
Madge played her halftime show at the Indianapolis home that Peyton Manning built for this year's Super Bowl. The hype machine that has been working around the clock (see collabos with M.I.A. and Minaj) in support of the new release from the Material Girl to be titled, "MDNA," reached it's pinnacle last night with a medley of treasured hits from the iconic superstar. But it looks like M.I.A. single-handedly highjacked the halftime show last night with her gratuitous crotch shot and lewd gesture to America by flipping "us" the bird. Aside from that slight hiccup and [...]

Talk about appropriate – two of our favorite San Francisco bands will be sharing the stage at The New Parish in Oakland this Wednesday, February 1st, for a night of danceable post punk and new wave–inspired noise rock. The Soft Moon - "Total Decay" If you missed Luis Vasquez and his band at Du Nord a couple of weeks ago , here's your chance to check out The Soft Moon , along with Weekend to sweeten the deal. [...]
M & M & M has a nice ring to it after all. Madonna , M.I.A. and French DJ, Martin Solveig, have come together to put each other back on the map. After both released commercial flops in their last albums, M & M appear to be headed in the right direction after listening to a teaser off of the upcoming album from Madonna titled, "MDNA." This season's Austin City Limits is has hit a homerun with the talent that recorded sessions during the ACL Festival last year. This week brings an episode with Florence [...]
An email from Andrew R Tonry, who's down in California and wrote about Alabama Shakes this week: dude, i hope you're going to alabama shakes. i had to go to the show in solana beach, about an hour and a half south, near san diego because the troubadour was well sold-out and i was on the publicist's "guest waiting list," which i figured was a nice way of saying "no." the trip was worth it. even down there the place, bigger than the troubadour, was fucking packed. and damn, they were hotter than [...]
You've probably noticed that we don't post about a lot of zydeco music here. In fact, scarcely a day goes by where someone doesn't say, "Hey! What about all that zydeco music you never post about on End Hits, huh?" It has been a decided oversight. But I've been an appreciator ever since becoming mildly obsessed with New Orleans music as a teenager (which is what happens when you grow up in an area that has no musical heritage of its own to speak of). I've found zydeco to be rowdy, raw dance music that, apart from its Cajun musical [...]

I wasn't originally planning on doing a show this evening, but decided to take my normal spot behind the microphone anyway. So the playlist didn't begin coming together until the evening of. There was no theme, it was all variety; folk to electronic to noise rock. If you missed it, here's the list: "The Crystal Cat" by Dan Deacon by Spiderman Of The Rings "A Dark God Heart" by Sleep Party People off We Were Drifting On A Sad Song [...]

Lots of good music hit your television screen since Friday night in case you missed out while hitting the sauce hard over the weekend. Cults made their victory lap on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (video via the Audio Perv ). Los Campesinos will be making their way to Denver at the end of the month with a gig at the Bluebird Theater, but played Letterman Friday night. Joanna Newsom took to Austin City Limits with her harp and angelic voice for a night in the Sherwood Forrest with a split episode with the princes [...]
Jean-Eric + Weekends + Sweet Tooth + High In One Eye performing at Siberia on January 12, 2012 Tweet

The shitstorm from last night's SNL performance by overnight blog/hype/interwebs sensation, Lana Del Rey, was heard/seen all over the Twitters last night. Who says money can't buy you fame/press coverage and a slot on the musical stage over at SNL after being on the scene for less than a year. Many other artists more worthy have never graced the Saturday Night stage that have been around much longer and to add insult to injury, LDR's proper album has yet to be released. Sigh. It's funny what happens when you get a little collagen injected and [...]

Weekend Red EP Slumberland Records [2011] Fire Note Says: A possible preview of what's to come. Album Review: The Red EP is a nice teaser for what 2012 brings our way from lo-fi rockers Weekend. Opening track "Sweet Sixteen" shows off some of Weekend's hazy talents as the track is very slow moving and uses frontman Shaun Durkan's voice to [...]

Big names get big because of great tracks and talent. Now, if you take that and add a little twist to it, sometimes it turns out great and sometimes it is a total flop. Thankfully here at ils we would never steer our listeners in the wrong direction so here are some remixes worth listening. They include artists like Justice, M83, and Imogen Heap, with some appearances from smaller, yet notable, artists. ENJOY! Kaskade vs. Laidback Luke - All That Disaster Imogen Heap - Closing In (Mt. Eden [...]
Yep. Two The Weekend remixes in as many days. Get over it. Paper Diamond goes in on this joint.
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Young L has always been criminally slept on in my opinion. Artists like Tyga, Soulja Boy & even L's brother from The Pack have gone on to capitalize off the L E N's signature sound. This refix of Aubrey and Abel's late-night croon takes the song to new highs and lows with controlled wobbles and marked codeine chops. I've been getting played out Weeknd remixes in the inbox all week long, but this one is the Daddy. Drake & The Weekend - Crew Love (Young L Remix)

La jolie révélation de l'an dernier, 2nd titre de la mixtape Echoes Of Silence. The Weeknd - Montreal
Con esta edición iniciamos los veranos nostálgicos de Super 45. Para ello preparamos una selección de proyectos musicales que exploraron el pop sofisticado entre los años 1980 y 1984: Young Marble Giants ( Colossal youth ), Weekend ( La variete ), Ben Watt ( North marine drive ), Everything but the Girl ( Eden ), Lloyd Cole & The Conmotions ( Rattlesnakes ) y The Blue Nile ( A walk across the rooftops ). MP3: Super45 Podcast # 655 (01 enero, 2012) Escuchar desde sitio de Duna [...]

Welcome to the fourth installment of the Top 50 Albums of 2011 . We're so close we can almost taste the top ten! 19. The Weekend House of Balloons Mixtape The Morning High For This The Weeknd (free download) Twitter 18. Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch The Throne [...]