Music

You’re lying on a couch upholstered in soft corduroy. You’ve been pulling on that enormous joint since breakfast; you’d get up to get some food, but, well, the kitchen is just so far away. At least your water bottle is handy. What time is it, anyway? Aw, hell, it doesn’t matter.

In an era of mash-ups and cross-genre collaborations, the most alarming genre erosion for staunch rockers must be the collapsing stigma between electronic dance music and traditional rock. With post-punk icon Mark E. Smith (the Fall) and Jan St. Wenner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, Von Sudenfeld is another symptom of that collapse.

De La Soul (pictured above), Aloha, Cheer Accident, and others head the music portion of Louisville’s Forecastle Festival.

“You Only Live Once,” the group’s third single from First Impressions of Earth, will get a makeover from visual effects artist Warren Fu.

The extremely busy, highly diverse vocalist, whose orchestral arrangements with Daniele Luppi can be heard in Italy next week, will also sing Peeping Tom material for “The Henry Rollins Show” on June 1 and soon spend large chunks of time abroad to perform.

The Blood Brothers will perform this Friday, May 18th on “The Henry Rollins Show.”

Neko Case will sing back up for M. Ward tonight (May 17th) on NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”

Love’s Miracle, Qui’s second full-length, will be released on September 11th by Ipecac Records.

Balkan Beat Box must put on an amazing live show. Recorded, they sound like a block party, namely a Brooklyn block party with different styles of music pouring from windows and stoops.

In addition to putting out a DVD of their 2005 reunion, J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Emmett Patrick Murphy have hit the road in support of their new album.

Billy Corgan and Co. will play seventeen shows in two U.S. locations this summer in support of their new album.