Blog: an acceptable racket

After releasing their self titled EP this spring, Brooklyn based band Suckers are set to record their debut full length next month after signing to New York label Gigantic . For more head to their myspace , and be sure to look out for a remix of It Gets Your Body Movin by Yeasayer's Chris Keating.

Washed Out - Belong This is a bit too summery for the autumn we're slipping into lately but if it's as sunny with you as it is with me today just remember that it's the weekend and turn it up. If you want to hear more from Washed Out head this way or that and if you'd like something else to wrap your ears around try the excellent gorillavsbear .

Basement Jaxx feat. Kelis, Meleka & Chipmunk - Scars

I hadn't expected to be excited about the new Twilight film, and to be fair I'm still not, but have you seen the soundtrack?! most ridiculous, and ridiculously worth getting your hands on. Tracks come from Death Cab for Cutie, Thom Yorke, Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear and this most immaculate song from Bon Iver and St Vincent. If it's still Sunday with you, put it on repeat. Bon Iver and St. Vincent - [...]

There has been alot of good albums out this year but there are a few I'm still waiting on. Most will probably be edging in on 2010 for a release date (LCD Soundsystem, New Young Pony Club) but there is some brightness in our near futures. Tegan and Sara's follow up to 2007's The Con, Sainthood is due for release on the 27th of October and even nearer than that, first single Hell has just been released on iTunes. [...]

Pheonix - Rome (Neighbors with Devendra Banhart)

Jack Peñate's Pull my heart away, released last month and comes with Jamie from the XX's remix. Both are pretty nifty, and i'm a little startled at how much Jack Peñate's new stuff is growing on me... Jack Peñate - Pull My Heart Away (Jamie XX remix) I had a chance to see The XX live a couple of weeks ago, glad that [...]

I am slowly but surely falling in love with St Vincent... New video for Marrow premiered on Stereogum today, well worth checking out.

Jack Peñate's Pull my heart away, released last month and comes with Jamie from the XX's remix. Both are pretty nifty, and i'm a little startled at how much Jack Peñate's new stuff is growing on me... Jack Peñate - Pull My Heart Away (Jamie XX remix) I had a chance to see The XX live a couple of weeks ago, glad that [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, times are busy but there will be a bigger post later this weekend... and this for now. This wasn't initially going to be an Emily Haines centric post, but she would seem to be the common element. First comes the video for Games for Days, from Interpol front man Paul Banks' new project, Julian Plenti. The album Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper is out now. Anybody with an appreciation for Interpol should have a listen , similarities are many. Secondly comes [...]

This is what I was witness to on Wednesday night... and in honor of the fact that I finally got to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs live... some footage of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs live, for your viewing pleasure. From 2002, BLACK TONGUE from the ISIS ep DOWN BOY Last but not least, constant favorite and show closer, MAPS.

Directed by Alma Har'el, the excellent new video for Beirut's Concubine. One for repeat.

What happens when you combine something as spectacular as this or this with something as awesome as this something like this happens... Simian Mobile Disco feat. Beth Ditto - Cruel Intentions If you have an appreciation for either be sure to check out Simian Mobile Disco's Temporary Pleasure released this week, and if you still haven't invested in Music for Men, you really really should.

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Gold Panda's Back Home, now with equally excellent video. If you like this and would like to call some of Gold Panda's stuff your own, go here and purchase the MIYAMAE EP, or the Quitters Raga 7" out now on Make Mine, recently reviewed most favorably by Pitchfork. Gold Panda - Quitters Raga you start to wonder if the [...]

The Drums - Let's Go Surfing

Empire of the Sun celebrate the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century in spectacular style. For more, head this way .

Miike Snow - Burial

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One of the first bands I ever wrote about on anacceptableracket back in 2007. If you're a fan of Ladyhawke or Empire of the Sun try and track down Thirteen, released back in 2006 and well worth it.