Nov 12, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Unknown Mortal Orchestra has shared a video for “Necessary Evil,” a song that can be found on the New Zealand band’s excellent recent album Multi-Love (out now via Jagjaguwar). Sean Solomon illustrated and directed colorful animated video, which features two lovers coming together and breaking apart.

Nov 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete has been battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer. His health insurance has been covering more than six months of regular chemotherapy treatments, but does not cover an alternative treatment plan he’s also been undergoing. As Fekete is unable to work and tour he’s been relying on fan and friend donations to his GoFundMe page to help pay for treatments.

Nov 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Hot Chip

Last month YACHT released their new album, I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler (the follow-up to 2011’s Shangri-La and 2014’s Where Does This Disco EP), via Downtown. The album was announced via a billboard in Los Angeles. Then the band revealed the album’s tracklist via a series of GIFs on BuzzFeed and faxed the album art to 300 fans.

Nov 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Jherek Bischoff

Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche has teamed up with Los Angeles-based experimental composer Jherek Bischoff for a new song entitled “Surviving Christmas.” The holiday song addresses the current European refugee crisis and can be streamed below. It will be released on November 20 as part of Indie For the Holidays, a new compilation/playlist put together by Amazon that will stream on Prime Music and for purchase via Amazon Music.

Nov 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Blur

Blur recently announced a new documentary/concert film entitled New World Towers. The film chronicles the making of the band’s long-awaited new album, The Magic Whip, which was released earlier in the year by Warner Bros. and also features performance footage from both a June show in London’s Hyde Park and another concert in Hong Kong.

Nov 11, 2015 By Laura Studarus mixtapes

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—Le Guess Who? time.

Nov 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Ty Segall

On Monday Pitchfork and Rolling Stone received used VHS tapes announcing and containing a new album by Ty Segall. The album was taped over such movies as My Life (a 1993 movie starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman) and 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Now the prolific musician has confirmed details of the album and also announced an extensive 2016 tour.

Nov 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts NZCA Lines

NZCA Lines, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, is releasing their second album, Infinite Summer, on January 22, 2016 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared the strange video for “Persephone Dreams.” In it a man picks up a woman at a bar and takes her home, only for her reveal that she has a black hole in her belly, which he willingly enters.

Nov 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Lush

At the end of September shoegazing legends Lush announced they were reuniting. The band had previously announced that on May 6, 2016 they are playing their first ever show in almost 20 years at London’s Roundhouse (which is now sold-out, so they’ve added another show on May 7). Now the band has announced their first U.S. reunion show, on September 14, 2016 in New York City a Terminal5. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 13.