Blonde Redhead feels like a motorcycle ride through the city wearing shorts at night and the wind whips your hair. “Not Getting There” has that in check, with more beats than guitars and it’s cool. Put on your sunglasses. Download: Blonde Redhead “Not Getting There” See Blonde Redhead on 7/1 at Echoplex or 7/2 at [...]

Fool’s Gold goes quite poppy with “Street Clothes,” the first single off  its upcoming August 16 release, Leave No Trace. The beginning of the track threw us off a little and we began to fear change—Fool’s Gold, have you changed? Now you are 5 and you’re making different sounds. Oy vey. …but once the instrumental [...]

Should you be afraid? Should you cover yourself in mayonnaise and witness the first live performance of the Avant-Garde Volkpenis since 2006? Do you like Pizza!? That’s a hint. Here’s a 15 minute Volkpenis experience. MP3: the Avant-Garde Volkpenis “VolkpenisVolkpenis” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Celebrate Cinco De Mayo with the Avant-Garde Volkpenis, [...]

First of all, good looking video. That churning gray cloud hovering in the desert is one the most awesome things ever. Must be director Young Replicant’s doing. I could have stared at that cloud forever. Then a guy appears running from a horseman and you jump with him straight into the floating gray nothing and [...]

There’s so much space to get into this song. It may be called “Losing My Patience” but there’s no rush about it. Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip lended his vocals to Irish producer Shit Robot (aka Marcus Lambkin), and also did a remix which appears on the “Losing My Patience” single bundle coming out on [...]

A new Meat Puppets album called Lollipop drops on April 12. Who doesn’t think of lollipops when they think of meat puppets? Both handheld, cute enough to eat. Here is “Damn Thing.” MP3: Meat Puppets “Damn Thing” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Look at them here at SXSW with L.A. Record favorite Roky [...]

NPR’s got a full stream of the new Panda Bear album, Tomboy, which comes out officially on April 12. It’s the first full-length from this Animal Collective dude since 2007. Check it out.

We happened to be trolling Dublab’s website after downloading their recently uploaded mix, Dying Songs by Jimmy, and then came across this little gem of a Vosotros song that was posted one whole year ago. And we missed it? But since the song really dispells regular notions of time, it’s ok to be late. Because [...]

Find yourself doing the Safety Dance to this song as you prepare for the weekend. Around 2:18, it gets deliciously weird with a sound reminiscent of the Aliens from Toy Story. Holy Ghost‘s debut on DFA Records drops on April 5. MP3: Holy Ghost “Do It Again” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] —Daiana [...]

If you’ve never grooved to Enya, who are you? Download: DNTEL “Enya Remixes” In addition to the free download you’ve just downloaded, this Jimmy Tamborello fella, aka DNTL, has other pretty pictures on his blog. Like this: And this: —Daiana Feuer