Blog: Buzz Bands

[Birthday wishes go out today to Karen O ...] Top 3 shows/events for your divergent musical interests: ► New Zealand quintet the Naked and Famous (taken from a Tricky lyric and not the Presidents of the United States of America song) seem to have taken MGMT's ball and run with it. Well, the part of MGMT that made the radio darlings, that is. TNAF's debut "Passive Me, Aggressive You" [ stream it here ] is packed with day-glo synth-pop that'll stick [...]

• Dar Williams - If I Wrote You (Acoustic Version Revisited)