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White Lung and Pink Mountaintops Share B...

White Lung and Pink Mountaintops have teamed up as Pink Lung for a new song called “Chinese Watermelon”. The song’s video is wild—there are dancing mimes, a guitarist cowboy emerging from cake, people rocketing into the sky, and a golden Stephen McBean emerging from Mish Way’s torso. Happy Halloween—watch it below. The video was shot in Los Angeles and directed by Justin Gradin and Ben Jacques (who were behind White Lung’s “In Your Home” video). The song itself was produced by Ryan Castle. The track appears on the...
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Erykah Badu Premieres One-Woman Show Fea...

Erykah Badu is currently in the midst of a three-day run of “Live Nudity”, a one-woman show that she is performing at Dallas’ Black Academy of Arts and Letters. Before the initial performance she said the show would be largely improvised– “I have a format, kind of, but I haven’t really had time to write a 60-minute show, so we just have to see what happens,” she said previously, in addition to notes that it was “not biographical”. Now, footage has surfaced from her first performance, in which Badu did everything from...
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Animal Collective Share 23-Minute Improv...

Photo by Tom Spray Animal Collective have shared “Michael, Remember”, a 23-minute improvised jam taken from a May practice, the band’s first in a year and a half. The audio is attached to underwater footage filmed at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. Watch it below. “Turn off the lights and watch on as big a screen as possible,” the band wrote on Instagram. Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Geologist recorded “Michael, Remember” at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. (Deakin...
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Justin Bieber Debuts Remix of Drake̵...

Drake’s “Hotline Bling” is no stranger to remixes. Numerous artists have offered their interpretations of the track, including Erykah Badu. Now, Justin Bieber has chimed in with his own take on the song. Listen to it by dialing (231) 377-1113, or by streaming above. The Biebs teased the unconventional release on Instagram: A video posted by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) onOct 30, 2015 at 1:06pm PDT Read “Views From the 6″, our feature on Drake’s Toronto. Watch Drake’s “Hotline Bling”...
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Art Brut Frontman Eddie Argos to Release...

Art Brut singer Eddie Argos has two literary projects out this year. Double D is a graphic novel made in collaboration with artist Steven Horry about an overweight boy who discovers he can use his body fat as a superpower. It’ll be published by Image Comics on November 11. Below, check out two pages from the comic. Additionally, Argos, Horry, and musicians Mark Heffernan and Grant Purser have recorded a soundtrack album to accompany the comic. That will be released by Post/Pop at the end of the year. Launch events for Double D will be held in London on November 12...