Perfume Genius in SPIN (click image to enlarge) If you’ve seen Perfume Genius live as of late you may have heard the beautiful (non-album) track, “Rusty Chains” mixed into the set. We’re happy to bring you this track today. Mike Hadreas explains “Rusty Chains” is “a song for a man whose lover has died. He [...]

Lemonade are just now getting back from their nationwide tour with Neon Indian We’re happy to share Lemonade’s new video for “Neptune” directed by House Plants + Weird Days. Also, the release of Diver is just about two weeks away. Although they’ve just come back from a nationwide tour with Neon Indian, they’ll be traveling [...]

courtesy Max Vandever, from San Antonio’s Taco Land, 1996.  At least they had air conditioning.

(photo by Frey Ranaldo) In the midst of a US tour, Lee Ranaldo is going to the WNYC studios in New York to perform songs from his new album, Between The Times And The Tides, for their popular WNYC Soundcheck show. Prior to performing, Lee and bandmate Steve Shelley will be talking to host John Schaefer [...]

Following up on their smash hit debut Mixed Emotions, Tanlines head to Europe for the first time since the album’s release for a string of shows around the continent that helped inspire the writing process for Mixed Emotions.  Let’s hope that Eric and Jesse have a better trip this time around.  Check out the great video for [...]

A few notes on Wallingford, Connecticut. Roughly 43,000 people live there, making it Connecticut’s 23rd most populous community. Both Morton Downey and his namesake, Morton Downey, Jr were Wallingfordians. That really great movie Riding In Cars With Boys partly takes place in Wallingford. And that was pretty much all I could find. Well, that and [...]

You’d be hard pressed to find a dude who loves independent record stores as much as Lee Ranaldo. Rumor has it Lee is calling all sorts of indie shops around the country just to say wassup. So it should come as no surprise that in the coming weeks, Lee will be stopping in two of [...]

Far be it for me to suggest that Hall of Famer (well, Long Island Music Hall Of Famer) Dee Snider’s new career turn is the worst idea in the entire history of civilization. For instance, it’s not nearly as bad an idea as Ft. Worth’s Complete playing a tiny club instead of the hockey arenas [...]

Pasta e fagioli, or pasta bazoo as Chris’s father called it when he was growing up. The beans are borlottis from Rancho Gordo. Recipe was a combination of this austere New York Times rendition with a baroque version from the Dean & Deluca cookbook. The latter differs mainly in starting with a mirepoix and using [...]

(Dub Egg test press sleeve. Photo from theyoungblog.tumblr.com) We’re very excited to report that The Young will soon be hitting the road around the release of June 12′s Dub Egg. This includes a run of Texas dates leading up to release (including Chaos In Tejas), an ATX release show at 29th Street Ballroom and a [...]

Well, actually – I got this from Metal Sucks, but still – I have my fingers crossed that this is their real rider and that they manage to get “Hand satanizer”, “50,000 live bees for Dave” and a “Whetstone for battle axes” as they’ve supposedly requested…

Giving the incomparable ‘Hood’ video a run for its money (which I guess makes it comparable?), we’re really proud to present the second video from Perfume Genius’ Put Your Back N 2 It (buy the album here), ‘Dark Parts’. Winston H. Case returns to direct the video, which co-stars Carmen Hadreas-Boggs, mother of Perfume Genius’ [...]

Those of you with some sort of long-term memory will hopefully remember the previously announced Lee Ranaldo dates, but now we can reveal The Men will join to support at the London show happening this June.  The Men of course have a 7″ single out on the Singles Going Home Alone series, whilst Lee is [...]

UPDATE: Tanlines will now be playing live TOMORROW, April 25, at 3:00PM EDT/noon PDT. Dear faithful radio listener, Today on Seattle’s KEXP, available on the radio dial at 90.3FM or online at KEXP.org, we have a dynamic duo of artists performing for your edification and enlightenment. In just under half an hour, Rohnert Park, CA’s [...]

Photo by Toni Francois taken from Tono.tv We’re very excited to announce that Kurt Vile And The Violators will be playing Central Park SummerStage  on Saturday, June 16 (with Dawes). This will be a FREE show (first come, first served) so mark your calendar and get yourself out to Central Park on June 16. Further [...]

In a city that is known for its music, surely there has to be some absolutely amazing places to find some great records. Well in Seattle there are many of those places but the only one who responded to our query about being profiled in our epic webseries about record stores was Easy Street Records. [...]

congrats to Santa Rosa, CA’s The Last Record Store for their adaptation of this classic CD art…and the best window display we’ve seen in ages.

(EDITOR’S NOTE :  Patrick and I were having a huge argument via IM the other day over which was our nation’s best fake holiday.  He argued it was Arbor Day.  I insisted it was Take Your Anaconda To Work Day.  Well, it turns out WE WERE BOTH WRONG.  Newcomers to the Matador blog have no [...]

Long time fans, first time performers!  Last night Girls were able to stop by Conan for a very special appearance, their very first on his show.  Those who tuned in were treated to a heartfelt rendition of Love Like A River.  For anyone who missed it, the good folks at Conan have provided this clip [...]

We are seriously thrilled to announce that Paul Banks will release a 5-song EP on June 12, titled “Julian Plenti Lives…”, in advance of a full-length Paul Banks LP due this fall.  The EP will be available digitally, and limited to 2300 vinyl and 1500 CD copies worldwide (pre-order HERE). Centered around the beautiful, brooding “Summertime [...]