Video: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Studio Version)

Listen to the best tracks of this year!

We gave you our list of the best albums of 2011 , but by now, one thing should be perfectly clear: the single rules. Instead of buying full albums, more and more people are picking out their favorite songs, dishing out 99 cents on iTunes, and putting together playlists of all their favorites. In some ways, it's a sad departure from whatever connection people used to have with albums, but it's part of who we are—an ADD generation of instant gratification-seeking consumers. And fuck, do we consume. Nobody here at P&P has ever been in a situation [...]

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...

As we get ourselves ready for the end of summer and the bone-crushing cold that comes with the change of season, it’s time to focus important things like family, friends, and getting heavily intoxicated while listening to one spectacular band after another - you know, the important things. So it is with great joy in our hearts that we pack up our things and ship out to Austin for one of our last festivals of the year, the illustrious Austin City Limits . In order to properly prepare our psyches (and yours) for the [...]

The lineup for the 2010 edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival was heavily weighted towards the young bucks of independent music; this year, it's a more even-handed mix of familiar stalwarts and up-and-comers. On the whole, it's one of the most consistently strong lineups in the festival's recent history -- well worth braving Chicago's relatively tiny Union Park as it gets packed to the bursting point with neon Ray-Bans, sweaty beards, and people gettin' cranky standing in the Threadless booth's unbelievably long line. Prefix contributors Chris Bosman and Susannah Young [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List While you fondly remember your mother singing to you as a child, she tuned out of new music once Casey Kasem's "America's Top 10" went off the air and [...]

Us here at The 405 love our records. Why else would we be here? We also love independent record stores and choc ices, and while we can’t marry all three, we can do our best to wed the first two and participate in this year’s Record Store Day by giving you some of our picks and, more importantly, giving you a full list of all the UK RSD 2011 releases ! Read on to find my personal picks and download our printable form so you can form your [...]

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Five songs each of us will subject the rest of the band to in the tour van over the next few weeks that they’ll probably kind of hate: Michael:King Crimson, “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Pt. I” KC, the two-percussionist-proto-postpu nk-free-improv-skreedom variant, engages on a terrifyingly deep level with different strands of African music (Benzele drumming, Zimbabwean thumb-piano, curlicued North African modality) 15 years before Paul Simon stole his best-selling record from His Colo...

Sabe que dia é hoje? É o quinquagésimo dia de 2011. Isso mesmo, este ano corrente já tem 50 dias. O que você já fez para você ter um ano inesquecível? Tudo bem que ainda tem longos 315 dias pela frente, mas nunca é tarde. E pela música, o que você ouviu nesses primeiros 50 dias de 2011? Com o universo digital e uma infinidade de músicas ao alcance de um clique, 2011 já apresentou muita coisa nova, desde CDs inteiros a singles, prenunciando coisas boas que serão lançadas em breve. Em nossa busca incessante e diária por [...]

Fleet Foxes’ self-titled album was critically acclaimed when it came out in 2008.  Their gorgeous harmonies and mastery of indie-folk won fans immediately.  They were played in bookstores and coffee shops, heard on XM radio and mixtapes.  Finally, we get to relish something new from them until their second album comes out May 3rd.  They just released the song “Helplessness Blues,” the title track of their forthcoming LP.   While you’re listening to “Helplessness Blues” and starting a count down to the album release, go ahead and buy concert tickets to see them in one of [...]