If this is the real deal, it doesn’t look pretty, folks…
We’re going to have to think REAL hard to make it through the Kraftwerk and Animal Collective conflict.
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This has “shittastic” written all over it.

It’s one thing when our perception of the 1980s comes from professional, over-zealous music videos. But when a home-grown, self-made video masterpiece comes to our attention, the result is a magical mix of cheese factor and all-around awesomeness.
The now defunct Eta Delta chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity at the University of Southern California performed [...]

In the world of the music festival, the acts billed toward the end of any lineup tend to get overlooked, pushed aside, and forgotten by the average concert attendee. For next weekend’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, a handful of the festival’s smaller acts might succumb to the same fate billed against major acts [...]

We’re huge fans of The Velvet Underground, and this video featuring the band performing a snippet of “Venus in Furs” not only marks the band’s film debut in a CBS news documentary on Piero Heliczer and New York underground film, but also paves the way in awesometastic dance moves.
Fast forward to 0:35 and check out [...]

Well, what did we tell you? Brooklyn-based psychpop dreamboats MGMT have completely taken over the indie music scene since the January release of their official debut album Oracular Spectacular—and, newsflash, they’re not just popular with the cool kids.

Bandmembers Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden captured the attention of media moguls and music lovers alike during their performances [...]

The long-awaited Water Curses EP from Baltimore experimental ethnoclash poster children Animal Collective does not hit American shelves until May 5th. That, however, did not stop the slimy tentacles of the Internet from grabbing hold of the four track sampler and dispersing it across all music-centric exits on the Information Super Highway this morning.

Water Curses is, as the EP’s [...]

Last night, Omaha, Nebraska tap-dancing, stomp-and-clapping, sparkletastic darlings, Tilly and the Wall, returned to Los Angeles for the first time since Spring 2006, performing to a sold-out crowd at the Echo in Echo Park.
The band—featuring regular members Neely Jenkins, Kianna Alarid, Derek Pressnall, Jamie Pressnall, and Nick White, as well as a visiting guitar player [...]

Our friends over at New Division Records are gearing up to officially launch their website and are releasing a bunch of super awesome records! Our favorite of the bunch is by electropoppers Pizazz Musiq, who has placed this teaser video up on YouTube in support of their debut album, Ultra Super Turbo.

We will be sure [...]

The darlings of the 80th Annual Academy Awards—Once stars and winners of Best Original Song, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova—will bring their Oscar-hailed mellow melodies to the Empire Polo Fields this April, performing during the first day of Coachella 2008.

Billed as “The Swell Season,” the acoustic folk duo blends traditional indie rock elements—guitar, piano, overlapping harmonies, [...]

Omaha, Nebraska natives Tilly and the Wall are hitting the road in a few days and are set to release their third album on Saddle Creek’s baby sister label, Team Love, this summer. What a better way to bring a little Tilly back into our lives than a brand new, totally neontastic, Katrina-esque music video?
The [...]