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Radiohead's Selway Talks New Solo LP, Does Not Talk New Radiohead LP Photo by Kevin Westenberg We're used to seeing Philip Selway behind a range of drums and cymbals as the unswerving and inventive back beat to Radiohead . But on his forthcoming solo album, Familial , Selway steps away from the kit, singing and playing acoustic guitar on 10 hushed folk songs in the shadowy tradition of Nick Drake. The album is quiet, but there's an unnerving sense of dread that ... Watch: New Chemical Brothers Video If you've spent some time with the Chemical Brothers ' latest album, the go-ahead-and-call-it-a-comeback Further , you know that it's filled with endlessly heady jawns perfect for iTunes visualizers everywhere. Well, this totally techy video for Further cut "Another World" renders that program pretty much obsolete. Put together by directors Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall and the design team Flat ... How to Dress Well Reveals Debut LP MP3: How to Dress Well: "Suicide Dream 2 (Spirituals Remix)" Rising lo-fi R&B-tinged artist Tom Krell, aka How to Dress Well , has been pretty busy over the past year. He's given away seven(!) EPs for free download at his blog (where they're still available ), the most recent being Can't See My Own Face - The Eternal Love 2 . He also just put out his debut 7", " Ready for the World ". And now ... Listen: New Jens Lekman Song It's been three whole years since Jens Lekman 's Night Falls Over Kortedala broke fragile hearts around the world. And now, finally, we get a new song from the Swedish songwriter called "The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love". It's wispy and wounded and winsome, and it reps the pharmacy department of a Target in Brooklyn. It's a Jens song. All you have to do is put your e-mail in the box ... Sónar Festival Comes to Chicago The Barcelona-based Sónar Festival brings its electronic expertise to Chicago this year for the first time September 9-11. The free fest takes over the Chicago Cultural Center and Jay Printzker Pavilion with acts including Oval, Nosaj Thing, Ben Frost, the Slew and Kid Koala, Martyn, Jimmy Edgar, and more. Sónar Chicago is also partnering with the Adventures in Modern Music (AIMM) festival put ... Watch: Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold Behind the Scenes Tour Documentary Photo by Eirik Lande This 14-minute, black-and-white tour documentary features Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold singing into a microphone while playing a guitar at various venues, in addition to backstage footage. The piece was filmed by Robin's brother Sean Pecknold during Robin's recent stint opening for Joanna Newsom , who makes a cameo. Robin heads out on the road with Newsom again for a ... Neon Indian Sets Tour With Prefuse 73 It's a hypnagogic hoedown! This fall, chillwave champions Neon Indian will be heading out on a U.S. tour. Accompanying them will be another artist known for hazy beats and generally trippy sounds: producer Scott Herren, under his most commonly-known alias, Prefuse 73 . Indie rockers Miniature Tigers , who had some assistance from Neon Indian godhead Alan Palomo on their just-released debut ... Photos: Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 [Polaroids] At this year's Pitchfork Music Festival , crowds swooned to sets by Pavement , Big Boi , LCD Soundsystem , Neon Indian , Robyn , Modest Mouse , and many more. Photographers Sanchez and Kitahara and Erica Gannett were on the scene with cameras provided by Polaroid to gather a series of intimate, candid shots of artists and festival attendees enjoying the events. Check out a selection of shots ... Surfer Blood and the Drums Tour Two of 2010's biggest indie buzz bands in both the UK and the U.S. are teaming up for a fall tour. Surfer Blood and the Drums will hit the road together in September and October, covering North American ground from east to west and back again. Perhaps this team-up was inevitable. The Drums do, after all, have a song called "Let's Go Surfing" . Dates below: Take Cover: Klaxons: Surfing the Void Notable album covers catch the eye, dribble it around a little, and then snap it back into place, forever skewed. They can be funny, gross, shocking, stunning, or just plain wrong. They can define artists. Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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