Friday Music Mix: Featuring New Music From The National, QOTSA, The Flaming Lips, CSS, Basement Jaxx and More

Time to play catch up. Check out a bunch of new tunes below:

The National release their sixth studio album Trouble Will Find Me May 21st via 4AD. Listen to the first two songs from the LP, "Demons" and "Don't Swallow the Cap"

The National- Demons
The National- Don't Swallow The Cap


New music video from Portland pop punk band The Thermals. Watch the clip for "Born To Kill". From the album Desperate Ground due out April 16th via Saddle Creek.

Video: The Thermals- Born To Kill


"Monomania" is the title track to the Bradford Cox psych pop project Deerhunter's new album that will be out May 7th via 4AD.

Deerhunter- Monomania

Queens of the Stone Age are back with a song and album. Listen to "My God is the Sun from the LP ...Like Clockwork, out June 4th via Matador.

QOTSA- My God is the Sun

New music from Scottish indie twee band The Pastels. "Check My Heart" is taken from the band's new album Slow Summits, out May 28th via Domino.

The Pastels- Check My Heart


M83 have soundtracked the new Tom Cruise sci-fi action move Oblivion, which will be in theatres April 19th. Listen to the title track that features Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør.

M83- Oblivion


Veteran indie rock duo Rogue Wave have announced a new album, Nightingale Floors, to be released June 4th via Vagrant. Listen to the first track off the LP, "College"





Hey!! Two tracks with the same name in the same post. This time it is Philadelphia garage pop band Bleeding Rainbow with their song titled "Oblivion." The song will be available digitally April 23rd via Kanine.





The new album The Terror from Oklahoma freaks The Flaming Lips will be out on this side of the pond next week on Warner Bros. Listen to the 13 minute psychedelic trip that is the song "You Lust."

The Flaming Lips- You Lust


"Hare Tarot Lies" is another great synthy dream pop song from Montreal band No Joy. Taken from the album Wait To Pleasure, out April 23rd via Mexican Summer.





Brazilian party rockers Cansei de ser Sexy (CSS) have a new Dave Sitek produced album on the way. The LP is titled Planta and will be available June 11th. Listen to "Hangover", the first single from the album.




Finally, a new song from British dance crew Basement Jaxx. The awesome new single "Back 2 the Wild" features Korean singers Miss Emma Lee and Baby Chay.

New Music: Vampire Weekend- Diane Young And Step + Little Boots, Joy Formidable, Django Django and More

Vampire Weekend are poised to release their third studio album in May and yesterday they put out two tracks from the forthcoming release. Listen to "Diane Young" and "Step" below:

Their latest record is titled Modern Vampires of the City and will be available May 7th via XL.

Vampire Weekend- Diane Young
Vampire Weekend- Step


The Joy Formidable have a new video for their track"Little Blimp" from the album Wolf's Law. The clip features a view from a fish eye lens camera attached to Ritzy Bryan's guitar. I have seen this gimmick somewhere before but I cannot remember where...probably a bad heavy metal or country music video. Watch below:





Django Django persuaded Vice's Noisey to travel to India to get footage for their new video. The clip for "WOR" was filmed at a carnival in Allahabad India that features something called " The Well Of Death" where motorcycles and cars are driven around a wooden wall.  Watch below:





"Broken Record" is the second track to be previewed from the new Little Boots album Nocturnes  Listen below:

Little Boots- Broken Record


From the "Say it isn't so" department comes news that Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy was detained yesterday for  both possession of meth and DUI. According to the Glendale News Press Murphy left the scene of an accident and when police stopped him he seemed "very confused." Thinking that the recently announced Bauhaus world tour may be postponed.

Bauhaus- Terror Couple Kill Colonel


And finally, The Flaming Lips performed their classic album (and my personal favourite) Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in full at SXSW last week. You can watch the full performance below:

Don't forget that The Flaming Lips also have a new album coming out on April 1st. A live performance of The Terror was also captured at SXSW and you can stream it now on Soundcloud.

New Music: The Flaming Lips- Sun Blows Up Today

Psychedelic rock kingpins The Flaming Lips have just announced a new album, The Terror, and to celebrate the band have come out with a fun little non-album track called Sun Blows Up Today which will also be featured in a Hyundai Super Bowl commercial. The Korean car maker will also offer Sun Blows Up Today as a free download on it's website, and the song will be a bonus track on the iTunes release of the album. Watch the lyrics video below:

The Terror is produced by The Flaming Lips regular go to guy Dave Fridmann and will be available April 1st via Bella Union/Warner Bros.