LargeHeartedBoy — tUnE-yArDs' Nikki-Nack is this week's marquee release, an album that has been in constant rotation in my house the past week. Three other new releases I can recommend are Elephant's Sky Swimming, Fujiya and Miyagi's Artificial Sweeteners, and Lykke..... more info

Stereogum — The New Zealand-raised and Melbourne-based pop singer-songwriter Kimbra, who is hopefully still spending that “Somebody That I Used To Know” dough, is getting ready to release her sophomore album, and its first single is a deeply weird single cal... more info

The Music Fix — Nikki nack paddy wack give tUnE-yArDs an eight. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — BBC News explored the New York City of poet Dylan Thomas. Wondering Sound explored the influences behind tUnE-yArDs' music. Author Juliet Escoria interviewed herself at The Nervous Breakdown. Ad Hoc explored the music genre "mutant techno." LinguaLif... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The 2014 edition of Portland's MusicFestNW happens August 16 & 17 at the city's Waterfront Park. This year's line-up has been revealed and includes Spoon, Fucked Up, Future Islands, Haim, Phantogram, The Antlers, Girl Talk, tUnE-yArDs, EMA and more..... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sylvan Esso @ BVSXSW 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Sylvan Esso's debut album is out in a couple weeks (May 13) via Partisan and the duo have just released the video for single "Play It Right." While it doesn't have... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The New York Times notes the rise in books as design accessories. Stream the new tUnE-yArDs album, Nikki Nack at NPR Music. Dave Eggers' negative review of Infinite Jest from 1996. Wondering Sound offered an oral history of the zine... more info

Core News — “Sh*t Robot Alarm Call and music from Disclosure & Friend Within, Bicep, tUnE-yArDs and Klangkarussell” Check out other Rob da Bank shows here and subscribe to the feed to get good music in the future. Rob da Bank 2014-04-26 Sh*t Robot Alarm Call... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — tUnE-yArDs already released "Water Fountain" and "Wait For A Minute" from her ambitious new album, Nikki Nack (due out 5/6 via 4AD) and now she's made the entire album available to listen to ahead of its release date. Check... more info

Stereogum — Nikki Nack is the third album of giddy, euphoric art-pop from Merrill Garbus, better known as tUnE-yArDs, and if anything, she’s only become more unhinged and ecstatic and freewheeling with time. Her last album, 2011′s w h o k i l l, topped criti... more info