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Tonight (5/23) at 10:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM PT, Queens of the Stone Age will perform their entire new album ...Like Clockwork live from the The Wiltern in Los Angeles, streaming at NPR.

Meanwhile watch their recent performance on Jools Holland, below...

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Queens of the Stone Age will travel to Los Angeles this evening for an intimate concert at the Wiltern, where they’ll perform their new album …Like Clockwork in full. NPR Music will be streaming the performance live online — tune in here beginning at 10:30pm ET / 7:30pm PT.

Like Clockwork features Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Elton John, Alex Turner, Mark Lanegan, and more, and is due out June 4th through Matador Records. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Watch the band perform “If I Had A Tail” on Later… with Jools Holland.

Photos by Greg Cristman

The Pere Ubu and Eddie Money-covering Coliseum toured throuch NYC this week and played a show at Kniting Factory in Brooklyn with Red Hare (mems. Swiz, Bluetip, Garden Variety) and Pampers on Tuesday night (5/21). Here are some pictures. They continue below...

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Hollywood, FL’s Beach Day revealed another song from their upcoming debut, Trip Trap Attack, out June 18th via Kanine Records. “Stay” has heavy influence of 60s girl groups such as The Shangri-La’s, The Ventures, and The Ronettes with some surf rock mixed in. Think a more poppier Best Coast or Dum Dum Girls. Listen to the song below and the previously released “Boys” here.

“In The Zone” from Airbird & Napolian featuring Erika Spring is one our favorite jams, recently. YOu can bet it will be making several appearances over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. Everything about the track screams warm weather and summer. On the other side of that single is the b-side “Special.” With this song, we get more of a chopped-up house track. “In the Zone” b/w “Special” is out now via Cascine. Listen below.

Getting a tattoo of your favorite band, their logo, or meaningful lyrics symbolizes your undying love for their music and your loyalty as a fan. But there are some music tattoos that are so awful, so cringeworthy, you wonder if the artist themselves would be willing to pay for its removal. So, on today’s Rock it Out! Blog, Sami (who is ink-free) wants to know what music tattoos are the worst you’ve ever seen. Leave your horror stories down below and feel free to post links to the tattoos you’ve found to be most foul.

Also on today’s episode, Sami recaps more music headlines, including a trippy new video from Portugal. The Man, a brand new song from Arctic Monkeys, the trailer for Metallica’s Imax movie, Through The Never, and the long-awaited single from Boards Of Canada.

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History from Stockholm’s Molly Nilsson was one of the more grossly unappreciated albums from last year. Her music paints in cold tones and her vocals are reminiscent of Nico or even a female Matt Berninger of The National. In fact, her sound as a whole has many of the same elements of The National. On June 21st, Nilsson will be releasing her fifth and latest album The Travels via Dark Skies Association/Night School. The first single from the LP is pleading “Dear Life.” The lyrics read like a diary entry of someone searching for something more. Listen to and watch the video directed by Chris Filippini and Nilsson below.

Ever-impressive and often-mysterious Scottish electronic music duo Boards Of Canada have just released a new track, Reach for the Dead off their upcoming album, Tomorrow’s Harvest, out June 11 via Warp. Accompanying the track is a muddled, 1960s-roadtrip-esque video, complete with zooming clouds, stretches of winding road, and some ramshackle-looking buildings that show hints of promise in the sunlight. The video debuted yesterday in Tokyo, splayed across the side of a building, much to the confusion of, well, everyone.

This is the band’s first new release in seven years, and it’s the kind of album teaser we should expect from BoC. The song starts softly with a drum beat and buzzing reverb, then builds to a pulse-quickening wall of sound. You can check out the tracklist for Tomorrow’s Harvest and watch the video for Reach for the Dead, below.

Tracklist for Tomorrow’s Harvest:
01. Gemini
02. Reach For The Dead
03. White Cyclosa
04. Jacquard Causeway
05. Telepath
06. Cold Earth
07. Transmisiones Ferox
08. Sick Times
09. Collapse
10. Palace Posy
11. Split Your Infinities
12. Uritual
13. Nothing Is Real
14. Sundown
15. New Seeds
16. Come To Dust
17. Semena Mertvykh

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“Wings” from Brooklyn’s Haerts is easily one of the best tracks you will hear this year. All you have to do is listen to our Sirius XMU radio show each Tuesday and you will hear that song as a constant in our rotation. We, now, get another equally captivating song titled “All The Days.” Stevie Nick anyone? Expect an album from the group later this year, but in the meantime stream their latest below.

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TGI Fridays, you give bars a bad name, a bad name...

"State authorities this morning raided 29 bars and restaurants across New Jersey on suspicion that they have been re-filling empty bottles of their most expensive liquors with cheaper alcohol.

Dubbed "Operation Swill," the year-long investigation found the establishments fooled customers so they could charge higher prices and bolster their profits, according to a statement released by the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control." [NJ.COM]

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TGI Fridays, you give bars a bad name, a bad name...

"State authorities this morning raided 29 bars and restaurants across New Jersey on suspicion that they have been re-filling empty bottles of their most expensive liquors with cheaper alcohol.

Dubbed "Operation Swill," the year-long investigation found the establishments fooled customers so they could charge higher prices and bolster their profits, according to a statement released by the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control." [NJ.COM]

Continue reading "Cops raid TGI Fridays, Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday & other NJ bars for selling cheep alcohol as 'top shelf'" at brooklynvegan

After using a mysterious code-filled Record Store Day stunt to reintroduce an entire generation to the concept of math, Boards of Canada are now finally back with a new video, and you won’t have to know anything about numbers to watch it.

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