André 3000 to Co-Star in Season 2 of "American Crime"

André 3000 will star in the second season of ABC's anthology drama "American Crime", Billboard reports. André Benjamin will play Michael Lacroix, an architect and one-half of a power couple (his wife Terri is played by Regina King). The season's arc traces the couple's fight to defend their son when he becomes entangled in a scandal at an elite private school.

Ridley and Benjamin previously collaborated on the Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side, in which Benjamin played Hendrix.

American Crime is an Emmy-nominated anthology directed by John Ridley (who also directed the Hendrix biopic) whose narrative follows an incident at a Midwestern high school that sparks discussions about gender issues, sexual orientation, and sexual identity.

"Personally, I couldn’t be more excited than to work again with Andre," Ridley told the Hollywood Reporter. "He is an amazing individual, a true artist, and All is by my Side is one of the reasons I was given the reins on American Crime. Folks at ABC were absolutely moved by Andre’s performance in the film, and by the overall language of cinema we used in telling the story. It’s fair to say American Crime might not exist were it not for our previous collaboration." 

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Baio (Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio) Shares New Song "Endless Rhythm”

Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio makes dance music under the name Baio. Back in April, he announced that a debut album called The Names, which will be out September 18 via Glassnote. Along with that announcement he shared a song called "Brainwash Yyrr Face", and later, another one called "Sister of Pearl". Now, he's shared a new song called "Endless Rhythm”. Listen to it below.

The Names takes its title from Don DeLillo's 1982 novel. "The Names is a record that has reverberated through my mind for much of the last five years," Baio has previously said in a press release. "Its themes began to take shape when I moved from New York to London in 2013. Today I'm delighted to share the first track of a record that I think is pretty tight!"

Previously, Baio released a pair of EPs: 2012's Sunburn and 2013's Mira.

"Endless Rhythm":

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Kendrick Lamar Shares "For Free? (Interlude)" Video

Kendrick Lamar has shared a video for his To Pimp a Butterfly cut "For Free? (Interlude). Directed by Joe Weil and the Little Homies, the video features K dot chasing a beautiful lady around a stately palace, informing her that "THIS DICK AIN'T FREE!" Later, he dons Uncle Sam garb and lurks through a dimly-lit hallway – and by video's end, he's multiplied himself and taken over the suburbs. Check it out below.

Read "On Kendrick Lamar and Black Humanity" at the Pitch.

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Chance the Rapper on Lil B Collab Album: "It's All Done. It's a Masterpiece."

Photo via Chance the Rapper's Instagram

Earlier this month, Chance the Rapper and Lil B revealed that they had recorded a "based freestyle album" together. In a new interview with Bootleg Kev on Tampa Bay radio station Wild 94.1, Chance talked a little bit more about the project, as Stereogum points out. He confirmed that it's a "full-fledged album" that's "all done." He said "it's a classic" and "it’s a masterpiece."

In the interview, Chance also talked about his upcoming Family Matters tour, the progression of Chicago rap in the last few years, whether he'll sign with a major ("not at this point"), working with Kanye, and the beef between Drake and Meek Mill. On the latter point, he was diplomatic. "Beef isn’t necessarily my forte," he said, "but I know them and I think they’re cool people." You can listen to the interview below.

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Aphex Twin Shares New AFX Track "oberheim blacet1b"

Aphex Twin, aka Richard D. James, recently revived his AFX moniker for an upcoming EP, Orphaned Deejay Selek (2006-2008). Following "Serge Fenix Rendered 2", he's shared "oberheim blacet1b", another cut off the forthcoming release. The track was premiered by Mary AnneHobbs on BBC Radio 6 Music; listen to it here around the 2:38:13 mark. Orphaned Deejay Selek (2006-2008) is out August 21 on Warp.

Richard D. James has also uploaded a mastered version of "MARCHROMT30A EDIT 2B 96", which appeared as a Japanese bonus track on last year's Syro, and was released as a 12" earlier this year by Warp. You can listen to that below.

Check out our Aphex Twin Cover Story here. 

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Courtney Barnett Performs "Elevator Operator" and "Pedestrian at Best" at Pitchfork Music Festival

Courtney Barnett was among the many performers at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. Below, watch her play "Elevator Operator" and "Pedestrian at Best", from this year's Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.

Read our feature, "Tired and Hungry and Alive: 36 Hours with Courtney Barnett".

Check out photos from the fest here and here. Watch more videos from Pitchfork Music Festival 2015 here.

"Elevator Operator":

 "Pedestrian at Best":

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Vic Mensa and Future Islands' Sam Herring Chat Backstage at Pitchfork Music Festival

Future Islands and Vic Mensa both performed at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. The Talkhouse Music podcast got Future Islands frontman Sam Herring and Vic to sit down together backstage for a chat. (Previously, they hosted Haim and Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry). You can listen to it above.

Herring and Vic chatted for a half hour, and broached a variety of topics: their mutual love of stealing from convenience stores, the free stuff they get as they get more famous (Vic: "What is it about having more stuff, then you get more stuff that's free?"), how albums leak, Herring's dance moves, and much more.

At one point, they have an extended discussion about the ethics of taking corporate money. "My perspective was always like, I'd never do the corporate shit," Vic said. "I felt like its whack, it's industry shit, and then I come to where I am now, and the majority of money that I get to keep myself afloat with and do shit with is from corporations." 

Read our interview with Future Islands.

Watch Vic Mensa do "U Mad" at Pitchfork Music Festival:

Watch Future Islands do "Seasons" at Primavera Sound 2014:

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Mac DeMarco Streams Another One

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Mac DeMarco's eight-song "mini-LP" Another One is out August 7. He's already shared half the record, releasing "No Other Heart", "The Way You'd Love Her", "Another One", and "I've Been Waiting For Her".  Today, he's made the whole thing available to stream. Check it out below, via NPR Music.

Read our Mac DeMarco Cover Story here.

Watch DeMarco's "Safe for Work" set on Pitchfork.tv:

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Lollapalooza Streams Live All Weekend

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Lollapalooza takes place today through Sunday in Chicago. The festival is streaming live all weekend via RedBull.tv. Watch the stream, and find the schedule of artists, below. (Note that the schedule is subject to change.) The webcast starts today at 2 p.m. Central.

Today, you can catch performances from the Weeknd, Father John Misty, Alabama Shakes, the War on Drugs, Hot Chip, DJ Mustard, and more.

Tomorrow's stream includes performances from Metallica, Death From Above 1979, Charli XCX, Django Django, Mick Jenkins, and others.

Sunday's stream features highlights from Paul McCartney's set, plus A$AP Rocky, TV on the Radio, and more.

All times listed are Central Time:

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Disclosure Reveal Caracal Tracklist Featuring Lorde, the Weeknd, Miguel, Sam Smith, More

Disclosure have revealed the full details of Caracal, their upcoming album. Apart from the previously shared "Holding On", "Bang That", "Moving Mountains", and "Omen" featuring Sam Smith, the album features songs with Lorde (as previously reported), Miguel, and the Weeknd. Check out the tracklist below.

Caracal will be released on September 25.

Caracal:

01 Nocturnal [ft. The Weeknd]

02 Omen [ft. Sam Smith]

03 Holding On [ft. Gregory Porter]

04 Hourglass [ft. Lion Babe]

05 Willing & Able [ft. Kwabs]

06 Magnets [ft. Lorde]

07 Jaded

08 Good Intentions [ft. Miguel]

09 Superego [ft. Nao]

10 Echoes

11 Masterpiece [ft. Jordan Rakei]

12 Molecules

13 Moving Mountains [ft. Brendan Riley]

14 Bang That

15 Afterthought

Watch the "Omen" video:

Watch Disclosure's full performance at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris:

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Drake and the Game Shut Down Compton in "100" Video

Photo via Drake's Instagram

Drake and the Game's new collaborative single "100" is set to appear on the Game's new album The Documentary 2. Today, the track's video surfaced. Directed by Theo Skudra, it features footage of the two rappers amid huge crowds in Compton, along with shots of the neighborhood and its residents. Late in the video, Drizzy brings a kid to the front of the crowd to perform the hook. Check it out below.

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Lil B, DOOM, GZA Get Marvel Comic Book Covers

Last month, Marvel Comics announced they would pay homage to hip-hop through a series of variant covers inspired by classic and contemporary hip-hop albums. Today, they revealed a handful of covers inspired by Lil B's Black Flame, DOOM and Madlib's Madvillainy, and GZA's Liquid Swords, as Billboard reports.

That's Thor, above, in the style of Madvillainy; below, Hercules gets the Lil B treatment, while GZA is used for the Contest of Champions. The GZA-inspired cover goes on sale in October, while Lil B and DOOM/Madlib can be had in November.

"The outpouring of love from hip-hop fans, global music-centric websites, as well as musical luminaries like Nas, Run the Jewels, Posdnuos, Questlove, DMC, and Pete Rock speaks volumes about the ongoing cross-cultural dialog that prompted these homage covers," Marvel EIC Axel Alonso told Billboard. "That dialog will only increase as readers get the full picture of Marvel's offerings in the coming year, and see what lurks beneath the covers."

Other artists in Marvel's series include Lauryn Hill, Wu-Tang Clan, Tyler, the Creator, Eric B and Rakim, and many more.

Watch Lil B do "Like a Martian" at Pitchfork Music Festival:

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Todd Terje Performs "Alfonso Muskedunder" and "Preben Goes to Acapulco" at Pitchfork Music Festival

Todd Terje was among the many performers at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. Below, watch him perform "Alfonso Muskedunder" and "Preben Goes to Acapulco", two tracks from last year's It's Album Time.

Read our Guest List with Todd Terje.

Check out photos from the fest here and here. Watch more videos from Pitchfork Music Festival 2015 here.

"Alfonso Muskedunder":

"Preben Goes to Acapulco":

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Teklife to Launch Label With Compilation Featuring DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, DJ Earl, More

Footwork crew Teklife will launch their own label with a 15-track compilation this November, Fact reports. In a statement released via the Teklife mailing list, they announced "a compilation of 15 trax including DJ Rashad - DJ Spinn - DJ Earl - DJ TAYE - TASO - and pretty much everybody from the crew." It'll be available digitally, with a vinyl release to follow if there's demand. You can register interest here.

Last year, Teklife teamed with Hyperdub to realease the compilation Next Life, a tribute to DJ Rashad, who passed away in April.

Read our feature "From Teklife to the Next Life".

Watch Teklife in Monterrey, a Pitchfork.tv documentary about Rashad and Spinn:

Watch DJ Spinn's Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 set, featuring lots of guests:

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Lauryn Hill Performs Nina Simone Cover "Feeling Good" on "The Tonight Show"

Lauryn Hill was a musical guest on tonight's episode of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon", performing her Nina Simone cover "Feeling Good", from the tribute album Nina Revisited: A Tribute To Nina Simone. Watch the performance below. 

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David Bowie Shares Unreleased "All the Madmen" Single Edit

David Bowie has shared the unreleaed single edit for "All the Madmen", which appears on the forthcoming Five Years 1969-1973 box set. "All the Madmen" originally appeared on 1970's The Man Who Sold the World LP, but the mono single edit was never released. You can listen to it below.

The edit is the only unreleased track on Five Years 1969-73, which is out on September 25. The box—12 CDs or 13 LPs—includes six remastered studio albums, two live albums, and a compilation called Re:Call 1. Re:Call features non-album singles and B-sides, like "All the Madmen". You can find the tracklist for that here.

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Mark Ronson, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, and Kirin J. Callinan Cover Queens of the Stone Age's "I Sat By The Ocean"

Mark Ronson was recently a guest on Triple J's "Like A Version" series, and he had Tame Impala's Kevin Parker and Kirin J. Callinan back him up. Together, the trio did a cover of the Queens of the Stone Age track "I Sat By The Ocean", with Miike Snow singer Andrew Wyatt on lead vocals. They also performed "Daffodils", a Kevin Parker collaboration that appears on Ronson's Uptown Special. Watch both videos below.

"I Sat By The Ocean" (Queens of the Stone Age Cover):

"Daffodils" featuring Kevin Parker:

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Meek Mill Responds to Drake's "Back to Back Freestyle" with Latest Diss Track "Wanna Know"

Drake photo by Pooneh Ghana; Meek Mill photo via Instagram

Drake and Meek Mill are currently embroiled in a conflict over the latter's claims that the former used a ghostwriter for his verse on "R.I.C.O.", which appeared on Meek's new album Dreams Worth More Than Money. Meek Mill has now responded to Drake's latest diss track "Back to Back Freestyle" with a new track that features Drake's alleged ghostwriter Quentin Miller. It's called "Wanna Know", and you can listen to it above.

On Saturday's installment of "OVO Sound Radio", Drake premiered "Charged Up", his response to Meek Mill's initial claim that Drake used a ghostwriter. Following a screamed 15-second response from Meek, Drake shared another diss track called "Back to Back Freestyle".

"Back to Back Freestyle" refered to Meek's current spot on Nicki Minaj's "Pinkprint Tour", in which Drake raps, “You love her then you gotta get a world tour/ Is that a world tour or your girl’s tour?/ I know that you gotta be a thug for her/ This ain’t what she meant when she told you to open up more.” The song was accompanied by a photo of Toronto Blue Jay Joe Carter's series-winning home run in the 1993 World Series. (Meek Mill is from Philly, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies in that series.)

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Azealia Banks Cancels Tour, Says K. Michelle was "Unavailable"

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Azealia Banks recently announced a U.S. tour in support of last year's album Broke With Expensive Taste-- a tour that Banks was co-headlining with K. Michelle. Now, Banks reports that the tour will not be going off as planned, but that new tour dates are forthcoming.

K. Michelle, meanwhile, posted a clarifying statement on Instagram, saying that there was "absolutely no drama between me and Azealia.” See their respective explanations below.

Read our Update with Azealia Banks.

Hey Kunts ! I just got an email from @kmichelle team and she is unfortunately unavailable this fall so she is canceling our tour.

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 30, 2015

Unfortunate news as this was my first U.S. tour. But my team will work on an alternative plan to try and keep some of the dates in order !

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 30, 2015

New Tour dates will be up soon !

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 30, 2015

Lol I dunno why y'all tryna roast me... My black ass is still hitting the road. Shit ain't cancelled niggas 😂😂😂😂😂

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 30, 2015

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?uestlove Remembers Being Held at Gunpoint by Police While Listening To U2

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?uestlove has shared a remembrance about a time when he was 16 and Police held him up at gunpoint as he listened to U2 with a group of friends. According to the story, which was written in full on ?uest's instagram, the incident took place as he was "coming from a friday afternoon church youth group event". Read the story below.

U2's music haunts me. Always did.I was 16 yrs old coming from a friday afternoon church youth group event. At 8 me & 2 pals went to see their '88 Rattle & Hum doc. We were sold: it was a half hour to midnight & we had just enough time to run to #TowerRecords & cop their discography. I got the War/Unforgettable Fire/Joshua Tree & Rattle & Hum tapes. Grabbed "Unforgettable" & popped it in the player. I worked in a record shop so I already knew some of these songs. Instantly a fan. A great night of hanging w friends, food, movies & music #FunTimes.....& then....it happened....I became an adult: we got pulled over. Most people's Rites Of Passage are marked happy occasions like graduation or birth or things you do when in love. Mine was being held at gunpoint at 16. I don't even know what happened: we were on Washington Ave & then this flashlight blinded us & voice on a PA said "put your hands in the air" dog I almost had an instant colonic. When you get pulled over in a hostile manner you are NOT in your right mind: like giving a speech, or being a nervous contestant on the Price Is Right. Why?! ---the only thing I remember was #TheEdge's trademark delay plug in. I was so scared to turn the tape down (member when Chapelle said black people turn radio off when getting pulled over cause noone wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack?)---they were itching for us to try something. I hated the guilt of just being me. Nothing more degrading in life than the helplessness you feel when you get pulled over. I questioned everything in my head that night: why did we go out? Did we steal this car? Maybe if we had Keith Sweat or Prince playin they woulda believed us. Sat there 30 mins frozen. emasculated. As they left we STAYED THERE Like 10 mins. Still traumatized. U2 never sounded the same again. Every song= Put your hands in the air now!! Echoing. I felt robbed of alot that night. But the ability to NOT associate that sound w that experience was hard to get over. I Never shared this cause I thought it was silly. But in light of what's (always been) goin on, I felt it was time. Just wanna thank the guys for inviting us 2nite & for giving me a new beginning experiencing @U2.

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Thundercat Talks Funk, Unveils the Process Behind "Them Changes"

Thundercat, aka Stephen Bruner, was recently a guest on Song Exploder, where he gave an interview about "Them Changes", a song that he coproduced with Flying Lotus. In the interview, Bruner discusses the song's prominent Isley Brothers sample, his maple bass, the Moogerfooger he used on the song, Flying Lotus' creative process, and how Kamasi Washington came to be featured on the song.

Listen to the interview, the breakdown, and then the entire song, above.

Thundercat's The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam is out now.

Watch Thundercat perform "Them Changes" for Pitchfork Nightcap:

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Future Gets High During Confession in His "Kno the Meaning" Video

Future's Dirty Sprite 2 track "Kno the Meaning" has a new music video. Directed by Vincent Lou˚ Film, it shows Future sitting in confession across the screen from DJ Esco. Both men get high, and in the process, Esco makes reference to his arrest for marijuana possession in Dubai.

Read our interview with Future.

Watch Future freestyle over a TNGHT beat in an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Selector":

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Chief Keef Hologram Concert Craziness Continues With Lawsuit Threat, More

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Chief Keef's intent to perform as a hologram at a memorial concert for a slain toddler has turned into quite a debacle. First, a planned show in Chicago was postponed, then moved to Hammond, Indiana, only to be shut down by the police. As Billboard reports, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office issued a statement calling Keef "an unacceptable role model," and saying that his music "promotes violence." City Hall also said the concert "posed a significant public safety risk."

Keef expressed his anger by encouraging his fans to call Chicago City Hall, and also by claiming that he's going to run for Mayor himself. In a new interview with Billboard, Keef said that Chicago city officials were "hating." "They don’t want to see a young black man be successful and try to do something good," he said. "It’s crazy." He added, "If you ask me, man, fuck the mayor with a sandpaper dick! Say it like that."

When asked by Billboard if he's serious about running for mayor, Keef said, “Hell yeah, I’m running! I’m going to get all the ballots and everything. Chief Keef for mayor! Vote for me! They’re going to love me when I get into office. I’m going to make everything right." However, as Billboard points out, Keef can't legally run for mayor due to a previous gun charge.

Keef's camp believes the police shutdown of the concert was illegal, citing First Amendment rights. Alki David, who owns Keef's record label FilmOn as well as the hologram company Hologram USA, told Billboard, "We’re most definitely going to pursue this [in court]. Municipal leaders are dictating what young people can listen to. It’s absurd. There is zero justification.”

David and Keef are still trying to make the concert happen, though. A plan to have the hologram perform simultaneously in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles this September hit a setback today when David engaged in a back-and-forth with the Madison Square Garden Company, which owns the downtown Chicago venue the Chicago Theatre. As Billboard reports, David claims MSG backed out of an agreement to host the concert. MSG claims there was never an agreement in the first place.

Keef's new album Bang 3 is set for release August 18 via FilmOn. It includes the track "Ain't Missing You":

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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Gets Unreleased Cobain Song for Theatrical Release

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the documentary about the Nirvana singer, aired on HBO on May 4. For the upcoming theatrical release, director Brett Morgen added an unreleased Cobain song to the soundtrack, as Billboard reports. The unheard, untitled song features Cobain singing in a falsetto, and was reportedly recorded in 1991.

Morgen said the new song was inserted without changing the documentary, which was "built as a theatrical experience." According to him, it'll be released in the top "50 or 100 markets" on August 7.

Previously, Morgen said an album of Cobain's home recordings would be released this summer. He said that in the process of making the documentary, he found 107 cassettes featuring 200 hours of "never-before-heard or rarely heard music." He also said the tapes contain jam sessions with Courtney Love, jam sessions with friends and Nirvana, demo tapes, demo tapes with his punk band Fecal Matter, serious and un-serious spoken word material, covers of the Beatles, sound effects, sound design, and more.

Read our review of Montage of Heck from Sundance.

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Parquet Courts Perform "Content Nausea" and "Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth" at Pitchfork Music Festival

Parquet Courts were among the many performers at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. Below, watch them play the title track and "Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth" from last year's LP as Parkay Quarts, Content Nausea.

Read our feature on Parquet Courts.

Check out photos from the fest here and here. Watch more videos from Pitchfork Music Festival 2015 here.

"Content Nausea":

"Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth":

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Duke Dumont Announces Blasé Boys Club EP Series, Shares "Ocean Drive"

Duke Dumont has announced a new EP series, Blasé Boys Club. Its first installment, Blasé Boys Club Part 1, comes out October 2 on Virgin EMI. Check out first single "Ocean Drive" and the EP artwork above. Find the tracklist below, as well as Dumont's upcoming tour dates.

In a press release, he said, "I’ve been thinking of adapting the release format from a traditional album for a while. The Blasé Boys Club series will be my outlet for music which would have previously been considered songs for my albums. Rather than the old format of the LP, the new way allows me the freedom to bring music to people quicker, and more regularly."

The new EP's "Robert Talking" is an homage to Daft Punk's "Giorgio by Moroder" featuring Chicago house vocalist Robert Owens.

Read our interview with Dumont. 

Blasé Boys Club Part 1:

01 Ocean Drive
02 Robert Talking
03 Melt
04 Won't Look Back

Duke Dumont:

07-30 Cluj Napoca, Romania - Untold Festival
08-01 Ibiza, Spain - Creamfields 
08-02 Toronto, Ontario - Veld Festival 
08-11 Atlantic City, NJ - Summer Sessions
08-15 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Custom House Square 
08-18 Mallorca, Spain - BH Hotel 
08-21 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival 
08-22 Hylands Park, England - V Festival 
08-23 Weston Park, England - V Festival
08-30 Liverpool, England - Creamfields 
09-05 Philadelphia, PA - Made in America Festival 
09-06 San Bernadino, CA - Nocturnal Wonderland
09-09 Mallorca, Spain - Cream 
09-12 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival 
09-19 Leeds, England - Mint Festival
09-30 London, England - Koko 
10-02 Manchester, England - Warehouse Project 
10-04 Vancouver, British Columbia - Celebrities Nightclub 
10-05 Seattle, WA - Showbox Sodo 
10-06 Portland, Oregon - Wonder Ballroom
10-09 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
10-10 Scottsdale, AZ - Livewire 
10-11 Albuquerque, NM - El Rey Theatre 
10-12 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre 
10-14 Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall
10-16 Montreal, Quebec - New City Gas
10-17 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre 
10-18 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall 
10-20 Boston, MA - Royale 
10-22 New York, New York - Terminal 5 
10-24 Washington, DC - Echostage 
10-25 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
10-27 Miami, FL - Grand Central 
10-28 Orlando, FL - Firestone Live 
11-27 Auckland, New Zealand - Our:House 

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Bikini Kill Reissuing 1991 Demo Tape Revolution Girl Style Now With Unreleased Songs

Bikini Kill's first recordings were released on a 1991 demo tape called Revolution Girl Style Now. On September 22, the demo will be officially available for the first time on vinyl, CD, and digitally, via Bikini Kill Records. The reissue also features three unreleased tracks: "Ocean Song", "Just Once", and "Playground".

Watch a trailer for the release, featuring footage from the band's first Olympia, Washington show, below. It was filmed by Brian Ruff and edited by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox.

The tape was originally recorded by Pat Maley at ABC House in Olympia, Washington. For this reissue, Fugazi's Guy Picciotto mixed and John Golden mastered the tracks.

A limited edition replica of the cassette will be made available by mail order only. The first 500 LP preorders come with a limited edition poster, while the first 300 CD preorders come with a button and sticker.

In 2012, Bikini Kill announced a career-spanning series of reissues released through the group's then newly-founded label, Bikini Kill Records. (The reissues came in celebration of the band's 25th Anniversary.) In November that year, the band reissued their self-titled EP; then, last year, they put out an expanded version of Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, their 1993 split with Huggy Bear. 

Read "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work".

Revolution Girl Style Now:

01 Candy
02 Dadd's L'il Girl
03 Feels Blind
04 Suck My Left One
05 Carnival
06 This Is Not a Test
07 Double Dare Ya
08 Liar
09 Ocean Song
10 Just Once
11 Playground

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Wavves Shares New Song "Flamezesz"

Wavves' Nathan Williams has shared another track off the band's forthcoming album V, which comes out out October 2 via Ghost Ramp/Warner Bros. It's called "Flamezesz", and you can listen to it below.

Wavves recently announced a tour; check out all his upcoming dates here.

Watch Wavves' episode of Pitchfork.tv's Frames:

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Sun Kil Moon and Jesu Collab LP Detailed, Mark Kozelek Performs With Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley

Earlier this year, we reported that Sun Kil Moon and Jesu (aka Justin Broadrick, also of Godflesh) had plans to release a collaborative album together. Today, Mark Kozelek has confirmed the project on the Sun Kil Moon website, as Stereogum points out. 

Jesu/Sun Kil Moon arrives February 19, 2016 via Kozelek's Caldo Verde records. Its tracklist includes such titles as "America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger" and " Last Night I Rocked The Room Like Elvis And Had Them Laughing Like Richard Pryor". Check out the tracklisting below.

The new LP isn't the first collaboration between Kozelek and Broadrick. Jesu's 2009 album Opiate Sun came out through Caldo Verde, and Broadrick later interviewed Kozelek for the Caldo Verde website. In 2013, Kozelek covered Godflesh's song "Like Rats", and the following year he called out Broadrick by name in his track "The Possum".

In other Kozelek news, he recently announced Dreams of Childhood, a spoken word album created in collaboration with Argentine actor Nicolás Pauls. His duet with Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, meanwhile, will appear on the Minor Victories album.

On top of that, at Latitude Festival in Suffolk, England recently, he brought out Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley to do Benji's "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes". Watch footage of that performance below via Spin.

Jesu/Sun Kil Moon:

01 Good Morning My Love
02 Carondelet
03 A Song of Shadows
04 Last Night I Rocked the Room Like Elvis and Had Them Laughing Like Richard Pryor
05 Fragile
06 Father's Day
07 Sally
08 America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger
09 Exodus

Watch Sun Kil Moon perform at Pitchfork Music Festival:

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U2 Getting Two HBO Specials

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U2 will be the subject of not one but two HBO specials this fall.

The first, airing November 7, is a behind-the-scenes documentary about the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour in support of last year's Songs of Innocence. Directed and produced by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud), the doc will feature interviews with band and crew members. Bono's bike accident last fall is also covered.

The second, airing November 14, will be a concert film shot the same day at the tour's final show at Bercy in Paris. It's directed by Hamish Hamilton, who's directed several of the band's previous concert specials. 

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Pitchfork Conversations Podcast Launches With Wilco's Jeff Tweedy

Pitchfork is proud to announce the launch of the Pitchfork Conversations podcast. The podcast features recordings of live chats between Pitchfork staff and notable artists.

The first one is a recording of Editor-in-Chief Mark Richardson's conversation with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, which took place July 16 at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the InSightOut series presented by MailChimp.

It came at a pivotal moment for Tweedy and Wilco. It’s been 20 years since the group launched their recording career with 1995’s A.M., so the talk provided an opportunity to discuss their formative years and Chicago’s mid-‘90s music scene, as well as the band’s brand new album, Star Wars, which was actually surprise-released as the event was taking place. (The following night, Wilco headlined Pitchfork Music Festival.)

Future installments of the podcast will feature conversations with a variety of artists from various events. 

Listen to the Tweedy podcast above via Soundcloud, or download it via iTunes here. Subscribe to the Pitchfork Conversations podcast on iTunes here.

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Run the Jewels Perform With Zack De La Rocha and Gangsta Boo at Pitchfork Music Festival

Run the Jewels's set at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival featured many special guests. El-P and Killer Mike were joined by Rage Against the Machine's Zack De La Rocha for his verse on "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)" and Gangsta Boo for "Love Again (Akinyele Back)". (Both tracks are from Run the Jewels 2.) Watch both performances below.

Read our feature on Run the Jewels, Last Rappers Standing.

"Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)"

"Love Again (Akinyele Back)":

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Prince Releases New Single "Stare" on Spotify

Reports of Prince abstaining from all streaming services except Tidal were apparently premature: Today, the Purple One shared a new single, "Stare", which is available through Spotify only. (Yep, not even Tidal.) You can listen to it below. Keep your ears tuned for the pretty-obvious-but-still-endearing "Kiss" callback. 

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!!! Reveal New Album As If With Incredibly Silly Artwork, Share Two New Tracks

 !!! will release new album As If on October 16 via Warp. It follows 2013's Thr!!!er. Above, you'll notice that it features a pretty awesome album cover. Listen to two album cuts, "Freedom! '15" and "Sick Ass Moon", below.

As an added bonus to go with that album artwork, find a press shot below featuring Nic Offer with the cover star, Chrystal the monkey.

(Side note: As If is Warp Records' second amazing album cover of 2015 that features bananas.)

In an interview with Spin, Offer said that the new record is "the most self-produced [we’ve been] since when Justin [Van Der Volgen] used to be in the band." Past collaborators Jim Eno (of Spoon) and Patrick Ford assisted, but the majority of production was done by the band.

As If:

01 All U Writers
02 Sick Ass Moon
03 Every Little Bit Counts
04 Freedom! '15
05 Ooo
06 All the Way
07 Til the Money Runs Out
08 Bam City
09 Funk (I Got This)
10 Lucy Mongoosey
11 I Feel So Free (Citation Needed)

Watch !!! in an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "+1":

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Morrissey Says He Was Sexually Assaulted by Airport Security

Morrissey has posted a note on True to You saying he was sexually assaulted at San Francisco International Airport earlier this week. In the post, he describes passing through the walk-through scanner before being approached by an airport security officer. The officer, who was later identified as the General Manager On Duty, "stopped me, crouched before me and groped my penis and testicles," Morrissey says.

Two members British Airways Special Services were, he adds, "horrified" by the assault, and suggested he file a complaint. He relays the following exchange:

You have just sexually groped this man.
Officer: That's just your opinion.
What you have done is illegal.
Officer: That's just your opinion.
You have no right to do what you have just done.
Officer: That's just your opinion.

Here's Moz's response:

Apart from "that's just your opinion", he would not comment, even though, since the penis and testicles were mine and no one else's, then my opinion must surely have some meaning. But, of course, what the airport security officer was saying was: your opinion will never count in the eyes of the law. The words "that's just your opinion" volunteered themselves from this 'officer's' mouth before he had even heard the question. He knew he could be confronted, but he also knew that he could never be challenged (even though the entire incident is most certainly on CCTV camera).

He concluded, "Do people have minds?" Read the full post here.

Yesterday, Morrissey penned a separate post attacking Cecil the Lion's killer, a Sydney bookstore that apparently mismanaged his book-signing, and his record label Harvest. Read it here.

Watch "Kiss Me a Lot":

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The Chemical Brothers Share Born in the Echoes Bonus Track "Wo Ha"

The Chemical Brothers recently returned with Born in the Echoes, their first studio album since 2010's Further. Today, they shared a bonus track from the record's deluxe edition. It's called "Wo Ha", and you can hear it below.

Read our interview with the Chemical Brothers.

Listen to "Under Neon Lights", the duo's collaboration with St. Vincent:

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Tink Drops Winter's Diary 3 Mixtape

Tink has shared Winter's Diary 3, the follow-up to its 2014 predecessor. The 10-track mixtape features production by her mentor Timbaland (on "L.E.A.S.H."), as well as C-Sick, Cookin Soul, Jelan Abrams, and more. Stream or download it below, via Hot New Hip-Hop.

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Twin Shadow Performs "To the Top" on "James Corden"

Last night's "Late Late Show With James Corden", featured musical guest Twin Shadow. George Lewis Jr. and the band performed their Eclipse single "To the Top".

The performance happened one day after Lewis shared a mixtape of demos called Night Rally.

Watch Twin Shadow perform "Five Seconds" for Pitchfork.tv:

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Alessia Cara Performs "Here" With the Roots on "The Tonight Show"

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On last night's "Tonight Show", Jimmy Fallon welcomed musical guest Alessia Cara. Backed up by the Roots, the 18-year-old made her TV debut performing breakout single "Here".

"Here" will appear on Cara's debut EP Four Pink Walls, which is out August 28.

Read "Antisocial Optimist", our Rising feature on Cara.

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Tyler, the Creator Performs "Cherry Bomb" and "Smuckers", Wears Cat in the Hat Costume on "Kimmel"

Tyler, the Creator was the musical guest on last night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Before performing his Cherry Bomb tracks "Cherry Bomb" and "Smuckers", Kimmel brought him out to rap excerpts from the just-released Dr. Seuss book What Pet Should I Get?. Of course, that means Tyler wore a Cat in the Hat costume. 

Watch him perform "French" with Odd Future at the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival:

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Josh Homme and Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner Read iPhone Notes, Discuss Songwriting on Beats 1

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has his own radio show on Apple Music's Beats 1 called "The Alligator Hour". During tonight's show, he welcomed his special guest, Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys. At one point, they start reading their iPhone Notes. One of Turner's is the phrase "John Lennon as a TV chef." Listen here; Turner appears around the 30-minute mark.

Homme also talked to Turner about his songwriting process. During a recording session where both men were present, Homme said he was impressed when he watched Turner change a song's lyrics on the fly without writing anything down. "I have notebooks and do write things down, but I don't know how much sense it would make," Turner said. "Often it looks more like an algorithm by the time I'm finished."

Their conversation will continue on next week's episode.

Read our interview with Arctic Monkeys. 

Here's Arctic Monkeys' "Do I Wanna Know":

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Jean Grae Performs "Before the Summer Broke" With Flying Lotus on "Why? With Hannibal Buress"

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Jean Grae was the musical guest on tonight's episode of Hannibal Buress' new Comedy Central show "Why? With Hannibal Buress". The New York MC was assisted by the show's in-house DJ, Flying Lotus as well as Terrace Martin and Ndidi O. They performed "Before the Summer Broke".

The show also featured a segment inspired by Drake and Meek Mill's beef where Buress asked people in Beverly Hills if they knew either rapper. Watch it all happen below.

Read "Jean Grae's Spectacular Second Act".

Hannibal asked me to do "Before The Summer Broke" on Why? I sighed. REALLY hard song for me to perform, so I don't usually. But I did. Tonite

— Jeannie (@JeanGreasy) July 29, 2015

It's hard song to perform. I've only broken on 2 songs. That one and doing "U&Me" live. Sooo, you know. Watch Why? and see me being weird.

— Jeannie (@JeanGreasy) July 29, 2015

Here's Buress' recent episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under":

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Run the Jewels, Joey Bada$$ Ready Pink Vinyl Pressings for Cancer Benefit

RED Distribution have announced this year's installment of Ten Bands One Cause, a program where 10 artists release limited edition pink vinyl to benefit a good cause. All proceeds go to Gilda's Club NYC—the cancer support organization named for the late Gilda Radner. 

Run the Jewels' Run the Jewels 2, Joey Bada$$'s B4.DA.$$, Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Al Green's The Belle Album, and Chet Faker's Built on Glass are among the LPs to get pink pressings on September 29. Records by Primus, Clutch, Ingrid Michaelson, Between the Buried and Me, and Pierce the Veil are also available. Find more information here.

Watch Run the Jewels perform at the 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival:

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Janelle Monáe Touring With Full Wondaland Roster

Janelle Monáe is taking every act on her Wondaland Records imprint on the road for "The Eephus Tour". The dates take place next month across North America. Monáe will be joined by St. Beauty, Roman GianArthur, Deep Cotton, and the classic man himself, Jidenna. All shows are free and invite-only; RSVP here.

The tour coincides with the release of Wondaland's inaugural compilation EP, Wondaland Presents THE EEPHUS. It's out August 14.

Specific venues have yet to be announced, but find the cities and dates below.

"The Eephus Tour":

08-12 Philadelphia, PA
08-13 New York, NY
08-15 Washington, DC
08-17 Chicago, IL
08-21 Los Angeles, CA
08-23 San Francisco, CA
08-24 Portland, OR
08-31 Atlanta, GA

Here's the video for the "Classic Man" remix, which features Kendrick Lamar:

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YACHT Announce New Album I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler Via Billboard

Still from drone video footage shot by Renee Lusano

Los Angeles dance-rock act YACHT have announced the follow-up to 2011's Shangri-La in a very big way. Today, the duo dropped a Google Maps pin at the location of a Los Angeles intersection, where a billboard could be found reading "I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler": the title of their fifth album. It's out this fall on Downtown Records.

YACHT's Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans are currently hanging out in front of the billboard. Tune in to Periscope now to see them in action. Below, watch a video of the billboard, shot on a drone.

The YouTube video description for the video contains with the following message:

The future is an impossible goal. It’s something we chase after, believing in an illusion of control. That isn’t to say our actions don’t affect what the future is like— in our case, hot, dry, loud, unjust—but that once we catch up to yesterday’s future, it’s no longer what we imagined. It’s just the present all over again. And so on.

We’ve made an album about that. It contains some speculations about the future that are big and distant as science fiction stories. But it’s also about looking carefully at the world around us and trying to understand what we’ve done with the imaginations of those who came before us. Would they believe it?

We live in a complex moment. There seem to be networks at every level of reality; as with all our technologies, we can’t keep ourselves from grabbing them, turning them around, and using them as a mirror. Every person is a node. Our technological economy is full of entities selling our own lives back to us. It’s easy to feel disillusioned, if only it wasn’t all so funny sometimes. #ITTFWBC

Watch YACHT perform "Summer Song" on Pitchfork.tv:

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Cat Power to Narrate Janis Joplin Documentary

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Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, has been announced as the narrator of Janis, a forthcoming documentary about Janis Joplin. In particular, Marshall will read letters written by the late singer.

Janis was made with the support of Joplin's estate. The movie was directed by Oscar-nominated Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), and will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September. 

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