new Underworld. yay! download their new single Scribble from the upcoming album ‘Barking’ for free here.

Holy Fuck is neither holy nor fucking at the Troubadour with Nice Nice (tickets here)

the amazing amazing amazing Fitz and the Tantrums continue their Thursday night June residency at Spaceland (three thumbs up show from j. satan)

Random Patterns bring chaos to order with free beer all night and a free recording of their show ($10) with Overly Green at The Hobby Shop in Highland Park. (you MUST MUST MUST check out the Psychic Luau single below)

(Random Patterns – Psychic Luau)

Downtown Art Walk will be off the hizzizzle since it’s all summery and all, be sure to check out the Hive Gallery’s video game group show

once again again again, a shout out for their amazing flyers… tomorrow Telephoned (free mixtape album download at RCRD LBL here) and the sheer unbridled eighties’ terror of Futurecop! (you MUST check out their Myspace. it’s like a neon explosion of cartoons, unicorns and bad hair) hits La Cita’s weekly Dance Right hipster fest. RSVP here and it’s five bucks.

ew gross. here’s a fun little food fetish video for Dmitry Fyodorov’s single Simcoe. (produced by SektorFilm.) download the video edit track and a bunch of other dirty dirty disco mp3’s at The Fast Life here (aka The World’s First Blog Since 1927). UPDATE* you can stream the whole Shapeless album here and it’s fucking great.

damn, those Yeasayer kids are going to be kind of a big deal, and Warpaint kind of rulz the schulz, too, so i was really looking forward to tonights First Fridays‘ double header tonight at the Natural History Museum. (Deer Tick closes out the season on March 5th.) oh well, as compensation here’s a bunch of awesome Yeasayer-ness. firstly, their new album, Odd Blood, which has finally released, is available right now to preview in its entirety on their Myspace page here, and it’s also available for download in a variety of packages here. some really great stuff, although nothing as stellar as their Ambling Alp single, NSFW video of which is below. which brings me to my second note. check out the naked psychedelica weirdness of their Ambling Alp Single experience that’s meant to accompany the video at their site here. kind of like watching porn while you drop some acid. (the image above is a screen capture from it.) fuck i love this song. (*update: they’re streaming the live show starting at 8.30 here.)

Yeasayer – Ambling Alp from Spy Films on Vimeo.

Band: Yeasayer
Director: Radical Friend
Production Co: Spy Films / Daft Arts
US Label: Secretly Canadian
UK Label: Mute Records
Producer: Paul Hahn & Jett Steiger
Interactive: Spy Digital – http://www.amblingalp.com/
Interactive Producer: Marcus Trulli
Director of Photography: Kevin Phillips
Production Designer: Megan Fenton
Wardrobe Designs: Elliot Hazel & Diana Contreras
Make-up Designs: William Lemon III
Editor: Robert Grigsby Wilson
VFX: Cedric Hervet
360 Camera Photography: Bill Meikle

merry christ everyone! Fitz & The Tantrums have made their soul-tastic/Hall & Oates love child ep Songs For A Breakup Volume. 1 available as a free download  throughout the rest of the year via their website. all you have to do is sign up to their email list here, and you’ll also get three songs from their KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic appearance, as well as a fun little Keene remix. looks like xmas is coming a little early this year for all you heartbroken mod types. also, randomly, they’re hitting the Casbah on December eleventh down in San Diego. Orgone opens and tickets are available here. (thanks, Blarg.)

Fitz & The Tantrums Performing LIVE! that’s right LIVE!!! “Breakin’ the Chains of Love” from Fitz&theTantrums on Vimeo.

man, my childhood was really fucked up because i find this video for Substitution totally, totally erotic. Silversun Pickups are on tour right now, but it’s in the UK. so who gives a shit, right? well UK tour mates Placebo are offering a free sampler download with a couple exclusive live tracks from the Pickups, as well as songs from Expatriate, The Horrors, and a live track from United. you have to sign up to Placebo’s newsletter at their website here.

New single from Wolfmother, available for free download at wolfmother.com, which brings you to a Guitar Hero 5 promotion, which prompts you for name/address/email/etc… followed by thumbscan and DNA sample, really, it’s not worth it. A bland, mediocre track from a band that people are probably expecting too much from. Sophomore slump heeeere we come!

On a better note, literally, listen to the new Dirty Projectors album. Bold, inspired, stimulating, catchy stuff. But don’t take my word for it:

Dirty Projectors – Remade Horizon

Album-of-the-year top 10 lists heeeere we come!