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Jeff Klein , the handsome, gravelly-voiced impassioned songwriter whose defiantly dark and ghostly prolific second album The Hustler was released in the U.S. last year to a mass of critical acclaim, is getting ready to head back in the studio to demo out tracks for his new and as-yet untitled third album. The brooding singer/songwriter with roots both in New York City and in Austin recently received 5-star writeups for the English re-release of The Hustler from UK press The Guardian, The Sun, and The Independent. [...]

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This has to be the most terrific discovery I've made in new band browsing recently and I find it very hard to believe they've not signed a record deal with anyone. YuLeS is comprised of brothers Bertrand and Guilliaume from France who admit to having been "brought up in a house full of vinyl records, books and music instruments". The result is, strangely, Americana at its finest. Here stands a duo living in France who has more in common with Nashville than some of the Nashville artists I've heard. What I [...]

I remember when I first read about Page France over at You Aint No Picasso . Matt's affinity for them made me search out more from them, and I fell in love with Hello Dear Wind over night. I started reading a lot of gobbledygook on the blogosphere about them sounding "too Christian rocky" which just sent me over the edge. I hear what you're saying, but this isn't a Christian Rock band. In YANP's recent interview with them, the band had this to say: [...]

Sonic Youth is a perennial favorite of mine and probably of yours if you've been one of my regular readers - always experimental, always doing something cool and different, I mean...it's fucking Sonic Youth. What do you expect? Well, the last couple of albums have had interesting moments to them. Both Sonic Nurse and Murray Street had moments that glistened, but I don't really return to those as much as I do the early Sonic Youth records and their first three Geffen releases, [...]

I'd like the audio to be better on this clip. Hell, I'd like the video to be better, too. But "Staring At The Sun" is great stuff.

Karen, you have my heart.

"We Tigers" is a wonderful song. Animal Collective is a wonderful band. I would've liked to see this show. Sigh..

Well, hopefully they'll come this way at some time in the next dozen years. In the meantime, "Huddle Formation".

This version of "Do You Want To" looks like it was pretty fun.

Total bummer that I couldn't make it to Coachella this year, but thanks to fans I have YouTube to enjoy clips of it! I found out (too late) that you could watch it streaming live - but, you know, that's okay. I didn't really want to watch it streaming for some reason. Anyways, here's a clip of Daft Punk from Coachella that is fresh out of the oven doing part of "Robot Rock" </center There's more [...]

Last year, a couple of bloggers ( music (for robots) was the first I saw and I dropped a little something too) wrote about the Japanese hip-hop band Maboroshi and gave you a taste of their tracks. YouTube being the greatest anything ever, I found the video for the song "Funky Glamorous Pt. 23. Great song, cool video. You almost forget they're not rapping in English.

Be sure and tune into LFO Radio tonight from 10pm to 3am CST for Loudersoft's Justin Hand spinning a live set from Dish in Memphis. Until that cranks up, why not bliss out to 8.5 minutes of Q-Bert's "Superman" video? It's....mind-boggling. Why? Because the majority of the people who read this cannot do what Q-Bert does. Respect.

Click here to be taken to a good quality stream of Living With War . Thanks to Reprise Records for the link and especially to Neil Young for making this great, great album.

According to Angry Ape , Seattle's delightful supergroup-of-sorts The Long Winters next release will be a full-length album this Summer. Barsuk will be releasing the new 11 track CD on July 25th, which the group have imaginatively titled Putting The Days To Bed . The last material from The Long Winters was the 2005 EP Ultimatum EP , and this LP is the official album follow-up to When I Pretend To Fall . Putting The Days To Bed Tracklisting: [...]

I get a lot of submissions from bands who want their music reviewed, and I listen to everything. But sometimes, I get something and I really have to do a double take. I really didn't know what to expect when I got my hands on this CD from Los Angeles pink rock band Black Fag . I looked at the cover and thought, "Am I reading this right?" I wasn't sure whether or not I should be offended, but then I got inside and discovered the concept. How about an all-gay Black Flag [...]

I stayed up extra late tonight so I could catch the premiere of the web stream of Neil Young's Living With War over at NeilYoung.com , due for download sale starting May 2nd. Here are my impressions, song by song: 1) After The Garden - This is pure protest power pop Neil Young, with no rough edges removed. It's beautifully angry. 2) Living With War - At first, I didn't want to like it. But once it gets into the "Star Spangled Banner", I [...]

I saw this up on YouTube and noticed it was the finished video for the storyboards posted up at Gorilla vs. Bear last month. The storyboards alone were stunning, the finished video speaks for itself. Enjoy.

I was pleased and delighted to discover today on Smoosh 's MySpace page a new track from their forthcoming release Free To Stay available for download! It's a great song & this is hard evidence that Smoosh is no gimmick. 12-year-old Cloe plays the drums, 14-year-old Cloe plays keyboards and provides the vocals. The album will be released on Barsuk Records, and the pair have a slough of tour dates support Eels starting in late May. Check out the song "Find A Way", and then head on over to their [...]