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GUMMYS WEEK CONTINUES. So we're all on the same page, let's recap the results to date. Your Best Track is Japandroids' "House That Heaven Built," your Best Video is M.I.A. and Romain Gavras's "Bad Girls," your Best New Artist is DIIV. And now, we look inside your hearts. Which, when it comes to dudes, is a fairly fickle thing! Compare to last year , and you'll see almost complete turnover, with only one repeat, in the Mr. Indie Rock results. Your affections have more durability when it comes to ladies, [...]

The music-video universe took a bit of a week off this week; Labor Day, I guess, will do that. But there was still plenty of good stuff out this week; the relative scarcity just meant that I didn't have to cut anything deeply awesome to put this list together. Check out this week's list below. Read More...

David Byrne and St. Vincent have teamed up to record the herky-jerk pop-funk album Love This Giant , and it comes out next week. And now we get the appealingly loony black-and-white sketch of a video for the catchily off-kilter first single and album opener " Who ," in which Byrne and Annie Clark take turns lying down in the middle of a country road and busting out absurdist dance moves. If you haven't watched Stop Making Sense in a while, here's a needed reminder that Byrne's broken-marionette dance moves are among our [...]

This morning, another cut from David Byrne and St. Vincent's forthcoming collaborative record Love This Giant surfaced, a horn-accented track chant called "Weekend In The Dust." It immediately follows the previously-discussed " Who " on the record and you can hear it at Love This Giant . It's out 9/11 on 4AD / Todo Mundo . Pre-order now and you'll receive a download of "Weekend In The Dust."

Stereogum This morning, another cut from David Byrne and St. Vincent's forthcoming collaborative record Love This Giant surfaced, a horn-accented track chant called "Weekend In The Dust." It immediately follows the previously-discussed " Who " on the record and you can hear it at Love This Giant . It's out 9/11 on 4AD / Todo Mundo . Pre-order now and you'll receive a download of "Weekend In The Dust." [...]

Luis Faustino’s photos from Sunday at Body & Soul featuring St. Vincent, Jacques Greene, Little Dragon, M83 and lots of colourful people. [...]

Well this is pretty awesome. Two high-wire art-pop all-stars, St. Vincent and David Byrne, have teamed up to make a full-length collaborative album called Love This Giant together, and they're also getting ready to head out on a full-scale North American tour. It drops at the end of the summer. The two got together at Hoboken's Water Music studios to record it, and they promise "idiosyncratic horn arrangements" instead of straight-up rock, not exactly a surprise considering their track record. Guests include Afrobeat revivalists Antibalas, the Dap-Kings, and great indie rock producer John Congleton. Below, we've got the [...]

Stereogum Well this is pretty awesome. Two high-wire art-pop all-stars, St. Vincent and David Byrne, have teamed up to make a full-length collaborative album called Love This Giant together, and they're also getting ready to head out on a full-scale North American tour. It drops at the end of the summer. The two got together at Hoboken's Water Music studios to record it, and they promise "idiosyncratic horn arrangements" instead of straight-up rock, not exactly a surprise considering their track record. Guests include Afrobeat revivalists Antibalas, [...]

Well this is pretty awesome. Two high-wire art-pop all-stars, St. Vincent and David Byrne, have teamed up to make a full-length collaborative album called Love This Giant together, and they're also getting ready to head out on a full-scale North American tour. It drops at the end of the summer. The two got together at Hoboken's Water Music studios to record it, and they promise "idiosyncratic horn arrangements" instead of straight-up rock, not exactly a surprise considering their track record. Guests include Afrobeat revivalists Antibalas, the Dap-Kings, and great indie rock producer John Congleton. Below you can stream [...]

You've probably already seen Tupac's hologram at the Coachella Valley music festival from this weekend (spreading for the first time on two weekends) but entire sets were broadcasted live on Youtube on three channels with about 25 gigs you could watch from your "couchella" every day or night. For those of you who didn't have the time to stay late in front of the computer, here are the full live performances from Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, St. Vincent (with an epic crowdsurf), Azealia Banks, Explosions in the Sky, A.$.A.P Rocky, Frank [...]

Coachella weekend one rages on , and last night featured sets from marquee acts like Radiohead, Bon Iver, Azealia Banks, and ASAP Rocky. Their sets have been thrown up online, which you can watch below. Notable: St. Vincent plays her a song, "KROKODIL," during her performance. Also notable: streaming sets today (all times PST) include Wild Beasts (3:25 PM), Santigold (3:30 PM), Real Estate (4:20 PM), Wild Flag (5:45 PM), Beirut (8:30 PM), Florence + The Machine (9:45 PM) and At The Drive-In (11:10 PM). Read More...

After last week's avalanche of amazing videos, things slowed up a bit this week. Still, our top pick is an uncanny, impossible-to-forget piece of work, and there's plenty of other good stuff further down the list. Check out our picks below. Read More...

The video for St. Vincent's Strange Mercy track "Cheerleader" opens with a giant Annie Clark laying prone on an art-museum floor, looking like a Damien Hirst shark. It would be a malicious act of spoilerization if I described anything else that happened after, but know that things get as unsettling and uncanny as they always do in St. Vincent videos. Hiro Murai directs. Watch it below. Read More...

Our annual list of late night television's best performances has quickly become an annual exercise in big-upping Jimmy Fallon's music talent booker. Way to go, person responsible for pointing those Studio 6B HD-cameras at our tag cloud: Bang the Fallon gong (btw, there should be a Fallon gong), a full 70% of this list comes from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 's 2011 archives . [And while we're blanket congratulating Fallon and his staff, please join us in a hat tip to the Roots for making the list's Top Two performances Top Two-ier.] This list is [...]

It's been fun, but now it's time to wrap up the Gummy Awards with the big final list: your picks for the year's top 10 albums! And the final result is: You guys more or less agree with us! Every album in your top 10 appeared in our top 50, most of them near the top. Your #1 was our #3, and our #1 was your #3. You guys don't like rap or mutant R&B as much as we do, and you boosted St. Vincent and James Blake and Destroyer and tUnE-yArDs way up the list. Still, we [...]

The next stop on the Gummys express is Your Top 20 Indie Rock Crushes Of 2011; ten females, ten males, one Gosling. Hit the gallery to check out the winners of this award, truly the people's champions when it comes to crushes. Just outside the fray: EMA and Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner for the ladies, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold, Noah Lennox and Kurt Vile for the fellas. And for the person that voted for '3112 in every single category, we'll relay the (paraphrased) wisdom of an old sage as advice; "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. [...]

The Gummy Awards rollout continues today with Your Top 10 Music Videos Of 2011, and while there's not a lot of surprises here, it's a strong list capped by a beyond-worthy champion. There's a little overlap with yesterday's Top 10 Tracks list, but not a lot, and if you have any reason to complain than maybe you should have done more about it, huh? We're definitely glad one video featuring a lone, quirky dancer beat the other video featuring a lone, quirky dancer (NO SPOILERS) but maybe we've said too much already. Check out Your Top [...]

Today we begin rolling out the results of this year's Gummy Awards : The only set of lists which are perfectly impervious to comment section backlash as they are voted upon by you, the esteemed Shut Up, Dude / Monsters' Ball electorate. Up first is 20112s Top 10 Tracks. The results may shock you! And they may not! It depends on how you voted, really. In any event, the ten-track spread fairly reflects the guitar/pop/rap/Del Rey year we had. Here we go: Read More...

Last time Annie Clark was in town almost two years ago, she was alone. She played a short solo set to a half-full Vicar St. as the warm up act for Grizzly Bear. On that night she was stunning, coming with a bag full of songs fresh from her second album Actor . Her incredible musical chops were to the fore, with guitar loops underpinning an angelic voice delivering constant, undeniable hooks. In many ways it was the sparseness of the set that really made it work; robbed of her usual touring band and forced to re-jig the songs [...]

Annie Clark’s third album as St. Vincent largely rests on the neck of her guitar. While Clark’s ability as a player who coaxes unorthodox sounds out of her six-strings has always been one of her strengths, Strange Mercy finds her shredding exact points and shapes through distortion. These shapes are wielded like other instruments - at times the guitar sounds like a wobbly proggy synthesizer, others a parping and unctuous brass horn, but rarely does the instrument ape standard rock histrionics (That said the rising caterwaul guitar notes in ‘Northern Lights’ have to be heard to be believed). [...]