Stereogum — Ever since the 2000s heyday of blogs and MySpace, music journalism has often come embedded with tracks for listening on demand. Before that, there were magazines that included a CD sampler in each issue, like CMJ New Music Monthly. And before that, t... more info

Stereogum — The experimental supergroup Battles, which formed as a quartet way back in 2002, has been pared down little by little over the years. At present they're a duo comprising guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams (Don Caballero, Storm & Stress) and drummer J... more info

Consequence of Sound — They've announced fall tour dates as well. Battles announce new album Juice B Crypts, share “Titanium 2 Step” feat. Sal Principato of Liquid Liquid: Stream Nina Corcoran more info

Stereogum — Mind Enterprises is Andre Tirone, an Italian musician, based in London, who makes pop music that’s been influenced by the funky, tribal postpunk of bands like Liquid Liquid. We posted his “Chapita” video not long ago, and now he’s announced t... more info

Nialler9 — Dan Snaith shared an 1000-song playlist that’ll serve as your background playlist for any situation from rap to soul to funk to psychedelia and beyond. It’s something else. From Minnie Ripperton to Shuggie Otis to Liquid Liquid to Pusha T, this ... more info

NME - Radar — Diplo's 1Extra Hallowe'en Special is packed with massive bangers. It's also a good refreshment of some of the finest music this year. Long-time collaborator and music video director System D-128's also involved. Angel Haze, M.I.A, Kendrick Lemar, Kan... more info

XLR8R — Tussle has made a long and respectable career out of refining the art of the jam. Across 12 years, six different incarnations, and 17 or so releases, the band—which always centers around leader Nathan Burazer, and currently features drummers Jonath... more info

betterPropoganda — Posted at 12:20pm, 8/20/2012 San Francisco's Tussle will be releasing Tempest, their fourth album and first since 2008's Cream Cuts, on September 25th via Smalltown Supersound. Tempest was produced by Optimo's JD Twitch and recorded with him l... more info

Stereogum — Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm, the two halves of the Brooklyn duo Tanlines, don’t come from studio-pop. Cohen first came to our attention as the leader of Professor Murder, a clattering and scrappy dance-punk band who figured out, like Liquid Liquid and... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — most of the words & photos by Dominick Mastrangelo They played for over 3.5 hours before the sun set on LCD Soundsystem in a cascade of white balloons dropping from the Madison Square Garden ceiling in NYC Saturday night. I... more info