Pitchfork - Forkcast — UK noise-rock trio Cold Pumas just recently dropped a 7", "Beat Mystery / Party Drip", over on Upset the Rhythm. The A-side has a particularly menacing sound that sounds like it'd belong on a Liars album (a good thing). MP3: Cold Pumas: "Beat My... more info

Pitchfork — Beck's Record Club project-- in which he enlists friends to cover an entire album in a day, then posts the results to his website-- stands as a consistently fascinating ongoing project. At the moment, we're almost done hearing the version of the IN... more info

Stereogum — BTW Clipd Beaks recently released the cassette-only To Realize companion A World Without End, but judging from their ongoing focus on apocalyptic imagery, you get the sense they think the world’s about to go kaput. (When I asked them about this End... more info

Stereogum — Dave Sitek has always been busy outside of TV on the Radio, producing for Liars, Scarlett Johansson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and RAAAAAAAANDY (mixtape currently on hold), but he’s using TVOTR’s yearlong hiatus to also work on his first solo album as Max... more info

Guardian Music — Brooklyn art-rock boffin announces album featuring contributions from Karen O, Holly Miranda and, hopefully, a Talking HeadTV On the Radio's Dave Sitek is to make his solo debut, releasing an album under the name Maximum Balloon. Although Sitek's in ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — interview by Billy Jones, top photo by Michael Lavine TV on the Radio guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer David Andrew Sitek has announced his new project Maximum Balloon. Not surprisingly, the TVOTR / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Liars / Dragons of..... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — TV on the Radio guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer David Andrew Sitek has announced his new project Maximum Balloon. Not surprisingly, the TVOTR / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Liars / Dragons of Zynth / Holly Miranda / Scarlett Johansson producer... more info

Guardian Music — Beat-Herder (2-4 Jul, Sawley, beatherder.co.uk) brings leftfield thrills to Lancashire's Ribble Valley, with Luke Vibert, Erol Alkan and Son Of Dave joining the already-confirmed likes of Django Django and Does It Offend You, Yeah? …Some more new a... more info

NME — Acts will join Liars, The Magic Numbers and These New Puritans at the Hertfordshire event more info

Big Apple Music Scene — For all their personal differences, Lindsay Lohan’s clan all have one thing in common: They are all terrible at lying. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing, if they weren’t called on the carpet for it so often. In the past several weeks alone, we’ve... more info