Kylesa announce rarities compilation - 08.28.2012


Nearly two years have lapsed since Kylesa's amazing 2010 album Spiral Shadow, yet the Savannah metal band isn't slowing down yet. On Nov. 20, the band will release From the Vaults Vol. 1, via Season of Mist. The compilation will feature rare and unreleased tracks, including a brand new song, "End Truth," and the group's cover of Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun."

Tracklist:

1. Intro **
2. Inverse **
3. 111 Degree Heat Index ***
4. Between Silence and Sound II ***
5. Paranoid Tempo **
6. End Truth *
7. Bottom Line II ***
8. Wavering **
9. Bass Salts **
10. Drained **
11. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun **
12. Drum Jam **

* New
** Previously unreleased/limited availability
*** Alternate Version

FYF Fest schedule announced - 08.28.2012


FYF Fest goes down this Labor Day Weekend (Sept. 1 and 2) in Los Angeles, and today the full schedule for the weekend has been posted. Boy oh boy, are you going to have to make some tough decisions.

King Tuff vs. The Men? Cloud Nothings vs. Vaselines? M83 vs. Quicksand? Chromatics vs. Hot Snakes? Dinosaur Jr. vs. Glass Candy? Beirut vs. The Faint? Future Islands vs. Fucked Up? We could go on. But you're pretty much guaranteed an awesome weekend no matter which adventure you choose.

Check out the full schedule here.

New releases: 8/28 - 08.28.2012


It's a fine day to go record shopping, mostly because there are so many great albums hitting the shelves today. Here's what's available this week at local record shops, and via Insound.

Dan Deacon - America
Matthew Dear - Beams
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
Poor Moon - Poor Moon
Swans - The Seer
Teen - In Limbo
Why? - Sod In the Seed EP
Wild Nothing - Nocturne

Neurosis reveal new album details - 08.28.2012


Metal legends Neurosis return this fall with another new set of (potentially) crushing sludge metal, titled Honor Found in Decay. The album drops Oct. 30, via Neurot Recordings. The album was recorded once again with Steve Albini, with whom the band has had a longstanding professional relationship, and the image above is its cover art.

Tracklist:

1. We All Rage In Gold
2. At The Well
3. My Heart For Deliverance
4. Bleeding The Pigs
5. Casting Of The Ages
6. All Is Found... In Time
7. Raise The Dawn

Video: Julia Holter - "Goddess Eyes I" - 08.28.2012
There's a pretty strong possibility that, by the end of the year, Julia Holter will have released a video for every song from her stunning album Ekstasis. The latest, for "Goddess Eyes I," is characteristically hazy and ethereal. Watch the Jose Wolff-directed clip below.

Stream the new Jens Lekman album - 08.28.2012


Next week, Jens Lekman releases his third full-length album, I Know What Love Isn't, via Secretly Canadian. Today, you can stream the full thing via The Quietus.

Listen here.

Converge reveal album details, new video - 08.28.2012


Converge have revealed the full details of All We Love We Leave Behind, their follow-up to 2009's Axe to Fall and one of our most highly anticipated albums of the fall. The album comes out Oct. 9 via Epitaph, and that lunar phase art (designed by frontman Jacob Bannon) is the album's cover. Check out the tracklist below, along with a video for the album's first single, "Aimless Arrow."

Tracklist:

1 Aimless Arrow
2 Trespasses
3 Tender Abuse
4 Sadness Comes Home
5 Empty on the Inside
6 Sparrow's Fall
7 Glacial Pace
8 No Light Escapes (bonus)
9 Vicious Muse
10 Veins and Vails
11 Coral Blue
12 Shame in the Way
13 On My Shield (bonus)
14 Precipice
15 All We Love We Leave Behind
16 Runaway (bonus)
17 Predatory Glow