Some more shoegazey melodies for you today. Check out The Hectors going all cosmonautical in the new video for their song Carol and Sanford. Spacey coolness extraordinaire.


The Hectors - Carol and Sanford

This is a little dark, but the sound quality is great. It's Panda Riot covering MIA's Paper Planes from their recent tour stop at The Khyber in Philadelphia. And if you squint real hard you can even see me there in the crowd.

Ryan Adams new abum Easy Tiger hit stores this week. Here's 11 of the 13 tracks in video for you.

Goodnight Rose

Two

Everybody Knows

Halloween Head

Tears of Gold

The Sun Also Sets

Off Broadway

Rip Off

Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.

These Girls

I Taught Myself How To Grow Old


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A couple videos of songs from the upcoming all instrumental Beastie Boys disc The Mix-Up. Listen as they take 60's psychedelia and merge it with the groove of a 70's b-movie soundtrack.
The new album is due out June 26th.
Beastie Boys - Off The Grid

Beastie Boys - The Rat Cage

Many thanks to all of the Ryan Adams fans who have been dropping by. Download the Halloween Head and Two over at ProductshopNYC. Live versions of a bunch more of the new songs here.

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Forget about the new Kanye West and Common leaks, Chicago has a new contender. Get the new track from Bless 1, "My Existence" over at Thirty Three Jones.

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File this in the "I just don't get it" category. Someone please leave a comment explaining why Feist is so extremely popular right now. I mean there's nothing really offensive about her, but nothing I can see to drive so much hype either. Here's her recent appearance playing live on a bus for the Jimmy Kimmel show.

Feist on the bus on Jimmy Kimmel 5.15.07- "I Feel It All" and "The Park"

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American Idol, hmmm now what's that quote again ? :

"A bad day of music on a preprogrammed Clear Channel radio station is still better than a good day on American Idol"

...the glitter in the gutter gets all over the boys and girls in america.
Jesse Malin performing You Can Make Him Like You by The Hold Steady at an in-store appearance at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ on 3/20/07.

Watch it while you can because YouTube will probably pull them before the day's end.
Enjoy !
Part 1

Part2

Part3