As a "thank you" to fans for supporting their video-rich 10th album Offend Maggie, and as a promotional tie-in to get the word out to those who haven't, Deerhoof have made one of its tracks "My Purple Past" available as a lossless .wav file. (Come to think of it, Offend Maggie was shutout of the 2008 Gummys. Strange? Or not so strange?) The song...

Like many Pitchfork readers-- guessing here-- I'm not too terribly familiar with Maroon 5 catalogue outside of a couple of the big radio hits. What I've heard, anyway, strikes me as being pretty decent as far as these corporate rock bands go, and Adam Levine at least has a voice completely distinct from all the gruff, throaty losers who sprang u...

At this point, Offend Maggie's birthed almost as many videos as it has songs, which leads me to assume that one day Deerhoof will, in fact, have visual accompaniment for their tenth album's entire tracklist. Exciting! (Not really.) "Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back"'s still-photography is more interesting than "Offend Maggie"'s still photography...

Up until now it's been touch and go for San Francisco art rock trio Sholi, who've released a few scattered singles for various imprints but hadn't yet found a label to call home. Turns out it will still be Touch and Go for Sholi, as in Touch and Go sister label Quarterstick, which has signed the guys and will issue their debut LP next year.Sholi...

Videos added to the Pitchfork.tv archives today are all over the damn place, from the VCR-as-memory-machine whimsy of the Books' "If Not Now, Whenever" to modern shapes and colors of the Sea and Cake's cover of David Bowie's "Sound & Vision" to more recent videos by +/- and Deerhoof. Clips by Kazi (ft. Madlib), Harlem, the Last Shadow Pu...