"Pursuit of Happiness" is the spacey, downbeat song that Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based rapper Kid Cudi made with Ratatat and MGMT for his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day.

Neither duo shows up in the video, which takes place at a party where Cudi is the only person not moving in slow motion. But we do get to watch Drake spraying champagne on girls, so that's something! Also, there's a part at the end where it looks like Cudi's about to barf, but the clip fortunately cuts off before any actual barf makes an...

Time Magazine article: http://bit.ly/7JckOv

The Big Pink photo by Tim Saccenti It had to happen. As winter turns to spring, two of the finest current practitioners of swagger-drenched, ear-bleeding noise-pop-- the sort of thing that used to see heavy rotation on "120 Minutes"-- will cross North America America together. London's the Big Pink and New York's A Place to Bury Strangers like their guitars dangerously loud, their drums mechanistic, and their hair elaborately messy, so this pairing just makes sense. I'm betting the Jesus and Mary Chain's Automatic will stay on repeat in the tour bus. The tour will kick off March 10 in San Francisco. Before it starts, both bands will tour...

Fans of comedian Aziz Ansari know the guy loves hip-hop. (For example, see his spoof of the Jay-Z/Kanye song "Hate".) And now he's putting out a rap mixtape under his blowjob-obsessed hip-hop comedian guise, Raaaaaaaandy (as seen in Funny People). TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek is producing it along with L.A.'s the Have and Baltimore's DJ Granwizerd. For fans of comedy, rap, and life itself, this is amazing news.

pagebreakAccording to Sitek, the as-yet-unnamed tape is due in February and will feature "all original music and guest MCs," who will be named soon.

According to Raaaaaaaandy, "All your punkass needs to know right now is: 1. Y'all ain't ready. 2. Motherfuckers need...

This much we know: The new album from delightfully freakish rock boundary-pushers Liars is called Sisterworld and it's coming out early next year on Mute. UPDATE: The Mute Twitter says Sisterworld is out March 9.

And now you can hear a song from it called "Scissor", via the Sisterworld website. (Thanks to We All Want Someone to Shout For for the heads up.) The song starts off all nice and mellow, and then snaps your head off. Whiplash rock.

Stream/download "Scissor" below.

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MP3:> Liars: "Scissor"

Mark Giglio is a machine of productivity. The Southern California-born artist runs his studio and workshop, Pen Pencil Stencil, out of Oakland, and wastes no time in cranking out fine drawings, prints, photography, (see below) wallpaper, sculptures (like the nine-piece set of trees made from scrap...

Beat the winter shlump with some awesome local shows happening through out the jolly month of December! Forget about hibernating because you can’t afford to miss these mouth-watering bands like The Cave Singers, The Dandy Warhols, Passion Pit, The Maldives and Minus the Bear. And with tickets...

"Costco Zones"

Deep inside the freak labs at Olde English Spelling Bee some serious Frankenstonian tweaker shit is going down. Besides expanding its web presence/digital footprint to its new blog/site, the higher ups at the perpetually zonked label are also set to issue another set of killer records this week, specifically a limited edition vinyl reissue of Grippers Nother Onesers (At Slimer Beach), which you may recognize as Lamborghini Crystal's 1992 Cool Runnings Holiday, which you may attribute to a certain dude who releases about 15 albums a year. Dedicated to Richard Ramirez, the vibe on Grippers is transmitted via a possessed transistor radio hell bent on...

Every Monday through Friday. we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Each and every Friday we offer...