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Last Thursday (3/7), Portland-based psych rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra brought their tour with Foxygen and Wampire through Chicago for a performance at Lincoln Hall…

Odd Future member Earl Sweatshirt will be making his SXSW debut this year (he wasn’t there when the rest of his crew first played), and will be doing collaborative sets with Captain Murphy, aka Flying Lotus’ rap alter ego (who collaborated with him on “Between Friends”)…

There must be something about having the word Foxy in the name of your band (see Foxy Shazam) that has a requirement of the lead singer acting completely nuts on stage…

UMO/Foxygen at Austin’s Mohawk (more by Tim Griffin) Jagjaguwar labelmates Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Foxygen are about two weeks into their tour together that will swing into NYC on Thursday (2/28) for a sold-out show at Bowery Ballroom with fellow tourmates Wampire…

Portland’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra are on tour with NYC/LA retro cutups Foxygen and another Portland band,Wampire. Both UMO and Foxygen are supporting new albums out on Jagjaguar…

Portland duo Wampire are gearing up for their debut album, Curiosity, which will be out in May on Polyvinyl. It was produced by Unknown Mortal Orchestra bassist Jacob Portrait and the album’s first single, “The Hearse,” is out next week (2/22) and is streamable below…

Foxygen at Pianos in 2012 (more by Jessica Amaya) Retro psych/baroque poppers Foxygen are set to kick off a tour with Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Wampire soon, which hits NYC for the previously discussed Bowery Ballroom show on February 28…

Foxygen @ Pianos, CMJ 2012 (more by Jessica Amaya) Foxygen‘s new album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, is out in a couple weeks (1/22), and the band have just released a video to one of the record’s most charming songs, “San Francisco,” which you can watch below…

UMO in NYC in 2011 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) As mentioned on BrooklynVegan, Unknown Mortal Orchestra are releasing their new album, II, on February 5 via Jagjaguwar and supporting on a tour with Foxygen (who also have a new album coming) and