“Juicy Mode” is the lead single from Brooklyn-based Columboid’s sophomore full-length, Monster Vision, out June 18 on La Société Expéditionnaire.

FREDDY KNOP - “RAUM”

Berlin-based producer Freddy Knop has a new record out this week via Circle Into Square, highlighted by the jazzy, textured ambience of “Raum.” The 7-track Polyphonies EP cycles through xylophone, Oberheim synth, glockenspiel and found sounds on its way through those white earbuds that are going to give you significant hearing loss by the time you’re 35. Watch the video for “Raum” above and catch the bandcamp stream of Polyphonies below.

COHO LIPS - “BROKEN, EVERY RECORD”

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SAGE FRANCIS, PROLYPHIC, B. DOLAN & METERMAIDS HEAD NORTHEAST

As Strange Famous Records celebrates the release of Prolyphic & Buddy Peace’s Working Man LP, Sage Francis has rallied the troops for a three-show northeast run at month’s end. Sage and Prolyphic will be joined by SFR labelmates B. Dolan and Metermaids for shows in Brooklyn (5/24 @ Knitting Factory), Providence, RI (5/25 @ Fete Ballroom) and Portland, ME (5/26 @ Space Gallery). Catch Prolyphic & Buddy Peace’s video for “Drug Dealer” above and visit Strange Famous for additional tour details.

POND - “GIANT TORTOISE”

Perth, Australia-based POND, featuring members of Tame Impala and The Growl, is set to release their fifth album, Hobo Rocket, this August on Modular Recordings. Catch the video for lead single “Giant Tortoise” above.

With only a month before Queens of the Stone Age release their first new album since 2007, they have released a disturbing animated clip to accompany their song “Kalopsia.”

Created by the artist Boneface, who also created the cover of their new album …Like Clockwork, the video starts with an explanation that Kalopsia is “a condition wherein things appear more beautiful than they are,” which is suiting since the video consists of a creature in a happy mask evaporating people into wisps of blood.

The sub-two-minute long video is just a snippet of the actual song, but the album’s version will also feature Trent Reznor.

…Like Clockwork is scheduled for release on June 3 on Matador.

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05.08.13

Granted that I only caught the last three songs of electro-rock duo Brick + Mortar’s set, I really shouldn’t judge the band. Let’s do it anyway though, yeah? Driving bass and vocals with a real sense of purpose spilled into a high-energy performance, and made me wish I hadn’t opted to eat beer cheese instead of catch their set.

Wednesday’s Union Hall show marked night two of Dessa’s three-date NYC residency. The bulk of her set was culled from 2010′s A Badly Broken Code, with a few False Hopes and Parts of Speech tracks peppered in between. “Alibi” was an excellent choice to start the night, as Dessa’s impassioned delivery had the sweaty crowd in the palm of her hands before she even reached the chorus.

Dessa’s third full-length solo record, Parts of Speech, is set to drop on June 25. Though it features production from Doomtree regulars Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger (who opened the show with a DJ set), it’s a departure for the Minneapolis-based artist in many respects. The 12-track album finds her singing more, rapping less, and selecting her soundscapes with a mix-tape mentality, more concerned with the thematic continuity of her narratives than anything else.

“Call Off Your Ghost,” one of the new record’s highlights, came alive under the deft drums and backing vocals of her touring band. Dessa, or the character she inhabits, speaks of living in the same neighborhood as her ex’s new lady and crossing paths with her on the street. “It’s just a lot to ask to watch your future walking past me,” she sang on the richly layered song.

With the sweatbox of the downstairs stage in full effect, Dessa asked the crowd to refrain from hooting and hollering as she took off her sweater. Though she said it rather casually, Dessa raised a good point. If you can’t go to a show and appreciate the art put forth without drunkenly reducing the artist to a pair of tits, fuck you. Stay home. Union Hall thankfully kept it classy (a patron in the rear let out a well-timed, sarcastic “ewww”) and encore chants quickly followed Dessa’s powerful closer.

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FOXYGEN - “NO DESTRUCTION”

Fans of Foxygen are well aware that this band is ready for the camera and has a flair for the dramatic. “No Destruction” was directed by Jonathan Rado and Sam France’s childhood friend Bryan Felber (University of the Streets). It features footage from movies the young men made beginning in high school, including The Legend of Colonel Bedlum and the Salty Biscuits (2005), Metronome (2007), Here’s Another One, Jon! (2008), The Buffalo Son (2009), and other various home videos and school projects (2006-2008).

WOLF PEOPLE - “EMPTY VESSELS

Wolf People have released the second video from their fêted second album, Fain, for the track “Empty Vessels.” Jack Sharp says of the track: “A storm is coming. Empty Vessels was written in fits and starts over a long wet summer under the spell of George Ewart Evans, an oral historian from Suffolk, whose books I was reading on trips to Dunwich, Blaxhall and Aldeburgh. The conditions of those trips were echoed when the song was recorded in Yorkshire, in the squally spring showers on the Dales.”

The video was inspired by the artwork for the album (done by the band’s guitarist Joe Hollick) which itself was inspired by a 1950s video for “Poem Electronique” by the composer Edgard Varese. Working again with director Phil Poole, the video takes imagery both from the band’s artwork and their equipment and intersperses it with captured moments of the band performing. A beguiling piece of video making, Poole says: “Using the Fain artwork as inspiration, the video for ‘Empty Vessels’ was put together as an abstract piece exploring the many layers and depths to the track, through a combination of unorthodox visuals and motion graphics.”

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FREE TIME - “I LOST AGAIN”

This reminds me of Real Estate, and is therefore good. Free Time’s self-titled debut LP drops May 28 on Underwater Peoples. Download “I Lost Again” below and catch tour dates after the jump.

June 9 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s

June 11- Detroit, MI - Garden Bowl *

June 12 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle

June 13 - Cincinnati, OH - The Comet

June 15 - Oxford, MS - Lamar Lounge

June 16 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl

June 18 - Columbia, SC - Conundrum

June 20 - Raleigh, NC - King’s Barcade +

June 21 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter

June 22 - Washington, DC - Red Onion (Day Show)

June 22 - Baltimore, MD - Golden West

June 23 - Brooklyn, NY - Shea Stadium

* w/ Ketamines

+ w/ Owen

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