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Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser lends voice to new single from Sigur Rós’ Jónsi

Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser lends voice to new single from Sigur Rós’ Jónsi

The musical reemergence of Elizabeth Fraser continues with the release today of a new single from Sigur Rós’ Jónsi, who features the backing vocals of the former Cocteau Twins singer on the track “Cannibal” — which you can hear via its Giovanni Ribisi-directed music video.

Bob Mould to chronicle post-Hüsker Dü career with 24-disc 'Distortion: 1989-2019' box set

Bob Mould to chronicle post-Hüsker Dü career with 24-disc ‘Distortion: 1989-2019’ box set

Bob Mould will collect the entirety of his post-Hüsker Dü work — both solo and with Sugar — in a mammoth 24-disc CD box set called Distortion: 1989-2019 that will include 18 studio albums, four live albums and a new two-disc collection of rarities and collaborations. Full details and tracklist right here.

Erasure enlists LGBTQIA+ stars for 'Nerves of Steel' video off new album 'The Neon'

Erasure enlists LGBTQIA+ stars for ‘Nerves of Steel’ video off new album ‘The Neon’

Erasure today debuted “Nerves of Steel,” the third track off the duo’s first new record in three years and 18th studio album overall — a 10-song collection called The Neon that will be released by Mute on Aug. 21. Hear the new song in full right here via its Brad Hammer-directed music video.

Midnight Oil debuts video for 'Gadigal Land' — off 'The Makarrata Project' mini-album

Midnight Oil debuts video for ‘Gadigal Land’ — off ‘The Makarrata Project’ mini-album

Midnight Oil has released a music video for its first new music in 17 years, the song “Gadigal Land,” which is the first single off the group’s forthcoming mini-album The Makarrata Project, with “our First Nations friends.” The video was directed and filmed by Robert Hambling at Rancom Street Studios and Oceanic Studio in Sydney.

Listen: The Replacements, 'I Don't Know' (Demo) — off 'Pleased To Meet Me' box set

Listen: The Replacements, ‘I Don’t Know’ (Demo) — off ‘Pleased To Meet Me’ box set

Rhino Records this fall will release a 3CD/1LP edition of The Replacements’ 1987 album Pleased To Meet Me, and the label is offering fans’ another taste of the previously unreleased material contained within: in this case, a demo of the record’s third track, “I Don’t Know.” Listen to it right here.

Dinosaur Jr to play 2 socially distanced concerts in New England next month

Dinosaur Jr to play 2 socially distanced concerts in New England next month

Dinosaur Jr will make a return to live music with a pair of limited-capacity, socially distanced outdoor concerts — one a “drive-in” show with fans in cars, the other with attendees in spaced-out “grids” — in New England next month, the band announced today. Full details and ticket information right here.

Throwing Muses debut new song 'Frosting' ahead of next month's release of 'Sun Racket'

Throwing Muses debut new song ‘Frosting’ ahead of next month’s release of ‘Sun Racket’

Now less than a month from the release of their 10th album Sun Racket, the Throwing Muses today debut another new song off the album, “Frosing,” accompanied by a stark, black-and-white, snow-speckled music video by director C.K. Sumner. You can watch the whole clip right here.