Pulp, Sleigh Bells to play Coachella Cruise - 07.17.2012


Coachella's next big event is something new for the festival: a Carribean cruise. In December, Coachella is organizing two cruises, one to the Bahamas (Dec. 16-19) and one to Jamaica (Dec. 19-23), each with the same lineup of performers. Scheduled performers include Pulp, Sleigh Bells, Hot Chip, James Murphy (DJ set), Simian Mobile Disco, !!!, Warpaint, El-P, Killer Mike, Black Lips, Grimes and Cloud Nothings, in addition to several others. All aboard!

Italians Do It Better announce "After Dark 2" compilation - 07.17.2012


Italians Do It Better has announced the second edition of its essential After Dark compilation, titled After Dark 2. The comp will feature new tracks by Johnny Jewel-associated acts Glass Candy, Desire, Chromatics, Symmetry, and others. The release date hasn't been announced just yet, but will be available later this year as a gold-glittered triple LP.

Tracklist:

1 Glass Candy - "Warm in the Winter"
2 Mirage - "Let's Kiss"
3 Desire - "The Nightshift"
4 Appaloosa - "Fill the Blanks"
5 Glass Candy - "Pain Relief Is Fun"
6 Chromatics - "House of Models"
7 Symmetry - "Heart of Darkness"
8 Twisted Wires - "Half Lives"
9 Glass Candy - "The Possessed"
10 Desire - "Tears From Heaven"
11 Chromatics - "Johanna"
12 Farah - "Into Eternity"
13 Mirage - "Lucifer"
14 Glass Candy - "Soft Celebration"
15 Chromatics - "Looking for Love"
16 Glass Candy - "The Price"

Video: Hot Chip - "Look At Where We Are" - 07.17.2012
There's a somewhat creepy Frankenstein-like plot in the new video for "Look At Where We Are," from Hot Chip's latest album In Our Heads. Watch the Danny Perez-directed video below and see some mad science!

New releases: 7/17 - 07.17.2012


Some stellar new albums hit shelves today, including our new Album of the Week, whose deluxe colored vinyl edition you can see above (tempting, isn't it?). Here's a list of all the albums out today, at your local record shop and at Insound.

Baroness - Yellow & Green
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Gatekeeper - Exo
Jeff the Brotherhood - Hypnotic Nights
Nas - Life Is Good
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot (Deluxe Edition)
The Very Best - MTMTMK

Stream the new Antlers EP - 07.17.2012


Undersea, the Antlers' four-song follow-up to 2011's Burst Apart, comes out next week via Anti- Records. But the band is streaming the full EP via their Facebook page.

Listen here.

Ben Gibbard announces solo album - 07.17.2012


Death Cab For Cutie frontman and newly on-the-market bachelor Ben Gibbard has announced the release of his debut solo album, Former Lives, which will be out Oct. 16 via Barsuk. Some of the songs on the album date back eight years, and were recorded at The Ship, the studio owned and operated by Earlimart's Aaron Espinoza.

While this is Gibbard's first solo full-length, it's actually the second solo album from a Death Cab member, Chris Walla's Field Manual having been released in 2008.

Listen: How to Dress Well - "Cold Nites" - 07.17.2012


On Sept. 18, How to Dress Well will release second album Total Loss via Acephale Records, and today we get a new taste of its spectral grooves. Check out the new song "Cold Nites" below.