Holy Ghost! & The Rapture

Via RVNG Intl.: Making Time Party @ Voyuer next week!

 

Cannot wait to see both of these acts next week.  Be there or be square people!  Or else I'll have Squints Palledorous come to your house and call you an "L 7 Weiner".  You don't want that do you?

Rock and/or Roll Mix Bag

Radiohead remixes their own "15 Step" with a great Dave Brubek song "Take Five" and indieshuffle tossed in a bonus remix of Pyramid Song.  I'll take it!
Link: Radiohead Remixes
(P.S.: Note that Tame Impala is featured content, get on that.)

Cut Copy interviewed with Pitchfork about their new album, which comes out in January and how its bittersweet to be invited to tour with Lady Gaga.  Pros: Tour with stadiums of hot chicks and notoriety, Cons: all that is/associated with that media vacuum/attention whore.

Pitchfork Interview

I miss Hot Hot Heat.  I can distinctly remember taking the train back and forth to D.C. and bumping "Make Up the Breakdown" on every trip.  Check out Pitchfork's review of the new album.  I love it, and I'm happy they are back in my rotation.
Pitchfork Review

Let the summer music wash over you.  This hazy, 60's AM, upbeat sound continues to completely dominate my playlist.

Less hazy and more garage-y (?), digging this new Black Lips track from the Adult Swim weekly giveaway

The Black Lips - Before You Judge Me

Best Coast Pre Order new album "Crazy For You": Via Mexican Summer

Found this guy via twitter and I can't resist music that builds up like this, give it a whirl:
Dreaming of Ocean by SECRET HIDEOUT

Memoryhouse - The Years free EP (review link via TLOBF/DL link via arcade sound ltd)

• While you are there, i suggest, nay, demand you also download MillionYoung and keep an eye on Teen Daze

Bonnaroo has just closed up and before the weekend started, RCRD LBL put up a playlist of a group of the artists that are performing.  Totally worth a listen:

Link: RCRD LBL's Bonnaroo Playlist

Last but not least, well everything up to now has been gold so maybe least.  Another crazy video from OK Go.  I feel like these guys spend more time figuring out their music videos then they spend on the actual music.  Either way, they've got a niche and people love the videos, check it out after the jump(via Vulture):

Mixtape Galore!!

I know I need to get off Mad Decent, Diplo, etc dick, but you can't help it when he is from the area and just constantly putting out good stuff to listen to.  This is summer fire!  I guarantee.  Jay-Z, Ludacris, a new Major Lazer track, Rihanna, and to top it off a remix of Say it Ain't So by Weezer.  I mean how can you blame me for wanting to spread this fantasticness (is that a word?).  It is now.

Major Lazer Summer Mix

Related News:  Diplo will be spinning at 9:30 at the Cuervo Games Saturday at the Piazza (phrequency)

New A-Trak produced track

God bless twitter, where you can find out whatever your heart desires faster than Gary Coleman's ex wife sold his death bed photos to the Globe.  What? Too soon?  Tell that to her, I'm not making money off his death.


A-Trak was in Australia and hooked up with Heaps Decent (does Heaps = Mad in australian?) and produced this track for them.  All of the samples are them playing didgeridoos and making silly noises.  Crazy aussies!  Have a listen and download it for free.  Sometimes it amazes me how awesome I am to you guys/gals.

Here is the original LINK.

Heaps Decent feat MC Huz & The Riverina Crew - Anywhere But Here (Produced by A-Trak) by Heaps Decent

First Eagle 106, then 103.9 WDRE, now this?

Truly unbelievable!  Next you're going to try and tell me that we landed on the moon? ...What's that you say?

The last grasp at life has been yanked away from the boys over at Y-Rock on XPN and with it also ends any semblance of a fresh take on rock music on terrestrial radio.  What's that mean to you my glorious readers?  Nothing, because you have discovered the internet and realized that you now have access to more music than you could ever listen to at your fingertips at all times.  So to other than anyone over 40+ that loved Marcy Playground, Collective Soul and 4 Non Blondes and cannot operate a computer, this news changes your life in absolutely no way.  

But I digress, because I will shed a bit of a tear.  Indie today is what alternative was in the 90's, difference is where people get their music.  It's indie because these bands can't make enough money with the current music business model that they are signed by smaller labels.  I loved Y100 for its awesome Sonic Sessions and YFest's.  And more than that I appreciate all that I got from those channels when that was my only source for music.  You can still catch their show online (here in the wild & crazy future!...)

Here's Michael Klein's article on it, and Papa John gets fantasy points for sending me the link.

Weekend Update

With Norm MacDonald....I mean Zach Change! (add audience throwing batteries cheers and such) I swear it'll be as hilarious and witty as anything you can currently see on SNL:

Neon Indian is making moves

 Alan Palomo and Co. are doing everything in their power to be the kings of this "chillwave" throwback 80's movement.  This includes some of the following:

They released their first album on Lefse, but it was reported that Neon Indian signed with Fader Label.  Check out the stories here:  (via Pitchfork/Billboard)


In other Neon Indian news, you like that segue? You can't teach that.  Neon Indian's single that was released on Mountain Dew's Green Label Sound, Sleep Paralysist, now has a music video which is the band's first.  I have to say that this is probably the most polished of all of Alan's tracks and I believe it, in part, is because he worked with Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor.  Great lyrics and a well written song.  Check out the video below and download the track for free here (thanks PMA):

Random New Tracks

Snarf drives a dodge neon?

So per usual I slacked on doing daily posts and now have a boat load of information to talk about.  Don't judge me, I don't get paid for this.  Ingrates, all of you!  Here is new music from across the interwebs, none of which has anything to do with each other.  Just enjoy:

New Waaves Track

Green Label Sound, Mountain Dew's Label will be putting out a new track off of Waaves new album on 6/9/10. So pumped. Have at it!

GLS Welcomes Wavves!

I have a fever and the only prescription is more Daft Punk

While we wait patiently for the Tron Soundtrack and rumored touring at the end of the this year and by 2011 at the latest.  Here is something else to hold you over if you are like me and can't get enough of two guys in robot helmets:

(via Pitchfork, prefix mag, adidasoriginals)