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Audion - Audion X

Listen to Matthew Dear’s new Audion track, “Motormouth”

Audion X compilation due in December.

Kanye West tour

Kanye West’s Yeezus tour postponed indefinitely

Stage set-up damaged in transit.

Nick Reinhardt - Scary Sounds

Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhardt releases Scary Sounds album

Available for the reasonable price of $6.66.

Dum Dum Girls - Too True review

Dum Dum Girls announce new album, Too True

Listen to new single, “Lost Boys and Girls Club.”

Grizzly Bear - B Sides

Listen to new Grizzly Bear song, “Listen and Wait”

Another new track from Shields: B-Sides.

Wye Oak

Wye Oak announce new album

New, guitar-free album due in 2014.

Swearin' - Surfing Strange

Stream the new Swearin’ album, Surfing Strange

Eleven new songs of scruffy, infectious alt-rock.

Arcade Fire - Reflektor CD

New Releases: 10/29

Arcade Fire, White Denim, Skeletonwitch and more top this week’s list of new releases.

Warpaint - self-titled

Warpaint announce new album

Listen to new track “Love Is To Die” from band’s second album, out in January.

Beck

Beck announces new album, Morning Phase

First new album for Capitol, due in 2014.

Mastodon - Live at Brixton

Mastodon to release Live at Brixton in December

Twenty-three tracks of soaring metal majesty.

Mogwai - Rave Tapes

Mogwai announce new album, Rave Tapes

New album due in January; listen to new track “Remurdered.”

Lou Reed

R.I.P. Lou Reed

The Velvet Underground founder and musical provocateur is dead at 71.

Black Flag - What The...

Black Flag releasing new album What The… with fugly cover art

No really, this thing is beyond terrible.

Cut Copy - Free Your Mind

Stream the new Cut Copy album, Free Your Mind

Synth-pop group’s fourth album out in November.

Arcade Fire

Stream new Arcade Fire album, Reflektor

New double-album streaming via YouTube.

Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy to release Kinks covers EP

Stream “Do You Remember Walter?” and check out Decemberist frontman’s tour dates.

Nick Cave - Live from KCRW

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds announce new live album

Live From KCRW out in December.

Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed

Stream the new Skeletonwitch album, Serpents Unleashed

A pre-Halloween party-thrash metal treat.

Flaming Lips - Peace Sword EP

Listen to every song from The Flaming Lips’ Peace Sword EP

Go on a wild Lips chase on the Internet!