Goon Island = Place to Be?

And here I was thinking that it was Green Acres. With the launch of their debut, Welcome to Goon Island, out on Mute Records this past Tuesday, XX Teens [Myspace] have dropped something that, I have to say, is pretty boss. If you’re into post punk (and you sure as hell know that [...]

Want to Attend the NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, AZ?

Foot Locker is giving you the chance to put your creative skills in play with Share Your Sole. This is awesome because, well, I am currently on a “buying loads of sneakers” kick and I wish I could enter myself, but here’s the rundown:
Get more info “after the jump”

Back Later…Early Meetings!

SMS has an AM meeting here, so there wasn’t time to come up with some great post to appease the masses. Yeah, I know, that makes me a dick, but, I am sure you’ll enjoy watching this:

Yeah, a dancing panda. That’s pretty boss, right?
Also, it appears that Britney Spears has a sex tape…right [...]

Getting “Imaginary” with The Happy Hollows

LA-based noise-poppers, The Happy Hollows [Official Site, Myspace], are coming here to New York in a few weeks for CMJ, so I thought we should take a second to pass along some of the new info from their upcoming EP, Imaginary. The Happy Hollows are an infectious trio, one that will surely score big [...]

Sneak Peek at Cardinology

The latest Ryan Adams & The Cardinals tunes from the upcoming Cardinology (“Fix It” & “Born Into The Light”) are now streaming on the Lost Highway Records site. The site is acting better than previously reported, but you should go and check it out either way, the material is new and it’s awesome. [...]

Radio Exile mp3 Mixtape: Vol. 11

Hey guys, sorry there wasn’t a mixtape last week, but I ended up so damn sick that I missed two days of work and thought I was losing a lung. No, it wasn’t pneumonia again (that would have been the third time) but it was still a pretty crappy case of sinusitis and bronchitis. [...]

Look Mexico Ready Gasp, Asp

Look Mexico [Official Site, Myspace] were basically skewered by our own James Mitchell a little over a year ago for getting by on potential. He was tired of the insufferably long titles and, as he puts it “regardless of whether or not the southern musings of sluggish pop-punk are to be found on better [...]

Video Hook-Up: Deerhoof - “Fresh Born”

Deerhoof - “Fresh Born”
“Fresh Born” is the first single from the new Deerhoof [Official Site, Myspace] record, Offend Maggie.
Back in July, Deerhoof gave away the sheet music [link] so that aspiring musicians and fans alike could create their own version of the song, which could be uploaded to that same webpage. Well, [...]

Deer Tick, The Standard, and Holy Sons Join Partisan Records

Today sees the first releases from new Brooklyn-based label Partisan Records - Portland, OR band The Standard’s [Myspace] fifth studio album Swimmer, which was originally slated for release on the late V2 Records, and Holy Sons [Myspace] - better known as Emil Amos of the bands OM (Sub Pop Records) and Grails (Important Records).
The [...]

Matt Mays & El Torpedo Serve Up “Tall Trees”

Matt Mays & El Torpedo [Official Site, Myspace] have released a video of their first single, “Tall Trees” from their new album Terminal Romance (out September 30th). The video’s director, Drew Lightfoot, created a surrealistically dark, tongue-in-cheek portrait for the lead track off the new album, and the band has already received comparisons to a [...]