Wired just premiered this video for Liars’ track “Scissor” off their great new record Sisterworld. And remember how, not even six hours ago, I called Miles Kurosky’s video the best I’d seen all year? Oops. “Scissor” takes the crown.

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MP3: Ben Sollee + Daniel Martin Moore – Something, Somewhere, Sometime Lexington, here’s your quick reminder that Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore are going to be playing a free instore at CD Central today, backed by Cheyenne Mize on violin. It’s a show that’d be sure to cost you a pretty penny if you [...]

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I think it’s flashback week here at You Ain’t No Picasso! I just got to write about The Light Footwork for the first time in forever and now I’m writing about Kite Flying Society, a pop group I used to cover all the time until they went on a brief hiatus. They finished up their [...]

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Miles Kurosky shared this video for “Dog in a Burning Building” last night on twitter. It’s a great video that combines animation, puppets and boatloads of creativity. Best video of the year so far, I’d say.

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The Morning Benders just uploaded this track off Big Echo. It’s the same track that blew our minds last week. Now you can see what they did with it in the studio. Head to The Morning Bender’s web site to download “Excuses” Big Echo is out March 9. The Morning Benders are hitting up SXSW, [...]

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Matador just posted this track off Ted Leo’s upcoming record The Brutalist Bricks (accompanied by my photo of bloody Ted at Pitchfork). The record’s out March 8, but you can listen now. MP3: Ted Leo/Rx – The Mighty Sparrow So the gold finch gets a soft, acoustic tune in Ted Leo’s world and the mighty [...]

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Man, Solange Knowles is everywhere. She’s been on stage with Of Montreal, Passion Pit and now she’s jumped in with the Dirty Projectors. It’s hard to top her Jackson 5 cover with Of Montreal, but these videos of her covering Groove Theory’s “Tell Me” with the Dirty Projectors, then doing “Stillness is the Move” with [...]

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For some reason I never got around to writing about Nana Grizol’s new album Ruth. It’s not because it’s not a fantastically fun record, but just because I am a complete space cadet sometimes. So here’s my attempt to rectify that wrong by showing some love to Ruth. MP3: Nana Grizol – Blackbox Nana Grizol’s [...]

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I’d love to say that I forgot to post on Malachai’s “Snowflake” until Lexington was buried under a foot of snow, but the truth is that I didn’t get to hear Ugly Side of Love until last week. It’s easily one of the most varied records I’ve heard all year, ranging from riff-heavy tracks like [...]

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