Here’s the video for the Features’ song “Lion” off their newest album Some Kind of Salvation. These guys were just signed by Kings of Leon to their new label, so expect to see them all over the place. In fact, you can hear one of their songs in the new trailer for Mike Judge’s new [...]

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We Are Scientists play “Jack and Ginger” live After a pretty successful showing at All Points West, all signs point towards a new We Are Scientists album being not too far off on the horizon. Keith is recording a bunch of demos in Georgia and they seem to have almost half a dozen new songs [...]

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This could be you. Shopping away at CD Central on someone else’s dime MP3: These United States – I Want You to Keep Everything These United States are coming back to their halfway-hometown in Lexington, KY to celebrate the release of their new album Everything Touches Everything and to play the opening night of Buster’s [...]

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After a long gestation period, James Huggins has finally readied his solo LP A Parallax I. A bit of it has been available on his Myspace for a while, but now we’ve got a complete package to look forward to. Here’s a quick preview. MP3: James Husband – A Grave in the Gravel If you’d [...]

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Late last week my co-worker Matt brought Boogie Boarder’s album Pizza Hero in to work and gave it a spin. I can generally trust him, and Boogie Boarder is a great example of why: he digs some weird, but totally rad stuff. MP3: Boogie Boarder – Bio Hassle Boogie Boarder have embraced dissonance with the [...]

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Still Flyin’s Daytrotter session was posted today, along with this unreleased song called “Runaway Train II.” It’s really good, as SF always are, and sounds like what would happen if you let highly skilled children run a jam-pop band. MP3: Still Flyin’ – Runaway Train II Here’s what the band had to say about it [...]

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It’s taken me almost a month to post on the Flaming Lips’ show at Pitchfork. The main reason is that it was such a fantastic, overwhelming show that I was having a problem convincing myself to just sit down and try to talk about it. But in the end, I’ve decided to just go for [...]

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I snagged this one from Gorilla vs Bear earlier today. I didn’t remember who Despot was (I think he’s buddies with Nick from Islands?) but I’m drawn in by any hip hop produced by Ratatat. If you don’t have their hip hop remixes albums, you don’t have anything. MP3: Despot – Look Alive (produced by [...]

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As if putting out one of the year’s best records wasn’t enough accomplishment for the Dirty Projectors, they’ve already readied a follow-up EP to be released next month. The “Temecula Sunrise” EP shares two songs with Bitte Orca (the title track and “Cannibal Resource,” so it’s really only the additional two songs that you haven’t [...]

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