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tix on sale: David Byrne, Thursday, Slayer, Childish Gambino, Lily Allen more

Grizzly Bear / Spoon, Nick Cave, Eric B & Rakim, Robert Plant/Sherlyn Crow, Nick Cave, Lily Allen, Ted Leo, Tricky, Deerhunter, Hot Snakes, YOB/Bell Witch, and more.

Fool's Gold announces "Gold Gone Wild" tour; A-Trak playing other dates too

A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs‘ Fool’s Gold Records just put out a new 17-track mixtape called Night Shift from “the label’s latest signings and loudest family members” and they’ll support it with the “Gold Gone Wild” tour in May/June. The tour features a rotating lineup, with both label bosses plus Tommy Trash, Gladiator, Kittens, Madeaux, Rome Fortune and Shash’U showing up on select dates.

SXSW announces third round of 2016 artists

SXSW already announced two rounds of 2016 artists, and today a third round was announced, including L7, Bloc Party, The Cult, Loretta Lynn, Waxahatchee, Frankie Cosmos, D∆WN, Polica, Dilly Dally, Eleanor Friedberger, Protomartyr, Holy Fuck, Ra Ra Riot, Fat White Family, Domo Genesis, Hodgy Beats, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, All Dogs, Judy Collins & Ari Hest, The Dandy Warhols, Des Ark, Mick Jenkins, Lady Leshurr, Mitski, Supersuckers, Teen Suicide, together PANGEA, Turnover, Younghusband an…

Pitchfork Paris 2015 in pics: Thom Yorke, Kurt Vile, HEALTH, Deerhunter, Beach House, Father John Misty, Destroyer, more

Kurt Vile / Thom Yorke / FJM / Health @ Pitchfork Paris 2015Loosening his man-bun before losing himself to dance as he and producer and collaborator Nigel Godrich step out on stage before huge screens rushing through hypnotic visuals for ‘The Clock’, Yorke kicks off a flawlessly tight and mesmeric set – leaning heavily on Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, but adding a twitchier and more introverted mechanical menace to tracks from The Eraser and AMOK…

RBSS throwing 30 days of shows in LA again (TVOTR, Vince Staples, Grimes w/ Nicole Dollanganger, Tinashe & more)

Like last year, Red Bull Sound Select is throwing 30 days of concerts in LA for the entire month of November. Artists playing include TV on the Radio, Grimes, Sylvan Esso, Joey Bada$$, Toro y Moi, Tinashe, Vince Staples, Big Sean, Kaytranada, iLoveMakonnen, Foals, Kiesza, Chromeo an…

Four Tet & Toro y Moi collaborator Rome Fortune touring, playing an RBSS show with Cakes Da Killa & Doss (dates)

Atlanta’s green-bearded rapper Rome Fortune is touring soon and playing the next Red Bull Sound Select installment in NYC. This one’s curated by PopGun and also includes local rapper Cakes Da Killa an…

NYC hip hop roundup: Meek Mill, Smoke DZA, Nitty Scott MC, Curren$y, Joell Ortiz & Akon, Wiz Khalifa, REMI, more

There’s never a lack of great hip hop shows happening in NYC. Today alone, we posted about Ratking (with Trash Talk), Dipset and Action Bronson …

Caribou gives us his Top 10 LPs & tracks of 2014

Caribou‘s most recent album, Our Love, has gotten much acclaim this year, showing up on a number of publications’ Best of 2014 lists. If you’re wondering what Caribou main man Dan Snaith’s favorite albums and songs of the year are, you’re in luck — he was nice enough to give us his lists for both…

FACT's Top 50 Albums of 2014

The best-of 2014 albums lists continue with FACT, who always put out an interesting list and this year is no exception. You’ve got a few of the year-end list regulars like FKA twigs, Angel Olsen, Ariel Pink, Grouper, YG, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib and Shabazz Palaces, but also a handful of obscurer rap, electronic and experimental c…

FACT's 50 Best Albums of 2013

I always look forward to FACT‘s year-end list, which you can count on to be chock full of (but not limited to) forward-thinking electronic music, pop, R&B and rap, and it’s one of the lists where I’m usually guaranteed to find something new…