Kanye recently promised to drop a new track off Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch the Throne, his five-track collaboration album with Jay-Z, every Friday until Christmas. One week in and he’s followed through with the 6-minute rap epic that features Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon (one of these things is not like the other…)
Cults! Also, perhaps their song “Go Outside” is your song of the summer. How about you take Flavorwire’s quiz that probably wasn’t written by my but maybe was and find out.
When not doing that, they found the time to post the album art for their upcoming third record:
They also posted the back cover art, which is equally amazing:
In non-Arcade Fire news, Vampire Weekend got all Louis XIV-vacays-in-Cali on us in their new video for “Holiday”:
Lastly, the new albums from LCD Soundsystem, the Black Keys, and Band of Horses all debuted in the Billboard Top 10 today. The mainstreamization of indie bands continues…