[Watch] The xx - "Angels" Live on Conan

Last night The xx were the musical guest on Conan to perform their first piece of new music for quite some time, "Angels". The three piece put in a spine tingling performance of the first single from their forthcoming album, Coexist, which is set for release on September the 10th. Check out the performance at the top of the page and start your Wednesday right.

[Watch] Hot Chip - "How Do You Do?" (Official Video)

Last week we saw Hot Chip perform on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with a little help from The Roots. Fast forward a week and we're watching their throwback visual for their new single, "How Do You Do?", which features on their newly released album, In Our Heads. By this point we kind of expect a wacky looking visual when they're released and this is no different. The Rollo Jackson directed video has a 90's feel throughout and features some (spoiler!) seamless green screen work. Kind of makes me want to go to the beach too. Watch it above.

[Listen] MNDR - "Feed Me Diamonds"

Earlier today MNDR premiered the title track from her upcoming debut album, Feed Me Diamonds, which is slated for an August 14th release courtesy of Ultra Music. The song follows up her uptempo lead single, "Faster Horses" and this time around we have a more ballad-esque tune featuring slowed down beats that are carried by singer Marina Abramovic's vocals. It's a little bit darker than what I was expecting, but that hopefully shows signs of great things to come for this album.

[Listen] Ben Gibbard - "Ichiro's Theme"

For any baseball fans out there, more specifically Seattle Mariners fans, the big news this past day has been the trade of fan favorite Ichiro Suzuki, who is now a member of the New York Yankees' roster. Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard, who recently announced his debut solo LP, is a well-known fan of the Mariners, and today released a tribute track for the departed right fielder titled "Ichiro's Theme". Stream it below, and here's what Gibbard said about the song and the trade on his Twitter:

Totally okay with this trade. Thanks for your best years, Ichiro. We will always look back on them fondly. #Mariners #Ichiro I wrote this song a few years ago. Today seems like the best day to share it with you. Thank you so much, Ichiro.”

(via 107.7 The End).

[Listen] Stream Two Flying Lotus Instrumentals

This morning, Music for the Masses pointed us to Flying Lotus' SoundCloud page, where the genre-bending producer dropped a brand new off-kilter instrumental titled "lamentedmix3 Instrumental". While the song isn't part of FlyLo's forthcoming LP Until The Quiet Comes, it's still a great listen.

Flying Lotus also uploaded another track to his SoundCloud, the instrumentals for the song "Between Friends", his Adult Swim Singles Program collaborative cut with Earl Sweatshirt and Captain Murphy. The instrumental, according to the title, is Thundercat's version of the track. Stream both songs below.

[News] Caribou's Dan Snaith Announces Full-Length Daphni Release

Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, has been making music under the Daphni alter-ego for over a year and a half now, but that has been limited to remixes and solo tracks. Now, though, Snaith will be putting out a full-length release under the Daphni moniker this fall. Titled JIAOLONG (the same name of Snaith's label), the album was inspired by Snaith's time DJing in clubs while touring as Caribou, and here's what he had to say about how the album came to be:

I'd fallen back in love with moments in small, dark clubs when a DJ puts on a piece of music that not only can you not identify but that until you heard it, you could not have conceived of it existing. In contrast to live concerts where bands predictably string together the songs from their most recent album, DJs have the potential to blindside you, be genuinely surprising. As a music producer, the parameters of dance music seem wider. The rhythmic underpinnings are liberating rather than constraining, allowing the rest of the elements to coalesce from a broad palette.

He continues, saying:

I've been surprised by the number of transcendent moments that I, sober and in my mid-30s, have had in clubs in the last few years, both as a punter and as a DJ. Against my expectations, there's some magic in it still. The clichés about the collective consciousness of clubs still seems to hold water in some special cases. Set against the backdrop of bland and functional dance music and the mind-numbing predictability of the EDM barfsplosion currently gripping the corporate ravesters, there is a small world where dance music lives up to its potential to liberate, surprise, and innovate. It's there that I hope Daphni has a place.

JIAOLONG is out on October 16th in North America via Merge/Jiaolong, and on October 9th digitally. After the jump, you can check out the album tracklisting as well as the video for his 2011 single "Ye Ye", which was directed by Jane/Eastlight.

JIAOLONG Tracklist:

01 Yes, I Know
02 Cos-Ber-Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
03 Ye Ye
04 Light
05 Pairs
06 Ahora
07 Jiao
08 Springs
09 Long

[Watch] Childish Gambino - "Fire Fly" (Official Video)

After all the hype surrounding his Royalty mixtape, some might have forgotten about Childish Gambino's fantastic debut studio album Camp, which was released last November. Gambino hasn't forgotten, though, and his new video for the song "Fire Fly" might not be what you expect. Imagine if the movie Another Earth was fused together with Breaking Bad, and you'd have the basic plot to this video down pat. It sees a young guy talented in the ways of chemistry cooking up a batch of a highly potent drug, attempting to sell it in order to escape to a blood-red colored planet called Fire Fly, which sits closely to Earth. Check it out above.

[Watch] Andrew Bird - "Give It Away" (Official Video)

What starts out as an idyllic, '50s-era birthday party quickly takes a turn in an odd direction in Andrew Bird's new video for "Give It Away". The Jessica Paliza-directed clip sees a piñata man, played by Moe Farrah, arriving at the birthday party, at which he starts sneezing up candy and making the kids laugh. It's when the bat comes out, though, that the video goes in a more, well, interesting and slightly morbid direction. What is a piñata man's life really worth? Watch it above.

Andrew Bird's latest LP Break It Yourself is out now via Bella Union/Mom+Pop.