Sleater-Kinney performed “Jumpers” on Letterman last night. In case you missed it: torrent here.
The Woods is easily on my 2005 top ten list… and it’s not too early to say that. You can buy it directly from Sub Pop.
S-K previously on bigstereo.

A while back bigstereo reported that Tori Amos covered Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.”
Well add Coldplay to the list of bands that have covered Kylie.
Last night (25 June 2005), due to Kylie having to cancel her performance at Glastonbury, Coldplay covered “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”… listen to the [...]

In case you missed it the first time, I now have the M.I.A. video up to stream…
M.I.A.’s “Bucky Done Gun” live in Boston; 9 June 2005 (Quicktime)

My week has been hell.. but on the bright side I’m sitting in front of a brand new iMac G5 and couldn’t be happier about that… nerd, nerd, nerd! Been kind of quiet the past couple days but working on some good stuff for you kids.
In the mean time:
1) On The Download has a [...]

Last week I posted about a mysterious new Princess Superstar song that I knew nothing about. Luckily, I received this comment from Ludovic:
“LICK THE ALPHABET” is from “The DISKOKAINES”!
“The Diskokaines” is a new project of Wolfram aka marfloW (he is doing electro-nix) from Vienna (music) and Concetta aka Princess Superstar (vocals)….
Good news for all you [...]

The Chalets. I honestly don’t know much about this band… not much at all. Except they’re out of Ireland, they’re better than U2 and they have a great pop sound.
Like the Go-Gos, The Chalets formed before ever picking up instruments. Their songs are built around loud guitars and a juxtaposition of male and female [...]

Enough cock teasing.
You can listen to the entire new Goldfrapp song “Ooh La La” here. Click on ‘Monday’s show’ and fast forward to the 39 minute mark.
Or better yet… Goldfrapp “Ooh La La” (radio rip).
It’s somewhere between Iggy Pop and Add N to (X). A fine, sexy noir-glam dance number that is going to send [...]

Listening to Cazwell brings me back to my days in New York City and all those nights I wasted dancing my ass off at Club Luxx (r.i.p.).
The most obvious and easiest comparison to make is to say that Cazwell is like Eminem. I mean… how many gay white male rappers are there? Two. Right? It [...]

Some videos worth checking out.

The Kills
“Love is a Deserter”
(Quicktime)

Four Tet
“Smile Around The Face”
(Quicktime)

My Robot Friend
“Power of Love”
(Quicktime)

Röyksopp
“The Understanding”
(Quicktime) via ArjanWrites

Basement Jaxx
“Do You Know”
(Quicktime)

With the sad, sad news of girl quartet trio Destiny’s Child breaking up, I bring you my favorite Village Voice column ever. It’s a classic… all the way back to those innocent pre-911 times.

The diva giveth, and the diva taketh away: Survivor, perhaps because it’s so indisputably BK’s show, finds her showering gifts upon her [...]

Le Tigre has a new video for “After Dark.” It is directed by Wynne Greenwood of Tracy + The Plastics.
Watch the full video: Real | Windows Media
Remixes are floating around by Diplo, Richard Morel and A Touch of Class.
Look for them this summer touring with Beck.

What is better than seeing Maya last night? NEW FUCKING PRINCESS SUPERSTAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Electro-nix has this mp3. I know nothing else about that. See Update: this is a track by The Diskokaines. Except this song is hot. It reminds me of Blondie. 2005 is going to be Princess Superstar’s year.
The long awaited My Machine has a release [...]

M.I.A. and LCD Soundsystem
Avalon, Boston, Ma.
June 9th, 2005
I was lucky enough to catch a couple words with M.I.A. before the show. I’m a huge dork, but she’s pretty. Maya said Missy Elliott was at her last show, and that Missy was carrying around a dog in a bag. I said it would be hot if [...]

Sometimes I put iTunes on random and come across songs that I had totally forgotten about.
Emiliana Torrini’s cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Stephanie Says” is one of those gems. Back in 1996, before the International success of Love In The Time Of Science, Torrini released an album in her home country of Iceland called Merman. [...]

New look, new sound, new song, new website, new label. Seems like a whole new Ladytron.
Watch their new video: Sugar (real)
(if that link doesn’t work try going here and click on “vip” section)
“Sugar” will be released on June 20th with remixes by Playgroup, Jagz Kooner and Archigam. This is the first single release from their [...]

Bigstereo brought you a Denver Dalley exclusive a few weeks ago.. with a sneak peak of his new side project Intramural. But there’s more…
Statistics are releasing their sophmore album “Often Lie” on Jade Tree this July 12th. And if you pre-order the album you will be entered in a contest to win an iPod Shuffle [...]

On September 13, Directors Label is set to release the next 4 parts of its series with DVDs showcasing the work of Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, Anton Corbijn and Stéphane Sednaoui.
Directors Label, a division of Palm Pictures, was created by Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham to highlight and showcase directors who have made [...]

Fischerspooner has a new video for ‘Never Win’, their highly Pink Floyd influenced new single, go check it out:
Never Win

Alter Ego’s “Rocker” single came out last November, but you’re about to hear way too much of this song.
Stream: Alter Ego – “Rocker” (video)