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The strangest video you’ll see today, complete with twerking, body horror, and a piñata full of hot dogs.

The video for Miley Cyrus’ ‘We Can’t Stop’ is what happens when a teen pop star makes a hip-hop party video in the age of Tim and Eric. Directed by video veteran Diane Martel, the clip features a scantily-clad Cyrus toying with a few hip-hop tropes (grills, twerking) and some out-there imagery, from taxidermied animals wearing jewelry to a skull made of french fries.

See for yourself below. The controversy-courting single was reviewed by the FACT Singles Club, who alternately called it a “dead-eyed ode to MDMA written by people who don

by Andrew Sacher

Shigeto

Ann Arbor beatmaker Shigeto (aka Zach Saginaw) is set to release his new album, No Better Time Than Now, on August 20 via Ghostly. Album single "Detroit Part 1," is Shigeto's typical nu-jazz-meets-hip-hop style, but the other cut he's released, "Ringleader," is new ground for him. Sparkling and multi-layered, the track that feels fuller and more beautiful than most of his work to date. You can check out "Detroit Part 1" below and listen to "Ringleader" over at NPR. The artwork and tracklist are below too.

In support of the new album, Shigeto will be heading out on a co-headlining tour with Ghostly labelmates Beacon. Another Ghostly artist, Heathered Pearls (who plays a collaborative set with Dirty Beaches in NYC soon) will be joining them as a support act for the first North American leg, which includes a NYC show happening on August 31 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for that show are on AmEx presale now and general on-sale begins Friday (6/21) at noon.

All tour dates are listed, along with the tour flyer, album artwork, trackist, and that song stream, below...

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The video will reunite the Lost Highway collaborators.

The video for Nine Inch Nails’ comeback single ‘Came Back Haunted’ will be directed by David Lynch, according to Pitchfork; NIN mastermind Trent Reznor produced the soundtrack for Lynch’s 1997 film Lost Highway. Reznor just tweeted a photo of himself and the legendary director with the caption “tr;dl” (below).

‘Came Back Haunted’ will appear on Hesitation Marks, due out on September 3, and received a middle-of-the-road score by FACT’s Singles Club. The album will be followed by a huge tour, the band’s first since 2009. For his part, Lynch will release “modern blues” album The Big Dream on July 16.

Read our alternate history of Reznor’s career, and watch the Mark Romanek-directed video for Lost Highway‘s ‘The Perfect Drug’ below.

Freddie Gibbs stays defiantly posted on the outskirts of rap’s mainstream, and with each successive release he makes a strong case that maybe it’s the industry who needs to change. His verses are jacked with a fight-or-flight delivery, as if delivered two inches away from your face, and even on the blog friendly beat for

Releasing two new tracks within a week of each other? That’s totally normal for L.A. skuzz rock duo No Age—in fact, that’s exactly what they’ve done. Just last week the band released the first single, “C’mon Stimmung” off their upcoming album, played on a ocean landscaped non-video to boot. Now the band has released the opening track to An Object, “No Ground.”

The slow-building track plays like No Age is holding nothing back. There’s a sense of urgency in singer/drummer Dean Spunt’s vocals as he wails, “I don’t work for you/You have no clue” above a high energy guitar riff and pounding drums. You can check out the tour dates for No Age below, and stream No Ground over at NPR.

Tour Dates for No Age:
06/19

In 2012, rap-weirdo legend DOOM teamed up with the quirky producer Jneiro Jarel to form the short-lived duo JJ DOOM and released the album Keys To The Kuffs. Nearly a year later, they’ve made a video for the album track “Bookhead,” and it shows DOOM going through a Kafka-style metamorphosis, joining forces with a bodega security mirror to become a human fisheye lens. He then goes shopping for used books. The street artist Steve “ESPO” Powers directed the video, and you can watch it below.

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by Klaus Kinski

Gang, I've been sitting on this news since May and feel like a real dildo about this world-class stupidity on my part. It's now mid-June. I hate myself for this. Anyhow, better late than never, right? Right. Beginning way back on May 15, 2013, South African comedian and monologist Trevor Noah brought his one man show, Born A Crime, to the off-Broadway confines of 45 Bleecker in Manhattan. The show, in which Trevor discusses the trials and tribulations of being born of mixed race in Apartheid South Africa, has enjoyed a ridiculously successful run of sold-out performances in theaters in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. Originally called The Racist, Trevor performed the show at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe in a month long, sold-out run which basically made him comedy royalty. Then he did a whopping three month run across South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa to still even more acclaim and more sell-outs. He then ran his show for a pants-shittingly astounding 6-week, sold-out run at London's famed Soho Theater.

Trevor is one of the most brilliant storytellers in the business and the greatness of Born A Crime is sure to propel him into the upper-stratosphere of world-famous comediandom. His material is extremely dense and fast-paced and comes from a place that hardly any of us could even fathom. Truly, h...

by Klaus Kinski

Gang, I've been sitting on this news since May and feel like a real dildo about this world-class stupidity on my part. It's now mid-June. I hate myself for this. Anyhow, better late than never, right? Right. Beginning way back on May 15, 2013, South African comedian and monologist Trevor Noah brought his one man show, Born A Crime, to the off-Broadway confines of 45 Bleecker in Manhattan. The show, in which Trevor discusses the trials and tribulations of being born of mixed race in Apartheid South Africa, has enjoyed a ridiculously successful run of sold-out performances in theaters in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. Originally called The Racist, Trevor performed the show at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe in a month long, sold-out run which basically made him comedy royalty. Then he did a whopping three month run across South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa to still even more acclaim and more sell-outs. He then ran his show for a pants-shittingly astounding 6-week, sold-out run at London's famed Soho Theater.

Trevor is one of the most brilliant storytellers in the business and the greatness of Born A Crime is sure to propel him into the upper-stratosphere of world-famous comediandom. His material is extremely dense and fast-paced and comes from a place that hardly any of us could even fathom. Truly, h...

Dream pop conductor Mauro Remiddi, a.k.a. Porcelain Raft, will drop his sophomore album, Permanent Signal, on August 20th via Secretly Canadian. While he’s previously teased us with an album trailer, we now have the first official single with the weepy decadence of “Think of the Ocean”.

As expected, it’s a staggering block of depression, though this time around, Remiddi’s work feels extracted from a post-modern foreign film, thanks to the stirring strings and the droning tones. As the songwriter writes in a press release, 

Mauro Remiddi, bka Porcelain Raft, returns this year with his sophomore full-length Permanent Signal. Our first taste of the album is “Think Of The Ocean,” a sprawling track covered in a sheen of hazy sweetness. Check it out below.

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Dominick Fernow massively reconfigures the Order of Noise standout.

The propulsive ‘Court Of Lions’ appears on Vessel’s debut solo album for Tri Angle Records, Order of Noise. On his remix of the track, Hospital Productions’ Dominick Fernow (under his Prurient alias) strips away the layers of clattering percussion to reveal something ambient and

One of the strongest rap mixtapes of the year thus far is Sunday School: When Church Lets Out, the latest from the tough and gnarled Chicago rapper/producer Tree. Tree just shared his video for the honking, soul-thundering mixtape track “Busters” this morning, but he must’ve taped it months ago, when Chicago was still frozen tundra. There are not too many things that look cooler than one guy rapping his heart out in the snow. Watch it below.

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Atlanta’s brightest hope is back.

Rome Fortune‘s Beautiful Pimp mixtape is still one of our favourite drops this year, so much so that FACT featured the Atlanta rapper in our recent