The Pipettes new album, 'Earth Vs The Pipettes', will hit the U.S. next week

Gig-run begins in Manchester on April 18

Above: T-shirt designs by Jay Reatard and MGMTHey, you know when you're in a band and a venerable soft-porn magazine asks you to design a T-shirt? What? It happens.It's been happening for a couple of years now, actually. Since 2007, Playboy has been doing an annual promotion called Rock the Rabbit, wherein musicians design T-shirts inspired by ...

-- Boston post-punk legends Mission of Burma have just released the Rhapsody Originals EP, a five-song live EP that they recorded last October in Brooklyn. As that title would imply, it's up for sale or rent exclusively at Rhapsody. The band also has a few live dates coming up. On January 24, they'll play a benefit for Arts at the Armory at the ...

"It was a real bonus that she helped, from [having] so much experience on the songwriting front," longstanding Pipette Gwenno Saunders said of her new Pipettes bandmate Anna McDonald in an interview with Pitchfork news last month.At the moment, it's not hard to imagine Gwenno regretting those words. After a roughly six-month tenure with the Pipe...