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Back in February, 285 Kent hosted the Indie Pop Prom, which included sets from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Swearin', Waxahatchee, Potty Mouth, and Weed Hounds (their first show in 2 years). Well, Potty Mouth and Weed Hounds must love playing proms, because this Saturday (5/25) at Big Snow, they'll play the MONSTER PROM, along with Celestial Shore, Slime Boyz, and Brown Bread. The show begins at 6 PM with a monster art show (which you can participate in) and music starts at 9. $7 at the door gets you in to this all ages show.

Potty Mouth, who will be releasing their debut LP this year, have other upcoming shows too, including another in NYC on June 5 at Cake Shop with Hard Nips, Leda (whose lineup includes Amy Klein of Hilly Eye and formerly of Titus Andronicus), and The Pretty Greens. That show is $8 at the door.

Leda also play a free Northside show at Spike Hill on June 16.

Updated Potty Mouth dates are listed below...

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The US based Parents Television Council has called the footage 'disgusting, vile content'

“Alive,” the new single from Aussie synthpoppers Empire Of The Sun is as much a grand and absurd spectacle. as it is a song; the group made good and sure of that with the video. They’re all over the festival circuit this summer, which means they’ll play the song live a fuckton of times. And one of the first of those times came earlier this week at the House Of Blues in Dallas. The performance was heavy on lights and dancers and costumes, and you can watch a pro video of it below.

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The California electronic artist reworks the Chicago duo.

While Houses’ ‘The Beauty Surrounds’ is a bit of heartbroken synth-pop, the remix by D33J is a gentle recasting of the original, infused with the haze of his

Jobs were passed down generationally between strangers. One guy became an editor at a magazine, but used to be a music buyer at Mondo Kim’s on St. Marks. My friend got the job and started a shoegaze band with a tall guy named Brad that had a huge beard and a couple large cats. Brad moved away and then two different guys joined and the band got way darker. It felt like every musician in New York was in Black Dice at some point. Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio produced a record for Telepathe, a band that used to be a different band. I got an internship at The FADER through a kid I sort of knew that went to Columbia who had one before me. He really liked Ryan Adams. I liked Ryan Adams less, which worried me for some reason.

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The So So Glos, whose album Blowout came out not too long ago, are playing a free show at Studio @ Webster Hall tonight (5/22) which will be streamed live on MTV Hive. You can get free tickets through Ticketweb but walk-ups will be let in until capacity is reached. Doors are at 7 PM. Flyer for the show is below.

The band's next NYC show is a previously discussed show happening this Sunday (5/26) at Knitting Factory as part of a show put on by Hunter College radio station WHCS. Since we last spoke, Crystal Stilts have been added to that bill, which also includes Dinowalrus, Heavens Gate and Trabajo. Tickets are $12 ($8 if you use promo code "hookmeupwhcs") and still available but if you'd like to go for free, we've got a pair to give away. Details on how to enter are below.

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The duo's new album 'Volume 3' was released earlier this month

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Surf rocker quartet La Luz have announced a series of summer tour dates that finds the Seattle group kicking things off with a show in Portland before heading east. They’ll hit New York for a show at the Mercury Lounge on July 14, then head back west and finish up in their hometown for the Capitol Hill Block Party. That’s quite the trek!

Though this is a summer tour, it’s as good a time as ever to revisit the track Sure As Spring, a sweet song dripping with hauntingly sweet melancholia. “It’s so hard to get my blood to settle down,” Shana Cleveland sings as she laments past failed relationships. The track’s driving guitars, languid harmonies and lush textures build to a musical breakdown towards the second half of the song that embodies the surf rock twang of La Luz. Their EP, Damp Face, is out now. Check out the tour dates below.

Tour Dates For La Luz:
06/28 – Portland, OR – The Know
06/30 – San Francisco, CA – The Hemlock
07/02 – San Diego, CA – VOID
07/03 – Phoenix, AZ – The Last Exit
07/04 – Marfa, TX – Padres
07/05 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas
07/06 – Fort Worth, TX – The Wherehouse
07/08 – Atlanta, GA – 529
07/09 – Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light
07/10 – Nashville, TN – Stone Fox
07/11 – Boone, NC – Blac...

Australian electro-pop duo Empire of the Sun already proved quite theatrical with their recent fantastical video for “Alive”. Well, it would appear their stage show in support of their sophomore effort, Ice on the Dune, remains just as invigorating. This week, the outfit performed their first show in two years at Dallas’ House of Blues as part of Yahoo!’s On the Road series. While Lord Littlemore was nowhere to be seen, Emperor Steele reigned over a fashionable medley of performers, from neurotic dancers to sweaty musicians. The costumes, the lights, and the beats — all golden opportunities for glam. Replay their performance of “Alive” below.

Ice on the Dune arrives in June 18th via Astralwerks. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Schoolboy Q at Best Buy Theater - 5/21/13 (via Kellen Dengler)

Thanks to TDE's recent success, Q found himself as the most established performer at the Freshman show. With no one to accompany him on stage, he fared better in the larger crowd as a solo artist, breezing through tracks from Habits & Contradictions and throwback collaborations with A$AP Rocky. At one point, he asked Kendrick Lamar to join him but laughed at the audience members who fell for his joke. Fittingly, he won the crowd back with his charisma by asking them the title of his upcoming album. "Oxymoron!" they screamed back. And this was done four times over. [XXL]

The 2013 XXL Freshman Class, including Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Joey Bada$$, Action Bronson, Angel Haze, and more, all came to NYC for a show at Best Buy Theater last night (5/21). You can check out a video of Schoolboy Q playing "My Hatin' Joint" at the show, below.

As mentioned in yesterday's What's Going On? post, Action Bronson made a video for his Harry Fraud-produced song, "Strictly 4 My Jeeps." If you missed it, you can watch that video below. Riff Raff stars in the video, and as discussed, he plays a Scion A/V show in Brooklyn at Coco 66 tonight (5/22) with Stalley and Smoke DZA. Entrance to that show had to be gained through Scion's contest which has since ended.

Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul are both members of the group <...

The Chicago rapper/producer Tree calls his style “soul-trap,” and that’s a better genre descriptor than a critic nerd like me could come up with. Seen from a certain angle, Tree is an inheritor to his city’s Common/early Kanye conscious-rap throne. His music can be placid and thoughtful, full of doomed narrative and poverty-contemplation and emotional catharsis. He does things with samples that could’ve made No I.D. or young Kanye proud; check the way he resurrects the old chipmunk-soul production trick to turn Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You” into a disorienting banger on “The King.” And he’s structured his entire new mixtape Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out around the idea of a morning at church; it actually has firmly demarcated mini-suites, and it works toward a structural coherence that even the most ambitious mixtapes almost never try. But Tree isn’t a preacher or a striver or a struggle-rapper, and he damn sure isn’t an antidote to his city’s nihilistic drill scene. Rather, he comes off like a wizened older cousin to the kids in that scene. His drums punch almost as hard as Young Chop’s, his threats are just as vivid and bloodyminded as Chief Keef’s, and his voice is a demonic terror all its own.

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