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The 'Star Wars' and 'The Hobbit' actor will put out his second LP - with help from Judas Priest's guitarist - next week

From that screen-grab Caveman’s new music video doesn’t look like a total nightmare, but you know the best horror movies always start with some unsuspecting rubes.

Julia Stiles (10 Things I Hate About You), Fran Kranz (Dollhouse), and Michael Cavadias star in a short film set to Caveman’s “In The City” from the band’s self-titled sophomore album. Stiles and Kranz’s trip to the Big Apple takes a creepy turn when the couple checks into small hotel with a bellhop whose skin-crawling fetish will forever make you check behind the curtains in every hotel you ever stay in again. Watch the Lynchian video below, directed by Philip Di Fiore.

The band heads out on the second leg of their U.S. tour after a stop at Sasquatch — those dates below:

Caveman 2013 Tour Dates:
05/25

The public event takes place today (May 23) at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles

The Lawrence brothers premiere the fifth single off Settle.

‘When A Fire Starts To Burn’ is the first proper track on Settle, the duo’s highly-anticipated debut album. As the title suggests, it’s a fiery, funky house track with a great vocal sample.

Settle is due out June 3 via PMR in the UK and Cherrytree / Interscope in the States. Disclosure recently spoke with FACT as part of our On The Record series.

Good time Nashville rockers Natural Child will spend their Memorial Day weekend playing a few shows, starting tonight (5/23) at Brooklyn Bowl with Liquor Store and Daddy Long Legs. Tickets ($5) available at the door and the show starts at 8 PM sharp.

If you haven't heard Natural Child's 2012 album, Hard in Heaven, you can stream it via Rdio or Spotify. All dates are listed, along with a flyer for tonight's Brooklyn Bowl show, below.

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Disclosure have broken off another piece from their full-length studio debut, Settle, due out July 4th via Cherrytree/Interscope. Already we’ve heard “White Noise”, “You & Me”, and “F For You”, and now comes the funky house track titled, “When a Fire Starts to Burn”. Take a listen below.

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Settle Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. When a Fire Starts to Burn
03. Latch (feat. Sam Smith)
04. F for You
05. White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge)
06. Defeated No More (feat. Ed Mac)
07. Voices (feat. Sasha Keable)
08. Second Chance
09. You & Me (feat. Eliza Doolittle)
10. January (feat. Jamie Woon)
11. Confess to Me (feat. Jessie Ware)
12. Help Me Lose My Mind (feat. London Grammar)

Wasilla, Alaska’s own Portugal. The Man have some wholesome, child-like fun in the video for “Atomic Man”, off their forthcoming album, Evil Friends. Director David Vincent Wolf uses some time delays and editing tricks to create trippy visuals (e.g. the band’s eyes sliding down their faces, their heads turning into amorphous blobs.) Still, it’s the mature, high-art version of when most of us learned to distort our voices by speaking into a fan, except this one breaks psyches and not tongues.

The band’s Danger Mouse-produced seventh album, Evil Friends, is due out June 4th via Atlantic Records. Also check out much more scandalous video for video for

California producer Chris Alfaro readies a new release.

Since 2003, Free The Robots has allowed Alfaro to experiment with jazz, psychedelia, and instrumental hip-hop, all in the same project. Over the past decade, he’s collaborated with The Gaslamp Killer, produced for Busdriver, and released music on LA beat scene repository Alpha Pup Records.

The prolific producer will self-release the In Other Worlds EP later this month. Stream the jazzy, sample-rich ‘Transmission’ below; the EP’s cover art follows.

by Andrew Sacher

Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth, whose already blessed us with some solid EPs, singles and remixes, has just put out another EP today (5/23) called Still Awake. The new EP contains 6 of his brightest sounding tracks and veers more towards chillwave than his usual forte of cloud rap. It's also got a bonus track, which is a remix one of the EP tracks, and you can download the entire thing for free. It can also be streamed in its entirety below.

Ryan Hemsworth, who was just in NYC for Downtown Fest, is part of the just-announced Warm Up at MoMA PS1 lineup, which goes down this summer. He plays on July 13 with MK (aka Detroit producer Mark Kinchen, who had two '90s hits with singer Alana Simon, "Always" and "Love Changes"), exciting young Orlando producer XXYYXX, UK duo Bondax, UNO-signed producer Gobby (who just played with Majical Cloudz), and James K. Tickets for all Warm Up shows go on sale June 5 at noon.

Ryan also plays Camp Bisco the same weekend as his Warm Up show. EP stream below...

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by Andrew Sacher

Scout Niblett - 'It's Up To Emma'

Grungy folk singer Scoutt Niblett released her new album, It's Up To Emma, this week via Drag City. It's her first album not produced by Steve Albini, but her ass-kicking PJ Harvey-esque songwriting is just as raw and powerful as ever. It's fitting for a record of this kind that the first single is opening track is simply titled "Gun." You can watch the video for that one, along with her no-bullshit cover of TLC's "No Scrubs" (which appears on the album!) and the tracklist below. That's the artwork above.

Scout will be supporting the new record with an international tour this year, which includes a run with Baltimore noise rockers/Drag City labelmates Dope Body. That run hits NYC at the mostly-metal Brooklyn DIY space Saint Vitus on September 13. Tickets for that show are not on sale yet, but you can check Ticketfly for updates.

Dope Body will be in NYC even sooner to play 285 Kent on June 20. No advance tickets for that show at the moment either, and the rest of the lineup is still TBA. This past March, they released the Saturday EP via Drag City, and you can check out the video for its punishing opening track, "Leather Head," below.

All dates for both bands are listed, along with those videos, below...

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Due to tonight's severe weather forecast, BRIC and Brooklyn Bridge Park announce that Celebrate Brooklyn!'s Old School Funk and Hip-Hop Dance Party featuring Zapp and D-Nice is moving to The Bell House (149 7th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, Brooklyn). The performance will start at 8:00PM/doors at 7:00PM. Please note space is limited.

Again, the relocated show at The Bell House is FREE but space is limited.

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Two years after the release of Within and Without, Washed Out will release his new album Paracosm on August 13th, once again forcing himself to endure more stupid questions from music journalists about chillwave. Below is the album trailer, a sequence of kaleidoscopic nature shots scored by a bit of new music that sounds like how we were hoping the new Avalanches record would.

by Bill Pearis

UK resident James Mathé will soon be pulling double duty, both as a touring member of Jose Gonzalez's band Junip (who are starting a North American trek next week) and as an opener too, with his own project, Barbarossa. Having just signed to Memphis Industries, Mathé will release his second album as Barbarossa, Bloodlines, on August 5.

Where his first album, Chemical Campfires, was lovely acoustic folk, Mathé has reinvented Barbarossa for the new album which is much more electronic. "I loved the acoustic scene, but knew it was not all I was about, so I dug out all my old casiotone keyboards, drum machines and analogue synths and just started writing." If you like the more soulful, reflective side of Hot Chip, you should definitely check him out. You can watch the video for the album's first single, "The Load," below.

In celebration of the Junip tour -- which hits NYC on June 13 for a sold-out show at Highline Ballroom with Quadron -- Barbarossa has covered Junip's "Line of Fire" which definitely takes the song in a more low-key direction, but no less lovely. We've got the premiere of that and you can stream it below.

If you didn't get tickets to the Highline show but are still interested in catching Barbarossa, he'll return to NYC for shows at Mercury Lounge on June 20 with <...