On this week’s Dirty Laundry TV, Dead Meadow sit down to discuss their new film and soundtrack and several bad acid trips. Seriously? I just had one bad one. That was enough to learn my lesson.

Their new album, Old Growth, is out now on Matador Records. Check out a track and this week’s episode “after the jump” …read full article…

I usually like to write up a video or talk up a track, but I will let the label do that this time. Just seems more “fun” (I am super effing busy!)

“Everyone knows that Hostage is an unstoppable music-making beast of legendary proportions pumping out hit after hit, week in and week out. And he’s been a busy, busy boy since his Radio 1 Essential mix earlier in the summer, playing alongside Annie Mac at the Manchester Apollo, Rockness Festival and he set the Arcadia Afterburner stage at Glastonbury ablaze -literally! Not to be restrained in the slightest, he’s back with 2 killer new tunes on this, his first free EP on Nightshifters.

With “Roll” we see Hostage shows us a slightly more subtle hand, well, that’s before the bass drops! With “The Ba$$” he’s back at his no-holds-barred-kicking-down-the-fucking-rave-door approach with one of the most ridiculous noise-bass drops you’ll hear this year. It’s massive!!”

Get the free EP here: Nightshifters Label and check out the video “after the jump”
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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.

Wow, Wendy’s knows how to do it, eh? Rainy day in NYC, I almost WANT one of these, but I wouldn’t be caught dead drinking Sanka.

[Thanks to Jon for the tip!]

Check out more tour dates “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.

Little Gold is the Brooklyn-based act from former Woods/Meneguar member Christian DeRoeck, who released a full length (On The Knife) last year and a 7″ with Heart Break Beat Records (Beach House) last month. The trio is currently on a national tour to support the 7″ and get their name out there.

Keep reading to get more rad shizz …read full article…

If there is anything that makes me happier in this world than watching other people dance, I haven’t found it yet. Here, an intrepid Stormtrooper and two CGI buddies “cut a rug” to the tune of “Singin’ in the Rain”.

[h/t to Laughing Squid]

Gosh, Kristen Bell is still so very, very foxy. Yeah, there is a disgusting tumor monster thing in most of this video, but I love the band and the song – too bad Guardian has the exclusive, eh?

Oh well, go check out Yeasayer‘s “Madder Red” video, from Odd Blood at Guardian.

A few days ago, our good buddies at The Music Slut premiered this clip, but we like it to, so we’re all about sharing it with you all.

Kids of 88 describe their music as a “whimful combination of dirt spitting kicks and feathering grit. An overdose of nightlife; the lubricated moan of spilt vodka. The hard realization of concrete and the happiness of blurry vision. An alleyway gangbang between Grandmaster Flash and The Knack.”

That’s intense, we like it – please enjoy, homies.

If you haven’t heard much of the AV Club’s Undercover series, you’re an idiot. Ha, just kidding. This week, there’s finally a relevant piece for those Neutral Milk Hotel fans that go nuts every time we write up something on the band – with only four weeks to go on the show, The Swell Season chose to cover NMH’s “Two-Headed Boy” for the sessions, which despite the usual fears about covers of the band, was pretty awesome.

In case you forgot, The Swell Season are Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová from Once, winners of Best Original Song Oscar in 2008.

“Though they’re a bit more accustomed to green fields, cool lakes, and the shaded cover of the North Woods, Minnesotan duo Peter Wolf Crier seem right at home amongst the traffic humming by on Houston and First Ave in this segment of The Guest Apartment at Little Veselka in the LES. Preparing three bluesy and soulful songs from the band’s recently released, Jagjaguwar debut Inter-Be, the band interacted with passersby (with help from one adorable observer in particular), taking time to discuss the roots of their album and how it shaped their identity as musicians along the way. ”

[mp3] Peter Wolf Crier – “Crutch and Cane”

Check out the latest song/video from Sigur Ros‘ vocalist/guitarist, Jónsi, “Animal Arithmetic” from his solo release, Go, out now on XL Recordings.

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?

“I Lived My Life To Stand In The Shadow of Your Heart” is the fourth single from the band’s critically acclaimed record Exploding Head.

I Lived My Life To Stand In The Shadow Of Your Heart (Secret Machines Remix) by MuteUSA

Oh snap! Our boy Bangs has done it again! This time, girl, hit him on Facebook. He still know what you like, but at least he can tell you what he likes about you when you’re both online together.

Get ‘Meet Me On Facebook’ on iTunes & Amazon from the new album I’m Still Moving On. The clip was directed & edited by Ajak Chol. It’s amazing and so, so wrong.

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

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…