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Nashville’s pizza-loving rock group Diarrhea Planet have just released Separations, the lead single off the band’s upcoming sophomore release, I

Making another step closer to a promised second studio album, Clare Maguire unveils a gorgeously touching demo.

With vocal maturity far beyond her 25 years, ‘Changing Faces’ is three and a half minutes of emotion and honesty. The Annie Lennox influence is clear, but the cold simplicity and gentle catchiness of its chorus ensures any thought of the Closing Ceremony is quickly dashed.

Her intonation and controlled dynamics make this a quite stunning Best Fit Premiere – stream it below.

The Warp beatmaker launches Yellow Year Records with photographer Angel Ceballos.

According to Pitchfork, the label will release Speak Soon, a twelve-volume series of EPs that will feature Prefuse 73 collaborating with sonic descendants Teebs, Nosaj Thing, Lapalux, Synkro, Nathan Fake, Dimlite, and more.

The series was teased earlier this year when Noasj Thing announced plans for a joint EP. Prefuse 73 and Teebs have previously collaborated as Sons of the Morning; watch a label trailer that features new music from the pair below.

Body/Head at Drone Activity in Progress (more by Fred Pessaro)

Northside Festival expands further this year with a bunch more artists announced today. Those include names like Bleached, Chance the Rapper, Majical Cloudz, Body/Head, Sannhet, Limp Wrist and many many more. Check out a full list of new Northside Festival additions below.  Passes are still available.

As mentioned, Invisible Oranges will host Torche, KEN Mode, Lo-Pan and Inter Arma at 285 Kent on June 14 (tickets). The show is one of two to feature Inter Arma that weekend, who will also play a FREE Summer Thunder day show at Union Pool on June 15 with the newly added Pyrrhon!

BrooklynVegan is also proud to host a Summer Thunder event of our own with Heavy Blanket (featuring J Mascis) and Love as Laughter. Like the IO show, this June 8. performance will be FREE and feature drink specials all day. Destroy.

New Northside artist additions are listed below.

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For Beacon’s track “Drive” from their debut full-length The Ways We Separate, the BTW alumni enlisted 101lbs. Pictures to create a smoky, dark clip. But instead of crafting something run-of-the-mill, they drew from another genre’s tropes. Says Will Joines of 101, “I was interested in taking elements of a R&B video and making something darker and more mysterious. The goal was to suggest and imply while leaving room for the audience to insert their own story and ideas.” Check out the video and fill in the blanks below.

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As many of you know by now, Electronic Music’s Most Mysterious Group

As many of you know by now, Electronic Music’s Most Mysterious Group

The music sounds better with them?

As part of The xx‘s Night and Day festival in Berlin, the band were joined by London pop darling Jessie Ware for a cheeky cover of Stardust’s world-beating Gallic disco hit ‘The Music Sounds Better With You’. It’s not the best quality, we admit, but you can just about get the idea, and with Jessie Ware’s belting vocals and The xx’s typically restrained production it offers a very different look at a song that for a while was its era’s equivalent of ‘Gangnam Style’.

Take a look below, and make your own mind up. [via Dummy]

by Bill Pearis

Danish quartet When the Saints Go Machine have been around since the mid-'00s, making eerie, soulful dance music, distinguished in no small part by Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild's vocals which lie somewhere between Arthur Russell and Antony. The group's third album, Infinity Pool, is out next week (5/28) via !K7. You can watch videos for "Iodine" and first single "Love and Respect" (featuring Killer Mike), as well as stream a couple remixes of the latter, below. The whole album is streaming over at Pitchfork.

When Saints Go Machine are doing the European Summer Festival circuit (including Aarhus, DE's Northside Festival that weirdly happens the same weekend as Brooklyn's Northside festival). Then, the band will jet our way next month for their first-ever U.S. show which happens in NYC at Glasslands on June 24. Tickets for that show are on sale now. It's their only announced North American show.

All WSGM dates are listed, along with those videos and stream, below.

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Ya did it, Steve Buscemi: Vampire Weekend’s third studio album, Modern Vampires of the City, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts after moving 134,000 copies in its opening week. It’s the first independent album to achieve such a feat in 2013.

This marks the band’s second No. 1 album. Their 2010 sophomore LP, Contra, also debuted atop the charts with 124,000 copies sold.

Read our Top Star review of Modern Vampires of the City, and watch the band perform “Diane Young” on Saturday Night Live below.

Free Pussy Riot.

In the latest fragment of news from the Pussy Riot camp, currently-jailed member Maria Alyokhina has begun a hunger strike in protest to the Russian court’s decision to prohibit her from attending her own parole hearing. Alyokhina’s Pussy Riot bandmate Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was denied parole last month, so it’s hardly surprising that she doesn’t have much faith in the system as it stands.

Forbidding her lawyers to take any further action in the parole hearing, Alyokhina has become the most high profile prisoner to date to refuse to take part in Russia’s highly-criticized justice system. She instead appeared by video-link, and was required to file all motions by fax, which clearly delayed proceedings. After a day of the hearing, Alyokhina announced her hunger strike, no doubt aware this would raise the profile before things continue on Thursday.

Alyokhina was wryly critical of the whole affair, saying ”Let the troika sitting here

Oh hey, new Daft Punk! The French robots spent so many years putting together the immaculately crafted new album Random Access Memories that it only stands to reason that there would be material left over. And a Japanese edition of the album has a bonus track, called “Horizon,” that points in a couple of the directions the album could’ve gone. The track is a meditative, instrumental, half-acoustic reverie that recalls nothing so much as Daft Punk’s onetime French contemporaries Air. It’s awfully pretty, if entirely baffling, and you can stream it at the No BPM Limit Tumblr.