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Jack White’s Madison Square Garden...

As previously reported, Pandora will be livestreaming Jack White‘s  NYC’s Madison Square Garden show tonight, which supports last year’s Lazaretto. The show will be broadcast starting at 9 p.m. Eastern, and will air on continuous loop for the next 72 hours. Click here to tune in. Starting February 3, you’ll be able to listen to it song-by-song at your own pace. In anticipation of the performance, Jordan Klepper of “The Daily Show” conducted a video interview with White which will be available for...
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Gorillaz Creator Jamie Hewllet Confirms ...

Over the past several months, Damon Albarn has offered multiple hints that Gorillaz, the animated band helmed by himself and artist Jamie Hewllet, would be reuniting in the near future to work on a follow-up to the group’s 2011 album The Fall. Today, Hewllet posted artwork of fictional band members Murdoc and Noodle to his Instagram, leading curious fans to speculate on whether a reunion was in the works. Hewlett responded to a fan’s query, “Yes Gorillaz Returns”. REVOLT‘s Bryce Segall originally reported the news.  Read our...
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Modest Mouse’s Jeremiah Green Expl...

On March 3, Modest Mouse will release Strangers to Ourselves, their first studio album since 2007′s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. In an interview with the podcast The Shit Show, drummer Jeremiah Green explains some of the factors that caused the album’s delay, such as the departure of founding bassist Eric Judy and the process of using multiple producers. Listen to the whole podcast above, via Interstate-8. Additionally, Green revealed that previously reported collaborations with Big Boi and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic won’t appear on the...
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Chance the Rapper Explains Social Experi...

Chance the Rapper is the subject of a new cover story in The Fader (written by Pitchfork contributor Andrew Nosnitsky) that delves into the rapper’s upcoming Surf project, which is credited to Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, the four-piece band of which Chance is a member. As the story details, Chance is just one of many elements on the album, which is the result of prolonged, labor-intensive sessions. (One of which yielded 610 tracks for a single song.) Most notably, Chance isn’t specifically singled out on any of the songs. “People hear what...
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Courtney Barnett: "Pedestrian at Be...

“Put me on a pedestal, and I’ll only disappoint you,” Courtney Barnett confides a minute or so into “Pedestrian at Best”, the lead single from her forthcoming LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. From its very first line, “Pedestrian”—one part kiss-off, two parts “existential time crisis”—is riddled with contradictions: “I love you, I hate you, I’m on the fence, it all depends.” “Pedestrian” is a mental lightning storm, a live-and-direct dispatch from the center of...