Songlines Festival

If you're mad that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross didn't get nominated for an Academy Award this time around, ease your pain by revisiting the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack in a new form. Reznor has shared the stems of five different tracks from the score, which are available for download through March 31 over at Tunecore (via The NIN Hotline). 

In 2010, Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch and bassist Brett Nelson decided to record seven of their band's songs in the style of 1980s synth-pop, releasing the results as the Electronic Anthology Project.

Here's the dark, night-lit clip for Schoolboy Q's "Nightmare on Figg St.", one of the many highlights from the Black Hippy collective member's great new album, Habits & Contradictions. Like the video for the A$AP Rocky-featuring "Hands on the Wheel", it was directed by JeromeD.com, and the song features production from A$AP Ty Beats.

Photo by Erik Liam Sanchez

Bradford Cox has announced a North American tour in support of the most recent Atlas Sound album, Parallax. He'll perform dates in Binghamton, NY and Tokyo before heading out on a North American tour starting in L.A. and ending in Boston.

Earlier this year, Fat Possum put together a best-of complilation for one of the late Jay Reatard's old bands, the Lost Sounds. Now Goner has reissued the band's self-titled first cassette on 7" vinyl. Listen to "Plastic Skin" from that release here. In commemoration of Reatard, Yellow Bird Project is also selling a new t-shirt that features a drawing of one of his signature guitars. Sales proceeds will go to St. Jude's Research Hospital.

Artist: James Blackshaw
Album: Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death
Release Date: April 24
Label: Important Records

Today in promising experiments dealing with How the Internet Affects the Music Industry: Stones Throw, the label home to acts like Madlib and Dâm-Funk, is launching a monthly subscription service. For $10 per month, the label (in partnership with Drip.fm) will deliver each of its new releases to subscribers' inboxes, sans anti-sharing DRM (Digital Rights Management) restrictions. Upon signing up, members will receive Homeboy Sandman's Subject: Matter EP, The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2, and M.E.D.'s Classic Instrumentals.

Cloud Nothings played the Studio at Webster Hall in New York, showing off some material from their latest LP, Attack on Memory, which received Best New Music laurels earlier this week. Our photographer Erez Avissar was on the scene.

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MP3: Wild Nothing: "Nowhere"

On February 21, Virginia indie-pop crew Wild Nothing will follow up 2010's Golden Haze EP with a new single, "Nowhere", via Captured Tracks. The above title track features guest vocals from Twin Sister's Andrea Estella, and is the first time Wild Nothing mastermind Jack Tatum has recorded in a proper studio. The single will be backed by another new song, "Wait"; the band's currently working on their follow-up to 2010's Gemini LP and plans to release it this year.

Photo via ReverbNation

The Lana Del Rey origin story has taken many shapes in recent months, but one of the singer's solid biographical facts is her musical beginnings as Lizzy Grant. BBC now reports (via New York's Vulture) that Del Rey has purchased the rights to her 2010 debut album, Lizzy Grant aka Lana Del Rey, and says she'll release it "maybe in late summer."