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Watch: Kanye West and Jay-Z Perform in NYC
On Tuesday, Kanye West and Jay-Z performed at NYC’s MOMA. The two are currently working on their joint album Watch the Throne, out sometime this year via Def Jam Recordings.
You can see the performance below, courtesy of NYClout.
Watch: No Age – “Common Heat”
No Age‘s “Common Heat”, off of 2010’s Everything In Between, now has an animated music video, courtesty of French directors Weirdettes. The video features a constantly changing inkblot and pencil sketches. Check it out below.
Odd Future Debut New Songs “Analog” and “65” On BBC
Tyler, the Creator and Hodgy Beats of OFWGKTA dropped by the Maida Vale Studios earlier today with BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe. While there, they performed “Sandwitches” and debuted MellowHype‘s new song “65”, as well as “Analog”, a brand new song from Tyler’s forthcoming album Goblin. The new song features Hodgy Beats and is the latest song to surface from the rapper’s second album and the collective’s first official release. You can listen to the entire session here or check out “Analog” below, courtesy of Some Kind of Awesome.
Goblin is set for a May 10th release via XL Recordings. Check out the tracklisting below.
Goblin Tracklist:
01. Goblin
02. Yonkers
03. Radicals
04. She
05 Transylvania
06. Nightmare
07. Tron Cat
08. Her
09. Sandwitches
10. Fish
11. Analog
12. BSD
13. Window
14. AU79
15. Golden
Watch: MGMT With The Flaming Lips for “Kids”, Join Kid Cudi for “Pursuit of Happiness”
During their performance at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis this weekend, MGMT joined the stage during The Flaming Lips‘ set, with the two groups performing an acoustic version of MGMT’s well-known “Kids”. You can check out a fan-recorded video of the performance above.
A few days back, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser also made an appearnce on stage with rapper-turned-rocker Kid Cudi at the Roseland Ballroom. Cudder and MGMT performed their single “Pursuit of Happiness” from 2009’s Man On The Moon: The End of Day. Fellow contributors Ratatat did not, however, make an appearance. Check out a fan-recorded video below.
Chiddy Bang Freestyle For 9 Hours Straight, Release New Mixtape
Chidera Anamege, the rapping half of Chiddy Bang, is currently performing an eight hour freestyle in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “Longest Freestyle Rap”. The rap is live from Las Vegas for MTV’s digital music awards show, The OMA’s. Watch the performance live here.
You can help out by suggesting topics for the freestyle via Chiddy’s Twitter using the hashtag #RapWorldRecord.
The Philadelphia duo will also be releasing their new mixtape, Peanut Butter and Swelly, later today. Links will be provided when available.
Video: Tyler, the Creator Loves Golf, Becomes Thurnis Haley
In a promo video for his forthcoming studio album Goblin, OFWGKTA leader Tyler, the Creator plays the golf-loving Thurnis Haley, discussing his passion for the sport.
Goblin, Tyler’s second album, will be released on May 10, 2011 via XL Recordings and will be the Los Angeles rap collective’s first physical release.
Coachella 2011: Arcade Fire – “Wake Up”
Arcade Fire‘s Saturday night set at Coachella was widely appreciated by fans, with the Canadian indie-rock band returning to the stage that helped launch them into the limelight way back in 2005. As they closed their main set with “Wake Up”, hundreds of giant, glowing beach balls floated down on the crowd from above the stage, changing colors from blue to red to green.
Check out the performance and the band’s setlist below.
Setlist:
Month of May
Rebellion (Lies)
No Cars Go
Haïti
City With No Children
The Suburbs
The Suburbs (Continued)
Crown of Love
Rococo
Intervention
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
We Used to Wait
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Keep the Car Running
Wake Up
Encore:
Ready to Start
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Coachella 2011: Tyler, the Creator Joins Lil B Onstage
During Lil B‘s Coachella set, OFWGKTA leader Tyler, the Creator joined the Based God on stage, performing the song “Pretty Bitch”. Afterwards, the rest of the Odd Future gang, who performed their set on Friday, joined Lil B on stage as well, while Tyler stage dove.
Check out the fan-shot footage of “Pretty Bitch” after the break.
New Arctic Monkeys Music Video
Just three days after releasing their new single, “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your chair”, British indie-rock band Arctic Monkeys have released the song’s music video, where the Sheffield natives act like rock stars and swag their stuff out on some trippy film. The bands new album, Suck It and See, will be released June 6th on Domino Records. You can buy the single now on iTunes. Watch the video in the link above or check it out below.
Bayside Perform “Sick, Sick, Sick” For Last.fm
Bayside recently took part in a Last.fm session, performing “Sick, Sick, Sick,” the first single from their new album Killing Time. The band recently released the album, their first with Wind-up Records and first since leaving Victory Records.
“It’s a very personal song to me; it’s probably one the more angry songs on the record,” lead singer Anthony Raneri says.
Check out the performance below.
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