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

Stereogum — For the last several years Adult Swim has curated a series of singles released throughout the summer. They’ve put out some fantastic tracks in the past, but for the fifth series, coming this summer, they’ve completely outdone themselves, enlistin... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Swans at Bowery Ballroom earlier this week (more by Amanda Hatfield) For the third year in a row, Basilica Hudson's Creative Directors Melissa Auf Der Maur and Tony Stone are working in collaboration with Pitchfork Senior Editor/Director of Events Br... more info

Metalsucks — Not together. The post Judas Priest, King Diamond, Amon Amarth, Failure, Deafheaven and Pallbearer are Going to Be Touring This Fall appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Pallbearer at Europa in 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) Arkansas doomsters Pallbearer, whose 2012 debut album Sorrow and Extinction was one of the buzziest metal albums of that year, are about to hit the road with another buzzy metal band,... more info

Stereogum — The Gainesville, Florida punks Frameworks play an intensely sincere heart-on-sleeve sort of post-hardcore. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to lump the band in with the current emo revival, but there’s precious little pop-punk in their sound.... more info