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Sombear is the new musical project of Minneapolis

“A comma and a fucking dot; semicolon.”

Comedy rap trio The Lonely Island have recruited Solange for their latest tune, ‘Semicolon’. Schoolhouse Rock! this is not; think grocery bag rap with a chorus by the younger Knowles chanteuse. And yes, the joke is that they’re using the punctuation incorrectly.

The Wack Album on June 11 through Republic and features Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams, Green Day

On July 23rd, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros will release their self-titled third studio album. It’s described by Alex Ebert as a collection of the “rawest, most liberated, most rambunctious stuff we

As he prepares to head to Spain’s Primevera Sound festival, FACT TV premiere the latest video by Montreal musician Doldrums, ‘Holographic Sandcastles’.

Taken from the Canadian producer’s latest album Lesser Evil, it features Sami Nacomi (we’re waiting on video credits). Lesser Evil is out now; Doldrums plays Primavera this Friday, May 24.

In anticipation of their new album The Wack Album, The Lonely Island have launched

Hanging Gardens, the debut LP from Classixx, has only been out a week, but various tracks from the fantastic release have slowly been infiltrating our various mixes for parties and outdoor get-togethers, lately. The album serves as the perfect compliment to any and all things summer. To build on the momentum of the release, the Los Angeles pair dropped the new and non-LP cut “Valley Vacation.” It is a mesmerizing, synthed-out instrumental. Stream it below.

Total Control @ FFF Fest 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro)

Chain & the Gang @ Secret Project Robot 2011 (more by Harriet Roberts)

today in NYC
* Anciients, Family @ Saint Vitus
* Sua, Advaeta @ Cameo Gallery
* Will McEvoy's Mutsam @ Barbes
* Joshua Radin @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Amaan & Ayaan Ali Khan @ Joe's Pub
* The Mandingo Ambassadors @ Barbes
* The Westerlies Play Horvitz @ The Stone
* Lydia Ainsworth, Solar Year @ Cake Shop
* Brother Tiger, pacificUV @ The Rock Shop
* Big Terrific Comedy Show @ Cameo Gallery
* So So Glos, Pedico @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Stalley, Riff Raff, Smoke DZA, DJ Getlive @ Coco 66
* Korn, Device, Love and Death @ The Wellmont Theatre
* Rotten Sound, Hellshock, Kromosom, Nomad @ Acheron
* yMusic, Amanda Holley, Dan Mills @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Of Montreal, The Wild Moccasins @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Royal Bangs, We Are The Wilderness, Blue & Red @ Glasslands
* Grand Resort, BOYTOY, Orca Orca, HOUNDSds @ Shea Stadium
* Eat Skull, PC Worship, Vaz, Call Of The Wild, LODRO @ 285 Kent
* Total Control, Pop. 1280. Night Sins, Sleepies @ Mercury Lounge
* Lindsey Luff, Mariko, Natural Stranger, DJ Nick Louis @ Spike Hill
* Big Ups, Low Fat Getting High, Radical Dads, Miniboone @ Big Snow
* The Johns, Turner Cody, Prewar Yardsale, Little Cobweb @ Muchmore's
* Phone Ho...

Don’t exhale you guys, because the ’90s resurgence isn’t over yet. While on tour in Chicago yesterday supporting her debut album, True Romance, (or as I like to call it, “Thank god, a new collection of sex jams”) Charli XCX performed a cover of the Backstreet Boys’ I Want It That Way during a show at Borderline Music. If you’re keeping score (or making some sort of elaborate conspiracy theory chart on your bedroom walls) One Direction did the same cover about two weeks ago.

Someone should ask Nick Carter his thoughts on this, because I have a feeling it’ll be like how Bob Dylan said Jimi Hendrix’s version of All Along the Watchtower was how Dylan wanted his own to sound. Charli XCX’s I Want It That Way is more sultry and less rigidly structured (meaning no five-boy harmonies) than the original. The video is below, but before you hit play, take a second to consider: it’s gonna be stuck in your head all day.

The post Watch: Charli XCX Covers The Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” appeared first on CMJ.

While I have never really been able to get into the HBO show True Blood, their latest soundtrack for the series is something to get behind. Scheduled for release on May 28th via ATO Records, it features the likes of My Morning Jacket, Deep Valley, The Flaming Lips, and Warpaint to name a few. Additionally, everyone’s favorite down home mamajamas Alabama Shakes are contributing a new one titled “Pocket Change.” It is a simple little throwback ditty that would be perfect to throw on for your next backyard BBQ. Stream it below.

Brodinski and Manu Barron prep the tenth release from their club-minded imprint.

Bromance #10 features tracks from Montreal’s Kaytranada and Baton Rouge’s Suicideyear

The mighty San Francisco psychedelic titan known as Ty Segall has announced a summer tour to support his new solo album, Sleeper, due out August 20th through Drag City. The docket includes appearances at Pickathon and FYF Fest before Segall embarks on a headlining tour that stretches from late August through mid-September.

Watch the surprisingly eerie trailer announcing the tour:

Ty Segall 2013 Tour Dates:
07/19 – Paris, France @ City Sounds Festival
08/01 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst Atrium * #
08/03-04 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon Music Festival
08/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest
08/27 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk Outside
08/29 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
08/30 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
08/31 – Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium
09/02 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall #
09/04 – Monterey, CA @ Golden State Theatre #
09/05 – Oakland, CA @ New Parish #
09/07 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s #
09/08 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux #
09/09 – Reno, NV @ Holland Project #
12/01 – Camber Sands, UK @ ATP’s End of an Era Festival

* = w/ Daughn Gibson and William Tyler
# = w/ Mike Donovan

The boards are the heartbeat of DiS, and as such you

The promotion for Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories was innovative, but it’s certainly rivaled by the mysterious roll-out for Boards Of Canada’s first album in seven years, Tomorrow’s Harvest. The first preview of new music came via six single edition 12″s released on Record Store Day that went from a crate-digger’s goldmine to being sold for the price of one of Diddy’s children on eBay. Yesterday, more music from the Scottish ambient duo was unveiled a la Kanye West on a screen in Tokyo. Check out the footage below.

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One of the things I remember most from this year

Laurel Halo’s confidence in her beat making ability has only grown in the year that’s passed since the release of her full-length debut, Quarantine. Her latest short and sweet EP, Behind The Green Door, displays Halo’s versatility, taking a left turn from the sounds explored on her full-length. Suprisingly, Halo’s new record doesn’t contain any of the fluttering vocals to which we’ve become accustomed. Instead, we are hit by more dance-club ready tunes. It’s as if Halo has stumbled onto a time machine and launched herself back a few years, because the sound is oddly familiar to her 2010 EP Hour Logic.

The opening song, “Throw” fades in with crisp but ominous piano chords, as if Halo knows something bad is about to happen. Just as the tension in the song reaches its tipping point, she slows it down with a constant pitter pat on the drums, only to smoothly reintroduce the piano near the end. By the time it was over, and that tingling feeling slowly left my body, I realized that there was no drop. It was like taking a steady climb to the top of a mountain, only to be left there with no path back to the base camp.

From there Halo transitions into the actual club banger off the EP. “UHFFO” is the only song off this album that I can picture people bouncing around and fist pumping too at a hot and crowded party. With a roaring bass and warbling synths that in...