Last night on Conan, Dirty Projectors came through to play the fiery Swing Lo Magellan opener “Offspring Are Blank,” giving the world a rare opportunity to hear Dave Longstreth when he’s maybe just a tiny bit hoarse. The band’s whole itchy-perfectionist dynamic is always a powerful thing to witness in real...

A few months ago, Dirty Projectors frontman Dave Longstreth released his Hi Custodian short film, which used a bunch of songs from the band’s Swing Lo Magellan album. And now, like the “About To Die” video before it, the video for the surprisingly hard-rocking album opener “Offspring Are Blank” i...

A$AP Rocky recruited a hell of a lineup for “Fuckin’ Problem,” the sex-talk posse cut from his forthcoming album LONGLIVEA$AP. And all four guys show up in the brand-new video. It’s a pretty bare-bones affair: Some dancers, some fashionable black clothes, some blank backgrounds. And it lives and dies entir...

Christina Aguilera has premiered 'Blank Page,' a new song from her forthcoming album, 'Lotus.'

In a sense, Pavement was the ideal mixtape band: Their tracks rarely broke the five-minute barrier, and nearly every one could yield gnomic postulates for the title (or at least the subtitle). The first few records, too, looked like musical care packages, blanketed with indecipherable fragments, collaged scraps, and detourned photos. Of course, ...