Pitchfork

-- Vancouver psych-rock travelers Black Mountain are the sort of unrepentant stoner band who actually sometimes forget to show up to their own shows. (Seriously, I once saw them apologize for missing a show, and that was their excuse.) When you do get them onstage, though, they just destroy. They'll tour the West Coast next month with the Sadies opening, and hopefully they won't forget any shows this time.

-- This should be a real yin-and-yang situation: melty Pennsylvania noise-dance duo Black Moth Super Rainbow will spend the first half of the summer co-headlining an American tour with angelically gauzy Brooklyn dream-poppers School of Seven Bells. Just a guess, but the two bands' fans will get into gigantic Quadrophenia-esque rumbles in venue parking lots after every show.

-- On May 18, Border Community will release Hard Islands, the latest LP from British IDM wunderkind Nathan Fake. Fake released his first album at 19, but he's 25 now, so it doesn't seem too weird for him to be releasing IDM records anymore.

-- Next week, ok-ni will release Institute of Joy, the new EP from Balearic London proggers A Mountain of One. And because all the cool kids are doing it, they'll also release a super-deluxe box-set version of the EP, complete with T-shirt, badge, and poster. It's a limited run of 50 copies, each hand-numbered by a member of the band. Pretty soon, every single album that comes out will have one of these limited-edition box-set versions. Like, the Il Divo Christmas album will have one. The next Lil Boosie mixtape will have one. Your cousin's shitty hardcore band's demo tape will come in a gold-embossed fold-out leather booklet. This trend will not end.