Creating even more of a buzz around the event, the latest additions to SXSW 2012 include Sharon Wan Etten, The Shins, Best Coast, Japandroids, Caveman, Deerhoof, Diamond Rugs, Matthew Dear and many more.

According to a post on their Facebook page, Japandroids have finished work on their new album, the follow-up to the 2009 album, Post-Nothing. According to the band’s post, all that needs to be completed is the album’s artwork. The Vancouver, BC band also recently announced a slot on the Primavera Festival. [Prefix]

Here's another one to add to our Most Anticipated Albums of 2012 list : According to a ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/japandroids-finish-new-album/61196/

*Japandroids* (http://japandroids.com) have completed (http://www.facebook.com/japandroids/posts/10150530608463311) recording their new album. Submitted by howthegodschill

Following a number of lineup announcements , San Miguel Primavera Sound has announced the complete lineup for the 2012 festival, which takes place in Barcelona May 30-June 3. New additions include Girls, Atlas Sound, Wavves, the Rapture, Swans' Michael Gira, Shellac, the War On Drugs, Iceage, Trash Talk, Lee Ranaldo, Sharon Van Etten, Danny Brown, Death Grips, Black Lips, Japandroids, Beirut, Refused, Richard Hawley, The Field, John Talabot, Dirty Beaches, Tall Firs, Demdike Stare, Thee Oh Sees, Friends, Rufus Wainwright, James Ferraro, Milk Music, Rustie, Scuba, Kings of Convenience, Lower Dens, Laura Marling, The Chameleons, the Pop Group, Girls Names, Hannii ...

Consequence of Sound has the full deets… Today, the festival revealed the rest of its 2012 bill and new highlights include Refused, Rufus Wainwright, Beirut, Chavez, The Pop Group, Atlas Sound, Laura Marling, Sharon Van Etten, The Rapture, Wavves, Danny Brown, Black Lips, Lee Ranaldo, Hype Williams, Kings of Convenience, Archers of Loaf, Dirty Three, The Wedding Present (performing Seamonsters) Girls, Real Estate, The War on Drugs, Saint Etienne, Richard Hawley, Iceage, Japandroids, Thee Oh Sees, Death Grips, Trash Talk, Bleached, Friends, Dirty Beaches, Lower Dens, The Field, Field Music, and Obits. Visit our Festival Outlook to see the complete ...

please stop taking to me ♫ Secret Music – T.O.Y.S. Who:  A guy I met in a BK pizza joint, plus others. What : Fuzzy rock, like Japandroids, Where : Brooklyn + Facebook / Bandcamp / Amazon When : T.O.Y.S. single is out now with B-side “Top Drop.” Why : So what if Adele sold the most records of anyone ever last year? Secret Music don’t need …

Requested by Lena • Compiled by Those Were The Days 01. Bikini Kill - “I Like Fucking” (The Singles) 02. Guitar Wolf - “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (Planet Of The Wolves) 03. The Rolling Stones - “Where The Boys Go” (Emotional Rescue) 04. Mount Eerie - “Mystery Language” (Song Islands, Vol. 2) 05. Broken Social Scene - “Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl” (You Forgot It In People) 06. Blink-182 - “Anthem” (Enema Of The State) 07. Los Campesinos! - “Plan A” (Romance Is Boring) 08. Hello Astronaut Goodby Television - “Skate Or Die” (Pixelated Math Costumes) (Break)~~~~~~<====3 09. The Jesus and Mary Chain - “Just ...

1. The same new Japandroids album I talked about last year. 2. A full-length from Victoria’s Hawk & Steel. No release date yet, but frontman Peter Gardner reports they’re recording fifteen songs in January. 3. Provincial, the debut solo full-length from Weakerthans vocalist John K. Samson, out January 24. (Pre-order here.) And in February Samson will [...]

Vancouver-based musician Teen Daze shares a chillwave cover of Japandroids’ “Wet Hair”, taken off the band’s 2009 album Post Nothing. This cover keeps the energy of the original and adds layers of dreamy arrangements to create a real piece of … Continue reading »

It's been a tumultuous week behind the scenes on Planet Masala. The sharehouse has lost two members, as they venture out into the home-owning market (suckas). Yet two new people take their place - a natural medicine expert...and Ali all the way from the UK. Its been almost a year since I fled those sorry Isles, and thus it is that long since Ive seen her. So let's just say I'm happy - well, happier than usual, and I'm a pretty happy guy generally speaking. PLUS there are some really exciting tidbits of music info that will ...

Toronto - "Hi, we're the openers." This was the rather unassuming introduction given by Daniel Brandon Allen, singer/guitarist for Indian Handcrafts, who were, in fact, the openers for this show. Their music, however, is anything but unassuming. I would probably describe it as down and dirty stoner rock. With their thick, driving riffs and vocals half shouted and half sung, they join a long line of hard hitting duos that make a lot of racket - Lullabye Arkestra, Lightning Bolt, Japandroids, godheadSilo - and prove that less can often sound like more. They even threw in a cover of Nirvana's ...

The 2-piece band from Mississippi, Bass Drum of Death, is set to take on Europe after an insane fall tour schedule playing with Japandroids, Toro Y Moi, & Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Before... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.

by Jennifer Kelly The members of Louisville's Silver Tongues haven't quite settled on what kind of band they want to be. The band's first entry into the blogosphere came in the form of the single Ketchup, a blistering, burst of fuzz-radiant guitar rock that sounds like Japandroids crossed with Joshua Tree ... Read More

I've always thought it a bit of a weird practice to write reviews of live shows. Like Joel">Billy Joel once sang, 'you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine'. And really for the most part the people that care at all were probably at the show anyway. In the case of the review I did for the Bass Drum of Death/Japandroids at Bryan St. Tavern for the Observer a couple weeks ago, however, I guess it could be construed as somewhat useful as B ass Drum of Death will be here again next ...