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The Dirty South pioneer continues to serve as the Nile Rodgers to Kanye’s Daft Punk.

In a Reddit AMA, Mike Dean shared more details about his work with Kanye West. Most notably, Dean says Kanye will tour in support of Yeezus; the rapper did not tour after releasing My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Additionally, Dean confirmed that the various versions of the album are mixed slightly differently, saying “yea, we work on it until the last possible minute, and then beyond;” head over to KanyeToThe for a longer discussion of the version differences.

In a previous interview, the producer said that Watch the Throne 2 is possibly due next year. Earlier today, Kanye’s American Psycho-inspired video hit the web. Oh, and we reviewed Yeezus. [via Consequence of Sound]

Indie pop quartet Trails and Ways (who we wrote about last year) are on a tour which hits the Coffee House stage at Delaware's Firefly Music Festival this weekend. After that they'll come to NYC for shows at Pianos on Friday (6/21) with Float Fall, S&M, Frances Cone, and The Novel Ideas; and Knitting Factory on Saturday (6/22) with Matrimony and Moon Furies. Tickets for the Pianos show and the Knitting Factory show are on sale now.

All dates are listed, along with a song stream, below...

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As mentioned, Nashville's snarling, glammy Cheap Time are currently on the road with SoCal punk vets Social Distortion and The Loved Ones frontman Dave Hause (who plays a free RBSS show with The Gaslight Anthem). That tour hits the NYC-area on Saturday (6/22) at Stone Pony Summerstage with Hot Water Music and Sunday (6/23) at Warsaw. Tickets for both NYC-area shows are still available.

Cheap Time have squeezed in a headlining gig happening in NYC after those shows at Pianos on Monday night (6/24) with Pittsburgh's Shockwave Riderz and The Vim Dicta. Tickets are $8 at the door. Hopefully Cheap Time will try out material from their new album which is due this fall.

Shockwave Riderz features Phil Boyd and Paul Quattrone, who some of you may remember from '00s-era garage rockers The Modey Lemon, who called it quits in 2010. Their new thing is a little more stripped down and prone to riding a motorik groove. Zone out on their three-song EP below. In addition to Monday's Pianos show, you can also catch Shockwave Riderz opening for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion their previously discussed at Music Hall of Williamsburg (7/18) show (tickets).

All Cheap Time and Shockwave Riderz dates are listed, along with the SR stream, below...

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South Carolinian crew Apart will open the NYC show with Trap Them at Saint Vitus on June 22 (tickets), the first of five on a stacked bill that also includes Full of Hell, Seven Sisters of Sleep and Psychic Limb. Get there early for Apart, though, and listen up for new tracks from their forthcoming LP, A Bright and Clever Hell due out later this summer via Mayfly Records. The record includes "Oak Island," which sees the post-hardcore band blend bits of Slint, Envy, grind, and screamo into the mix.That track makes its premiere in this post and you can stream it below.

In addition to the Saint Vitus show, Apart dates a few other shows scheduled, including an appearance at The Fest in Gainesville, FL from for the Oct 31 - Nov 3. There the band will join names as varied as White Lung, Torche, FYP and Paint it Black over the four days and multiple venues. Full Fest lineup is below, and tickets are on sale.

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The where-does-that-other-sock-go mystery has been solved in the video for the Postal Service’s “A Tattered Line Of String.” In the clip for the Give Up anniversary edition bonus track, we venture into the dirty clothes-filled alternate universe of an otherwise standard issue laundromat. Check it out below.

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Though Kanye West ended his media boycott with an interview for The New York Times, it’s been the album’s co-producer, Mike Dean, who’s been serving as the unofficial spokesperson. Today, Dean took part in an AMA on Reddit, answering fan-submitted questions about the album’s recording process and his own career.

The biggest revelation: Kanye will tour behind his new album,

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Uncharted is our weekly showcase of independent artists we think you should hear. This week Jordan Darville speaks Wormwood, an anthemic London-via-Saskatchewan electronic duo.

eriodically, my discussion with Andrew Wenaus and Christine Willatt of Wormwood returns to the influence of voids. The emptiness in a deserted Saskatchwan killing winters, and especially on the crowded streets of London, Ontario. It