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The New Mendicants (Pernice Bros/Teenage Fanclub) releasing Christmas 7" & new LP (streams) ++ new Pernice Bros LP too

The New Mendicants, the new-ish project from non-Canadians living in Toronto Joe Pernice and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), have just announced that their debut album, Lime, will be out on January 28 via Blake and Pernice’s new label, XPT Records…

Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2013

Pitchfork is back with its much-anticipated Top 50 Albums of 2013 list. The list has many of the albums you’d expect to see on Pitchfork’s list, though there’s still some surprises…

Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2013

Pitchfork just posted their Top 100 Tracks of 2013. It’s got what some people might call the worst song ever, the song with the most talked-about rap verse of the year, some surprises, and some of the year’s most undeniable songs…

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…

guests announced for Mykki Blanco & Le1f's year-end shows

Le1f at Afro-Punk Fest 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) As discussed, one of the many New Year’s Eve concerts happening in NYC is local rapper Mykki Blanco at Gramercy Theatre, and since we last spoke, guests have been announced for that show…

SPIN's top 50 albums of 2013

It’s the first work week of December and the year-end music lists for 2013 keep piling in. We just saw album lists from Q and Mojo, and now we get a list from a US publication, S…

Chance the Rapper announces tour with DJ Rashad, collaborated with James Blake (dates & stream)

Chance the Rapper at Lollapalooza 2013 (more by James Richards IV) Upcoming Chicago rapper Chance the Rapper already toured as an opener for Mac Miller this year, and now he’s announced a headlining tour in support of his buzzy mixtape, Acid ……

Chance the Rapper announces fall North American tour, playing the Riviera Theatre

Chance the Rapper @ Lollapalooza 2013 (more by James Richards IV) Chicago hip hop phenom Chance the Rapper has been touring hard since the release of his excellent Acid Rap mixtape earlier this year…

Wavves expand tour, added to Made In America Festival, in 'Grand Theft Auto V' w/ Flying Lotus & more (dates)

Wavves at Bonnaroo 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Earlier today, we mentioned that a bunch of punkish bands were added to Jay Z’s Made In America festival, which goes down at Philly’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway (8/31-9/1) this weekend…

DJ Rashad releasing a new LP, going on Hyperdub tour w/ Kode9 & Ikonika (dates); Laurel Halo releasing a new LP too

DJ Rashad at Pitchfork Festival 2013 (more by Cory Dewald) Hyperdub, the label run by Kode9 and responsible for signing Burial, is presenting a North American tour this September/October with Kode9, DJ Rashad, and Ikonika appearing on select dates…
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