February 5, 2013 – Following in the heels of Autechre, Swans, Baroness, and a whole year of artists going long, the sixth album from ambient blissmaster Eluvium is going to be a two-disc epic. Nightmare Ending, due May 14 on Temporary Residence, follows on the tail of 2010's Similes, an argument-provoking detour where Matthew Cooper started adding Eno-style vocals to his euphoric drones. Ending, seven years in the works, is a fully instrumental affair, and a press release promises it "encompasses everything remarkable about past Eluvium albums, executed more powerfully and poignant than ever before." Here's some cover art and track list featuring songs like "Warm," "Chime," and "Rain Gently" in case you were scared that dude might have discovered caffeine. Nightmare Ending track listDisc One 1. "Don’t Get Any Closer" 2. "Warm" 3. "By the Rails" 4. Unknown Variation" 5. "Caroling" 6.

February 5, 2013 – If you tried to buy tickets to the Breeders' Last Splash anniversary show at Brooklyn's Bell House and were dismayed to find it sold out in less than 120 seconds, you may now consider traveling a little bit to see the Deal sisters playing their full 1993 album — like, to Pittsburgh, or D.C., or Detroit. Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson will be performing "No Aloha," "Flipside," and a little hit called "Cannonball" in many more U.S. cities than expected.Get pumped, people! Last Splash is one of our favorite albums of the past 25 years, and we'll be anxiously awaiting this reissue — as well as these 50 other releases — in the coming months.March 29 - Brooklyn, NY @ Bell House May 3 - Pittsburgh PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre May 4 - Washington, D.C.

February 4, 2013 – On Saturday night, My Bloody Valentine dropped their first record in 22 years, m b v.

February 4, 2013 – Nearly 24 hours after My Bloody Valentine surprised the nerdisphere with their first recorded material in two decades, Bradford Cox surprised a few hundred audience members at MOMA's PS1 in New York by taking the stage with Deerhunter. Originally billed as a solo performance following the premiere of Youth Museum, a charming, VHS-shot, Grant Singer-directed short film focused "on the physical spaces and everyday life of Cox," the event took an unexpected turn when members of the long dormant Atlanta ambient punk outfit appeared without their frontman to lock into the ornery beginning of what sounded to be a new song: six-minutes of searing rock'n'roll bookended by over a half hour of relentless, often punishing guitar noise.Cox, who made his way to the stage from the back of the museum's dome performance space accompanied by a young assistant wearing a glossy white mask, offered ver

January 31, 2013 – Would you like to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles for two and a pair of tickets to a private show? Of course you would!Enter the Levi's® 501® Private Show Flyaway Contest for a chance to score airfare to L.A., two tickets to the concert going down on February 8, hotel accommodations for two nights, a little spending money, and transportation to and from the event. The rules? You've got to be 21+ to win this opportunity. The contest starts today (January 31) and a winner will be selected tomorrow (February 1).The show will feature a DJ set from M83 plus a Grammy-nominated artist. Who? It's a secret (for now). Levi's® is celebrating the new 501® and they want their fans to be a part of this special experience. So just take our word for it and enter!

January 30, 2013 – Fueled by the success of Frank Ocean and Miguel, the most critically contested ground in pop music over the past year has been the evolution of R&B via digital recording technology and the Internet. A lot of two-dollar terms have been tossed around — "hipster R&B," "PBR&B," "Indie R&B," and by SPIN, "Alt R&B" — to describe a so-called new generation of self-sufficient and individualistic artists, terms that have been met by noisy protest from longtime devotees and artists themselves who feel the genre is being colonized by trendy newbies or limited by buzzwords. Regardless, everyone can agree that there are indeed a multitude of fresh, exciting new voices who deserve to be heard and even celebrated.

January 30, 2013 – Moombahton, the pitched-down SoundCloud sensation we profiled back in 2011 continues its high-energy, mid-tempo rampage with a fantastic new compilation from moomba breeding ground T&A Records. The comp proves the internet sub-genre has long legs, is growing angrier and more festival-ready by the minute, and is ready to pretty much rule our summers for at least another year.Says Puja Patel in our SPIN Essential review: "There's plenty of meat for the modern festival-circuit masses. Dillon Francis, the guy partially responsible for the in-your-face Maluca banger "Que Que," turns toward peaceable, sunshine-kissed glory with "Beautician," light waves of psyched-out trance synths washing over a shower of laser-show melodies that bounce around a syncopated bass line, the huge, trance-y builds dissolving into a laid-back groove rather than a wall of wailing synths.

January 28, 2013 – The lineup that made the Breeders' beloved 1993 abum Last Splash — Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson — will be celebrating the album's 20th anniversary in Brooklyn, New York, on March 29 by playing the album in full, front to back. The show at the Bell House will mark the lineup's first concert in nearly two decades. Up until now, the band had only announced shows overseas, starting with a May 24 date at Barcelona's Primavera fest and wrapping on June 21 at the U.K.'s All Tomorrow's Parties curated by Deerhunter's Bradford Cox.According to the band's rep, this is the first show on a Last Splash anniversary tour, so more U.S. dates may be on the way. Tickets go on sale January 30 at 12 p.m. ET (more info will be available on the band's official website).

January 25, 2013 – Today, the Strokes dropped "One Way Trigger," their first music since their 2011 album Angles. Here, six SPIN editors give their hasty and completely impulsive opinions...Charles Aaron "Take on Me" + "Axel F" + keening falsetto boy-ache warble, which means it a sounds a little more like a Julian '80s-baby solo record than a Strokes full-band record, even with the super-snazzy guitar solo (which sorta sound like a keytar, to be honest). Dig the pre-chorus bass drop (ha!) Whole thing is way more genuinely playful and productively weird than we probably had a right to expect. And it's got the necessary, Strokes-playbook, mumbling-in-the-shower romantic couplet that cracks your thin veneer of emotional fascism: "You asked me to stay / But there's a million reasons to leave." Now, all they gotta do is get Steve Barron for the video (especially after that whole Choking Man).

January 23, 2013 – Pearl Jam will finally be consummating Eddie Vedder's lifelong love affair with the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field, announcing a special show at the Illinois stadium on July 19 (a second concert at London, Ontario's Budweiser Gardens that's not quite as stocked with symbolism will happen three days prior). Tickets go on sale February 9 at 10 a.m. CT; there is no opener, and the shows are being billed as "An Evening With Pearl Jam."The Cubs had a little fun with the announcement, tweeting "Ten" as well as a link to a photo of a Ron Santo Cubs jersey (No.