The Flaming Lips have been in the news lately, but often it’s been for obnoxiously attention-grabby reasons. So it’s good to hear that they’re now returning to the business of releasing intense, freaked-out albums. Pitchfork reports that their new album The Terror, produced by the band and frequent collaborator Dave...

Asia cofounder Steve Howe has left the group in order to devote his attention to his other projects including with the band Yes

Drug-gobbling Tumblr-rap attention-hog Riff Raff had a very big year in 2012, and now he tops it off with, amazingly enough, the first full-length non-cobbled-together mixtape he’s managed to release all year. On the new Hologram Panda, he teams up with veteran New York producer Dame Grease, a former Ruff Ryders mainstay. (He did &...

It is not yet known if the track will feature on her new album 'Matangi'

Apparently, sometimes it’s a good idea to harangue pop stars on Twitter. After a group of fans made a point out of Twitter-bothering M.I.A. about her complete lack of new music, she caved and sent a new song to one fan, who then shared it on YouTube. The song, “AtTENTion,” is a tense and squiggly [...]