April 24, 2013 – Daft Punk's ridiculously anticipated fourth album, Random Access Memories, arrives on May 21 via Columbia Records and the French duo continue to build excitement with the latest entry in "The Collaborators," a video series that spotlights the album's, uh, collaborators. We've already heard from Random guests Giorgio Moroder, Todd Edwards, Nile Rodgers, and Pharrell Williams, and now Animal Collective's Panda Bear (a.k.a.

April 24, 2013 – Last December, Los Campesinos! said farewell to now-former bandmember Ellen Campesinos! by playing a sold-out show in front of 800 fans at London's Islington Assembly Hall. That gig also served a couple of other purposes: It marked the return of Aleks Campesinos!, who took a three-year hiatus from the U.K.

April 24, 2013 – The Replacements' scattershot live performances are a thing of legend. Take the following quote, which features prominently in the trailer for Color Me Obsessed, a 2011 documentary dedicated to the 'Mats: "You could go see them on one night and they'd be blindingly brilliant, close to a religious experience. You could go see them on another night and they could just be complete dogshit." Now fans can (re-)experience the seminal Minneapolis punks in all their beer-fueled, ramshackle glory, thanks to a fresh new blog called Color Me Impressed: The Replacements Live Archive Project. As its header suggests, the site collects live recordings of Replacements' concerts and shares them as downloads.The project's mission statement reads: "The goal of this site is to share every [known] Replacements (and related) live recordings available.

April 24, 2013 – Frank Ocean, the National, Mumford & Sons, TV on the Radio, James Blake, Empire of the Sun, and Wavves are headed to the land down under for this year's Splendour in the Grass festival. The 13th installment of this annual Australian showcase will take place July 26 to 28 at Byron Bay.Other confirmed acts: FIDLAR, Palma Violets, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Of Monsters and Men, Klaxons, Babyshambles, Flume, Passion Pit, Laura Marling, Haim, MS MR, Portugal. The Man, Surfer Blood, Cold War Kids, the Presets, Architecture in Helsinki, Polyphonic Spree, the Drones, Cloud Control, Daughter, Jake Bugg, Robert DeLong, and many more. Watch the lineup announcement video above.Tickets go on sale here at 9 a.m. (Australian EST) on May 2. For more information on single-day tickets, three-day passes, and camping accommodations, visit the festival's website.

April 24, 2013 – Raleigh, North Carolina's Hopscotch Music Festival returns for its fourth year September 5 to 7, and promises performances from nearly 175 acts, all happening at various venues throughout the city.

April 24, 2013 – Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck recently told SPIN that he felt compelled to dress up his latest album Muchacho with ornate instrumentation and left-field production. "Several of these songs, I think, had to be produced in a strange way," he said. "Otherwise, they would have just fallen flat... To me, they seem a little raw, and listening back now, with distance, sometimes it's like, 'Sheesh, you don't need to say all of that in a song. Why do that?'"Despite the string swells and the synth washes, Houck's vulnerability shines through on lead single "Song for Zula," which the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Alabama singer-songwriter performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night (April 23) to a well-earned ovation.

April 24, 2013 – Grant Olney has a robust body of work. Aside from holding a Ph.D in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh, the Austin-based singer-songwriter has put out albums with a couple of punk bands (Substandard, the Record Time), under a pseudonym (Scout You Devil), and as one-half of a songwriting duo (Olney Clark). But his upcoming release, Hypnosis for Happiness, is only his second solo album, following 2004's Brokedown Gospel.Work on Hypnosis began in 2006, but the effort was shelved after a fire broke out at the studio where Olney was recording. The latest taste from the forthcoming full-length, "Not From Body," has a similarly sidewinding origin story: The track was originally intended for a since-abandoned sophomore LP from the Olney Clark project.

April 24, 2013 – For this week's roundup of ready-to-stream albums, we've collected new full-lengths from Deerhunter, Iggy and the Stooges, !!!, Os Mutantes, the So So Glos, and many more.

April 23, 2013 – Mac DeMarco isn't shy about his love of Weezer, so when presented with the opportunity to cover "Undone — the Sweater Song" for A.V. Club's weekly "Undercover" series, the Canadian singer-songwriter accepted. DeMarco tightens his trademark ramshackle guitar work but mumbles through the track's spoken-word interludes for a slapdash rendition. Yes, it's messy, and DeMarco admits the song is "probably easier" to learn than any other number on the "Undercover" master list, but just watch how red the 22-year-old's face gets near the end of the clip: He's laying it all bare.

April 23, 2013 – Primal Scream have teased their upcoming 10th album, More Light, for months now, rattling off the LP's star-studded guest list, pontificating about its "orchestral" and "electronic" sound, unveiling a U.K. release date (May 6), and filming videos for two singles: "2013" and "It's Alright, It's OK."Now the Glaswegian psych-rockers have finally confirmed a U.S. drop date — June 18, thanks to the band's own First International label (and Ignition Records) — as well as an expanded deluxe edition.