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08/18/2014

Janice Headley

We're about a month away from the release of the fifth Interpol album El Pintor, and the New York City trio have shared the third single from the upcoming release. Stream the track "Ancient Ways" below. El Pintor hits stores September 9th via Matador Records, and the boys will hit the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, September 16th. [Consequence of Sound]

We've also got new music from Caribou to share. Producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Snaith shares the title track from his upcoming release Our Love out October 7th on Merge. Check it out below: [Pitchfork]

If you're craving more from the new Ty Segall album, NPR Music offers a stream of the upcoming full-length Manipulator. Check out all seventeen tracks of his seventh solo release, out August 26th on Drag City. [Under the Radar]

Local lady Jen Wood shares a track from her upcoming solo release, Wilderness, out October 14th on New Granada for CD and Wood’s own Radar Light Records for vinyl. Check out the track "Run With The Wild Ones" below, which Wood says was written shortly after she got married. In a press release, she relates, "I was struggling to find my new identity, becoming a part of a new family and a totally new culture. I did this very “normal” and socially acceptable thing (marriage), and I found myself literally tying on an apron and becoming a homemaker. I was enjoying all of these super domestic things, and that was weird to realize — especially coming from a culture of feminism. For so long I just ran wild and free — nothing tied me down. In this song I wanted to acknowledge this hugely profound internal shift that happened in me; I was exposed to a side of life that I’d never known, and to me, it was very much like learning a foreign language, like seeing the world with brand new eyes. It was terrifying, beautiful and confusing all at the same time. Although I’ve been profoundly changed by these experiences, there’s still a part of me that will never conform to any mold. This song is for the rebels, the thinkers, the outsiders and the misunderstood: the wild ones." [Stereogum]

Shabazz Palaces's Ishmael Butler has signed his first artist to Sub Pop Records: Seattle's own Porter Ray. Look out for his full-length on the iconic local label in 2015, and check out his 2013 in-studio session on KEXP's Street Sounds in the meantime. [The Stranger]

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