[News] Thundercat Announces New Album Titled 'Apocalypse'

Thundercat, the alias of talented bassist Stephen Bruner, has announced a new album titled Apocalypse. The LP is the follow-up to 2010's excellent The Golden Age of Apocalypse, and is being executive produced by Flying Lotus. The two buddies even co-wrote Thundercat's new cut "Heartbreaks + Setbacks," which you can stream below.

Apocalypse is out on July 9th on Brainfeeder.

Apocalypse Tracklist:

01 Tenfold
02 Heartbreaks + Setbacks
03 The Life Aquatic
04 Special Stage
05 Tron Song
06 Seven      
07 Oh Sheit It's X
08 Without You
09 Lotus and the Jondy
10 Evangelion
11 We'll Die
12 A Message for Austin / Praise the Lord / Enter the Void

[Watch] Youth Lagoon - "Mute" (Video)

What begins as a regular day of skateboarding through the suburbs turns into a series of abnormal adventures for the character in Youth Lagoon's video for "Mute." Check out the stylized clip below. Tyler T. Williams directs.

Youth Lagoon's sophomore LP Wondrous Bughouse is out now.

[Watch] Check Out Vampire Weekend's New Promo Video Featuring Steve Buscemi

This video made my day. Easily. Last month, Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio found out that he is a distant relative of Steve Buscemi, and the band hired him on to direct their upcoming April 28th concert at New York's Roseland Ballroom. This promo video sees Steve paying the boys a visit at the studio and the results are pretty hilarious. The awkward interactions between Steve and the band are priceless. Check it out below.

Vampire Weekend's third album Modern Vampires of the City is out on May 14th.

[Album Stream] Phoenix - 'Bankrupt!'

Phoenix's fifth album Bankrupt! is due out in one week, but they're feeling kind and have offered up the ten-track LP for streaming. Over on iTunes, you can hear the entirety of the French outfit's latest work, comprised of the lead single "Entertainment" and fantastic new tracks like "Chloroform" and "Bourgeois." Check it out here and let us know your thoughts.

Bankrupt! is out on April 23rd via Glassnote.

Bankrupt! Tracklist:
01. Entertainment
02. The Real Thing
03. S.O.S. In Bel Air
04. Trying To Be Cool
05. Bankrupt!
06. Drakkar Noir
07. Chloroform
08. Don’t
09. Bourgeois
10. Oblique City

[Coachella 2013] Watch Full Sets from The xx, Blur, Vampire Weekend and Earl Sweatshirt, Highlights from Many More

The first weekend of Coachella flew by, and there were lots of memorable moments. Hell, R. Kelly joined Phoenix onstage in a surprise moment of the festival. Given the nature of the festival, with its well-established live streaming and eager fans with cameras in hand, it wasn't long before a decent amount of videos hit the web. After the jump, you can check out a whole swath of these uploaded videos, including full sets from The xx, Earl Sweatshirt, Blur and Vampire Weekend along with shorter clips from so many more. The joys of technology.

The xx (Full Set):

Earl Sweatshirt (Full Set):

Blur (Full Set):

Vampire Weekend (Full Set):

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Performing "Maps"/"Heads Will Roll"):

Beach House (Performing "Zebra"/"Wishes"):

James Blake (Performing "Voyeur" and "Digital Lion"):

Tame Impala (Performing "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" and "Elephant"):

Modest Mouse (Performing "Be Brave" and "Dramamine"):

Alt-J (Performing "Fitzpleasure" and "Breezeblocks"):

Major Lazer (Performing "Get Free" with Amber Coffman):

Hot Chip (Performing "Ready for the Floor"):

Wu-Tang Clan (Performing "Protect Ya Neck"):

Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (Live @ Coachella) by ffraudio

Disclosure (Performing "Running" with Jessie Ware):

Franz Ferdinand (Performing "Take Me Out" and "No You Girls"):

[Listen] Gold Panda Announces New Album, Streams Lead Single "Brazil"

Gold Panda wowed me back in 2010 when he released his debut album Lucky Shiner. He wowed me again earlier this year with the Trust EP. I'm ready to be wowed again. Gold Panda will release his sophomore album Half of Where You Live on June 11th, and "Brazil" is our first taste.

The LP takes inspiration from experiences in Sao Paulo and London as well as Takashi Miike films. As for "Brazil," it's pretty impressive. Enticing, exotic instrumentation loops around the repeating words "Brazil," with the synthesized sounds building and fading effortlessly. I'm down for this. Check it out below.

[Watch] Daft Punk Focus on Pharrell in the Latest Collaborators Video

Daft Punk is quickly getting us familiar with the collaborators we will hear on the hotly anticipated Random Accesss Memories. We've already seen videos featuring Giorgio Moroder, Todd Edwards and Nile Rodgers, and now it's Pharrell's turn.

Providing vocals for "Get Lucky," Pharrell speaks on his time with the robot duo. He had drug-fueled holistic experiences and had deep connections to the collaboration and the music that came from it: "getting lucky is not just sleeping with her, but meeting someone for the first time and it just clicking. There’s no better fortune in this existence to me."

This music is "beyond 3D. It's 4D. It's in your mind." Check out Pharrell's edition of "The Collaborators" video series below.

[Listen] Daft Punk feat. Pharrell and Nile Rodgers - "Get Lucky"

UPDATE: The stream has been removed by SME, and it has been reported that Fun Radio's "exclusive stream" was in fact a sampled edit of the SNL ad for the song. Seems I got caught up in the ecitement. Sorry about that. Hopefully some legitimate Daft Punk tunes will surface soon, and we'll post it when it does.

Random Access Memories is out on May 21st.