An unofficial video preview of the forthcoming tribute single of Serge’s “Bonnie and Clyde” as performed by Scarlett Johansson & Lulu Gainsbourg

Chronicle Books is set to deliver an excellent book of photography from Pat Graham. Instrument is a collection that documents the connection between the musician and their instrument(s). For more than ten years, Graham documented the connection both on the road with bands and in their studios and homes.

Featured in Instrument are members of Fugazi, Built to Spill, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, New Order, Flaming Lips, R.E.M. and many others. Coming October 2011. Pre-order from Amazon.

More looks inside Instrument after the click.

Good morning from Destroyer.

I’ve done my fair share of festival hopping back in my 20’s and then again in 2008 with a five festival Radiohead run that would bring any normal human to their knees. I vowed to avoid festivals at all costs back then, even considering the abundance of solid line-ups that draw the crowds to pound through mud and traffic-hell for days on end.

But the truth is I would do it all again, just at a different pace. The Newport Folk Festival brought that change…

Photography: Nicole Deponte/Selectism.com

Read and see more from Newport Folk Festival 2011 after the click.

Lana Del Rey ‘Video Games’ and ‘Blue Jeans’ available from Oct 9th 2011. Digital and limited edition picture disc vinyl on Stranger Records.

This one is going to be big…

Charlotte Gainsbourg returns this September 6 with her “Terrible Angels” E.P. on Because Music/Elektra.

The new video from Apparat for “Black Water” off their forthcoming LP, “The Devil’s Walk” out September 27, 2011 on Mute.

A video break with James Pant. Enjoy.

How Come You Never Go There by Feist

Some new Feist to keep your Friday going. Her new album, Metals delivers on October 3 in the UK and October 4 in North America.

Photography: Mary Rozzi/ Pitchfork

Frode Fjerdingstad films this excellent video for Roll The Dice’s forthcoming “In Dust” album.  Absolutely exceptional. Buy it from The Leaf Label.