During their whirlwind visit to NYC earlier this month, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti brought their particular brand of ruckus to Viva Radio’s Naked Fridays, and their guest DJ appearance there can be heard in its full glory today at viva-radio.com/nakedfridays, starting at 4PM EDT. Not only can you hear the gents pick out other people’s songs, you can hear their impromptu keyboard/human beatbox version of instant classic “Round And Round” (from the forthcoming APHG album Before Today, which is conveniently available for pre-order at our webstore).

To celebrate the release of “High Violet,” out TOMORROW (5/11) on 4AD, The National are curating a week’s worth of events at the High Violet Annex — a formerly vacant space next door to Other Music at 14 E. 4th Street in Lower Manhattan.
What kind of events, you ask?
Well you’ll just have to come by and find out.

The Danes are coming! The Danes are coming. Well, they’re here already. And to prove it, Danish wunderkinds Efterklang will perform a live session today on WNYC’s Soundcheck show ahead of their concert tonight at Le Poisson Rouge. The radio show begins at 2PM EST, with the band hitting the airwaves around 2:30PM. Check in out in NYC on 93.9FM or listen online.

KCRW’s fund drive has just finished, but that won’t stop Annie Clark from invading the studio for a Morning Becomes Eclectic session today at 11:15AM PST/2:15 EST. Tune in on 89.9FM (and the assorted repeater frequencies) in Southern California or online and listen to St. Vincent work through songs from Actor, with perhaps a surprise or two thrown in for good measure. And if you haven’t seen the stellar video for the new single “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood” (starring Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, as well as Annie herself), you should definitely click through on that, as it’s pretty much good times for all.

While making their first trip to these shores since 2006, Norwegian shoegaze titans Serena-Maneesh stopped by Viva Radio to spin some tunes for Naked Fridays. Serena-Maneesh’s Naked Friday has now arrived, and it’s tomorrow, February 5, starting at 4PM EST. Tune in at www.viva-radio.com/nakedfridays.

(photo by Chrissy Piper)

New York gets itself a lot of Mountain Goats action this week. If you weren’t at last night’s sold-out Webster Hall show, you’ll hopefully be at tonight’s sold-out Bell House show. And if you can’t make it to that one either, or if you’re like us and you just can’t get enough Goats, you may want to move it on over to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre tonight for the latest installment of WFMU‘s Seven Second Delay, which will feature a solo performance by the one and only John Darnielle.

The show starts at 6PM, and if you’re too cheap to pay the $5 admission fee or too inconveniently-located to make it, you can always listen at 91.1FM (or 90.1FM if you live in the mysterious “Hudson Valley”), and of course the online-inclined are encouraged to tune in at wfmu.org.

If you’re not hep to the latest Mountain Goats jive, the Best New Music’d The Life Of The World To Come, you can remedy that at our webstore.

John was very gracious (and maybe a bit out of his mind) to let us package the demos from the Life Of The World To Come with a couple of retailers.

For those in the US, you can go to ThinkIndie.com (the official digital store for a coalition of indie stores) and get the demos as a bonus download for the same price as a single album.

Go to ThinkIndie.com

Their new album The Life Of The World To Come may not hit shelves until tomorrow, but John Darnielle will be offering up two stripped down renditions of tracks from that wondrous new record today on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaeffer. The show goes live at 2PM EDT on 93.9FM in the greater NYC area or online at WNYC.org and don’t miss The ‘Goats as they launch their album in style with a live performance tomorrow evening on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central.

photo by Annabel Mehran

The always-enchanting Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, will be stopping by KDHX in St. Louis tonight to play some songs on The Space Parlour. Non-St. Louisans can listen at kdhx.org. Those of you who can see the Arch from your house have the option of tuning in at 88.1 FM. Afterward, might I suggest you head over to the Firebird to see St. Vincent headline there? Tickets appear to still be available.

Truthy thing is…  I’ve been telling our press department for years that this is the only way to do a press release.