Today,  Pitchfork.tv  presents a new installment of its animated series  "Frames" . The show highlights first-person storytelling from artists, brought to life by Pitchfork.tv's animators. This episode stars Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag , Sleater-Kinney , and "Portlandia" fame, discussing the dwindling allure of the post-show party. It features her bandmates, the White Stripes , and a congregation of furries (yes, furries ) during two ill-fated attempts to "cut loose on tour." Don't forget, Wild Flag perform at this year's  Pitchfork Music Festival  on Saturday, July 14. Single-day tickets are on sale  here .

The latest in a long parade of Merge Records-affiliated bands to grace our round room, Hospitality comes to us (and you!) from Brooklyn, hot on the heels of their self-titled debut album. (We gave it an A- , and recommend it to you highly.) We caught them on their second of three Chicago stops in the space of just a couple of months; they've been winning hearts and minds while on tour with Wild Flag and Here We Go Magic, among others. I was a bit surprised to learn that this version of Steely Dan's 1974 classic "Rikki Don ...

Japandroids  and  Chromatics  have been added to  Pitchfork Music Festival 2012 , which returns to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. They join a lineup that already includes  Beach House ,  Vampire Weekend ,  Feist ,  Godspeed You! Black Emperor ,  Hot Chip ,  Sleigh Bells ,  Dirty Projectors ,  Flying Lotus ,  AraabMUZIK ,  A$AP Rocky  and many, many, many more. Japandroids will perform on Friday, July 13, while Chromatics will perform on Saturday, July 14. In case you missed it, three-day passes for the festival have sold out. Thanks to everybody who purchased!  Individual day tickets  are on sale now right  here , but hurry, because they're ...

As expected, the folks over at BRIC Arts announced the official 2012 Celebrate Brooklyn! schedule today and while I wasn’t knocked out by it, it’s solid, with a couple of nice surprises. Some of the previously unannounced noteworthy FREE shows include: The Head and the Heart with Lost in the Trees (Jul 27), Wild Flag [...]

The lineup for the annual Celebrate Brooklyn! concert series in Prospect Park has been announced, and will start on June 5th with Jimmy Cliff. Free shows include [...]

The lineup for the annual Celebrate Brooklyn! concert series in Prospect Park, has been announced. It kicks off with a Jimmy Cliff show on June 5. While most of the shows are free, BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn also puts on ticketed benefit concerts as part of the series. This year's ticketed concerts include Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q on June 26, Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak and Purity Ring on July 10, Hot Chip and Gang Gang Dance on July 18, Wilco on July 23, Sigur Rós on July 31, and M. Ward and Yo La Tengo on August 7 ...

Tuesday, June 5, 8:00 OPENING NIGHT CONCERT ! / Jimmy Cliff Friday, June 22, 7:30 Keb’ Mo’ / Natalia Zukerman Saturday, June 30, 7:30 Angélique Kidjo’s Women Waging Peace with Special Guests Laurie Anderson / Sibongile Khumalo / Somi Saturday, July 14, 7:30 Music & Movies: Saturday Night Fever / Tragedy Friday, August 3, 7:30 Wild Flag / Mission of Burma Friday, August 10, 7:30 Bud Light Music Series Little Dragon / Frankie Rose / Voices of Black – You can view the full lineup at East Village Radio . Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

View the full roster here. Little Dragon recently dropped by Studio Brussel. Purchase Little Dragon items via Insound. MP3: Little Dragon – Little Man (Tycho Mix)

That's the cover art of the new Mission of Burma album called Unsound which will be out July 9, 2012 via Fire Records. The tracklist, featuring some songs you may recognize from their recent shows is below along with...

celebrate brooklyn (more by Ryan Muir) The entire 2012 lineup of free concerts in Prospect Park is announced. The free shows include Jimmy Cliff, Laura Marling, Little Dragon/Frankie Rose, Wild Flag/Mission of Burma, and The Head and the Heart/Lost in...

The Beach Boys, The Horrors, Wild Flag, Alabama Shakes, and more!

alabama shakes : lee's palace, ontario, canada (april 17, 2012) julia holter : le poisson rouge, n.y.c. (2012) laura gibson : epitonic saki session 2012 lower dens : s.x.s.w. 2012 raincoats, the : london acklam hall (may 10, 1979) wild flag : coachella 2012

My favorite debut album of 2012 so far comes from Brooklyn-based Hospitality. Last month, I saw them open for Wild Flag at the 930 Club, but their intimate pop is much better suited for an NPR Tiny Desk session. Amber Papini's lilt reminds me of Bjork, though the music is decidedly more low key--and that's not a bad thing.

Last year at South by Southwest, I happened to catch Malian singer Khaira Arby at NPR's day show, as I was waiting to see Tune-yards and Wild Flag. I don't remember anything about their sets, because Arby knocked the wind out of me. Her voice, in the tradition of praise singing, was bell-clear an...

The phrase “indie supergroup” gets bandied about a fair amount these days, pretty much any time musicians from one relatively well-known band decide to get together and cut some tracks with the members of another, most likely also well-known outfit. Never mind that “indie supergroup” is more than a slight oxymoron, but the label—and the fervor of fans expecting to hear what amounts to a mash-up of their favorite artists—often obscures its true nature: Most of the time they’re just a bunch of musicians who share a similar interest, enjoy playing together (see: Monsters of Folk, Wild ...