Having premiered live at last year's Bridge School Benefit, "A Song For A Son" in studio form debuts today on Spinner. Billy Corgan tells the site, "I think it's got something to do about not having any kids and thinking about why I don't have any kids." It's the first we've heard from the mercurial Pumpkin head's forthcoming 44-track 'Teargarde...

A couple of weeks ago the Pixies brought "Here Comes Your Man" to Conan. Last night Doolittle's seminal opening track, was of the band's own choosing. Then, for a web-only exclusive, Jimmy "Fresh Prince Neil Young" Fallon's viewers Tweeted their votes for a second Doolittle tune. There are obviously so many gems to choose from, and it went to "H...

When not collaborating with Charlotte Gainsbourg on IRM, Beck continues adding covers collections to his Record Club. His (and MGMT and Devendra Banhart's) go at Songs Of Leonard Cohen included mixed results. We have higher hopes for his take on Skip Spence's gorgeous 1969 solo album Oar -- we've heard Hansen cover the Jefferson Airplane/Moby Gr...

Depending on the thumbnail selected for this post, you could have thought the latest Merriweather Post Pavilion video was some fuzzily focused cinéma vérité, a children's show spelling lesson, the most eye-bending screensaver you'd ever seen, or an Eric Wareheim-directed hypercolored freak show. The net effect is, alongside having elements of...

I remember seeing Califone in Cleveland close to a decade ago and being struck by how a seated Tim Rutili and his fellow multi-instrumental bandmates mesmerized a young crowd who were most likely there to see the headliner, Modest Mouse. It was one of those performances you didn't want to end: Each player clearly had a deep sense of composition,...