Muzjiks — With TV on the Radio currently on their planned one-year hiatus, the mastermind behind TVotR's sound has been hard at work with Aziz Ansari on a joke-rap mixtape titled Aaaaaaaangry and now a solo project as Maximum Balloon. Today, Muzjiks has the fi... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Nick Walker TV On the Radio are still in the middle of a planned year-long break, but the Brooklyn band aren't just sipping Mai Tai's in Oahu. Singer-guitarist Kyp Malone has his Rain Machine project. Producer and multi-instrumentalist Dave ... more info

Undercover, Australia — Mike Patton is working on yet another side-project, this time with Tunde from TV on the Radio. more info

Guardian Music — Koko, LondonBrooklyn's Yeasayer have souped up their hybrid sounds and taken their new LP on the road. Who's going to say nay to that?They are one of the hippest references to drop this year, so it's just as well that Brooklyn's Yeasayer are aptly na... more info

Pitchfork — TV on the Radio members Tunde Adebimpe and Gerald A. Smith have created the score for The Lottery, a new documentary about four New York families who enter a lottery to get their kids into a charter school with very limited enrollment. In a press ... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Eric Martin "Our Show With Elliot Aronow" is a sort of live variety internet show that explores the downtown New York art world. Recently, TV on the Radio/Rain Machine man Kyp Malone, whose beard has only gotten fuller and more awe-inspirin... more info

The Yellow Stereo — The Black Keys make some of my favorite straight-up blues rock, and their back with a new album, Brothers, on May 18. In the meantime, there’s this video for “Tighten Up,” which not only proves that the guys still rock, but that simple videos f... more info

Pitchfork — On May 6, downtown Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge will host a benefit show for New Zealand punk originator Chris Knox, who suffered a series of strokes last year. The big news: Reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel leader Jeff Mangum will make an extremely rare... more info

Pitchfork — Tegan and Sara are evidently proud of their spiky new wave single "Alligator". This past weekend, they announced on their website that they'll soon release a remix album featuring 17 different takes on the same song, which has to be some kind of reco... more info

Guardian Music — Director hints that the award-winning actor might play the cult singer-songwriter in a biopic of Johnston's lifePhilip Seymour Hoffman could be in the running to play Daniel Johnston in an upcoming biopic, the film's writer/producer said this week. D... more info