Ben Kweller "Jealous Girl" Video

She's a freaking psychopath! She got that dude tied up in a chair and into the bathtub. This is off Kweller's latest record Go Fly a Kite, released earlier this year.

Atari Teenage Riot > NEW TRACK + TOUR!

holy crap new ATR! caution, excessive strobe lights.

09/23: New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theater
09/24: Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
09/26: Pittsburgh, PA @ Diesel
09/27: Austin, TX @ Red 7
09/28: Dallas, TX @ Trees
09/29: Houston, TX @ Groundhall
09/30: Los Angeles, CA @ KeyClub
10/1: Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge
10/2: Montreal @ Foufounes Electriques
10/4: Toronto @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
10/5: Edmonton @ New City
10/6: Calgary @ The Gateway @ Sait
10/7: Vancouver @ Rickshaw Theatre

Titles> "When You Were Young"

Titles, "When You Were Young" from Shark Party Media on Vimeo.

Not to be confused with the song by the Killers, this "When You Were Young" is from Titles' next album Dirt Bell, out next month. The leader of the band used a Lite-Brite in the video for this heart-warming tune. So naturally, i'm down. -Kenyon

The Coral > new video + record out

British band the Coral just released Butterfly House and Mani of Stone Roses/Primal Scream is saying it's the best thing he's heard since the Stone Roses' first album. Well, Butterfly House is a great record, but not THAT great. Still, this single will probably make it into my top 20 for 2010. The breezy, buttery leather harmonies of "1000 Years" bridges classics from America and CSNY with peer Brit bands Starsailor and Travis. As far as videos go, the Coral makes much better use of the desert than the Stone Roses. -Kenyon

Midnight Juggernauts > new video + gigs + album May 28, 2010
Finally something that sounds and looks like it's from 2010, all futuristic and fresh space travel rock n roll. I got dibs to DJ this, i called it! Those twisting liquified people though, geez why are they doing that? Just to show that they CAN? The Crystal Axis blops May 28 digitally and August 31 physically. -Kenyon


dates with the nite

Thursday, July 22 @ Santos - New York, NY
Friday, July 23 @ Voyeur - Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, July 24 @ Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY
Monday, July 26 @ The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, July 27 @ Cinespace - Los Angeles, CA

holy jesus monkey b*lls the new song from SCISSOR SISTERS!

....nope, guess not, some stupid company keeps removing the video on youtube and vimeo. how does that make sense for them? dummies.

new videos from two indie pop bands

Club 8 > "Western Hospitality"

For their seventh record, Swedish indie pop duo Club 8 travelled to Brazil for inspiration, bought vintage records in Western Africa and worked with a percussion player from Cuba. "Western" accurately reflects that path. Arriving next week, The People's Record (Labrador), comes from a duo (Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård, also of The Legends and Acid House Kings) who never play live and rarely give interviews in regards to Club 8. The video appears to follow a young Asian girl to Club 8's office to intern, but instead she dances. -Kenyon

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart > "Higher Than the Stars"

The New York City band is going on a short tour with two radical groops, Surfer Blood and Hooray for Earth (a line-up not to miss!). It's in support of the "Say No to Love" single, out June 8 on Slumberland Records. "Higher Than the Stars" is reminiscent of the lighter 1990s dream pop from bands such as the Rosemarys and Riverside. The video shows us that furries and non-furries can co-exist. -Kenyon

dates with the nite:

06/03 Milford, CT Daniel Street
06/04 Rochester, NY The German House
06/05 Buffalo, NY The Tralf
06/06 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom
06/08 Memphis, TN Hi Tone Cafe
06/09 Birmingham, AL Bottletree Cafe
06/10 Tallahassee, FL The Engine Room
06/11 Orlando, FL Club at Firestone
06/12 Miami, FL Grand Central - Poplife 11
06/13 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
06/15 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
06/16 Washington, DC Black Cat

The Black Keys > dino-myte video for "Next Girl" from new album out next week + tour kicking off + late night TV May 25, 26.


There are three ways to experience this: read the bottom, look at the pretty girls, or listen to mr. dinosaur sing one of the dirtiest blues-rock songs of 2010. Ahhh snap, i hear some Hendrix in there. The new album, Brothers (out next week on Nonesuch), also includes the Danger Mouse-produced song “Tighten Up." The day after the record release, the Black Keys will play a small gig at the Bookstore Cafe in NYC, with all monies from tickets going to charity. From the end of May to early October they're gonna be all over the place on a HUGE tour, opening for Pearl Jam, the Flaming Lips and Kings of Leon. -Kenyon

New York activity:

May 20 Madison Square Garden (with Pearl Jam)
May 25 Late Show with David Letterman
May 26 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
July 27 Central Park SummerStage
July 28 Central Park SummerStage

Kele Okereke of Bloc Party has a solo album on the way (June 21 on Wichita/Polydor). The first jam is pretty hot. Lots of websites are reporting that while making the album he had a mental breakdown and compared himself to Britney Spears.

not to be confused with anything by Bobby Brown!

Blur >> new song!

Graham Coxon re-joined last year to play festivals and junk. And now, this new zzzz i'm sleeping tune, which could have been a B-side from Blur's Modern Life is Rubbish. "Fool's Day" doesn't even sound finished. At least it's better than Stink Tank. -Kenyon

Boy Eats Drum Machine > audio + video
Cassette love cuteness. Snappy title track from Hoop + Wire, out now.

Phantogram > new video from debut LP Eyelid Movies (Barsuk records) + tour dates that are mostly with the Antlers, who are playing a show at Stony Brook this thursday with me, DJ k3nyon, spinning!

April:

15 Buffalo, NY Soundlab
16 Columbus, OH The Basement *
17 Urbana IL, Canopy Club *
18 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon *
20 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre *
21 Iowa City, IA The Blue Moose *
22 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall *
23 Ann Arbor, MI Blind Pig *
24 Rock Island, IL Brewing Company *
26 Boulder, CO Fox Theater *
28 San Diego, CA Casbah *
29 Costa Mesa, CA Detroit Bar *
30 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour *

May:
1 San Francisco, CA Independent *
3 Portland, OR Doug Fir *
4 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Cabaret *
5 Seattle, WA Neumo's *
18 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
19 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
31 George, WA Sasquatch! Music Festival
* w/ The Antlers

Band of Horses > new song + video.
From next album, out May 18. U.S. Tour with Pearl Jam!

April 23 + 24 - Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater (with Widespread Panic)
April 26 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt

April 28 - Miami, FL - Fillmore
April 29 - Orlando, FL - House of Blues
May 1 - New Orleans, LA - Jazzfest
May 2 - Memphis, TN - Beale St. Music Festival
May 3 - Kansas City, MO -Sprint Center (w/Pearl Jam)
May 4 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center (w/Pearl Jam)
May 6 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena (w/Pearl Jam)
May 7 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Center (w/Pearl Jam)
May 9 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena (w/Pearl Jam)
May 10 - Buffalo, NY - HSBC Arena (w/Pearl Jam)
May 13 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center (w/Pearl Jam)
May 15 - Hartford, CT - XL Center (w/Pearl Jam)
May 17 - Boston, MA - TD Garden (w/Pearl Jam)
May 21 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden (w/Pearl Jam)
May 27 - Davis, CA - UC Davis Freeborn Hall
May 30 - Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater (w/She & Him)
May 31 - George, WA - Sasquatch Festival

new audio + video
Val Venosta : "The Price is Right"
Neo-experimental Swedish electro, featuring clips from the often overlooked classic horror film The Abominable Dr. Phibes, starring Vincent Price. The creeping surrealistic film actually contains some fantastic vintage gore that is only a step below the work of Lucio Fulci.

Dan Black
Black sews the modern pop fabric of Blake Lewis and Robbie Williams (though he claims influence from Sigur Ros and Jay-Z). Either way he leans towards polished pop. You know, sometimes...Dan Black....i don't knowww about youuu. Love the designs of your virtual promo materials. This includes the inventive video for "Symphonies," which takes on many classic film title intros. -Kenyon

Dan Black - Symphonies

DAN BLACK MySpace Music Videos

Tour dates too holy cow!
February 18 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
February 19 - Montreal, QC @ Belmont
February 20 - Toronto, ON @ WrongBar
February 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Cinespace
February 25 - San Francisco, CA @ Popscene / 330 Ritch

www.myspace.com/danblacksound

The Pity Party- "Stop, Stand Up, Be Quiet, Be Still" (aka Revenge of the Cupcakes)

The Sky Drops - "Stone White"
Taken from their summer 2009 debut full length release, guitarist Rob Montejo (formerly of Smashing Orange, who were a lesser-known, American shoegaze/dreampop band in the 1990s) and drummer Monika Bullette channel the moods of early BJM, Dirty on Purpose and Yo La Tengo. The video is clips from the Prelinger Archives (you know, those old misguided educational films). Sky Drops so far have had dates with Cold War Kids, Chairlift, The Dirty Projectors and A Place to Bury Strangers. -Kenyon

Casxio: new video + CMJ junk

me cannot wait to spin this at the clubs! a neato transgender transfusion of Scissor Sisters, La Roux, MGMT and disco-era MJ.

Dates with the nite aka CMJ junk

October 7 - The Shore - Hermosa Beach, CA
October 18 - Cinespace - Official Release Party
October 20 - Piano's - Music Slut CMJ Party
158 Ludlow St. NY 10002
(Casxio @ 6:00pm)
October 21 - Southpaw - The Rumble CMJ Party
125 5th Ave. 11217 (Brooklyn)
(Casxio @ 9:30pm)
October 22 - ASCAP Official CMJ Showcase
285 West Broadway 10013
(Casxio @ 8:30pm)