Brooklyn Vegan — Pitchfork Festival 2013 (more by James Richards IV) Pitchfork Festival is about to kick off in Chicago's Union Park today (7/18) and run through Sunday (7/20). If you're there, you might want to check the updated set times (sans Death... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Chicago's Pink Frost (formerly Apteka) are set to follow 2013's Sundowner LP with a new EP called Traitors on September 16. We've got the premiere of that EP's new single, "Seek and Recover," which is a no-frills... more info

Stereogum — Whirr is the shoegaze project Nothing bassist Nick Bassett formed after leaving Deafheaven. (Bassett and Nothing founder Dominic Palermo also have a project called Death Of Lovers; busy guy!) Whirr’s second full-length, Sway, is coming this fall an... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — White Lung at FFF Fest 2013 (more by 2013) Hudson, NY's two-day Basilica Sound Scape already announced a great initial lineup of Swans, Deafheaven, Tim Hecker, Julia Holter and more, and the fest has now added more impressive names including... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Deafheaven at Sasquatch 2014 (more by Chris & Rae Graham) The ongoing Deafheaven tour previously had no NYC dates besides Governors Ball (pictures), but now that that festival's behind us, they've expanded their tour and added a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield & Dana (distortion) Yavin The Strokes / Spoon / Jack White / crowd Such was not the case for the Strokes, the hometown boys who drew what looked like the biggest crowd of Governors Ball so... more info

Stereogum — Every summer, the people at Adult Swim do god’s work by giving us a fuckload of well-curated new tracks for free. This year’s Adult Swim Singles Series is set to feature new tracks from heavy hitters like Future, Deafheaven, and Run The Jewels. A... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Chris Graham and Rae Graham The National / M.I.A. / Deafheaven / crowd For a moment there, it looked like The National's headlining set at Sasquatch - one of the band's biggest shows to date - was going... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Destruction Unit at Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) Roaring psychedelic punks Destruction Unit just wrapped up a tour which included Free Press Summer Fest, Chaos In Tejas' Weekend In Austin, and a run with Institute. That tour... more info

Stereogum — Over the years Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly’s genre-spanning United Nations has featured members of Converge, Glassjaw, Pianos Become The Teeth, Acid Tiger, and the Lovekill. And while the band’s latest bears the marks of screamo, it blends tho... more info