HEARTFAST, the good people behind that Tunde Adebimpe solo 7" picture/DVD deal, have another nifty audiovisual artifact coming at us even sooner. On November 25, the label will issue a new vinyl single from Of Montreal.This 7" features a different arrangement of the Of Montreal cover of Parvati Khan-indebted M.I.A. track "Jimmy" that hit Forkcas...

Deerhoof photo by Francis Chung"I've always found it really interesting that a group of people looking at the same painting can all see different things," art enthusiast/Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine tells Billboard.com. Whatever you may take from Mr. Levine kinda sorta equating "Makes Me Wonder" with "Guernica", you can almost see his point whe...

Last week Bandstand Busking recorded of Montreal, of course, as you'd expect, busking around London. We've seen Kevin Barnes and cohorts Skeletal Lamping both stripped down and stripped down recently, but this is the first time we've seen them busking on the streets (actually, kinda by the parks) of London. Nobody approaches to offer donations, ...

Bandstand Busking is one of many websites shooting bands performing in an unusual setting. Only in this case, the setting isn't so unusual. The London-based project puts groups inside the bandstands that populate the city's parks. As the website says, "There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tatt...

Despite Kevin Barnes' role-playing-- he again here inhabits the figurative skin of alter ego Georgie Fruit-- the story on this album is its relentlessly schizophrenic composition, with nearly an hour of song fragments fused into 15 tracks.read more