Amadou & Mariam will put out a new record this week, and it's a fairly star-studded one at that, as we've already heard the Santigold-featuring "Dougou Badia." Now the Malian duo have put out a video…   Read Story »

New Party Systems is a new supergroup, featuring TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone and two current and former members of Liturgy, and their track "We Are" is an honorable attempt at creating an anthem for…   Read Story »

Here Four Tet Kieran Hebden has his way with the Tishoumaren gyspy folk-blues avatars Tinariwen in seven-minute remix fashion. The African outfit's latest LP for ANTI- Tassili is the first of theirs…   Read Story »

Here's another clip from Our Show With Elliot Aronow, the downtown-arts web series nailing the alternageist by framing fringe-culture heroes in off-beat poses: There was Das Racist covering their…   Read Story »

Voluminously head-haired Bedford Ave. mascot Kyp Malone is just a cackling laugh, oratorical cadence, and three-piece suit away from being able to roll as Cornel West any given Halloween, so it's…   Read Story »

Last June, the legendary New Zealand musician Chris Knox suffered a "series" of strokes. A few months later, we posted Jeff Mangum's cover of the Tall Dwarfs gem "Sign The Dotted Line," a take that…   Read Story »

We waited all yesterday for this to pop up on iTunes and it's finally arrived... No strangers to the tradition of benefit recordings -- see the "David Christmas" 7", "Year Of The Pig," etc. -- Fucked…   Read Story »

MBAR returns with his Kyp Malone-produced sophomore album Summer Of Fear next month. Grab an MP3 of lead single "The Sound" over at RCRD LBL. Album's out 10/20 via Saddle Creek.   Read Story »

Our first taste of Rain Machine, aka the solo project from TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone, was the chaotically upbeat "Give Blood." It didn't leave much space for you to catch your breath, if breath…   Read Story »

Here's the first single from Kyp Malone's ten-track solo debut LP. Kyp says the album is "a nearly full spectrum of frequencies audible to the human ear, a reflection of a variety of emotions and…   Read Story »