Viet Cong

Preoccupations (fka Viet Cong) have shared "Antidote," the second single from their forthcoming album New Material. Led by a throbbing, stabbing bassline and industrial-strength drums, it's more of a pop song than you might first think, though the song takes a left turn down a long dark hallway halfway through.

Canada's Preoccupations are back with their third album, bluntly titled New Material, which will be out March 23 via Jagjaguwar.

Four excellent rock albums and an album that pushes the boundaries of modern-day jazz.

Preoccupations, the band formerly known as Viet Cong, will release their new album next week via Jagjaguwar. They've just shared the album's 11-minute centerpiece, "Memory," which features Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner...

Also: watch recently-released videos from Gang of Four's soon-to-be tourmates The Faint and Pictureplane.

Preoccupations, the Canadian band formerly known as Viet Cong, will release their second album on September 16 via Jagjaguwar. You can check out first single "Anxiety," which features Matt Flegel singing in a deeper, more ominous register than we've heard before...

It took a while but Canadian group Viet Cong have chosen a new name: Preoccupations. The band's official statement (via Pitchfork): After finishing our latest record and taking some time off, we are excited to announce that we will be performing and recording as "Preoccupations" going forward...

Headliners include Kendrick Lamar, Tame Impala, LCD Soundsystem and Grace Jones, plus there's the first Air show in the US in five years, the LA debut of ANOHINI's HOPELESSNESS show, the reunited Wolf Parade, Saves the Day playing Stay What You Are in full, and more.

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc...

Yesterday, Pitchfork put out their 100 Best Songs of 2015 list, and today they published their Honorable Mentions for albums of the year. A few of the albums did receive Best New Music during the year, like Lower Dens, Levon Vincent, Prurient and Viet Cong, and others weren't reviewed at all like ...