[Listen] Cage The Elephant - "Come A Little Closer"

Cage the Elephant are preparing to return to our ears and eyes later in 2013 and with that they are preparing  to release their new album, Melophobia. With that set for release later in the year, we now have a taste of what we can expect from the record. Yesterday they premiered a brand new track from it titled "Come A Little Closer" via Zane Lowe's 7pm slot on BBC Radio One. You can stream it below.

According to iHeartRadio, the album is tentatively set for release on October 8th.

[Watch] ScHoolboy Q - "Collard Greens" Feat. Kendrick Lamar (Official Video)

It's Friday so why not watch a video for Schoolboy Q's Kendrick Lamar featuring track "Collard Greens" which sees the pair as floating heads. Remember that scene with P-Diddy in Get Him To The Greek? It's pretty much that. Maybe a Jeffrey was involved too? Who knows. Just another day at the office for these guys really as the rest of the video features scantily clad (NEKKID) ladies in a party-centric environment.

[Watch] Basement Jaxx - "What a Difference Your Love Makes" (Official Video)

Basement Jaxx are back with a brand new video for their recently previewed track, "What a Difference Your Love Makes" which was filmed in Johannesburg. The video sees a couple of gents dancing their way through the streets; the dance they're doing is called Pantsula. Apparently the dancing became "popular in the 80s and is still practiced by the young, fashionable & rebellious in the townships." So yeah, go on, be a rebel and watch it below.

[Watch] Drenge - "Face Like A Skull" (Official Video)

Drenge are hard to escape at the moment. I wouldn't say that's a bad thing though and it's nice to have some loud two piece music getting some mainstream radio play. The duo have just released the official visual for "Face Like A Skull" which you can peep below. 

The band have been set to play just about every festival this summer and if you head on over to their official website you can see what they have left.

Their self-titled album is out on the 19th August via Infectious Music.

[Watch] Troumaca - "Layou" (Official Video)

How about some new music to throw into your Thursday routine courtesy of Troumaca? (pronounced: “TRUH-MUH-KUH") A band who take their name from a Caribbean Island and hailing from Birmingham, UK, a place thriving with new guitar music right now (PEACE, Swim Deep) but Troumaca are a little different. They've got a certain groove to them you may not have expected and that adds a whole lot of extra depth to their sound and they're influences come from far and wide so it's not as traight laced as it may first appear.

The band are set to release their album, The Grace, on August 26th and later in the year they will go on tour. Dates of which can be found below. band have confirmed the following shows:

Troumaca 2013 Tour:

October
10 Newcastle Think Tank
11 York The Duchess
12 Stoke Sugarmill
14 Nottingham Bodega
15 Glasgow Art School
17 Manchester Soup Kitchen
18 Leeds Cockpit
19 Oxford Gathering Festival
21 Brighton Green Door Store
22 Bristol Start The Bus
23 London Electrowerkz
25 Bedford Esquires
26 Birmingham The Rainbow Warehouse

[Watch] The Holidays - "Voices Drifting" (Official Video)

Videos are a great way to introduce you to a new band. That's a given. Most videos you first see from bands are performance videos and the like. For the lead single from The Holidays' second album, they took a more thought provoking and oxygen lacking route. Simon of the band had the following to say about it:

We shot the clip in an outdoor pool in the middle of winter, as we discovered the pool heater was broken. The idea was that I would perform the song underwater in one breath, but if I couldn't last the duration the concept kinda falls apart - so the pressure was on. I spent weeks practicing by slowing down my heart rate and singing the song with my head in a bucket of water. With the cold it was hard to calm myself, thankfully we had a crew of people warming me between takes and giving me eye drops for the chlorine. We shot about 15 aborted takes and it was getting very frustrating for everybody, in the end I resolved to stay under even if I ran out of breath, you might be able to see this happens at the end of the 2nd verse... it was extremely uncomfortable but I didn't drown, we got one full take and that's the clip!

As you can see from the end of the second verse it's almost as if the life is leaving him. If you've not heard of these guys before, this is the perfect introduction to their sun-tinged sound that will have you longing for Summer to stay around a little longer and the night to wait a little longer before arriving. The video just goes to add another layer of brilliance to them. Check it out.

[Watch] Check Out Phoenix's Full Set at Lollapalooza

More Lollapalooza goodness for those who weren't able to attend the famed Chicago festival! We were treated to a full set from Queens of the Stone Age earlier today, and now you can watch the full hour and twenty-three minutes of Phoenix's performance. They tore through their new album Bankrupt! as well as their breakthrough LP Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, all the while sprinkling highlights from United, It's Never Been Like That and Alphabetical throughout. Check out their well-paced, energetic set below.

[Watch] The Family Rain - "Reason To Die"

We've had our eye on The Family Rain for quite some time now and they appear to be going from strength to strength, which is always nice to see. They've had some pretty big shows this year and have just today been announced as support to Thirty Seconds to Mars at the iTunes Festival. Yeah, OK, not everyone likes 30STM but surely a band with a smaller following supporting a huge festival headlining band is always a good thing?!These guys have grafted and they deserve some more fans. Anyway, enough of that, check out the video to their awesome single "Reason To Die" which is available on iTunes now. 

Check out the even better looking interactive video here.