two of my absolute favorites! 03-22 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon 03-24 Atlanta, GA - The Earl 03-25 Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle 03-28 Washington, DC - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 03-29 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sanctuary 04-05 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center 04-06 Bloomington, IN - Buskirk-Chumley Theater

We've been checking out Sirius radio again since we got the new car with the 3 month trial and we have to say it's great for us indie music fans. The XMU channel showcases a lot of the music we listen to and host shows from the big blogs we check out regularly like gorillavsbear , Aquarium Drunkard , Hipster Runoff , Brooklyn Vegan , and our local Indianapolis one, My Old Kentucky Home They have live in studio interviews and performance of new and [...]

What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? has been one of the better blog bands of the year, surprising us with a sound that can more or less characterize the year: transition from the hard stuff to softer tunes, but still wanting to keep what felt so good about the recent dance scene. Fortunately for us, WKOBDY? is not just blog music, they will probably start making a bigger splash soon with the release of their EP on Brilliantine by mid-December. To start the ball rolling, they left us with a track with dramatic razor [...]

As 2009 nears its end, rumors are starting to swirl as to who might grace the Coachella stages in 2010. Today Consequence of Sound has divulged that Muse are more than likely slated to be one of the headliners of the yearly festival when it goes down April 16-18 in Indio, California. Muse join the shortlist of (confirmed?) acts, which includes Devo, Hot Chip, The XX, Miike Snow, and Aeroplane. Other heavily rumored acts include Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, The Raveonettes, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Dead Weather, Pavement, Spacemen 3, and The Stooges. [...]
I very briefly wrote about The XX's debut album back in September and since then I've only grown to love it more; it's going to be right up there with my favourite albums of the year. But due to a combination of having Canucks' tickets on the night of their show in Vancouver (which were eventually swapped for the Ranger game a couple weeks back) and the state of flux The XX seem to be in at the moment, I was contemplating buying tickets...but I contemplated too long: their gig with Friendly Fires at the Commodore [...]

A couple of weeks ago, we went to New Orleans for a friend's wedding. We had a chance to see the World War II museum and the fancy new wing that Tom Hanks helped contribute with and the new theater much cooler than an Imax (it's in 4D!). The picture from above is taken from the museum, and before the trip, I had no idea there was a WWII museum. I guess Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are teaming up again to retell the story of the US invading the Pacific during [...]

[It's Bjork's birthday on Saturday, celebrate appropriately. Here's my late-arriving weekend rundown:] Tonight: Alan Palomo's Neon Indian [pictured; download below] brings its multimedia synthscapes to the Echoplex for a night of cool electro that includes Keenhouse , Tigercity and Little Red Radio . ... Julian Casablancas hits downtown's Palace Theatre for Week 3 of his residency. ... Party guys Iglu & Hartly try to build on their U.K. buzz with a show in their home city at [...]
With the 2010 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival scheduled to get underway a little less than five months from now, we are finally starting to get an idea of what the lineup will look like. According to a source with knowledge of the festival's plans, Muse will serve as a headliner for the Indio, CA event, set to take place from April 16-18. This will mark the British outfit's first appearance at Coachella since 2004 and will come amidst what will likely be a summer chock-full of tour dates in support of [...]
florence and the machine - you got the love ( xx remix) [this remix has been a favorite on so many blogs for the past month that i figured i'd add myself to the adoration with a proper video attached to it. a surprisingly upbeat xx give florence some serious twisted lofi disco grooves making it one of the highlight club tracks of the month. like what you hear? then go over to the great folks at rcrd lbl cause they have it as a free mp3!] http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wo ngiesMusicWorld

Right, time to wow you with some non-bassy wonders. A bit of quiet after the storm of electro and fidget we've been posting recently! SOLO - MIDGETS IN BRICKLANE BORIS DLUGOSCH - BANGKOK (ROSKA REMIX) ( 128) MAJOR LAZER - PON DE FLOOR (ALVARO REMIX) [...]

Holly Miranda at Le Poisson Rouge (10/23/09) Photo : Jon Klemm DOWNLOAD : Holly Miranda - "Forest Green Oh Forest Green" (mp3) XL Recordings is excited to announce the release date and title for HOLLY MIRANDA 's debut full-length album. The Magician's Private Library will be released on February 23, 2010 . The forthcoming 10-track album was produced by Dave Sitek at Staygold Studio in Brooklyn, NY, and includes contributions from Sitek, Kyp Malone and [...]
Music News - To celebrate the upcoming release of their new album, One LIfe Stand (due out February 8, 2010) HOT CHIP has announced a series of USA and Canadian shows. The run will begin April 16 in Oakland, CA with a show at Fox Theater and continue through an April 24, 2010 show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC (full itinerary below). Hot Chip will add a live drummer on the tour, and will be supported by The xx . [...]

The past couple of weeks have brought about some great remixes from some great acts. I haven't been able to keep up on them through the show and sometimes a single track doesn't feel like enough to warrant its own post so here are a handful of the more interesting remixes that have made their way to the inbox... Eli Escobar - Glass House (XXXChange's Yoga Mom In A Blender Mix) Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (Joker & Ginz Remix) Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Scuba's High [...]

Another day another XX track hacked... Thankfullly this has been handled with love, affection and talent. A song full of poise , despair and beauty... like a ballerina on meth.. What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow have strung this one out just long enough for us to care. MP3 The XX-Night Time (What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow Extended Edit)

Don't forget to rate the album at the end of the post. Welcome back to Blinded By The Hype, the PMA feature in which we revisit albums once the hype has died down. In today's world, music is released at a machine gun pace. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-late ly type scene, and "lately" usually means this week. Rarely do we stop to smell the roses. Even good albums get overlooked as time passes. And we almost never – aside from year end lists – take a look backward. Hindsight is 20-20, and we'd like to apply that retrovision [...]
It's Wednesday. Hence, the "it's hump day" caption! For those of you that are unfamiliar with the phrase it just means we are getting over the middle of the week, and are halfway to it being over. This week has not been a great one. College is basically being a royal pain in the ass right now. My classes right now are pretty dull, and I had a hard time getting anything good for next year. I feel like with my current selection of courses, I am just going through the motions. Like a mindless troll just going [...]

Date 11/19/09 Location Mohawk Doors 8pm Tickets $10 from Frontgate Front runners of the dance movement Friendly Fires are playing at Mohawk on Thursday night. The show also includes buzz band The XX and Holly Miranda so the lineup is sick. This also gives me an excuse to put up [...]
After a "three-way acoustic" of "Crystalised" with Baria Qureshi still on board, the xx , minus Jamie, talk with Viva Radio about R&B, growing up with siblings' musical influences, people asking for your entire iTunes library, and getting your laptop stolen only to find that the thief plays Lady Gaga on your Last.fm account as much as you did. And as a bonus, the newly trio'd band's performance of "Basic Space" on MTV's It's On With Alexa Chung last Thursday:

I first heard Holly Miranda a little over a year and a half ago when she did a cover of the late Elliott Smith's "Between The Bars" with another great vocalist, Scott Matthews. She has a wide range of vocal ability, from her highs to her lows that can be best explained by watching the video yourself. It gave and still continues to give me goosebumps and is simply wonderful and is as good, if not better, than the original Elliott Smith song. Here is the link to the video via Youtube.com ( Holly Miranda and Scott Matthews - Between [...]