

Austra Announce Remix Album, Tour

Austra Announce Remix Album, Tour

Austra: "Beat and the Pulse (Still Going Remix)":


Sparkle, the new remix album from bewitching Canadian electro-goths Austra, is out now digitally and on 12" on August 23 via Domino. The album collects reworkings of tracks from their recent album Feel It Break, and it includes contributions from Planningtorock, MDNR, 120 Days, and others. Above, listen to a remix of "Beat and the Pulse" from New York DFA production duo Still Going. We've got the tracklist below.

Also below, check out Austra's tour dates. In fall, they'll head out for a North American tour, with Grimes opening many of the shows.

 

Photos: AraabMuzik

[New York, NY; 08/05/11]

Photos: AraabMuzik

AraabMuzik played Santos Party House in New York City on Friday night along with White Ring, Laurel Halo, and more. Photos by Erez Avissar.

Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to our photo book for some full-size snaps.

And don't forget to stop by our Facebook page for even more photos.

 

Watch: Robyn and Rye Rye on "Leno"

Watch: Robyn and Rye Rye on "Leno"

"Never Will Be Mine", the new single from Baltimore dance-rapper and M.I.A. protégé Rye Rye, interpolates Robyn's "Be Mine". And when Rye Rye came to "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" on Friday night to perform the song, she brought Robyn. Any opportunity to watch Robyn dancing and singing on a stage is a good one, even if that performance ends with Robyn and Rye Rye sharing a stage with Leno and Dennises Miller and Rodman.

Watch the performance below, via Consequence of Sound.

 

Flaming Lips Lighting Rig Collapses in Storm

No injuries reported after wreck in Tulsa

Flaming Lips Lighting Rig Collapses in Storm

Photo via Wayne Coyne's Twitter

If you're a festival organizer right now, you may want to consider investing in some extra stage support. A few weeks after a stage collapsed in Ottawa while Cheap Trick was playing, the Flaming Lips suffered a similar calamity when a lighting rig collapse doomed their set at the Brady District Block Party in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

Stream the New Beirut Album

Also: new releases from Blood Orange and more

Stream the New Beirut Album

Beirut's new album, The Rip Tide, is out now digitally and August 30 physically via bandleader Zach Condon's own Pompeii Records. Right now, the whole thing is streaming over at NPR.

There's a few other new releases streaming now, too; check 'em out below.

 

Subscribe to Kanye West's Life; Check Out the Watch the Throne Deluxe Edition Artwork

Service includes concert webcasts, exercise routines, recipes, documentary, animated series. Plus: Kanye goes on another rant, compares himself to Hitler

Subscribe to Kanye West's Life; Check Out the <i>Watch the Throne</i> Deluxe Edition Artwork

Watch the Throne, the much-anticipated collaborative album from Jay-Z and Kanye West, is out in the world now, for sale exclusively at iTunes. But is that just not enough Kanye for you? The A.V. Club points out a report from Ad Age, which claims that Mr. West has signed up with the ad agency GlobalHue to provide a behind-the-scenes subscription service to... well... his life.

 

Photos: Lollapalooza 2011

Featuring Coldplay, Best Coast, Foo Fighters, Cults, Lykke Li, Beirut, Titus Andronicus, Black Lips, Smith Westerns, the Mountain Goats, Local Natives, and more

Photos: Lollapalooza 2011

Lollapalooza celebrated its 20th anniversary this weekend at Grant Park in Chicago. It featured sets from Coldplay, Best Coast, Foo Fighters, Cults, Lykke Li, Beirut, Titus Andronicus, Black Lips, Smith Westerns, the Mountain Goats, Local Natives, and many more. Photos by Kirstie Shanley.

Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to our photo book for some full-size snaps. And stay tuned for a full review in the features section.

And don't forget to stop by our Facebook page for even more photos.

 

Hear a New Justice Song

Ed Banger head Busy P plays "Audio, Video, Disco" during DJ set

Hear a New Justice Song

Photo by Natalie Kardos

French electro noisemakers Justice have a new album set for a fall release on Ed Banger. We've already heard the album's first single, "Civilization". Over the weekend, Ed Banger co-head Busy P performed at HARD Summer 2011 in Los Angeles' Historic State Park. During that set he played another new Justice song, "Audio, Video, Disco". Joseph Tsai caught it on video-- watch it below. The audio isn't amazing quality, but you can definitely make out the new song just fine.

 

Video: Girls: "Vomit"

Check out the souped-up visuals for the sprawling song

Video: Girls: "Vomit"

Girls' video for the BNM'ed romantic psych-rocker "Vomit" opens with a long, drawn-out series of close-up, fetishistic shots of a classic Ford Mustang. We're two minutes in before we see a single human being and three minutes in before the face of frontman Christopher Owens first flashes onscreen. It's a long, weird video, but it also manages to absorb completely for its nearly seven-minute runtime. Watch it below.

 

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