Danny Brown announces new EP and mixtape

The ever prolific Danny Brown has unexpetedly announced a new EP with his Bruiser Brigade crew, apparently set for release "next week". The news comes from ScionAV, who were behind releasing Brown's "Grown Up" single and music video.

Also recently announced was a collaborative mixtape between Brown and production team Johnson & Jonson (a.k.a. Blu & Mainframe). The dreadfully titled Danny Johnson is coming out through New World Color and has no release date as of yet. It may or may not feature "Change", a track Brown has called "old as hell" (supposedly it was released bck in 2010 and has been floating around the internet since). Here it is regardless:

Converge announce new album - album cover, tracklist, music video for "Aimless Arrow"

Since Converge's last album, 2009's Axe To Fall guitarist Kurt Ballou has produced for some of the finest bands of American underground metal. Now he will be putting the skills he's learned on those records towards a new album for his own band. All We Love We Leave Behind (artwork above) will be released on 9th October on Epitaph, and will be available in both regular and deluxe edition packages. Below find the album's tracklist and Max Moore-directed video for first track "Aimless Arrow":

1. Aimless Arrow
2. Trespasses
3. Tender Abuse
4. Sadness Comes Home
5. Empty on the Inside
6. Sparrow's Fall
7. Glacial Pace
8. No Light Escapes*
9. Vicious Muse
10. Veins and Vails
11. Coral Blue
12. Shame in the Way
13. On My Shield*
14. Precipice
15. All We Love We Leave Behind
16. Runaway*
17. Predatory Glow

* Deluxe edition bonus tracks



Track all the info up to the release of All We Love We Leave Behind on the Upcoming Releases page.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse to release second album of 2012

Earlier in the year Neil Young reformed Crazy Horse, a band with which he recorded some of his best and most popular albums of his career. They released Americana, an album made up of classic American songs of yesteryear, but now Neil has announced on his website that there will be a new Neil Young/Crazy Horse album of entirely original material. Psychedelic Pill will be released on double CD and triple LP sometime in October. In addition "full length videos for each of the songs will be available and previewed. A recommended high resolution 24/192 full fidelity version of the album Psychedelic Pill will be released on Blu-ray and will include all the videos". Now that's what I'm talking about!

Track all the info up to the release of Psychedelic Pill on the Upcoming Releases page.

The Flaming Lips announce new album The Terror

If an interview Wayne Coyne did with Rolling Stone is to be believed, the Flaming Lips hope to release a new studio album, for now called The Terror, later this year. It follows a set of collaborations the band released on this year's Record Store Day called The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends and succeeds 2009's Embryonic. Speaking to Rolling Stone Wayne told of some disturbing news surrounding longtime Lips guitarist Steven Drozd's drug addiction (possibly related to his 2010 hospitalization). Thankfuly however Wayne says that Steven is "better now than ever".

Track all the info up to the release of The Terror on the Upcoming Releases page.

Himanshu announces new mixtape, download "Killing Time"

Das Racist's Heems is readying a new mixtape called Wild Water Kingdom, the second this year following the 2012 Recommended Nehru Jackets and the fourth this year total from the Das Racist camp. Below download the Echo and the Bunnymen-sampling "Killing Time", and stick with it. It's worth it:

*Heems - "Killing Time"

Track all the info up to the release of Wild Water Kingdom on the Upcoming Releases page.

Titus Andronicus announce new album Local Business: release date and tracklist

It didn't look like it for quite a while, but turns out we will have a new Titus Andronicus album by the end of the year. Local Business is the follow-up to 2010's The Monitor, and will be released on the 23rd October on XL Recordings. The album was recorded "primarily live with precious few overdubs, with an elite squad of musicians" (including Owen Pallett).The tracklist reveals that a number of songs featured are ones the New Jersey-loving punks have performed live, including "Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape With The View Of Detritus", from Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol 1, a collection of free material from earlier in the year:

1. “Ecce Homo”
2. “Still Life With Hot Deuce And Silver Platter”
3. “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With The Flood Of Detritus”
4. “Food Fight!”
5. “My Eating Disorder”
6. “Titus Andronicus VS. The Absurd Universe (3rd Round KO)”
7. “In A Big City”
8. “In A Small Body”
9. “(I Am The) Electric Man”
10. “Tried To Quit Smoking”

Track all the info up to the release of Local Business on the Upcoming Releases page.

Dan Snaith releases debut album under Daphni alias: JIAOLONG info and music video for "Ye Ye"

Best known for his work as Caribou (and Manitoba before that), Dan Snaith has used the Daphni name for a few singles and remixes over the past year, and will use it once again for a new album. JIAOLONG shares its name with Snaith's record label, and will collect a number of already-released tracks (as will pal Four Tet's new album Pink will), there will be enough new content to be worth looking forward to. JIAOLONG follows Snaith's influential 2010 album Swim (as Caribou) will first be released in Japan on 3rd October (via Hostess / JIAOLONG) before seeing a UK / EU / Austrailia date for the 8th October (JIAOLONG), and a day later in the US (9th October digital, 16th October 2LP / CD via Merge / JIAOLONG). Check out the album's tracklist, the JIAOLONG001 EP released last year, and a new music video for "Ye Ye", the first track released under Daphni originally on a split 12" with Four Tet:

1.Yes, I Know
2. Cos-Ber-Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
3. Ye Ye
4. Light
5. Pairs
6. Ahora
7. Jiao
8. Springs
9. Long





Track all the info up to the release of JIAOLONG on the Upcoming Releases page.

New Deerhoof album Breakup Song: album cover, tracklist, release date

Though Deerhoof have never been my favourite band, they are my kind of band, and I do indulge in them from time to time. Breakup Song (awww) follows quickly after last year's Deerhoof vs. Evil, and sees a UK release date of 3rd Septermber on ATP Records. Tracklist:

1. Breakup Songs
2. There's That Grin
3. Bad Kids to the Front
4. Zero Seconds Pause
5. Mothball the Fleet
6. Flower
7. To Fly or Not to Fly
8. The Trouble With Candyhands
9. We Do Parties
10. Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III
11. Fête d'Adieu

Track all of the info up to the release of Breakup Song on the Upcominng Releases page.

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes Details

The new Flying Lotus LP, Until The Quiet Comes, will be released in the UK on Warp on the 1st October (a day later in the US). Returning guests Thom Yorke, Thundercat and Laura Darlington feature, as do Erykah Badu and Niki Randa. The album follows 2010's Cosmogramma. Album cover above, tracklist below:

1. All In
2. Getting There (ft. Niki Randa)
3. Until the Colours Come
4. Heave(n)
5. Tiny Tortures
6. All the Secrets
7. Sultans Request
8. Putty Boy Strut
9. See Thru to U (ft. Erykah Badu)
10. Until the Quiet Comes
11. DMT Song (ft. Thundercat)
12. The Nightcaller
13. Only if You Wanna
14. Electric Candyman (ft. Thom Yorke)
15. Hunger (ft. Niki Randa)
16. Phantasm (ft. Laura Darlington)
17. me Yesterday//Corded
18. Dream to Me

I'm imagining what the Thom Yorke track, "Electric Candyman" must sound like. Plenty of "Lotus Flower" music video memories to go from.

Track all the info up to the release of Until The Quiet Comes on the Upcoming Releases page.

JJ DOOM album gets release date, album art, tracklist

DOOM and Jneiro Jarel released their debut single together as JJ DOOM, "BANISHED" back in February. The subsequent album KEY TO THE KUFFS was supposed to come out in May, but now a release date has been set: 21st August. The album's being put out on Lex Records, and features "BANISHED" and contributions from Damon Albarn, Beth Gibbons (Portishead) and Khujo Goodie. A track called "RETARDED FREN" also features, which shares a name with a track DOOM worked on with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), and it's hugely likely to be the same / re-recorded. Tracklist:

1. WATERLOGGED
2. GOV’NOR
3. BANISHED
4. BITE THE THONG ft Damon Albarn
5. RHYMIN SLANG
6. DAWG FRIENDLY
7. BORIN CONVO
8. SNATCH THAT DOUGH
9. GMO ft Beth Gibbons
10. BOUT THE SHOES
11. WINTER BLUES
12. STILL KAPS ft Khujo Goodie
13. RETARDED FREN
14. VIBERIAN SUN PART II
15. WASH YOUR HANDS

No news on the DOOM / Ghostface Killah DOOMSTARKS. Maybe it's been scrapped?

David Byrne & St. Vincent collaborative album revealed: first single, tracklist, album art and release dates

Supposedly over 2 years in the making, the collaborative album is entitled Love This Giant, and will be released via. 4AD / Todo Mundo on 11th September. Of the twelve tracks ten were written together, with one coming from frrom the individual artists each. The track "The One Who Broke Your Heart" features the Dap-Kings and Antibalas. Tracklist below:

1. "Who"
2. "Weekend in the Dust"
3. "Dinner For Two"
4. "Ice Age"
5. "I Am An Ape"
6. "The Forest Awakes"
7. "I Should Watch TV"
8. "Lazarus"
9. "Optimist"
10. "Lightning"
11. "The One Who Broke Your Heart" (ft. The Dap-Kings and Antibalas)
12. "Outside of Space & Time"

The first track "Who" is said to be released on the album's new website later today, so check back for that.

UPDATE: "Who" everybody! It is indeed very brassy. I also take the new image above to be the album cover. The release date is 10th September for the UK (hooray):

Frank Ocean gives us Channel Orange, and new track "Pyramids" for free

R&B soon-to-be superstar Frank Ocean's official debut for Island Def Jam, Channel Orange, arrives on the 17th July. It follows last year's hugely popular Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape which also made my Favourite Albums of 2011 list. Below you can watch the exciting trailer, with part of a very different sounding track that presumably will feature on the album:


UPDATE: The track in the trailer is called "Pyramids", and Frank Ocean has posted it on Soundcloud. Apparently John Mayer plays guitar on it:

Jens Lekman - "Erica America", and new album announcement

Singer-songwriter Jens Lekman hasn't released a full-length album since 2007's Night Falls Over Kortedala, but I thought last year's An Argument With Myself EP was pretty great. 2012 sees a new Jens Lekman album, I Know What Love Isn't, out on Sectretly Canadian from the 3rd September. "Erica America", the album's new single, and the tracklist are below:



1. “Every Little Hair Knows Your Name”
2. “Erica America”
3. “Become Someone Else’s”
4. “Some Dandruff On Your Shoulder”
5. “She Just Don’t Want To Be With You Anymore”
6. “I Want A Pair of Cowboy Boots”
7. “The World Moves On”
8. “The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love”
9. “I Know What Love Isn’t”
10. “Every Little Hair Knows Your Name”

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti announce new album: Mature Themes

And obviously the first single is a cover of Donnie & Joe Emerson's "Baby", recorded with Dâm-Funk. Mature Themes follows 2010's Before Today, Ariel Pink's most successful album to date and his first for 4AD, who are also releasing the new album on the 21st August. Click here for "Baby".

Grizzly Bear announce new album, and share new track

Time to dig out those copies of Veckatimest and Yellow House again. Grizzly Bear's as-of-yet untitled new record is coming out on 18th September via. Warp. Their new track, "Sleeping Ute" is below, as is the album's tracklist:



1. "Sleeping Ute"
2. "Speak in Rounds"
3. "Adelma"
4. "Yet Again"
5. "The Hunt"
6. "A Simple Answer"
7. "What's Wrong"
8. "gun-shy"
9. "Half Gate"
10. "Sun in Your Eyes"

The Antlers announce new album, and share promo video

Undersea is the name of the Antlers third record, and follows last year's Burst Apart, which made it onto my list of favourite albums of 2011. It's out 24th July on ANTI-. Watch the promo video below:

The xx: new album coming September

This should be no surprise to anyone, but the xx will release their second album, called Coexist, later this year. It's coming out on Young Turks on 10th (UK) / 11th (US) September, and may possibly feature a final version of the "Open Eyes" demo that was released on Christmas Day last year. Stay tuned for more.

Dan Deacon announces new album, and shares new track

Dan Deacon's new album is called America, and is his first on Domino Records, and the first since 2009's Bromst. Will definitely be looking out for this one. The first single, "Lots", is below, as is the tracklist for America, out 27th (UK) / 28th (US) August:

1. "Guilford Avenue Bridge"
2. "True Thrush"
3. "Lots"
4. "Prettyboy"
5. "Crash Jam"
6. "USA I: Is a Monster"
7. "USA II: The Great American Desert"
8. "USA III: Rail"
9. "USA IV: Manifest"

Big Boi announces new album, and releases single with Theophilus London

Big Boi's new album is called Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours, not Daddy Fat Saxxx: Soul Funk Crusader as was previously understood. The album follows 2010's very well-recieved Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, but no release date has been scheduled yet (and considering the problems in releasing that album, I hope more info arrives soon). However a collaborative track with Theophilus London has just dropped (though what connections it has to the new album are uncertain), called "She Said OK". Stream/download below.