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The National

The National keeping it low budget on the Sea of Love video. The band performs in a corner of a studio, complete with an air conditioning unit in the background and a sixth member playing air guitar. The new album Trouble Will Find Me comes out on May 21st.

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Welcome to the world of Black Moth Super Rainbow

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Black Moth Super Rainbow are not your ordinary musicians by a long shot. Eclectic, cultish, seemingly random thoughts collated through an analog electronic funnel. Black Moth Super Rainbow thrives on almost sinister song lyrics, using spacey psychedelia as a backdrop to a world that you did not know existed.

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New Polica song is more cowbell, less Auto-Tune

Minneapolis indie electonica collective, Polica, minimize the Auto-Tune on their new track Tiff. When you have a primo lead vocalist like Channy Leaneagh, why use voice manipulation tools?

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Boston's Horsehands shine Frank Zappa-ish hue

Horsehands

Horsehands live on the fringes of Boston's fertile underground. Post-punk, angular and progressive labels don't do the band justice. The barage of sound taunts you with sensory overload, only to come together into a cohesive message that resonates universally. Those of us who face that nine- to-five job can relate to the frenzied madness of 'Righty' right down to the mass coffee infusion and bumping into strangers on the way to total collapse. Their new album Sirs is available on Bandcamp and the word is their live show is not to be missed.

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Local Picks

Club Crawl

Stacian
w/ Samantha Glass
& Trin Tran
Good Style Shop
May 18

Father John Misty
w/ Adam Green
& Binki Shapiro
Turner Hall
May 20

Netherfriends
w/ Asumaya
& Stephanie Rearick
Mickey's Tavern
May 25

Japandroids
w/ A Place to Bury Strangers
Turner Hall
May 27

Indians
w/ Cedarwell
& Asumaya
RSR Bar
May 31

Paulie Fest
w/ Solid Gold,
All Tiny Creatures,
Lorenzo's Music,
Cowboy Winter
High Noon Saloon
June 1

The Orwells w/ Twin Peaks
Memorial Union Terrace
June 6 (Free!)

Son Volt
w/ Colonel Ford
High Noon Saloon
June 6

Maps & Atlases
w/ Mutts
High Noon Saloon
June 21

Parquet Courts
High Noon Saloon
June 22

Mount Moriah
w/ Jesse Sykes
The Frequency
June 24

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Harley Davidson Stage
Summerfest 
June 26 (10pm)

ZZ Ward
Majestic Theatre
June 26

Field Report
Memorial Union Terrace
June 27 (Free!)

Mac Demarco
Memorial Union Terrace
June 28 (Free!)

Pretty Lights
& Yeasayer
Harley Davidson Stage
Summerfest
June 29

Oberhofer (Brooklyn)
Memorial Union Terrace
July 11 (Free!)

Dawes
w/ Shovels &  Rope
Barrymore Theatre
July 12

Die Kreuzen (Final Show!)
High Noon Saloon
July 18

El-P w/ Killer Mike,
Despot, Kool A.D.
Memorial Union Terrace
July 20 (Free!)

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New Releases (U.S.) Subject to Change

05/21/13 - Majical Cloudz - Impersonator (Matador)
05/21/13 - The National - Trouble Will  Find Me (4AD)
05/21/13 - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Columbia)
05/21/13 - Dirty Beaches – Drifters / Love Is the Devil (Zoo Music)
05/28/13 - All Tiny Creatures - Dark Clock (Hometapes)
05/28/13 - Baths - Obsidian (Anticon)
05/28/13 - CocoRosie – Tales of a GrassWidow (City Slang)
05/28/13 - The Pastels – Slow Summits (Domino)
06/04/13 - Camera Obscura – Desire Lines (4AD)
06/04/13 - Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record (Merge)
06/04/13 - Portugal The Man – Evil Friends (Atlantic)
06/04/13 - Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork (Matador)
06/08/13 - Future Bible Heroes – Partygoing (Merge)
06/11/13 - Gold Panda – Half Of Where You Live (Ghostly International)
06/11/13 - Royal Headache – TBA 7" (Matador)
06/11/13 - Smith Westerns – Soft Will (Mom + Pop)
06/11/13 - Sonny & the Sunsets – Antenna to the Afterworld (Polyvinyl)
06/11/13 - Surfer Blood – Pythons (Warner Bros. / Kanine)
06/18/13 - Spectrals – Sob Story (Slumberland) 
06/18/13 - Sigur Ros - Kveikur

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