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Girl Talk Throws Taco Bell Party in Pittsburgh

Tue: 05-13-08: 11:29 AM CDT
Cee-Lo + Jack Black = "Kung Fu Fighting"

Tue: 05-13-08: 09:55 AM CDT
Shearwater's Meiburg Officially Leaves Okkervil River

Tue: 05-13-08: 08:00 AM CDT
The Faint Start Their Own Label to Release New Album

Tue: 05-13-08: 07:00 AM CDT
Leonard Cohen, Morrissey, Sigur Ros Do Benicassim

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No Age:
Nouns

No Age follow their 2007 EP compilation, Weirdo Rippers, with a gorgeously thick Sub Pop debut-- a hazy, delirious expanse that's friendly and warm and, best of all, unpredictable. Like Times New Viking, No Age bury their addictive sing-alongs in layers of effects and fuzz: Nouns is so cacophonous, so fertile, and so ripe with sound that it's hard to comprehend how just two people manage to make so much noise while still sounding subdued and mysterious. [Amanda Petrusich]

Portishead:
Third

As radical reinventions go, Third-- the first Portishead studio album since 1997-- is surprisingly natural. Darker and bleaker lyrically than their previous work, Third is a sort of re-debut-- the band's sound after it has excised every possible remnant of trip-hop from it. Instead, Third is a psychedelic rock album, with an abrasive and jittery electro-industrial number, analog freakouts, free jazz horns, droning, rhythmically dense garage-kraut, and other sonic detours. [Nate Patrin]

Tue: 05-13-08:
Nine Inch Nails
The Slip

Trent Reznor returns with yet another digital record; The Slip is a free download that, unlike the sprawling loss-leader Ghosts I-IV, consists of fully realized songs. Pretty good ones, too. [Eric Harvey]

Tue: 05-13-08:
Four Tet
Ringer

Latest from Kieran Hebden is a mini-album that leans toward 4/4 techno, but, as usual, he seems less interested in developing genres than in absorbing their tropes into his own hermetic sound world. [Brian Howe]

Thee Oh Sees: The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
Here the undercooked folk of the band's 2006 release The Cool Death Of Island Raiders is jettisoned for an album of a very particular sort of desert summer, as influenced by oil stains and scorched blacktop every bit as much as gutbucket garage and primordial rock. [Ian Cohen]

Herman Düne: I Wish That I Could See You Soon EP
Herman Düne-- which consists of Franco-Swedish singer David-Ivar Herman Düne and drummer Neman-- have sharpened their craft without becoming overly professional or disingenuous. On their new EP, they play deceptively simple folk-based compositions with flashes of electric guitars, horns, mouth harp, and bowed saw. [Stephen M. Deusner]

Emmanuel Jal: Warchild
London resident who fled South Sudan releases his second album to coincide with screenings of a new documentary about his life; while some songs deal with the horrors he witnessed as a child solider, others concern culture shock and his struggles in the first world. [Ben Westhoff]

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Tue: 05-13-08:
Interview: Microphones
We speak to Microphones/Mount Eerie's Phil Elvrum about the recent reissue of his seminal The Glow Pt. 2, trying to write the story of the universe, the geography that informs his music, and his affection for black metal act Xasthur. [Brian Howe]

Mon: 05-12-08:
Interview: Scarlett Johansson
In advance of Scarlett Johansson's debut LP-- a tribute to Tom Waits called Anywhere I Lay My Head-- we talk to the actress about road-tripping with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, being taken seriously as a singer, and her decision to tackle one of the most iconic vocalists of the past half-century. [Amanda Petrusich]

Fri: 05-09-08:
Column: Resonant Frequency #57
Perfect songs are hard to find; here are 12 to start with. [Mark Richardson]

Thu: 05-08-08:
Radiohead: "Nude RE/MIX"
Radiohead's "Nude" remix project is yet another reminder that the age of passive reception of art is on the decline, that eventually we'll all be participating in some way. In this instance, our managing editor Mark Richardson dove into the project, listening to hundreds of tracks to discover common threads and new favorites-- and to try not to lose his mind. [Mark Richardson]

Wed: 05-07-08:
The Month In: Techno
Ths month we examine singles or remixes from such stalwarts as Laurent Garnier [above], Supermayer, Ane Brun, and Daso & Pawas among others. [Philip Sherburne]

Tue: 05-06-08:
Guest List: Peter Morén
Peter Morén introduces us to even more Swedes we hadn't heard of, gets a little jealous of Vampire Weekend, and longs for his chance to spin his favorite tunes on the radio. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] [Peter Morén]