Making a pit stop in Los Angeles prior to their Summer Sonic shows in Japan, Deerhunter dropped by the Wiltern with walls of noise that rattled the Art Deco theater. Keeping things in the noisy spectrum, Dunes and former LCD Soundsystem touring member and modular synthesizer enthusiast David Scott Stone served as the opening acts.

Music Critic/Ui co-founder (and, full disclosure, associate) Sasha Frere-Jones remixed Georgia underground legends Pylon’s “Yo-Yo” twice by adding a number of new elements, including vocals by Sleigh Bells frontwoman Alexis Krauss. His “Yo-Yo (Calvinist Saved Remix)” will be available as the B-Si...

Deerhunter are going South By Southwest

Deerhunter are releasing a “Memory Boy” single in April as part of Record Store Day. Last night, in their second Late Night outing, the group picked up the Black Lips’ Cole Alexander and the Back Pockets’ Adam Bruneau and expanded to a sextet to perform a heady version of the Halcyon Digest track on Letter...

Bradford Cox and co. were on an awkward episode, one that featured all three Kardashian sisters sniping at each other, and host Conan O’Brien wearing ladies’ jeggings. (He had joked about wearing jeggings for an entire show on Wednesday’s episode, and he followed through the next night.) Deerhunter did “He...