Arguably the best song on Cass McCombs’ excellent new full-length Catacombs, “You Saved My Life” also just got the video treatment. Pretty. weird. Pretty. Awesome.

Tonight at The Shank, catch Chairlift, Adam Green and Lightspeed Champion as they gather together to support beloved local musician, Jon Wiley. Earlier this year, Wiley was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and tonight’s benefit show has been put together to help raise awareness as well as the funds to help pay for Wiley’s health care. Brooklyn bands have joined together with Wanduta - a new, national organization designed to support and protect independent musicians. Come one come all and celebrate for a good cause! Tickets cost $15 - all proceeds go to Wiley’s medical bills.

Thursday, July 9th, 2009
We Are The Wiley: A Benefit Concert for Jon Wiley
The Shank
98 Bayard St, Williamsburg, BK
Doors 8pm (21+)
Lightspeed Champion - 9pm
Adam Green - 10pm
Charlift - 11pm
w/ DJ set by Johnny Tropical

Make a donation here.

—Additional reporting by Jenna Gabriel

Deerhunter’s frontman Bradford Cox is working on a new Atlas Sound LP, Logos, due to come out on October 20th. But he’s not doing it alone…he’s got Animal Collective’s very own, Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) as well as Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier to fill in some guest spots on the upcoming LP. Here’s a little taste of what you can expect, a little note from the man himself:

“My last album was a bedroom laptop type thing. Very introverted. Logos is an album that was recorded all over the world. It’s nota bout me. There are collaborationns with other musicians. The lyrics are not autobiographical. The view is a lot more panoramic and less close-up. I became bored with introspection. This was also the case [for] Deerhunter’s ‘Microcastle’ LP, which was written during the same period.”

And also, “Almost everything you hear on the album is a first take. This makes it almost like a ‘live album’ where a band sets up in a studio and just rolls tape. There are songs on here i don’t even remember recording.”

Logos‘ Tracklist:

1. The Light That Failed
2. An Orchid
3. Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox)
4. Criminals
5. Attic Lights
6. Shelia
7. Quick Canal (w/ Laetitia Sadier)
8. My Halo
9. Kid Klimax
10. Washington School
11. Logos

Hey Folks, all us YYYs have been avid collectors of t-shirts over the years, what can we say, WE LIKEY A GOOD T-SHIRT. In our travels many of you have chucked a homemade YYY tee on the stage or what not and all the shirts have always been unique and poured over with loooooove. So it got us thinking: how about giving you the fans a crack at coming up with a fresh new blitzin’ YYY T-shirt design! It’s a natural fact that YYYs have amongst YOU a whole heap of ART STARS! So school’s out for the summer and we want you to spend a hot lazy afternoon throwing something together for us YYYs to REPRESENT! And I got a hunch you’re gonna bring it! And if you do we’ll bring back a little something in return…!! Luv, YYYs

Official contest details can be viewed here. The winner gets signed stuff from the band, and their shirt printed and sold on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ upcoming tour. Dig out your Beadazzle machine from middle school and get crackin’! In other YYYs news, the band will be releasing the Heads Will Roll remix EP on July 14th, and there’s a sweet werewolf on the cover.

The 9th annual Siren Music Festival in Coney Island is taking place on Saturday, July 18th from around 1pm to 9pm. See the schedule below and try to figure out what you are going to do about that darn Thee Oh Sees and Japandroids overlap. Don’t get too sunburned though because the Official Siren After Party will take place at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9pm. Francis And The Lights, Gordon Voidwell and Acrylics are scheduled to perform with more to be announced.

We bet Matt Sharp’s got a PS3 and an XBox. Come to think of it, if the former Weezer bassist’s new project with his band The Rentals is any indication, he’s probably got a Wii, too, because Songs About Time is an effort to create art over a multi-platform canvas. BAM!

Sharp has gathered together a multitude of friends from across the artistic spectrum in an effort to completely document Time with regards to their specific medium. In their own words, the project deals with “Photographs about days, films about weeks and songs about time.” It is a work that when done will be 365 days worth of coverage, with a roll of film taken each day, a short black and white film released each Tuesday and three accompanying EPs released every three months. The Chapters One & Two EPs (The Story Of A Thousand Seasons Past and It’s Time To Come Home, respectively) cover a large amount of ground across the musical spectrum on their own; the first chapter more poppy, the second more moody and synthesized. The third chapter is set to be released in October, while the photos arrive daily and the short films roll out every Tuesday. Time to get caught up! BAM!

Go ahead and stream Chapter 2 right here.

Jay Reatard is sending a new album our way, his first album since 2006’s epic Blood Visions. Mpfree “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me” has been around for a minute but another new jam, “Wounded” has just surfaced over on the trusty Matablog. Reatard, a dude who in the past has finished seven-inches just as often as he’s taken pisses, is doing vinyl snobs proud here: the Watch Me Fall LP will be available August 4, two whole weeks before its CD/Digital release August 18. “Wounded” below:

Jay Reatard, Wounded

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So the line-up this year for Lollapalooza is pretty sweet, isn’t it? It’s HUGE. We can barely make out the names towards the bottom! For some weird reason we’ve got a handful of tickets, so if you’d like to attend (takes place August 7-9 at Grant Park in Chicago), shoot us an e-mail at contests@thetripwire.com with your contact info the best haiku you can summon. Make sure your poem’s beautiful and make sure it’s related somehow to the aforementioned lineup. Your deadline is July 20th. Erm.

Hey, Seattle lo-fi dynamos Throw Me The Statue are about to unleash an excellent new full-length on all ye huddled masses next month. Creaturesque is going to be dropping worldwide via Secretly Canadian on August 4th and in support, TMTS are take their ruckus on the road. A must-see co-headlining jaunt with Kiwi acoustobangers the Brunettes is now set to start in Spokane, WA on August 23rd. Tour dates are below. You’re going and that is FINAL. End of discussion.

8/23 — Spokane, WA — Empyrean Coffee
8/26 — Minneapolis, MN — 7th Street Entry
8/27 — Urbana, IL — Courtyard Café
8/28 — Madison, WI — The Annex
8/29 — Chicago, IL — Subterranean
8/30 — Toronto, ON — TBA
8/31 — Montreal, QE — Il Motore
9/1 — Boston, MA — Middle East Upstairs
9/2 — NYC, NY — Mercury Lounge
9/3 — Philadelphia, PA — Johnny Brenda’s
9/4 — Washington, DC — Rock and Roll Hotel
9/5 — Durham, NC — Duke Coffee House at Duke University
9/7 — Atlanta, GA — Drunken Unicorn
9/8 — Tallahassee, FL — Club Down Under
9/9 — Baton Rouge, LA — Spanish Moon
9/10 — Houston, TX — Rudyards
9/11 — Austin, TX– Mohawk
9/12 — Dallas, TX — Cavern
9/14 — Phoenix, AZ — Modified Arts
9/15 — Los Angeles, CA — Echo
9/16 — San Diego, CA — The Loft
9/17 — San Francisco, CA — Rickshaw
9/18 –Sacramento, CA — Luigi’s Fun Garden