Ultimate Painting

free 2017 Central Park SummerStage shows (Yo La Tengo, TMBG, Mavis Staples, Valerie June, Laura Mvula & more)

PLUS: Mulatu Astatke, Roy Ayers, Panjabi MC, “Rock Steady Crew 40th Anniversary,” and more.

SummerStage 2017 free show lineup: Digable Planets, Yo La Tengo, Jadakiss, Laura Mvula, Valerie June, more

Also: Margaret Glaspy, George Clinton, Main Source, KRS-One, Slick Rick, Robert Glasper, Denzel Curry, DJ Premier, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Capone-N-Noreaga, GZA, Bilal, and so much more.

UK band Novella released 'Change of State' (watch the title track's video)

UK quartet Novella released their new album Change of State earlier in February via Synderlin, which continues their trek though hazy, motorik territory. (Fans of early Stereolab and late-’80s 4AD, take note.) The band made the album in a Victorian home bedroom studio run by James Hoare of Ultimate Painting…

End of the Road Festival: 2017 lineup + tickets

This UK festival, set at the idyllic Larmer Tree Gardens, features Father John Misty, Mac Demarco, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Band of Horses, Ty Segall, Real Estate, Parquet Courts, Perfume Genius, Car Seat Headrest, Foxygen, The Lemon Twigs, and lots more.

The Proper Ornaments released 'Foxhole' and "Memories" video

Proper Ornaments features James Haore of Ultimate Painting and Veronica Falls.

Jack Cooper of Ultimate Painting's Top 10 LPs of 2016 (they play NYC tonight)

“I usually get obsessed with different bands or types of music and it stops me being open to new stuff, but this year I’ve managed to stay relatively un-obsessed” — Ultimate Painting’s Jack Cooper.

Ultimate Painting release "Monday Morning, Somewhere Central" video, on tour now (win tix to NYC show!)

“It’s a song about fading friendships and trying to look back on them optimistically. The vast majority of relationships we form with people eventually dwindle, but I’ve never really looked on that as being particularly sad.” – UP’s Jack Cooper

SXSW adds lots more artists to 2017 lineup + Nile Rodgers as Keynote Speaker

Cherry Glazerr, Temples, S U R V I V E, Beach Slang, No Joy, PWR BTTM, Ultimate Painting, Weaves, Modern English, Omni & more added to 2017 lineup.

stream Ultimate Painting's new LP 'Dusk'; EZTV opening on North American tour

Ultimate Painting pulls off the difficult “same but different” highwire act for their third album in as many years. Their North American tour will have them out with EZTV.
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