“Drunk Girls” is the first track to surface from LCD Soundsystem’s upcoming release on May 17th. The currently untitled project was documented in a series of webisodes released through Murphy and company’s website. Thanks to One Thirty BPM for the stream.

Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi recently hit up the Jo Whiley show on BBC to perform some tracks from his solo EP Go Do (out March 23).
And because it makes total sense, the Icelandic falsetto master also decided to cover MGMT’s “Time to Pretend”. The result is an undeniably beautiful cover that’s infinitely better than all [...]

We posted “Shadow People” a a few weeks ago, but the Dr. Dog tracks keep on coming. “Stranger” was dropped in our inbox yesterday to celebrate the one month countdown to their fourth LP Shame, Shame.
I think I definitely liked “Shadow People” a little better, but “Stranger” is more of a song for those of [...]

LCD Soundsystem decided to take their act to the runway at the recent Yves Saint Laurent fashion show in Paris on March 8th. Unfortunately, no official audio exists, but you can hear Murphy and company play a version of Peter Gordon’s experimental track “Beginning of the Heartbreak” in the video below. Sexy.
The much-anticipated, but yet-unnamed, [...]

Wish you were in New Zealand for the first gig of Pavement’s 2010 reunion tour? So do we. Thanks to the internets there’s all sorts of video coverage being posted to YouTube.
Check out the their tour schedule on Matador. Although most dates are overseas, there are stops at Coachella, Sasquatch, four days in Central Park [...]

Ok… not all the details. But we do have a title: Tomboy. It has also been confirmed that Panda Bear will release his follow up to Person Pitch sometime in September on Paw Tracks.
The Animal Collective frontman has also been playing new tunes on his European Tour, so enjoy a video of two new songs [...]

Great news for those of you who “go to concerts to relax.” Purchase your tickets at their official site.

Thanks, Pitchfork. You win this round. The initial lineup for the 2010 Noise Pop Festival is now out in the open: the Magnetic Fields, Atlas Sound, Rogue Wave, Four Tet, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Mark Kozelek, John Vanderslice (who helped out last year as a bartender at Noise Pop 2009’s Mountain Goats show), Foreign [...]

Beck’s Record Club is nothing new at this point. Previous guests have included MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Nigel Goodrich, Jamie Lidell and many others. For the club’s latest effort, Beck brings together Wilco and Feist to cover Skip Spence’s album, Oar. Check out the video of “Little Hands” below.

Legendary singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen will be performing at HP Pavillion on November 13. The show comes less than a year after performing his first American concert in fifteen years. Judging by the superb Live in London, recorded at London’s O2 Arena in July 2008 and released in March 2009, Cohen hasn’t lost [...]