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Bumbershoot festival

The Replacements, Wu-Tang Clan top Bumbershoot lineup

Elvis Costello, Schoolboy Q, Afghan Whigs also performing.

Smashing Pumpkins

Tommy Lee will be on the next Smashing Pumpkins album

Monuments to an Elegy coming in 2015.

The Soft Pink Truth

Listen: The Soft Pink Truth covers Venom’s “Black Metal”

Black metal covers album Why Do the Heathen Rage? out in June.

Julianna Barwick beer

Dogfish Head brewing Julianna Barwick beer

Rosabi being released with a limited-edition EP.

Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon

Stream the new The Pains of Being Pure at Heart album

Listen to Days of Abandon via an epic lyric video.

Future Islands

More Future Islands tour dates lined up

Baltimore synth-pop group hitting up North America and Australia this summer.

lykke li album

New releases: 5/6

Lykke Li, tUnE-yArDs and The Horrors albums out today.

Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty

Shabazz Palaces reveal new album details

Hear new track “They Come in Gold”.

Agalloch Serpent Sphere

Stream the new Agalloch album, The Serpent & The Sphere

Portland black metal outfit’s latest streaming a week before it’s out.

Shabazz Palaces

Shabazz Palaces premiere new album with laser light show

New album Lese Majesty out in July via Sub Pop.

Swans to be kind

Stream the new Swans album, To Be Kind

Hear the two-plus-hour beast of an album right now via NPR.

Harvey Danger Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone reissue

Harvey Danger Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? reissue on the way

Seattle band’s 1998 hit album to be re-released on vinyl with new art and liner notes.

The Horrors Luminous

Stream the new Horrors album, Luminous

UK shoegazers’ new album out next week.

Parquet Courts

Listen to new Parquet Courts track, “Black and White”

Another new ripper from Sunbathing Animal.

Ought

Ought announce tour dates

Montreal post-punk group hitting North America and Europe this summer.

Wolves in the Throne Room

Wolves in the Throne Room announce new album details

Experimental synth-driven album due out in July.

Heaven Adores You

Watch the trailer for Elliott Smith documentary “Heaven Adores You”

Elliott Smith documentary premieres next week.

Braid No Coast

Braid announce new album, No Coast

Champaign, Illinois emo pioneers announce first new album in 16 years.

Wye Oak vinyl

New Releases: 4/29

New albums out today by Wye Oak, Damon Albarn, Ought and more.

Fucked Up Glass Boys

Listen: New Fucked Up song, “Led By Hand”

Another new bruiser from Glass Boys.