Since Stereolab reunited in 2019, the band has mostly been concerned with live performances and archival releases. Last year, they put out the fourth volume of their Switched On rarities compilation series that dates back to the ’90s. Today, they’ve announced another edition called Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume...

Back in 2019, Stereolab returned to the stage for the first time in a decade. Their performance at that year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, although abbreviated by rain, was a total thrill. They kept touring up until the onset of COVID in early 2020, then revved back up for some festival gigs last fall. Today, they’ve announced ...

Jarvis Cocker recorded an entire album of ’60s and ’70s French pop covers — Chansons D’Ennui, credited to the fictional artist Tip-Top — as a companion to Wes Anderson’s new movie The French Dispatch. We’ve already heard its lead single, a cover of Christophe’s &...

Last year, Death Valley Girls, the psychedelic garage rock group from Los Angeles, released Under the Spell Of Joy, an album that veered all over the aesthetic map. That record sounded like what might happen if Stereolab and Thee Headcoatees went on a peyote voyage while listening to obscure ’70s funk together, and it ruled. Today, Dea...

The Avalanches’ classic debut album Since I Left You — which was, up until 2016, also their only album — turned 20 in November. And now, to commemorate the anniversary, the Australian production crew has announced a new deluxe edition of the LP featuring unreleased remixes from the late MF Doom, Black Dice, Leon Vyn...