Denver lo-fi pop duo Tennis have gotten a lot of press recently after the release of their 7” on Underwater Peoples. I succumbed to the pressure from friends to check out their tunes [link] and I couldn’t help but to draw comparisons to Beach House, She & Him, and Wild Nothing who put out three of my favorite records of the year, so I naturally got excited when I heard they were playing Glasslands Gallery in southside Williamsburg. …read full article…

New MGMT, “Congratulations”. You might have heard it. You might have seen it already too, but I like it, so I will keep sharing it. I am, however, very weirded out by the fleshy AT-AT.

Their sophomore release, Congratulations, is in stores now.

Check out more tour dates “after the jump” …read full article…

Following up on an exciting summer which kicked off with the release of The Chaos, a sold-out East Coast tour, UK festival run and the announcement of an acapella album in the works, the The Futureheads are thrilled to announce a batch of West Coast/Southwest performances, kicking off in Seattle on September 29 and will wrap in Houston on October 13. The tour will be hitting major cities on along the Pacific coast including LA on October 6.

Don’t miss your opportunity to catch them live in your city – they aren’t to be missed!

Check out the dates and some mp3 goodies “after the jump” …read full article…

“The man” keeping you down this dreary, rainy (at least in NYC) Monday morning. Here’s a great “lyric video” for Cee Lo’s wonderfully infectious “F*ck You” for all of you to sink your teeth into. Watch out, though, the lyrics are pretty NSFW, so don’t listen unless you are rock some rad headphones or something and DON’T read along. If it doesn’t at least make you chuckle, you have no soul.*

(just kidding, I am a ginger and gingers seem to be missing theirs, so I am mad about it)

Visit www.ceelogreen.com to get the news on Ceelo’s upcoming album The Ladykiller and receive a free download of another new track “Georgia”.

Brand new clip for Antony and the Johnsons‘ “Thank You For Your Love” which features some really, really old Super 8 footage from Antony’s first months (years maybe?) here in NYC and it’s really quite a moving piece. The tune is the title track on a forthcoming EP that is being released in the UK and Europe by Rough Trade on August 23rd and on August 24th in North America by Secretly Canadian.

Photo – Andrew St. Clair

On 8/16/2010 on Central Park Summerstage, Chuck D of Public Enemy said that they don’t perform in NYC very often, but then they do it’s like an eclipse. It’s special.

And during a nearly 90 minute set, it was nothing but! PE played many if not all of their classics including ‘Terminator X to The Edge of Panic’, ‘Welcome To the Terrordome’, ‘Bring The Noise’, ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’, ‘Shut ‘Em Down’, ‘Cold Lampin’ With Flavor’, ‘Burn Hollywood Burn’, & ‘Fight The Power’. Basically something for everyone. To see Chuck D and Flavor Flav (who are now in their 50′s) jumping up and down and running side to side non-stop is a sight to behold. And, while Flavor Flav may be the self proclaimed ‘reality star of the decade’, he’s at his best on stage as the best hypeman in the biz.

Public Enemy is on tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 3rd album, Fear of a Black Planet. A dense sample-based epic that was more about social issues and empowerment within the black community and absolutely not about about ‘bling and bitches’.

Check out a ton of pictures of Chuck and Flav “after the jump”.
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The White Panda are a mash-up/remix duo (Tom Evans (aka Procrast) and Dan Griffith (aka DJ Griffi)) based out of Chicago and the city of Angels. The duo released their debut album, entitled Versus, on December 28, 2009 and just released their latest album Rematch, on July 2nd, 2010. I want them to remix my office — take the humdrum noise of, well, nothing, and replace it with a bit o’ nothing sprinkled with more rad beats.

That’s just what I think, anyway.

Check out two new tracks “after the jump” …read full article…

Photo: Andrew St. Clair

Today marks the release of the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Original Motion Picture soundtrack, featuring Beck, Broken Social Scene, Metric, and Frank Black (just to mention a few), plus the original score composed by Nigel Godrich is hitting stores as well.

To help celebrate, we attended a ‘Meet the Filmmakers’ session at the Apple Store in SoHo featuring Director Edgar Wright, Michael Cera, Anna Kendrick, and Jason Schwartzman.

Check out an audio link to the Q&A and a bunch of exclusive photos from the event “after the jump” …read full article…

As part of my new commitment to being open about my taste in music throughout my teens and early twenties, I’ve decided to mine for my fave tunes from my youth, as you will and l present a video from a song that I loved then and still sorta love now. Today’s presentation is the wonderfully awesome “Thunder Kiss ’65″ from White Zombie‘s La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1.

Awww, 1992, where have you gone?

The image up above is from ANOTHER one-take video (huge trend, eh?) for the first single, “Collapsing Cities,” from Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly‘s upcoming self-titled album. Grab it (on Cooking Vinyl) on 13th September 2010.

Check out the clip and more “after the jump” …read full article…

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Since their album hit our desks a month ago, Jagjaguwar’s Gayngs has been blowing our mind. The soft, indie rock has found a solid home into our music rotations (and definitely deserves one in yours as well. The video here is for “The Gaudy Side of Town,” a personal fave, that Pitchfork.tv had on display (no, I am not in love with P4K!).

You should watch and listen – if you ever wished for an 80s renaissance or harbor a crush on Phil Collins but wish he was more…more INDIE, Relayted is the epitome of “cool”.

Check out the clip “after the jump” …read full article…

LA-based duo, The Polyamorous Affair are gearing up for the release of their latest album, Strange Bedfellows. To celebrate, they’re just handing out mp3s, yo. The first, “Hypnotized,” finds the electro-poppers bending African drums and synth into a bizarre, refreshing and kick-effing-ass dreamscape (I won’t lie, I just wanted to say “dreamscape” today).

Check out more info on the new album and grab the mp3 “after the jump” …read full article…

Groove along to London psychedelic pop band Panic Attract‘s homemade video for their new single “The Wrong Place,” the new single from their latest batch of recordings.

Robots and ukulele funk? Rad!

Peep the vid and get more info “after the jump” …read full article…

While in Norway several years back, we saw a promising young artist by the name of Moddi. It turns out, he remembered us writing about him and reached out a few months back (and even has a quote from our show review at by:Larm ’08 on his press page!). In that time, we’ve been really enjoying his debut, Floriography (out now in UK/Europe on Impeller) so I want to take a moment to share this clip with you and see if I can’t make you guys fans too.

Check out “A Sense of Grey” and more goodies “after the jump” …read full article…

Photo Credit: Andrew St. Clair

Radio Exile were lucky enough to be present to see Darwin Deez back home for their first show since NME’s Radar Tour. They’ve been described as “near-genius” pop and that’s what we heard and saw on Monday night; something worth taking lots of rad photos of. I am glad I was wearing shorts because my pants WERE charmed off. …read full article…

Just heard the news regarding the rad, rad, rad soundtrack for the movie I am most anticipating this summer, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. Previously, we knew that the music for Scott’s band, SEX BOB-OMB, was written and performed by Beck. For the movie’s soundtrack, the actors from the movie perform the vocals – neat touch. So, this piece of awesome is released on August 10 from ABKCO. I hope I can get my hands on a copy ahead of time.

Like I said, I can’t wait.

The film opens August 13th and will feature a score from Radiohead/Beck collaborator Nigel Godrich, which will eventually see digital release. So “full of win”.

Check out more info “after the jump” …read full article…

On this week’s show, Dirty Laundry TV sites down and chats with Screaming Females. Also, they’re doing a giveaway of the new Screaming Females – Singles CD and a limited Don Giovanni Record shirt designed by Marissa P. as well, go here for more details.

Yay, radness.

More fun stuff “after the jump” …read full article…

Here’s the rad vid for “Black Sheep” by our friends in Suckers. Their album, Wild Smile, is available now on Frenchkiss Records.

Photo: Andrew St. Clair

The Static Jacks may write about escaping their home state. But while you can take the band out of New Jersey, you can’t take the New Jersey out of the band. And boy, do they have that Garden State attitude with songs like ‘Parties and Friends (And Bullshit)’ and ‘My Parents Lied’. Their music is best described as the raw energy of a garage band… but with soul. …read full article…