:: View email as a web page :: Earlier this month, the Pitchfork Music Festival was officially canceled, an inevitable development in the midst of a rapidly deteriorating summer tour schedule. Right now, it seems trivial to mourn such relatively minor things. And yet, we must admit we are sad to miss The Fiery Furnaces. The Chicago-based brother-sister duo — who put out their debut album, Gallowbird’s Bark, in 2003 and went on hiatus in 2011 — announced in February that Pitchfork Fest would be their grand return to the indie-rock world. Other shows, while not announced, were assumed (at least by us) to be in the works. Perhaps those shows will still happen at that unforeseen date when gathering with a few hundred strangers inside a dark, tightly packed nightclub no longer is fodder for nightmares. But for now, their comeback seems like it has, at best, been put on hold, if not derailed completely. And that bums us out, because 2020 could really use a band this brilliantly bizarre and bizarrely brilliant. Read more about the band's lost comeback here . -- Steven Hyden, Uproxx Cultural Critic and author of This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" And The Beginning Of The 21st Century Since their inception, The Flaming Lips have blended styles of alternative, psychedelic, experimental, electronic, and post punk to create a truly unique sound. Combined with their sensory-stimulating, fully interactive live show, the band has generated a singular aesthetic over the past four decades. Now, you can embody that aesthetic with the limited edition PLEASURES x Flaming Lips collection inspired by the band's iconic graphic artwork. DIVE IN OPENING TRACKS PERFUME GENIUS The fascinating genre-bending singer-songwriter also known as Mike Hadreas has assembled one of the best discographies in modern indie rock. That catalogue just grew by another stunner with the new Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, in which dirge-y electro-hymns share space with chiming dream pop and swaggering glam rock. LISTEN MOSES SUMNEY MAGNETIC FIELDS There are few artists in modern This veteran indie act boasts one indie who are harder to classify of the great contemporary than Moses Sumney, whose music songwriters in Stephin Merritt, who reaches far and wide into the seems to write a new batch of realms of art rock, R&B, funk and witty, hummable classics each neo-classical. Sumney is only time out of the gate. The band’s growing more ambitious with each latest, Quickies, includes 28 short new release, as evidenced by his but sweet songs, some of which new opus, the second part of græ. clock in at only 35 seconds. LISTEN LISTEN VINYL OF THE WEEK RAMONES -- 'IT'S ALIVE' 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOXED SET Remastered and expanded to include three additional concerts, the 40th anniversary boxed set of The Ramones' first-ever live album is truly incredible. Produced in a limited and numbered edition of 8,000 copies, the 4CD/2LP 180-gram vinyl set comes packaged in a 12 x 12 hardcover book. It’s accompanied by new liner notes written by Steve Albini and Ed Stasium, both legendary record producers and musicians who produced and engineered It’s Alive and remastered all of the music included in this collection. This week only, Indie Mixtape subscribers get 10% off this piece of punk rock history by entering the code RAMONES10 at check-out. 1, 2, 3, 4! DEEP CUTS SPARKS LUKE SCHNEIDER This iconic L.A. duo has been You might know this beguiling making quirky, brilliant pop-rock pedal steel guitar player’s name if records since before there was you’ve dug deep in the liner notes such a thing as indie rock. While of albums by William Tyler, Margo they’ve long been a cult act, this Price and Orville Peck. But on his might be the year to get own album, Altar Of Harmony, he acquainted with them, with an completely reimagines his chosen Edgar Wright documentary on the instrument, pushing it beyond its horizon, plus a new album. country trappings toward full-on ambient music. LISTEN LISTEN THROWBACK 'MUSWELL HILLBILLIES' by THE KINKS While this all-time great British rock band is associated with rock operas and proto-punk, they also influenced many generations of Americana acts with their 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies. You can hear traces of everyone from Wilco to Waxahatchee in the soulfully ragged grooves and rich, story-based lyrics. LISTEN LINER NOTES JASON ISBELL REVIEWS EVERY JASON ISBELL ALBUM Last week Jason Isbell dropped his great new album, Reunions. In this interview, he walks through his entire discography, detailing the decade-plus journey to his latest LP. CHECK IT OUT This email was sent by: Warner Music Group 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 USA This email was sent to: [email protected] PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE UNSUBSCRIBE.