Last week the Animal Collective bros released an official mixtape for their new … sneakers. That is a thing now. Gotta keep fans on their toes (ouch, sorry). The shoes which you can see here…   Read Story »

About the only person who doesn't appear in crate-digging duo Duck Sauce's new video is the actual Barbra Streisand. Instead, Armand Van Helden, A-Trak, and a Baba impersonator are joined by Kanye…   Read Story »

MGMT hit the Coachella stage playing their generally freakier Congratulations material in relatively human clothing, which prompted me to posit an aesthetic axiom: The weirdness of MGMT's music is…   Read Story »

We brought you this track from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Imelda Marco concept album in January, and today Byrne debuted a video to go with it. Says Byrne: "We did a photo session for a magazine…   Read Story »

The producer's next batch of authentic shit deviates from the Versions script significantly -- no covers, no horns -- for a followup due "May or June." More at NME.   Read Story »

Here lies the first listen from Here Lies Love, the weirdo concept album about Imelda Marcos, the shoe-obsessed widow of the Philippines' former dictator. It comes courtesy of everyone's favorite…   Read Story »

This is how you stunt for publicity: An unlikely assemblage of superstars have banded together to raise awareness about the global clean water crisis by climbing Africa's tallest peak, Tanzania's Mt.…   Read Story »

There could not have been a more apt ID3 than that of Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke Of Genius," the MP3 that launched this decade's most fitting musical legacy. Parts of two or three or thirty…   Read Story »

Aside from discussing how Norah wanted The Fall to tickle corners further from the country-jazz she'd been pedal-steeling of late, there's a lot in Norah's recording history that makes Santi White a…   Read Story »

If you weren't talking about the weather in Grant Park this weekend, you weren't in Grant Park this weekend. And really that would've been a shame. It was oppressive at times, but despite -- or as…   Read Story »