Warren Hildebrand, a.k.a. Toronto’s Foxes in Fiction gives Memoryhouse’s recent dream pop hit, “Lately (Deuxième),” the cover treatment. Hildebrand’s version doesn’t deviate much from the original in terms of mood or style, keeping it on par with the Memoryhouse recording. Hildebrand explains that the track was recorded by “bouncing some of the guitar tracks to and from [a] tape machine about three times,” and without samples. His redux is below, along with the original Memoryhouse recording.

Foxes In Fiction’s debut album, Swung From the Branches, is available now via Orchid Tapes, a cassette based record label run by Mr. Hildebrand himself. Threw away your tape players? Orchid Tapes also offers the album up as a free download over at his blog.

Memoryhouse – “Lately (Deuxième)”

The track seems ironically titled, what with the reverb-packed guitar riffs and seemingly endless vocal loops; if only I knew what Noah Lennox was actually saying. It’s Panda Bear at his hip-hoppiest, and it’s not difficult to imagine Andre Nickatina rhyming over this one.

“Tomboy” is out now via Paw Tracks. Next down the line for Lennox is another single on Domino, “You Can Count On Me” b/w “Alsatian Darn.” The former has already been covered by Svilla, whose version is based solely off live performances of the song floating around the web.

The electro-funk-addled original appeared on Dam-Funk’s epic, five-LP release Toeachizown (2009). A new single, which includes this remix along with a song from the forthcoming Dam-Funk/Steve Arrington collaboration and a couple re-edits, will drop on Stones Throw sometime this summer. Listen below:

Dam-Funk – “Hood Pass Intact”

“Hood Pass Intact”
Side A
01 Hood Pass Intact Feat. MC Eiht
02 4 My Homies Feat. Steve Arrington

Side B
01 How It Be Between U & Me? (co-produced by JT Donaldson)
02 Come On Outside (devonwho instrumental re-edit)

Image by Spencer Tweedy

Now they have a brand new track available, “Throwing Shade.” If the jam is any indication of what the rest of band’s fourthcoming album, Crush, will sound like (fist pumping drum- and-basslines fit for the dance floor; layers of synths), we’re in for yet another sonic surprise. I wonder how long until this one gets a remix.

Listen: Abe Vigoda – “Throwing Shade”

The song is the first to surface off Dondero’s forthcoming #Zero With a Bullet, which Team Love will release August 3. Listen and download right here.

Dondero, in just a couple of days, will take his backing band and banjo on a seriously long North American tour. Dude’s schedule is close to rivaling a certain other musical act that tends to favor epic tour schedules.

06/25 Athens, GA – AthFest
06/29 Wilmington, NC – Soapbox
06/30 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
07/02 Chapel Hill, NC – Nightlight
07/03 Greensboro, NC – Green Bean
07/06 Charlottesville, VA – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
07/07 Washington, DC – Black Cat
07/08 Lancaster, PA – Senorita Burrita
07/09 Philadelphia, PA – Dan/25 – Athens, GA – AthFest
06/29 Wilmington, NC – Soapbox
06/30 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
07/02 Chapel Hill, NC – Nightlight
07/03 Greensboro, NC – Green Bean
07/06 Charlottesville, VA – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
07/07 Washington, DC – Black Cat
07/08 Lancaster, PA – Senorita Burrita
07/09 Philadelphia, PA – Danger Danger Gallery
07/10 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
07/11 Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall
07/13 Hamden, CT – The Space
07/14 Cambridge, MA – TT The Bears
07/15 Keene, NH – The Starving Artist
07/16 Portland, ME – One Longfellow Square
07/17 New York, NY – Radio Happy Hour @ (le) Poisson Rouge
07/21 Montreal, QC – Le Cagibi
07/22 Wakefield, QC – Black Sheep Inn
07/23 Toronto, ON – Drake Hotel
07/24 Kalamazoo, MI – The Strutt
07/25 Ft. Wayne, IN – The DashIn
07/26 Chicago, IL – Schubas
07/27 Milwaukee, WI – The Irish Pub
07/28 Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry
07/29 Fargo, ND – Aquarium
07/30 Grand Forks, ND – Whole Wheat Records
07/31 Winnepeg, MB – The Lo Pub
08/02 Edmonton, AB – The Haven Social Club
08/04 Vancouver, BC – The Railway Club
08/05 Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern
08/06 Tacoma, WA – O’Malley’s
08/07 Corvallis, OR – Interzone Coffeehouse
08/08 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
08/10 Boise, ID – Neurolux
08/11 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
08/12 Denver, CO – Hi – Dive
08/13 Lawrence, KS – Jackpot Saloon
08/14 St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
08/15 Nashville, TN – The End
08/17 Charlotte, NC – The Milestone
09/24 Champaign/Urbana, IL – Pygmalion Festival

Jenny Lewis/Jonathan Rice fans are well aware by now that the girlfriend/boyfriend pair are about ready to release a collaborative debut album under their Jenny and Johnny moniker. There’s the album cover above, simultaneously cutesy and saucy, which seems to aptly sum up the entire project, or at least what we’ve heard of it so far.

There’s a rumored August 31 release date for I’m Having Fun Now, but in the meantime, some enticing items on the duo’s website.

The song “Scissor Runner” is available for download (below), and as long as you don’t live in Arizona, there are several tour dates to look forward to. Unfortunately if you live in The Copper State, you’ll have to hoof it to Utah or Los Angeles, as the duo is boycotting Arizona on account of the recently passed, totally bogus immigration law.

09/01 Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theater
09/02 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
09/03 Oakland, CA – The New Parish
09/05 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
09/06 Seattle, WA – Bumbershoot Festival
09/08 Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
09/11 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
09/12 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
09/13 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
09/14 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
09/16 Washington, DC – Black Cat
09/18 Boston, MA – Agganis Arena
09/19 Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Waterfront
09/21 Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
09/22 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Center
09/23 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
09/24 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
09/25 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
10/03 Los Angeles, CA – Palladium

Snippets of the album have been online for some time. “Spanish Sahara”, the album’s slow-building first single, has already been given two separate remix treatments since it’s UK release in early April. “This Orient,” meanwhile, rides shotgun in Total Life’s poppier side, with its Bloc Party-esque lyrical repetition and upbeat stride. Listen to those tracks below. And one more time, here’s the link to the whole album:

Foals – Total Life Forever

Kid Cudi started his weekend off on the wrong foot, apparently. The rapper was arrested in New York Friday and charged with criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance.

But he still made it to Bonnaroo, along with the dozens of other artists scheduled to play the Manchester, Tennessee festival. The three-day annual event celebrated its 10th anniversary, and there’s a boatload of photos from the weekend up and ready for viewing.

Think you’ve heard every song in the Ryan Adams vault? Of course not! According to a post at Rawkblog, the prolific DRA has two previously unreleased albums he’ll put out through his Pax Americana label, 2005′s Blackhole and 2006′s III/IV. This follows on the heels of his recent vinyl-only metal album, Orion, and Adams is, according to his Facebook page, at work on some demos as well.

More news from the Conor Oberst camp: The bright eyed singer-songwriter recently gathered his Mystic Valley Band together to play John Prine’s “Wedding Day in Funeralville” as part of a new tribute album, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine. The album also sees contributions from Jim James, Lambchop, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and others. Here’s that Conor track:

Appropriate dubbed “Represent,” it’s a spirited jam I imagine will eventually find its way into “inspired by a true story” sports flicks. Rivers Cuomo is an unabashed soccer fan; his love of the game clearly shows.

Watch the intentionally goofy video below, and download the song on iTunes for free.