Blog: Stereogum

If synthpop royalty is a thing that exists, Vince Clarke is it, straight up. Clarke is a founding member of Depeche Mode (before they turned gothy), Yaz, and Erasure, and if you're making a move toward keyboards on your new album, he's probably the guy you want remixing it. Liars, who already had the Mute Records hookup, seem to have that idea, anyway. They've recruited Clarke to rework their new " No. 1 Against The Rush " into a seven-minute bleepfest, and we've got the result below. Read More...

Name: The Soft Moon Progress Report: Luis Vasquez talks about the recording of the Soft Moon's forthcoming sophomore LP. The Soft Moon's 2010 self-titled debut was a thing of gothy delight - eleven tracks of spooky bedroom electronics that created such a powerful, singular vision - of something beautiful, harrowing, and more than a little frightening - that the album was able to transcend its obvious influences. 2011's follow up EP, Total Decay , pulled off a similar trick - creating dark soundscapes that sounded both alien and weirdly [...]

Flying Lotus and Beach House both make supremely chill, critically acclaimed music. Both have probably soundtracked a whole lot of drug experiences. Also, FlyLo once remixed Gucci Mane , and Beach House once covered Gucci . But that doesn't mean they're best friends. Read More...

A while ago, the world was introduced to Oxford electro up-and-comer Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, a stylemashing performer that just happens to dress like a Stegosaurus at gigs. He's got a new record coming out this summer - we've previously processed cuts like " Dream On " and John Talabot's remix of " Tapes & Money " - and today we've got another slice of that, the glitter-heavy visual for the pulsating "American Dream Part II." Watch it below. Read More...

The New York band Pop. 1280 make a grimy, scuzzy, entirely sinister variety of art-punk. So it only makes sense that director Jacqueline Castel would turn the video for their song " Bodies In The Dunes " into a '70s-style mini-horror movie about a serial killer who buries his victims on a deserted beach. The video isn't exactly NSFW, but there's a good chance it'll get under your skin. Watch it and download the song below. Read More...

Breezy NOLA rapper Curren$y - whose consistency is simply remarkable - will put out a new album this summer called The Stoned Immaculate , a release from which we've already heard the Wale-featuring " What It Look Like " and the Daz collab " Fast Cars Faster Women ." Today we've got another cut from the album where Spitta gets busy on the sort of jazzy, flute-laden texture that he routinely murders. The track also features a verse from everywhere-at-once ATL rapper 2 Chainz, a chameleon who's parlayed his post-Tity Boi renaissance into visibility on every slice [...]

This one hurts. TMZ reports that the legendary singer and dance-music innovator Donna Summer has died of cancer in Florida. She was 63. Read More...

In a recent piece for Interview Magazine , Jack White complained about the Guinness Book Of World Records deliberately avoiding the inclusion of the White Stripes, something we chronicled in yesterday's edition of Where's The Beef? . To review, here's Jack: Read More...

Hands , the debut album from perma-charming British dance diva Little Boots, is now three years old, and she's finally putting some new jams out into the world, like the tracks " Shake " and " I Wish ." A new song called "Headphones," about the patently ridiculous activity of wearing your headphones to a disco, debuted on BBC Radio yesterday. Listen to a radio rip of it below. Read More...

The hazy-jangle quartet So Many Wizards have lately become staples of L.A.'s always-adventurous DIY scene, and they're getting set to release their debut album Warm Nothing . Below, we've got a download of the swoony two minute track "Happy Birthday," as well as the album's tracklist. Read More...

• So Many Wizards - Happy Birthday

In March, Brooklyn's Lemonade gave us the sterling " Neptune ," as well as some remixes a little later on , and now the group's come through with a clip to match. It's a pretty thing awash in cerulean tints and skin, featuring many close-ups on Lemonade lead singer Callan Clendenin, who's doing some major league yearning. Watch it below. Read More...

Ruin 4 , the latest release from the internet-addled Minneapolis production duo Elite Gymnastics, is an unconventional one: A bundle of a T-shirt, a poster, three buttons, and a CD that adds two new tracks and two new remixes to the remix collection Ruin 3 . One of the new tracks is a six-minute melancholy junglistic banger called "Life/Trap," and you can download it below. Read More...

• Elite Gymnastics - “Life/Trap”

On the heels of " Express Yourself " comes another new cut from Diplo's forthcoming EP, a stuttering, hypnotic dancehall cut called "Set It Off." It's a collaboration between Diplo and Burlington, VT DJ duo Lazerdisk Party Sex. Stream it below. Read More...

The xx recently returned to the stage for their first few small shows in quite some time, and they took the opportunity to debut some of their long-awaited new material. We already posted video of them playing one untitled-as-far-as-we-know new song. And now here's another: A characteristically dark and catchy throb that ends abruptly after two minutes but seems like it could keep going much longer. Watch it below. Read More...

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Jonathan Demme loves him some Neil Young. In the past decade, Demme has already directed two Neil Young concert films: 20062s Heart Of Gold and 20092s Neil Young Trunk Show , and he got Tunde Adebimpe to sing Young's "Unknown Legend" in his movie Rachel Getting Married . (Demme, of course, also directed arguably the greatest concert film ever made, the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense .) Now Demme is getting ready to release his third Young concert film. Neil Young Journeys follows Young as he visits his Ontario hometown and then [...]

Last night, Best Coast made their big return to the Late Show With David Letterman , playing the title track from their new album The Only Place . Bethany Cosentino wore more makeup than I've ever seen her wear before, and Bobb Bruno's short haircut is still a thing to get used to. They're so presentable these days! Watch it below. Read More...

OK, this YouTube is a few years old. But it's NEW TO ME (thanks Videogum ). Obviously we couldn't let you go for the day without sharing details on a gnarly two compact disc (or two cassette!) compilation that'll change your life. After hearing deep cuts from Huey Lewis, Culture Club, and A Flock Of Seagulls, you'll wonder why you ever listened to anything but punk music before. Read More...

Ben Chasny will release a new Six Organs Of Admittance record this summer, and that lineup will feature several of his Comets On Fire bandmembers. It's the follow-up to 20112s Asleep On The Floodplain . Today, Chasny dropped the leadoff track from the new record, the chaotic scorcher "Waswasa." Download it below. Read More...

• Six Organs of Admittance - Waswasa

As Parakeet, Yuck bassist Mariko Doi has already dropped her solo track " Tomorrow ." Today, we get to hear that track's single, a bit of fuzzed-out dreampop called "Paper, Scissors, Stone." It plays alongside some abstract nature footage in the video below. Read More...