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In Wavves’ new video for “That’s On Me”, a businessman takes out his aggression by slicing up soda bottles, fruit, and animal heads with a samurai sword. This sure as hell beats binge eating, especially if you’re one to count calories.

“That’s On Me” is off Wavves’ excellent third album, Afraid of Heights. We featured Wavves’ mastermind Nathan Williams in a recent Cover Story, which you can revisit here.

by Fred Pessaro

Black Tusk at The Studio at Webster Hall, May 2013 (more by Keith Marlowe)

Ready for this one? Black Tusk only have four tour dates right now, and none are in NYC. I know thats a hard pill to swallow considering the hard-touring nature of this Savannah swamp metal band.

But Black Tusk still isn't taking a true break though, readying the release of Tend No Wounds, a new six-song EP via Relapse on July 23, 2013. Head below for the video for "In Days of Woe" along with a shockingly small amount of tour dates.

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Beat Club on WUDR

The two-year-old L.A.-based trio Beat Club caught our attention when it snuck up to the Number 30 position on WUDR’s playlist this week. Named for a German TV show that aired in the ’60s and ’70s, the trio makes dance punk with a distinct pop sweetness. They blend ’80s hip-hop rhythms with a flurry of synths, prominent base lines, the occasional jangly guitar, and plenty of playful vocals.

Wax Children on KSPC

Coming in at Number 29 on KSPC’s Radio 200 playlist is Safe Hands from the L.A.-based Wax Children. The experimental garage group’s sound features a vast, psychedelic sonic landscape full of fuzz and reverb, but not without the occasional burst of noise-rock power and soothing melodies. A little surf rock in the guitar and clear ’60s influences round out the foursome’s sound.

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photos by David Andrako

Mikal Cronin

We already posted pictures of the Mikal Cronin/Shannon & the Clams show from day 3 (6/15) of Toronto festival NXNE, and that same day we also caught Mikal on the annual M for Montreal / Panache Bruise Cruise during NXNE with Toronto locals Odonis Odonis, Montreal's We Are Wolves, and rapper Fat Tony (who also played Yonge-Dundas Square). PIctures from that Bruise Cruise are in this post.

Mikal Cronin and Fat Tony both play NYC soon too.

Mikal Cronin is currently in NYC and will be playing live at the Pitchfork offices at 3 PM today (6/19) which will be webcast live. WATCH IT BELOW.

If you haven't been keeping up with our NXNE coverage, check out pictures of day 1, day 2, more day 2, day 3, and day 4. More pictures from the Bruise Cruise on day 3 below...

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CMT Crossroads is a series of specials that aims to connect country-music luminaries with friends from across musical divides, but it usually just combines different flavors of cheese. (The last episode, for instance, paired Rascal Flatts with Journey.) But the show’s next episode promises to be something special. Willie Nelson taped his Willie Nelson & Friends special at Jack White’s Third Man Records, and he brought a roster of guests that included Jamey Johnson, Sheryl Crow, Leon Russell, Norah Jones, and Ashley Monroe. And in what must’ve been a show-stopping moment, Nelson’s fellow free-spirited reedy-voiced legend Neil Young joined Nelson onstage to perform an absolutely shattering acoustic version of the 1976 Stills-Young Band classic “Long May You Run,” with no further accompaniment. Watch it below, and try not to let that hug at the end absolutely destroy you.

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Trent Reznor has recruited David Lynch to direct the video for Nine Inch Nails’ comeback single,

J Cole at Pier 36 in 2010 (more by Andrew St. Clair)

As mentioned, rapper J. Cole released his new album, Born Sinner (listen on Spotify), this week and is celebrating with $1 shows in select North American cities. The venue for each show is being announced day-of, and it's been announced that tonight's NYC show will be at Irving Plaza, and the only way to get in is to go down to the venue and pay the $1 at the door, starting NOW (2 PM). Wristbands are being given out - first come, first served.

(UPDATE: this post originally said there were two shows tonight, and while you never know what might happen, we are now being told it's actually just one show for now).

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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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