The Grates quietly released the first single off their debut album, Gravity Won’t Get You High.
But don’t get too excited yet.
“19-20-20″ is currently only available from iTunes in Australia. “19-20-20″ follows closely to the post-pop-punk tracks fans are used to from their much celebrated ep, The Ouch. The Touch.
For those of us not [...]

Goldfrapp showed off their “Ooh La La” last night on Leno. Maybe you missed it?
Watch: Goldfrapp - “Ooh La La” (Live on Leno) (ipod)
Goldfrapp finally got around to releasing Supernature here in the States. I know most of you already bought it in on import. But whatever… it has a bonus dvd or something.
Purchase: [...]

20 Jazz Funk Greats sum up Envelopes’ newest single, “Free Jazz”, perfectly:
It sounds like the Go Team if they decided to self-actualise themselves as Stereo Total on a pleasant picnic in the lounge psyche garden where Stereolab used to have fun in 10 years ago.

At a great risk of becoming a video blog…
Watch: Envelopes - [...]

You heard it here almost three months ago, but. Shit. Check out those grillz. Nicole, you jealous?

Lately, I’m starting to feel like I post way too many videos. But here’s Mike Skinner aka The Streets’ latest for “When You Wasn’t Famous.”

Watch: The Streets - “When You Wasn’t Famous” (Windows | Real)
In other news, The Streets and Bloc Party are headlining Vice’s Intonation Festival in Chicago this summer.

“Burning Bridges” could easily fall into the ‘Coldplay-already-did-that’ category… but somehow Morning Runner manages to avoid that pitfall. It doesn’t matter what category this falls into. It’s just plain good. Maybe though, I’m just a sucker for backwards videos or piano tunes that turn into indie rock anthems.

However cool you think you are, Kudu is like fifty times cooler.
Sometimes an album drops in your lap that you just have to stop whatever you are doing and listen. Kudu is this way. Whatever I was expecting was totally not what I got. But then how could you expect Kudu? What could have [...]

The Lovely Feathers: File this somewhere between Queen and Sparks. Canadian act, The Lovely Feathers, brings us some out of control indie, post-punk pop that just seems too good to be true. This is the kind of quirky, weird music that keeps me going. Try not to take a band like this too serious. It’s [...]

I totally thought I posted this like a month ago. But I guess not? Here you go. This kind of starts out like that remix of Britney Spears’ “Stronger” — don’t even pretend like you don’t know what I’m talking about. But this turns into a nice little electro-house mix of an electro-rock track. The [...]

I have to admit this: When this album arrived in the mail, I was super excited because I initially thought it was a new Figurine album that I didn’t know about. I popped it into my car stereo and was totally taken off guard. Because it was of course Figurines and not Figurine.
But what a [...]

Check out Codebreaker’s fresh video for “What Is This Earth Love?”

Everyones favorite robot, My Robot Friend, is back with a new single off his soon-to-be-released sophmore album, 0. “23 Minutes In Brussels” is a cover of the Luna song, and the single sports a remix by Mr. Tommie Sunshine. The tune is in the same vein as My Robot Friend’s earlier work. He creates a [...]

Codec & Flexor’s “Time Has Changed” managed to turn some heads in 2002, but it never really translated well to album. They were kind of lost in the great electroclash shuffle of 2003 — like five minutes too late to cash in on the hype. Now that the dust has settled, the duo’s second effort, [...]