When writing about Deerhunter debuting songs at NoisePop last week, I mentioned "Famous Last Words" was maybe the closest we'd come to hearing the band do a Strokes song. This was before "Disappearing Ink." Bradford Cox & Co. put the song to tape in their Atlanta practice space for Subterranean -- while listening, try not to think of Julian ...

So far this week the NoisePop festival's brought us a taste of new St. Vincent and Deerhunter. Now we have the old performed in a new way: Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman (and, now, Anti- solo artist and DJ) Bob Mould joined No Age onstage to do a rendition of their "Miner" and his classic "New Day Rising." It took place Sunday at the Bottom of the ...

Earlier we posted a couple new songs St. Vincent debuted at NoisePop last week. The folks at Wolfgang's Vault captured Deerhunter's set in its entirety from "Born To Run" to a bits from Cryptograms and Microcastle through to the extended exeunt, which marks the final or four new tracks. One of the newbies, the spare, marching-paced "Famous Last ...

Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Moses Archuleta, and Josh Fauver (but not Whitney Petty) played Noise Pop 2009 last week at San Francisco's Mezzanine, and Wolfgang's Vault has video of the whole Deerhunter set. It's great to see the Atlanta band continuing to gain force and confidence, most evidently in Cox's voice-- it's right up front-- along wit...

London's the Big Pink-- the 4AD-signed duo of Robbie Furze (Panic DHH, Alec Empire) and Merok Records founder Milo Cordell-- go black and white and loud all over on this Pitchfork.tv-exclusive video from their forthcoming self-titled debut album. "The track nods to such sonic reference points as the shoegaze of My Bloody Valentine or Spiritualiz...