While Odd Future member Earl Sweatshirt has apparently been performing his new track “Guild” with fellow rapper Mac Miller for a few months, the two have officially released the track. Stream it below.

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While Sasquatch is taking over the Gorge of Washington State this weekend, one of the strongest festival lineups of the year is also going down in Barcelona, Spain. Primavera Sound Festival goes live this weekend and, better yet, you can stream the whole thing. Check out the full, stacked lineup right here and watch along via your own computer. Keep in mind the across-the-Atlantic time zone differences, btw.

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Pharrell Williams certainly stormed back into public consciousness with his contributions on Daft Punk’s well-played “Get Lucky”.  He’s got another new track out, this time with a bit more *kid friendly* vibe. As you may or may not recall, he shared three original tracks for the original Despicable Me movie. He’s back with another for the second installment of the movie, this one called “Happy”.

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Sasquatch Festival is just around the corner, taking over Washington State’s The Gorge this Thursday. We’ll have plenty of live coverage, photos and reviews, so make sure to check back this weekend. In the meantime, we’ve got our Sasquatch Festival 2013 playlist for you. Scope the full line-up here and happy festival, PNW’ers.

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While I imagine many people reading this (myself included) are still spinning Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and we’ve got about seventeen million remixes available, there’s a new gem for your ears. Not sure why this didn’t make the main album, but here is “Horizon” from the Japanese album bonus cuts.

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By: Michael Sinodis

The Doors were one of the first bands that took me to another world. Sure, I was initially attracted to Jim Morrison’s wild child just like everybody else. Being a guitar player, I then moved on to Robby Krieger’s inventive electric flamenco style, and his insane feedback-driven guitar solos a la “When the Music’s Over.” But once I started to research the intricacies of The Doors, as I do with every band I really love, I realized that Ray Manzarek was the

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Earlier today, the inaugural First City Festival was announced for August 24-25 in beautiful Monterey, CA. The festival will take place the same weekend as LA’s FYF Fest and, interestingly, they feature very similar lineups. If they’re organized by the same folks (undetermined yet), that’s some incredible double-Californian planning. Anyhow, First City Festival will feature Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, Beach House, Toro y Moi, Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Washed Out, Neko Case, Deerhunter, Delta Spirit, Father John Misty, Purity Ring, The Antlers, Avey Tare’s

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Happy Monday from Washington State, everyone. For Washingtonians, Sasquatch Festival is just a a few days away. We’ll have live coverage, so keep an eye out for it. For today’s Happy Monday track, pulled this one of “60′s on 6″ XM Radio while riding with my Dad. The Association laid down this groovy track with layered vocals and a bad ass flute solo that would make Ron Burgundy himself jealous.

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Enigmatic, baby-makin-pop musician Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd announced the follow up to his debut album trilogy earlier this year. Kiss Land will arrive later in 2013, but the first single from the album (the title track) is now streaming. It’s a nearly 8 minute long slow burner that stays pretty true to the Weeknd’s roots. You can also download it below.

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While discussing Lana Del Rey with my cousins this weekend, I pointed out it’s nearly impossible to bring up her music with out all of the hullaballo and blogosphere bullshit surrounding it. But now, removed from all that, perhaps we can just sit back and enjoy Lana’s music for what it is: nostalgia-tinged, lyrically simple yet effective and pretty straight-forward drama pop. Here’s a new track from

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