Jul 08, 2015 By Laura Studarus The Lionheads

Last weekend, Oslo, Norway, hosted Stavernfestivalen.

Jul 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Ducktails

Mac DeMarco news galore! The most pressing DeMarco news is that today at 1 PM he is hosting a free BBQ, as he announced last night. It’s happening at 153 Morgan Ave. and DeMarco promises he’ll be playing unheard music from his car stereo.

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts New Order

New Order had previously announced last month that on September 25 they would release Music Complete, their first studio album in a decade, first for their new label Mute, and first not to feature founding member Peter Hook (but it sees the return of founding member Gillian Gilbert).

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Stereolab

Former Stereolab vocalist and sometime political songwriter Laetitia Sadier has shared a video for “Oscuridad” and has announced some U.S. tour dates. The video was directed by Loic Jouan but features footage from classic black & white silent films directed by Fritz Lang and Serguei M. Eisenstein.

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Girls Names

Irish post-punk band Girls Names will be releasing their third album Arms Around a Vision on October 2 via Tough Love. That’s quite a long ways away, but now the Belfast band has released another song from the record, the fantastic near-six-minute long “A Hunger Artist.”

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Best Coast

Best Coast have shared a video for “Feeling OK.” The video premiered today on Apple Music’s artist-driven social network Connect.

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced some new tour dates. They are in support of 2014’s Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress and take in the South, the Northeast, Texas, England, and Paris.

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Ought

Montréal post-rockers Ought are set to release their second album, Sun Coming Down, September 18 via Constellation. The band has shared the album’s first single, the near-eight-minute-long “Beautiful Blue Sky,” which you can stream below.

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Sigur Rós

Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason, two thirds of Sigur Rós, have partnered with Icelandic composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós touring guitarist Kjartan Holm (also Georg Holm’s brother), to record the score to the BBC documentary film The Show of Shows.