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The foreboding synth experimenter Laurel Halo named her new EP Behind The Green Door after a famed ’70s porn movie, and the latest track she’s shared from it is called “Sex Mission,” so maybe there’s a theme developing here. Or maybe not; the eight-minute “Sex Mission” — like “Throw,” the last track she shared from the EP — is a rigid mechanical pound, with nothing sensual about it. If these tracks are about sex, they’re about a particularly harsh and robotic form of it, which is maybe the point. Or maybe this is just the coldest house music anyone ever made. Listen to “Sex Mission” at NPR.

Behind The Green Door is out 5/21 on Hyperdub.

The band have revealed a host of videos for tracks from their forthcoming '...Like Clockwork' album

Two of our favourite worlds collide on emerging disco-house music stars Behling & Simpson

Some line-up changes to the newly-reformed industrial rock titans.

Yesterday, former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery pulled out of Trent Reznor’s latest incarnation of Nine Inch Nails, citing a desire to focus on his own music and film work rather than on a “growing” tour schedule. The split appears to be amicable, but Reznor wasted no time in finding a replacement: once-and-future NIN guitarist Robin Finck.

“I am proud to announce that the tour lineup now includes the incredible Robin Finck. The addition of Robin to the mix of players I’ve assembled makes this band incredibly powerful and versatile,” Reznor says on Facebook. “We are deep in the rehearsal process and it feels exciting and great to be back at this. Lots of information, surprises and sweat headed your way. Stay tuned!”

Finck will join Reznor, King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew, Telefon Tel Aviv

KROQ’s 21st annual Weenie Roast takes place Saturday, May 18th at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California. Can’t be there? Every single performance will be streamed live online beginning at 1:30 PST. Catch The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, 30 Seconds to Mars, Jimmy Eat World, C2C, Silversun Pickups, Of Monsters and Men, Atlas Genius, and more all from the comfort of your own backyard BBQ.

Check back here tomorrow to watch the webcast on Consequence of Sound.

Also check out exclusive interviews with The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, 30 Seconds to Mars, Silversun Pickups, C2C, AWOLNATION, and Capital Cities at Radio.com.

Saturday, May 18th (all times PT):
01:30 – Twenty One Pilots
02:00 – New Politics
02:30 – Capital Cities
03:00 – The Neighbourhood
03:30 – Fitz and the Tantrums
04:30 – Atlas Genius
05:00 – AWOLNATION
05:30 – Imagine Dragons
06:00 – Silversun Pickups
06:35 – Jimmy Eat World
07:10 – Of Monsters and Men
07:45 – Vampire Weekend
09:00 – 30 Seconds to Mars
09:45 – The Black Keys
10:30 – C2C

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

Eric Burdon @ Highline Ballroom, 5/15/2013

The band came out, and warmed the room up. the audience had a good mix of people, some old, some middle aged, and some young. Everyone seemed pretty excited, and the energy by this point was strong. Finally, he came out, and the band kicked into "When I Was Young".

Among the highlights were "Spill the Wine", which really sounded very funky and had a lot of life tonight, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", which had a sort of reggae feel, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "I'm Crying", and, of course, the biggest and most famous song on the list, "House of the Rising Sun".

A strong overall performance by a musical legend, and it was really great to see him again! I think this show was probably a better performance than the two prior times I had seen him, although being front and center last time certainly enhanced the experience, I would say. But this was a very enjoyable evening, at affordable prices, and I was certainly glad to have been there! - [The Charbor Chronicles]

Rock legend Eric Burdon was in town this week with his current version of the Animals for two shows at Highline Ballroom on Wednesday and Thursday (5/15-5/16). (He also played a private show at the John Varvatos store on 5/14.) We caught his first Highline show and pictures from that, as well as the setlist, are in this post.

Eric's a...

It’s been a big year for Rush. Last month the prog-rock icons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; now, two of the band’s past labels are reissuing their entire catalog on iTunes. Rush: The Complete Mercury Years and Rush: The Studio Albums 1989-2007, from Universal Music Enterprises and Atlantic Records respectively, have been remastered with “increased audio fidelity, more closely replicating what the artists, recording engineers, and producers intended.”

The Complete Mercury Years features 12 albums released under the Mercury label, from 1974′s self-titled debut to 1989′s live record A Show of Hands. The complete collection includes Fly by Night, Caress of Steel, 2112 (Deluxe Edition), All the World’s a Stage (live), A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Exit… Stage Left (live), Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire.

Meanwhile, Atlantic’s The Studio Albums 1989-2007 collects seven albums: Presto, Roll the Bones, Counterparts, Test for Echo, Vapor Trails, Feedback, and Snakes & Arrows.

The collections can now be purchased on iTunes as entire packages, individual albums, or single songs. Rush’s most recent record, Clockwork Angels, is also still available from An...

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Earlier this week, bassist Eric Avery announced his departure from Nine Inch Nails. Even though the band’s first show isn’t scheduled until late July, Trent Reznor wasted no time finding a replacement. As announced on the band’s Facebook page, longtime Nine Inch Nails collaborator Robin Finck has rejoined the band, and is already involved in rehearsals.

Fink has toured off and on with Nine Inch Nails since the mid-90s, and appears on five studio album. For this latest tour, he’ll perform alongside Reznor, Adrian Belew (King Crimson), and Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), along with previous NIN collaborators Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin.

Nine Inch Nails 2013 Tour Dates:
07/26

by Bill Pearis

We haven't had a new album from onetime Miracle Legion and Polaris frontman Mark Mulcahy since 2005's In Pursuit of Your Happiness (one of my favorites of that year). (He unfortunately had to deal with some personal tragedies.) That is too long to be away from one of the great voices in music. That will change next month when the singer releases Dear Mark J Mulcahy I Love You via Mezzotint/Fire on June 18. Working with veteran indie rock knob-twiddler Paul Q. Kolderie, the new album finds Mulcahy in fine form, his raggedly emotive vocals warming you like a great be hug. You can stream two tracks from the album -- "She Makes The World Turn Backwards" and "Let The Fireflies Fly Away" -- below and both are terrific. Welcome back, Mark!

As mentioned, Mark will play NYC on June 27 at Mercury Lounge, shortly after his appearance at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. Tickets for that show are still available. He's got shows throughout the summer and all tour dates, plus new LP artwork and tracklist and those song streams, are below.

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Hangout Music Festival will stream a number of this weekend

by Fred Pessaro

Queens of the Stone Age have posted the video "My God is the Sun," the latest single from ...Like Clockwork and one of several videos/snippets released by the band. Check that out below and order yours via Matador.

QOTSA have a limited number of US dates scheduled thus far, but will play Made in America, Austin City Limits and select other dates. All other tour dates, and those videos, are listed below.

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Singer's nephew says choreographer's claims are untrue

Hey, another one of these! The fifth bloodily animated video for a song from the new Queens Of The Stone Age album …Like Clockwork is for the epic, churning, triumphant first single “My God Is The Sun.” In the clip, the dead stars of the videos for “I Appear Missing,” “Kalopsia,” “Keep Your Eyes Peeled,” and “If I Had A Tail” all reawaken as a gigantic winged sun rises in the sky. It all plays out like something a shop-class stoner might dream if he fell asleep watching Heavy Metal. Check it out below.

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