Benjamin Clementine on 'Fallon'

Watch Benjamin Clementine perform on The Tonight Show.

Beach Slang Announce New Album!

Beach Slang will release their new album, A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings, in September. It is the band's follow-up to last year's fantastic, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us.

Read Our 2015 Interview with Beach Slang

Take a look at the cover, above, and the tracklisting, below, and hear the new song, "Punks in a Disco Bar:"

01 Future Mixtape for the Art Kids
02 Atom Bomb
03 Spin the Dial
04 Art Damage
05 Hot Tramps
06 Punks in a Disco Bar
07 Wasted Daze 0f Youth
08 Young Hearts
09 The Perfect High
10 Warpaint

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So, this could have been awkward. The upcoming Pixies album, Head Carrier, which features Paz Lenchantin on bass, has a song where she sings about former and original bassist, Kim Deal. In a recent interview with BBC6 Radio, frontman Frank Black said the song is a "thank you letter" to Deal and penned it only if his new axewoman agreed to sing it.

It is being reported that Broken Social Scene will perform new music on their upcoming summer tour and are working on a new record.

Mike D spoke to Rolling Stone about his upcoming Beats 1 Radio show, The Echo Chamber and also discussed the forthcoming 30th anniversary of the Beastie Boys debut, Licensed to Ill.  He said he hasn't listened to the record recently and in fact, doesn't listen to his own material. "I don't listen to any of our records. But once in a while, if I'm DJing, I'll go and try to see and listen to the instrumental or something or an a cappella or something and see what's there. I'd say the last time I did it, it was interesting. I don't know. I guess what stood out to me about it … you know, there's obviously a lot of stuff on there that I'd like to never hear again. But there's production on it and songs, we were really on top of something," he said.

Hip-hop duo, The Cool Kids have reunited. In a press release, Chuck Inglish said: "I called Mikey and realized nothing would feel better than us being the originators again." Inglish confirmed that once his is finished with his solo album, he and Mikey Rocks will head back to the studio to record a new album.

Speaking on the Spotify series, Secret Genius, James Blake said he once turned down Drake and ignored rules laid down by Beyonce's people. On her new album, Lemonade, Beyonce and Blake have a song called "Forward," and her camp allegedly gave him lyrics to sing, but he sang his own. "It ended up just being me and an engineer in a room. Him playing me something that just sounded—like the start of something—and I wrote something that was completely against the brief... I've never sung anybody else's lyrics. So I just assumed that's not I was going to be doing. So I got my phone out and sang some of my own lyrics that were about something else and about somebody else. But it fit somehow into the song and it fit into the album, and I'm just honored that they used it," he said. As far as the Drake front, the rapper once asked him for an old beat he had made and Blake said no. Now, the English singer comes clean, saying: "I remember having a conversation with my publisher later, and saying: What did you think of that decision? Because you know that was a massive album. I asked how much money exactly I turned down by doing that. I spat out my drink. But I could have made far more money if I had taken certain opportunities, or gone to the right parties. And actually, I a little bit regretted, because it is good, it sounds good on the track. I just did it as a matter of principle at the time. I really liked it. And I think had they come to me beforehand and said we really want to use this what do you think I probably would have said yes."

AlunaGeorge Returning with Album

In September, AlungaGeorge will release their new album, I Remember. 

Take a look at the cover, above, and the tracklisting, below, and watch the video for the title track.

01 Full Swing [ft. Pell]
02 My Blood [ft. Zhu]
03 Not Above Love
04 Hold Your Head High
05 Mean What I Mean [ft. Leikeli 47 and Dreezy]
06 Jealous
07 I'm In Control [ft. Popcaan]
08 I Remember
09 In My Head
10 Mediator
11 Heartbreak Horizon
12 Wanderlust

Live Pix: Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito @ Samsung 837

Iconic New York City radio hip-hop DJ's Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito have returned to the airways for a limited run this summer. The duo are operating on Monday's out of Samsung 837 and fans can go down to see them spin and host their show.

RICH D SMOOV went down to catch them on Monday when their guest was D Nice. 

Take a look at his pix!

The Julie Ruin on 'Seth Meyers'

Watch The Julie Ruin perform "I Decide" on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jennifer Lopez, The Roots on 'Fallon'

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda may have left the blockbuster musical but has not strayed from the spotlight. On Tuesday night, he, Jennifer Lopez and The Roots performed "Love Make the World Go Round" on The Tonight Show. 

Miranda tweeted about his experience performing with the legendary Roots crew on Twitter:

I'm obsessed w Questo's self-made charts. pic.twitter.com/Sh007CJVh8

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 13, 2016

Crystal Castles Announce New Album

Crystal Castles will return next month with AMNESTY (I). 

The record is the first without singer Alice Glass, who left the band in 2014. It is also the first record with new vocalist Edith Frances. 

Take a look at the cover, above, and the tracklisting, below, and watch the video for "Concrete."

01 Femen
02 Fleece
03 Char
04 Enth
05 Sadist
06 Teach Her How to Hunt
07 Chloroform
08 Frail
09 Concrete
10 Ornament
11 Kept
12 Their Kindness Is Charade

Stream Brand New's '3 Demos, Reworked'

Brand New have released a new 10" EP called 3 Demos, Reworked, which features studio versions of “Brother’s Song,” “Missing You,” and “1996.” You can now stream the reworking of these demos and their original state, above.

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A documentary on the legendary Marvin Gaye called Marvin, What's Going On?, is currently in development by his children and former wife. According to Variety, the documentary will center around the making of his iconic record, What's Going On? and his life during that time. It is slated for production this year, no release date has been set.

Franz Ferdinand announced the departure of guitarist Nick McCarthy last week. Now, the former axeman has a new band with his wife, Manuela Gerendal called Manuela. They plan on releasing music this year.

Omar Rodriguez Lopez spoke to Rolling Stone about a plethora of items -- including his 12 solo albums being released this year, a possible Mars Volta reunion, At the Drive-in, and the new Antemasque record. On his solo work, the axeman said: "I quit recording solo material in 2013, so these are all old solo records that are coming out."

- On Mars Volta, he said: "At some point, we’d love to do [Mars Volta] again too, you know what I mean?” There’s so much to do there as well.”

 - On the departure of Jim Ward from At the Drive-in, he said: "Jim's been out of the band on three other occasions, and some of our longest, hardest tours he wasn't there for. We did a tour that was six months straight throughout American where he just wasn't in the band." He added: "I'll keep it really simple about Jim. If you think the timing was a shock to you, as a fan, it was tough on us to be such an irresponsible timing, to be let known about it so close to tour."

 - He also spoke about Antemasque's upcoming album, which features Travis Barker on drums: "I guess we're just waiting for the release date from the label. Since we're on tour and Blink's on tour, they're just trying to figure out the release date, but the record was done a while ago. Hopefully they'll give us a date soon."