Blog: Bears and Bullets

Death Grips have been everywhere lately, which is slightly odd considering who they actually are. The Sacramento rap punks made waves last year with Exmilitary , and a few weeks back with their insane wall of live looped gif's, plus a Coachella performance last weekend (and next weekend). So if you're still interested after all of that, here's the group's newest album The Money Store , available in full stream from their Soundcloud page. Listen below.

Earlier today, we got our first listen to The Walkmen 's upcoming seventh studio album, Heaven . The new album is due out June 5 on Fat Possum records, with the eponymous single featured below.

Major Lazer fans just received an exclusive email of the "Get Free" single, featuring Amber Coffman of the Dirty Projectors in their mail box. You can too if you head on over to their site and add yourself to the mailing list. But, if not just listen to the awesome new single below. Get Free (ft. Amber of Dirty Projectors) by Bears and Bullets

Last night, buzz-band Alabama Shakes made their network TV debut with an outstanding performance of "Hold On" on the Late Show with David Letterman . Check out the performance below.

Bit of a quiet one today. But this new SBTRKT remix of Frank Ocean 's "Whip Appeal" should be enough to grab your attention. Check out the mix below.

Florida mud-metal four-piece Torche are set to release Harmonicraft , the group's rainbow packaged third album, April 24. The second single from the album "Reverse Inverted," comes through more methodical than their previous work, 2008's fantastic Meanderthal . Download the track below. Torche – "Reverse Inverted"

• Torche - Reverse Inverted

Los Angeles punk veterans Off! just released their butt-crack, makeout, mosh video for "Wiped Out," a 74-second "damn, this seems fun" romp, directed by Richard Kern. Watch below.

So, the day's really here. And after the previous months/weeks of speculation, the biggest story of Lollapalooza 2012 ended up being that the lineup leaked from Sunday WAS 100% ACCURATE. It's the first time in recent memory that a complete leak like this has happened with a major U.S. music festival, so everything we heard tonight wasn't a surprise. As you know, Black Sabbath , with all original members, Red Hot Chili Peppers , The Black Keys , Jack White , Florence + The Machine , At The Drive-In , [...]

Today, we were introduced to the second cut from Here We Go Magic 's upcoming A Different Ship LP, due out May 8 via Secretly Canadian Records. Stream "How Do I Know" here .

The Black Lips just released "Sick of You," recorded alongside the other tracks packaged into last year's Arabia Mountain with a killer new B-Side "Dance With You." You can grab the download below. Black Lips – "Dance With You"

• Black Lips - Dance With You

What you're looking at above is an "apparent" copy of the official Lollapalooza 2012 lineup, given to press members at the festival's branch outing at Lollapalooza Brazil from last weekend. The photo leaked a few hours before midnight, Sunday, and for all reasonable expectations it looks accurate . Considering the leaks that Lollapalooza has already confirmed with their CTA ads ( Jack White , Justice , etc.), what you see above looks extremely plausible to be the actual lineup, which will be out officially sometime on Wednesday, April 11. So [...]

Yesterday, The Raveonettes released the lead single from their new EP, which is set for release April 24 on the band's label. You listen to the cheery shoegaze pop single "Into The Night," below.

The second track (and still only the second track) we've heard from Jack White 's hyped up solo debut, the video for "Sixteen Saltines" was released earlier today. The video sets one of those sort of Children of the Corn settings - children running the show, becoming destructive, and a little magical. Watch below, and grab Blunderbuss album April 24 on Third Man Records .

As usual with Pitchfork Music Festival, a large amount of late-adds have been etched onto the July 13-15 billing. Included with the previously mentioned big names of Vampire Weekend , Feist , Godspeed You! Black Emperor , and Hot Chip are a solid class of additions, which are: Wild Flag, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Beach House, Real Estate, Dirty Projectors, Atlas Sound, Big K.R.I.T., Nicolas Jaar, Cults, Chavez, Oneohtrix Point Never, Youth Lagoon, King Krule, Dirty Beaches, Lotus Plaza, Lower Dens, Milk Music, The Psychic Paramount, Unknown Mortal [...]

Albums of the Month - March 2012 After hitting a snag in January and seemingly going through the motions last month, March exploded. Quality albums from big names like Odd Future and Tanlines , alongside some unknown entities really made gave a lot of optimism for the remainder of 2012. Number one may not be a surprise for some of you, but the month gave us a lot of unexpected gems. Here are my favorite three. [...]

Another soulful, under produced, simplistic cut from Chicago native Willis Earl Beal 's Acousmatic Sorcery was given the aptly cost-efficient video treatment. "Monotony" stars Beal as a disguised newspaper distributor on a day that I can only assume was about 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Check out the video below.

Earlier today, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. released the video for their Record Store Day 12" "We Almost Lost Detroit," a pretty astounding love-letter to the duo's native city. Watch the somewhat awkward video cuing city-natives alongside below.

I was generally a fan of J. Tillman's work, in and outside of Fleet Foxes , and the same is pretty true under his Father John Misty moniker. The echoed, subdued folk-pop of "Nancy From Now On" follows up the first single " Hollywood Forever Cemetery Slings " from his upcoming album Fear Fun , which is due out May 1 on Sub Pop . Listen to the new track below.

Featured as a B-Side to Japandroids ' supremely excellent single "The House That Heaven Built," the Vancouver duo recently covered Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds noir smash "Jack The Ripper." Listen to the cut below and don't forget to grab Celebration Rock June 5.

Lockett Pundt's ( Deerhunter ) second go-around as Lotus Plaza has proved to be otherworldly. His new LP Spooky Action at a Distance is already exceptional from what I've heard, but "Monoliths" may be the best of the new work. Listen to the single below and grab the new album today via Kranky Records .