Le Tigre Reunite

Kathleen Hanna has revealed that Le Tigre is back in the studio together and will release a new song sometime in October. She made the announcement during a conversation with Meredith Graves (of Perfect Pussy) for the Talkhouse Music Podcast, recorded live at the Sonos store in Manhattan. Hanna said: “Le Tigre just got back together in the studio–you have the scoop–for a special song that we are going to release hopefully, like, early-to-mid-October.” She continued, “I will not say what it’s about, but it’s been really fun working with them again.” Hanna clarified later...

“Fuck ‘Portlandia!’” Declares Real Portl...

One of “Portlandia”’s longest running sketches finds Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen playing characters named Toni and Candace, the owners of a feminist bookstore called Women and Women First. The segment has been shot at a real Portland nonprofit feminist bookstore called In Other Words. Following a particular messy shoot, however, the store’s staff have now disavowed “Portlandia” and discontinued their relationship with the show, as Stereogum points out. A volunteer placed a sign in their window that reads “Fuck Portlandia!,” and they have chosen to leave it there....

Moses Sumney’s “Lonely World” Sounds Any...

Moses Sumney knows lonely. For the past couple of years, he’s been serenading our alien impulses one track at a time, giving voice to the part of our psyche that would rather burrow inside a tree stump in a forgotten forest than face the outside world. He takes the elastic phrasing of Nina Simone and the purple-black undertones of Nick Drake and invites us to a place of eerie calm. The highwire theatrics of his voice are brought down to the dirt with soothing strums. A foggy echo keeps everything at a distance. His songs sound like lullabies for the self, hymns of fragile...

Bon Iver Share New “715 – CR∑∑KS” ...

Today, Bon Iver released their third studio album 22, A Million. They’ve now shared a new lyric video for “715 – CR∑∑KS,” which you can watch below. They’ve previously shared videos for “33 ‘GOD’,” “22 (OVER S∞∞N),” and “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄.” Yesterday, the band hosted worldwide listening parties for 22, A Million. The band will kickoff a tour throughout Europe and the United States tomorrow. Read “What’s Justin Vernon Been Up to Since the Last Bon Iver Album? A Lot” on the...

A$AP Rocky Named Creative Director for M...

A$AP Rocky has been named the Creative Director for MTV Labs, a new “a creative incubator” developed with the Harlem rapper. It’s a first-look deal that will give Rocky and his creative company AWGE the opportunity “to create original content…and develop branded content for advertisers in partnership with Viacom Velocity,” according to a press release. In a statement, Rocky said of the deal: “MTV is a name we grew up with – everyone knows them as innovators and champions of building artists’ careers. I’m honored to have this opportunity and can’t wait to...