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Kirin J Callinan at BV-CMJ 2012 (more by Nate "Igor" Smith)

Kirin J Callinan, who played 285 Kent and a private show last week, and who will be back next month while on tour with Ariel Pink, has added a FREE last minute Brooklyn show at Public Assembly tonight (5/20) with Diamond Terrifier, Amen Dunes (who played our show at Knitting Factory last week - photos HERE and HERE), Uumans, and more.

The Public Assembly show may be the first time Callinan and Diamond Terrifier aka Sam Hillmer (aka Zs) will be performing as labelmates. DT recently signed to the label co-run by a member of Grizzly Bear, as we briefly mentioned before. The show is the record release party for DT's The Subtle Body Wears A Shadow, due on May 28. Kirin's debut album Embracism is due out July 2nd via Terrible Records in partnership with XL Recordings.

Videos for Diamond Terrifier's "Triple Gem" (which we premiered) and Kirin J Callnin's NSFW "Embracism," as well as the show flyer are below.

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by Andrew Sacher

San Francisco producer oOoOO has put out a few solid EPs on the Tri Angle label over the past couple of years, and now he's finally set to release his debut full length, which is called Without Your Love. The album will come out on June 24 via his own label which is called Nihjgt Feelings, and no, that wasn't a typo. oOoOO has released two singles from the album so far, including the super-dark "Mouchette" and "Stay Here," which features some auto-tuned R&B vocals from ML. Check those out, along with the album art and tracklist, below.

As mentioned, oOoOO will be going on a tour with Groundislava, and though that tour doesn't hit NYC, both artists will play their own shows at Brooklyn venue Glasslands before the tour begins. oOoOO's show is a previously discussed date happening on May 23 with Selebrities and Dark Sister. Tickets for that show are still available and we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to enter to win tickets are below.

Groundislava's Glasslands show is a previously discussed date happening exactly a week later on May 30 with Fur and Time Wharp. Tickets for that show are still available too.

In related news, we recently posted pictures and a video from oOoOO collaborator Butterclock on BV Chicago.

All dates are listed, along with those song streams and album info, belo...

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Last year’s full-length The Seer was a brilliant and succinct culmination of the Swans catalogue to date, and stood as one of the finest albums of 2013. It’s only right then that the album should get a proper tour, and Michael Gira’s boys are due to traipse through the US and Europe from now until the end of the summer.

For those Swans fans who want to see something a little different, Sacred Bones’ Pharmakon will be supporting the band on their Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio and Buffalo, New York dates bringing her particular brand of gruesome, overdriven noise to the party. [via Pitchfork]

05-20 Zagreb, Croatia – Pogon JEedinstvo
05-21 Parma, Italy – Campus Industry Music
05-22 Geneva, Switzerland – L’usinie
05-23 Schorndorf, Germany – Club Manufaktur
05-24 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Festival
05-25 Paris, France – La Grande Halle de la Villette
05-27 Frankfurt, Germany – Mousonturm
05-28 Berlin, Germany – Volksbühne
05-29 Dresden, Germany – Beatpol
05-30 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk
05-31 Porto, Portugal – Optimus Primavera Sound
06-13 Brooklyn, NY – Northside Music Festival (Warsaw)
06-14 Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater
06-16 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo
06-19 Calgary, Alberta- ...

Today in amazing things: Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee) and her twin sister/ex-PS Eliot/Ackleys/Bad Banana bandmate Allison Crutchfield (Swearin') have teamed up for Rookie's May "Theme Song", for which they covered Grimes' "Oblivion."

Listen to the song below and read an interview with Katie about why they chose the song at Rookie.

Waxahatchee plays a free NYC show in July.

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Listen to what is likely the last teaser before The-Dream’s IV Play is finally released.

A week after the release of Kelly Rowland’s The-Dream-produced

The 15 minute long promo features all the band's previously released new album clips

The Great Googa Mooga took over Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Friday night, and though the food and music festival did battle with the forces of nature on Sunday, the Friday night festivities were considerably calmer. Well, actually, with a lineup built around the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Flaming Lips and the Darkness things couldn’t get too calm. Each band brought a distinct sense of style to the event: Wayne Coyne wore a cool turquoise jacket, Justin Hawkins busted out of a striped jumpsuit and Karen O sported a killer box hat. Photos by Alix Piorun.

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The great Queens rap redbeard Action Bronson is working on a full-length mixtape with the New York producer Harry Fraud, and the pair let one go earlier this year when they posted “Strictly 4 My Jeeps” online. In the track’s brand-new video, from director Jason Goldwatch, Bronson takes us to a cartoonish Queens universe and shows us that he knows how to drain jump shots, prepare feasts, and turn cartwheels. The video also has a whole lot of unnecessary fat-people humor and a truly necessary Riff Raff appearance. Watch it below.

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Kentucky grunge-punk outfit Cage the Elephant is something of a family affair, with brothers Matt and Brad Shultz handling lead vocals and rhythm guitar, respectively. For his latest project, Brad Shultz continues to keep it right in the family, enlisting his cousin and budding vocalist Kane Stewart for a group called Plastic Visions.

The story goes that Stewart had been reluctantly running his family business, the California surf megastore Stewart Surfboards. Looking to escape his tedious day job, Stewart abruptly moved to Nashville, where the duo recently spent a month in the studio combining elements of punk/hardcore with surf and skate-grunge. The end result is the band’s debut self-titled EP, due out May 21st via Brad’s label Death Panda.

The five-track effort is, pardon the pun, a more frenetic and grimier cousin to CTE’s reckless and disheveled brand of rock and roll. Like a rocket-powered surf board, “Love Hate” blasts forward with thick, pulsating guitars and waves of noisy effects piggybacking off Stewart’s hoarse yelps. “Now I Know” condenses the dissonance into random interludes, making the quieter parts more poppy and the rest a raging mess of unceasing, feedback-powered anarchy. Strap in and listen below. (We suggest doing so with your own beloved blood relative).

If there were a way to make the June come any sooner, I’d do it in a heartbeat. In addition to the promise of perfect weather, the month heralds http://www.cmj.com/artists/Smith-Westerns/"target="_blank"> Smith Westerns’ new album Soft Will, the follow-up to 2011′s Dye It Blonde, out via Mom + Pop on June 25. For those of us who can’t wait till then, the group has released a warm and dreamy track, 3am Spiritual.

Packed with calming guitars, playful synths and airy vocals, the song is fitting for those turbulent summer nights when you just can’t fall asleep. Cullen Omori’s youthful, pleading croon seems like a more effective lullaby than infinite sheep-counting. In support of the upcoming album, the band will be embarking on a North American tour this July. Check out the tour dates, and the wonderful “3am Spiritual,” below.

Smith Westerns Tour Dates:
07/19

Collaborative effort Saab Stories is due out in early June.

Directed Jason Goldwatch, the video for ‘Strictly 4 My Jeeps’ finds the Queens Ghostface aficionado lifting weights, doing cartwheels, hanging out with rap-absurdist RiFF RaFF, and undertaking some impressive culinary challenges (all in the company of some BBW models).

The song, which first premiered back in February, is the first single from Saab Stories, which will be produced by

Last June, Explosions in the Sky guitarist Munaf Rayani revealed to CoS that the band had been tagged to score David Gordon Green