Arcade Fire On The Talk Show Circuit: Arcade Fire played “Afterlife” on “The Tonight Show” earlier this week.
Radio On: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks played “Shibboleth” live at WFUV last month. Now you can watch:
Blink And It’s Gone: Haim released a 22 second teaser for their upcoming video, “If I Could Change Your Mind.”
Stranger Than Fiction: “Channel rock ‘n roll cool with these Bob Dylan jeans from Lucky Brand. Featuring a button fly, five-pocket construction, subtle fading and a relaxed straight leg silhouette.” — ad copy at the Lord & Taylor website where the jeans are available.
Evolution Of A Bear: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, is the tentative title for the next Panda Bear solo album. Noah Lennox the new album is inspired by the work of 9th Wonder, the Chicago hip-hop producer whose influence informs the samples-and-beats approach that dominates the new tracks. “I feel like the overall theme of a lot of the songs as a group is change or evolution, mainly of people and what that process is like,” Lennox says. “Growth, I suppose.” — Under the Radar
Brave New World: Cut Copy have a new video for “We Are Explorers” off from 2013’s Free Your Mind. Directed by Masa Kawamura, Aramique, and Qanta Shimuzu.
Cool song, “Red Flags,” from the Library Is On Fire’s upcoming album, Halcyon and Surrounding Areas.
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