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Fucked Up have been releasing singles corresponding with the Chinese New Year since 2006. This year's new single is the 15-minute "Year of the Tiger" featuring Jim Jarmusch, Austra, and Annie-Claude Deschênes of Duchess Says. Matador has so graciously made the band's previous Chinese New Year singles streamable along with the new track. Take a listen to all of them below. Read more »

Fucked Up has launched a stream of their new Chinese New Year themed single, Year of the Tiger [12-inch] . The Toronto band has been releasing 12-inch singles coinciding with the lunar new year since 2006. Year Of The Tiger represents the latest entry in the series and includes guest vocalists including director Jim Jarmusch, Montreal punk vocalist Annie-Claude Deschênes and Canadian electronic outfit Austra. The band had begun streaming the other five singles late last month.

Paul Banks , a quien todos reconocemos casi al instante como guitarrista y vocalista de la banda Interpol, está por lanzar su segundo álbum solista, aprovechando su ausencia de los escenarios con la banda. Fue en el 2009, bajo el seudónimo de Julian Plenti , cuando hizo su primera producción en solitario, " Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper ". Los detalles de su nuevo lanzamiento aún son escasos, pero sabemos que saldrá, una vez más, a través de Matador Records, probablemente a finales de este año. Tampoco queda claro si lo hará otra vez [...]

Ceremony have posted a number of dates for this spring. The tour finds the band hitting the west and east coasts, Chicago, and the UK. The band will be promoting their forthcoming album, Zoo due out March 6th, 2012 .

Now that Fucked Up has ended its banner year, rumors of questionable origin have begun to plague the band, somewhat mimicking the early days where the band themselves deliberately disbursed misinformation. Last year found the Toronto band releasing their critically acclaimed David Comes to Life LP, a meta-concept album that tied the band themselves into a story about blowing up a factory in 1980's England. But, after the accolades came pouring in, stories of the band's demise, lead vocalists quitting, and rampant dysfunction quickly followed in the wake. [...]

Banks' sophomore solo record is due out later this year.

Matador está celebrando el año nuevo chino al publicar 4 canciones de Fucked Up llamadas "Dog", "Pig", "Rat", y "Ox". " Year of the Tiger " es el nombre del " EP" y se puede ordenar aquí .

official Earworm mashup of France's Jessy Matador for Wagram Records

This one put a lump in my throat. I've given Perfume Genius a bit of a hard time in the past, referring to him as a "downer." Well, the truth is sometimes a downer. This piece is about the fear of giving yourself to another, but becoming so scared that you just give up. I was [...]

Perfume Genius – "Hood" Put Your Back N2 It comes out February 21st on Matador . "The song's about how if someone knew you 100%, they would go away."

TV Casualty TV Casualty 7" Matador Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Never hurts to revisit the Misfits! Album Review: If you have been around Philadelphia you might be familiar with the punk cover group TV Casualty that plays out once in awhile tackling different set lists from classics like Black Flag and Minor Threat. It may surprise you that their lineup includes [...]

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks have announced a number of shows in February 2012, aiming to hit some of North America's "glittering metropolises" that were skipped on their tour last August. The band's most recent release, Mirror Traffic , was released in 2011.

California's Ceremony drops a new single that brings a new British punk sound into the band's repertoire; however, it just doesn't do that much for me. WATCH THE REVIEW

California's Ceremony will release their Matador Records debut, Zoo , on March 6th, 2012, the label announced. Also being released on that day will be the second single from the album, "Adult." The first single, Hysteria," is set to be released January 17, 2012 . Additionally, the label teased a special NYC event, to be announced early next month. The label has also posted the song "Hysteria" as a free download, which you can get here . You can read the full announcement, including pre-order information, here . [...]

• Ceremony - Hysteria

Boiler Room is on hand to remove the post christmas blues. They're going to be streaming live from Berlin with the following techno legends on hand from 2.30AM Australian time (4PM GMT) Richie Hawtin Carl Craig Marcel Dettman Daniel Miller Alva Noto Dubfire Matador Gaiser This is the second time Carl Craig has played on BR in as many months. If you want to check his set from Mid November, you can watch it back here. [...]

Pitchfork is hosting a full length performance of Fucked Up performing David Comes to Life live in New York City's West Village neighborhood at Le Poisson Rouge . The performance was one of the few the band has remaining in 2011 but will share the same live rendition of their album with fans in their hometown of Toronto next week . Check out the full set here .

Starting in the New Year, Matador Records will be releasing rare, exclusive tracks from a number of their artists through their new 73 subscription series, "Singles Going Home Alone." Available January 17th, the first 73 is a split single featuring the unlikely duo of Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks and 802s glam-metal godfathers L.A. Guns. On the single, Malkmus and his band cover L.A. Guns' 1989 track "Wheels of Fire" and The Guns take on "Gorgeous George" off Malkmus' Mirror Traffic , which dropped earlier this year. It has been well-documented that [...]

Fucked Up are premiering their video for "Turn the Season." The track comes from David Comes to Life .

Minus are proud to present the newest member of the family, in the form of Matador. In the past four years Gavin Lynch's sounds have found a home on Perc Trax and Cocoon, plus most recently on Plus 8 , where Richie Hawtin recently introduced the young Dubliner ahead of his first Minus event (at Berlin's Watergate, joining the Minus team for the official Fly Bermuda afterparty), with his stellar remix of Bryan Zentz's D-Clash. After that introductory taste, Matador now takes the bull by the horns for his first full EP for Minus, exploring the twisted but organic techno [...]

Matador Records will be releasing their first 7-inch from critically acclaimed hardcore outfit Ceremony in early 2012. According to the label, the 7-inch will be released on January 17, 2012 with the first 200 coming in clear vinyl. The two-song disc features the title track "Hysteria" and a cover of Urinals ' "I'm A Bug." It follows up 2010's Rohnert Park and 2011's Covers , both released on Bridge Nine Records .