Sep 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Elbow

Back in August Elbow frontman Guy Garvey gave an interview with the British radio station XFM and said that he’d just put the finishing touches on a new solo album and that it was due for release in October. Now Garvey has announced on his official Facebook page that the album is titled Courting the Squall and is due out October 30 in the U.K.

Sep 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Radiohead

A new song by Thom Yorke, “Villain,” was played during the runway show for the New York fashion label Rag & Bone at New York Fashion Week this week. While the song has no lyrics or lead vocals from Yorke, it features the vocals of 12 members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and still bears the hallmarks of a Yorke composition.

Sep 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts DIIV

Back in April DIIV announced that their second album, the somewhat awkwardly titled Is the Is Are, will be coming out this fall via Captured Tracks. Since then there’s been radio silence. No songs from the album have been shared and a more exact release date has yet to be confirmed, putting into question whether it will be a 2015 release after all. But now the band has shared a brand new song, “Dopamine,” which gives hope that Is the Is Are isn’t too far from being released.

Sep 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Run the Jewels

When it was announced that TV on the Radio and Run the Jewels would be doing some sort of collaborative performance together on the second week of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert it was kind of hoped that they’d be performing a new collaborative song or even announcing a new joint project. Instead what we got last night was a Run the Jewels performance of Run the Jewels 2 cut “Angel Duster” with TV on the Radio as their backing band.

Sep 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Deerhunter

Deerhunter recently announced their new album, Fading Frontier, and shared the first song from it, “Snakeskin.” Now the band have shared a video for “Breaker.” It’s the first Deerhunter song to feature lead vocals from both Bradford Cox and Lockett Pundt and so fittingly much of the video is about superimposing the two of them on top of each other, fading in and out as they sing the song.

Sep 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Shamir

Shamir has shared a fun new video for “In For the Kill.” In it he pilots a UFO and drops cassette tapes from the sky. Anthony Sylvester directed the clip (he also did Shamir’s videos for “On the Regular” and “Darker”), which was inspired by the “balloon boy” UFO hoax. Rookie Mag premiered it and you can watch it below.

Sep 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Warpaint

Warpaint bassist Jenny Lee Linberg has announced her debut solo album. For it she will simply be going under the name jennylee. The album, entitled right on!, is due for release on December 11 via Rough Trade. She has shared a teaser trailer for the album, which you can watch below.

Sep 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Baio

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is set to release his debut solo album this Friday (September 18) via Glassnote. He’s going simply under his last name and the album is titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name. Now you can stream the whole thing below via Noisey, who premiered it and also interviewed Baio about the record.

Sep 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Sharon Van Etten

Gazing with Tranquility: A Tribute to Donovan is due out October 16 via the nonprofit record label Rock the Cause. As the title suggests, it features other artists covering some classics by ‘60s icon Donovan. Now NPR has shared Sharon Van Etten‘s take on “Teen Angel,” which you can stream below.