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It’s Suntory time for Daniel Lopatin.

Sofia Coppola has always had an ear for soundtracks, from the smart use of French dreamers Air in her debut The Virgin Suicides to the influential and quite eccentric soundtrack to 2003′s Lost in Translation. This time FACT favourite Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) has been enlisted by Coppola to handle the score of her latest movie The Bling Ring, aided by her regular collaborator Brian Reitzell.

While the duo only have a single track on the freshly announced official soundtrack album, there are still plenty of reasons to check it out. Picked by Reitzell, there’s an unsurprisingly eclectic mix of genres with kosmiche legend Klaus Schulze and Krautrockers Can next to Kanye West, 2 Chainz, Phoenix, Frank Ocean and more. How all this fits into a storyline about a group of young bandits stealing from the California rich and famous we have no idea, but we’re looking forward to finding out. [via Pitchfork]

The Bling Ring OST will be released on June 11 via Def Jam. For those of you that want to hear Lopatin’s score, the movie itself will be in theaters on June 14.

Tracklist:

01 Sleigh Bells: ” Crown On The Ground”
02 Rick Ross [ft. Lil Wayne]: “9 Piece”
03 Rye Rye [ft. M.I.A.]: “Sunshine”
04...

The singer-songwriter joined forces with Eddie Berman for the low-key version of the 1984 song

The illustrious electro-bedlam duo Fuck Buttons will release a new album, Slow Focus, on July 23 via ATP, as the follow-up to 2009

As outlined in our recently uploaded The Essential…Arthur Russell, the New York-based musician was a genuinely incomparable figure: art musician, disco producer, cellist-for-hire, storied DJ, and the mind behind the immortal romantic classic World Of Echo.

Russell’s list of collaborators is long - Allen Ginsberg, David Byrne and Larry Levan have all spent time in the studio with the man – but his list of admirers is longer. His death from AIDS in 1992 was a tragedy, made sharper by the fact that so much of Russell’s music drifted under the radar during his lifetime.

Promoters Circoloco are set to pay tribute to Russell with a major event at Detroit’s TV Bar on May 25. It’s testament to Russell’s standing that Carl Craig has agreed to top the bill, with Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Andrew Grant, System Of Survival and D’Julz also on the ticket. Art installations, performances and other Russell-inspired happenings have also been commissioned for the purpose.

In honour of the event, we’ve been furnished with a previously unreleased version of ‘Oh Fernando Why?’, provided by Russell’s regular collaborator Ernie Brooks (of The Modern Lovers). Click below to stream, or head here for tickets for the event. All proceeds from the night will go towards two Detroit based charities, Youthville Detroit and the Detroit Techno Foun...

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by Toby Tenenbaum

MS MR @ Bowery Ballroom, 5/15/2013

From the website to your album cover art, it seems that everything you guys touch possesses a stunning and unique visual quality. Who comes up with these works of art?
While every element of the project comes directly from us, one of our initial goals for MS MR was to create a community around the project, and we've had the incredible opportunity to work with up-and-coming directors and photographers like Tyler Kohlhoff, who shot the covers of the EP and the album. These artists have helped us refine our aesthetic (and their own) and continue to contribute as we incorporate new visual ideas.

Will these visuals play a factor in your upcoming U.S. tour? Can you give some examples of what readers can expect if they come to one of your shows?
The live show has actually been a chance for us bring it all back to the music - during this first year of touring we've had the opportunity to put a face on the project and show our musicianship, so we have kept it all very minimal. We're also a new band and can't afford to yet fully realize our elaborate schemes for set design...but we're always thinking about it and are excited to start incorporating things bit by bit.

Despite the obvious comparisons to Florence + The Machine there is no doubting the mainstream appeal of MS MR and, given that ...

The Crystal Method, the Los Vegas-based, Grammy Award-winning electronic duo, have been forced to push back the release of their new studio album, and a number of upcoming tour dates have been canceled, as co-founder Scott Kirkland continues to recover from brain surgery.

As Kirkland explained in a lengthy statement issued to fans, he began to experience painful headaches a few months. Doctors discovered a “benign posterior fossa arachnoid cyst in his brain,” which could have caused complications “due to my tendency to get a little excited on stage.” He had surgery on April 11th, 2013 and within a week was back in the studio. However, “Just when I thought I was on the mend, I contracted an infection and, due to complications, I ended up back in the hospital where I spent most of my next 10 days in ICU dealing with a painful lumbar spinal drain, aka a

The band will play 14 dates across the UK this October and November

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Because they are kind and generous people who want nothing but nice things for us, Liars are giving away two brand-new tracks, “I Saw You From The Lifeboat” and “Perfume Tear.” Both songs are harsh, buzzing synthetic things, keeping many of the textures from the band’s 2012 album WIXIW but bringing a more merciless, sinister edge than most of that album had. Right now, you can download both songs by heading to this site and entering an email address. Meanwhile, watch a video for “I Saw You From The Lifeboat,” which pairs the track with random tour photos, below.

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Weekend — the fuzzed-out noisemakers responsible for 2010

The MMG madman flashes cash in the video for a mixtape-standout.

Last year’s 601 and Snort mixtape cut ‘Bible On The Dash’ has finally received the video treatment. After a Spanish-only intro, Gunplay rolls around his Carol City hometown in a throwback-Buick and lays down his rueful but realistic verses: “I asked the pastor, what’s the fastest way to heaven for a bastard / With a tarnished past, give me your honest answer/ With all this Hannah Montana, without the Arm and Hammer / Am I going to get the slammer or the casket?”

Watch the video below. Gunplay is one of FACT’s rappers to watch in 2013; his Living Legend LP (originally titled Medellin) is due out this year.

Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus chants, “Bring back the dudes!” in the beginning of the video, the super fucking official name of the band’s spring tour with dude friends The So So Glos. When dudes are together, they are wont to bring out some blue-collar covers of hometown pride. Previously, Titus Andronicus covered “Born To Run” with Diarrhea Planet, and now So So Glos and Titus team up for the Beastie Boys anthem “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”, honoring the So So Glos’ home turf.

Watch the two punk bands fight for their right to just be dudes in the video below, which took place in New Orleans last Saturday at Siberia.

You’ve got four opportunities left to party with the dudes. Dates below:

Bring Back the Dudes 2013 Tour Dates:
05/16

California hardcore band Downpresser are currently blazing down an interstate with Take Offense, touring their way towards NYC for an appearance at the sold-out Black & Blue Bowl this weekend (some tickets at door), but soon after the band will celebrate the release of their new LP, which is out via 6131 Records. The release titled Don't Need A Reason will hit on May 28, and you can stream the opening track from the LP, "Twist of Fate" for the first time below. Order yours via the label.

All of you non-NYCers can still catch Downpresser as part of their current tour. Those dates are listed, along with that new track, and the title track from the LP, below.

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