Another late addition to big shows announced this week goes to Santigold! Santigold is coming back another show in support of her recent release, Master Of My Make Believe at House Of Blues Sunset Strip on Saturday, Feb. 9. Tickets...

Santigold premiered the new video for her anthemic track "The Keepers" on Noisey. The song is from her album Master of My Make-Believe (Downtown/Atlantic). In the video, Santigold is a member of the idyllic 1950s American family sitting down to dinner and smiling as the world falls apart around them and the present reality of the United States comes rushing in. The video was directed by Nabil and features cameos by GZA, Kick Kennedy , and Trevor Andrew . [...]

Look at all of this new music. By any means, this isn't a heavy week for music as many of the big-hitters will weigh in this summer. More of that later, let's focus on what's right in front of us. You saw us feature Father John Misty as our Song of the Week back in March and we're happy to announce his new album released today called Fear Fun . Fr. John Misty is under the infamous Subpop label which manages to take on so many good artists year after year. Stream the [...]

Happy May Day to our Communist readers. Happy new release Tuesday for everyone else. Here's what you can expect to get this week: Brian Jonestown Massacre- stream Ane Brun Father John Misty- stream The Good Graces- stream The Lower Dens Pennywise- stream Portland Cello Project- stream Reptar- stream Santigold Rufus [...]
It's raining more "Localchella" shows Scenestar readers! Next up is Santigold with a Los Angeles date in support of her new album, Master Of My Make Believe. If you didn't see Santigold perform at this year's Coachella Music and Arts...
James Mercer and The Shins to release Port Of Morrow on March 20, their first album in six years. Now that we've had our first real viable candidate for arbitrary year-end lists, it's time to look at some other releases on the near horizon that hold that kind of potential. Since the world is supposed to end in May or something, we won't look beyond* that. Joining the excellent Cloud Nothings' Attack On Memory are anticipated releases from The Shins, Dirty Projectors, Sleigh Bells, Sharon [...]

New track from Santigold and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' frontwoman Karen O, which features Q-Tip and Switch behind the boards along with Santi herself, and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on guitar. Stream for now (via Life and Times ).

Indie film Wah Do Dem available on DVD October 26th from Factory 25 Starring musicians Sean Bones and Norah Jones Directed by Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace Brooklyn musician Max ( Sean Bones ) is all set to take his girlfriend (played by Norah Jones ) on a Caribbean cruise until to his surprise, she dumps him just days before. When his friends flake, the determined Max [...]

Grab this special version of N.E.R.D.’s tune “Soldier” that has been brought forth by Star Trak-representative Fam-Lay. Initially the track served as a teaser for the new N.E.R.D.-album. However, since the band decided to abandon the already finished material and to record all new music for the anticipated longplayer, Soldier has almost been forgotten by the music world. Fam-Lay, however, remembered the track and replaced Lil’ Wayne’s verse with his raps. The new album Nothing is scheduled for a release June 15th. [via Hypetrak ] Mp3: N.E.R.D. featuring [...]

Esau Mwamwaya plus Radioclit. For the last year or so, we've all been sitting, waiting in rapt anticipation of this powerful combination recording as, appropriately, The Very Best . Add to this the fact that they've been recording with all of my favorite quirky, left of mainstream women of the past few years— Santigold , the thankfully found, former Bonde do Role frontwoman Marina Vello , and M.I.A. —and I was practically tap dancing with nervous anticipation as I finally pressed play this week on The Very Best's Warm Heart of Africa . Speaking [...]

Santigold will take her endless dance party across the US one more time this spring before heading back into the studio to record the follow up to her smash self-titled debut. Santigold will be performing with a full band and dancers for the first time in North America to bring her genre-blending sound to life. Watch Santigold "L.E.S. Artistes" video : Santigold on amazon.com Santigold on amazon.co.uk [...]