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2015. Panda Bear Tropic of Cancer video screenshot

WATCH: Psychedelic Bear Cult Encounter Attack Dogs In Panda Bear’s Soothingly Violent “Tropic of Cancer” Video

“Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper” is out now via Domino

April 08, 2015

2015. Bully press photo by Daniel Topete

LISTEN: Have A Good Scream With Bully While They Let Loose On “Trying”

“Feels Like” is out June 23 on StarTime International

April 08, 2015

2013. Arrested Development intro screenshot

Film + TV
They’ve Got a Stew Goin’: Brian Grazer Says Seventeen New “Arrested Development” Episodes Are In Development

Unconfirmed from Netflix right now, but the news comes from the mouth of the spikey-haired legend himself.

April 07, 2015

2015. Lightning Bolt video for The Metal East screenshot

WATCH: Try Not to Pass Out While Watching the Gnarly Video for Lightning Bolt’s “The Metal East”

“Fantasy Empire” is out now via Thrill Jockey

April 07, 2015

2015. Penicillin Baby Stick It Out video screenshot

WATCH: Get Your Daily Dose of Psych-Pop with Penicillin Baby and the Zombified Video for “Stick It Out”

The Nashville group is likely a bigger “Mr. Show” fan than you.

April 07, 2015

Sterling Archer / credit: FX

Art & CultureFilm + TV
WATCH: Sterling Archer Is the Smartest Douchebag of All-Time As Evidenced By This Literary “Archer” Super-Cut

“Jesus, read a book once in your life.”

April 06, 2015

1991. Twin Peaks screenshot of David Lynch

Film + TV
Diane, We Have A Problem: “Twin Peaks” May Not Be Going Forward with David Lynch [UPDATED]

But it’ll probably work out. [Edit: OK, maybe not.]

April 06, 2015

1995. Guided by Voices Alien Lanes cover art crop

PlaylistStaff Picks
PLAYLIST: Motivational Advice From Your Guidance Counselors Guided By Voices

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of “Alien Lanes”

April 04, 2015

2015. Avid Dancer press photo by Cara Robbins

LISTEN: Avid Dancer Cruises On By In Dreamy New Track “Not Far To Go”

“1st Bath” is out April 14 via Grand Jury

April 01, 2015

2015. Leon Bridges Coming Home video screenshot

Leon Bridges Announces Highly Anticipated Debut Album “Coming Home”

The Fort Worth, Texas, soul prodigy will deliver a full set of tunes on June 23 via Columbia Records.

April 01, 2015

Music for Indiana

“Music For Indiana” Group Stands Against the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

The group of Indiana music businesses—including Asthmatic Kitty, Secretly Group, and Joyful Noise—join together in demanding the repeal of the controversial new measure.

March 31, 2015

2015. Far from Men soundtrack trailer (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis) screenshot

Film + TV
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s Atmospheric “Far from Men” Score Set for Release

The duo’s latest cinematic collaboration is an accompaniment to David Oelhoffen’s adaptation of an Albert Camus story.

March 31, 2015

2015. Lower Dens, “Escape from Evil” cover

Reviews
Lower Dens, “Escape From Evil”

Vibe albums are underrated. Sometimes it’s nice just to have something consistent and immersive enough to set a mood—to soundtrack a brutally long Greyhound ride, say, or a rainy day stuck at home.

March 31, 2015

2015. Trevor Noah press photo for The Daily Show by Byron Keulemans

Film + TV
New Correspondent Trevor Noah Chosen to Replace Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show”

There is no set timetable for your upcoming tears of goodbye, yet

March 30, 2015

2015. Patric Watson press photo by Olivier Sirois

LISTEN: Oh, The “Places You Will Go” In Patrick Watson’s Latest Psychedelic Offering

“Love Songs For Robots” is out May 12 via Domino

March 25, 2015

Run The Jewels / photo by Jasmine Safaeian

Killer Mike Lectures On the State of Equality in America at NYU

Class is now in session.

March 25, 2015

1998. The X-Files intro screenshot

Film + TV
Believe It: “The X-Files” Is Coming Back to TV

Mulder and Scully will face the paranormal weirdness once again…for six episodes

March 24, 2015

2015. Great Lake Swimmers press photo by Marina Manushenko

LISTEN: Great Lake Swimmers Dig Deep in New Ballad “The Great Bear”

“A Forest of Arms” is out April 21 on Nettwerk

March 24, 2015

2015. Nick Cave The Sick Bag Song Trailer Screenshot

Art & Culture
Nick Cave to Release “The Sick Bag Song,” A Book of Poetry Written On Airplane Barf Bags

The presentation is prettier than it sounds.

March 23, 2015

2015. Blur press photo by Linda Brownlee

LISTEN: Join Blur for a Visit to the Infectious and Nostalgic “Lonesome Street”

“The Magic Whip” is out April 28 via Warner Bros. Records

March 23, 2015
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