Yesterday we told you about LP3, the new album from Ratatat (make yo neck snap back, fool!). The album's first single, "Shiller", builds slow, mincing haunted-house keys with baroque harp and other blippity bloops. Picture Joanna Newsom (not singing, ... more >>

The English Beat's ode to self-reflection is set to a skiffling ska beat and a tight bassline that out-"Watching the Detectives" Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives." Plus, singer Dave Wakeling is playing a guitar that

If he weren’t such an impressive musician dude, scruffy Brit Jamie Lidell would be a hell of a bank robber. Why? Well, he’d probably get away with it, for one thing. And judging from the 10 slickly produced tracks on JIM, he’s definitely smooth enough to jive his way out ... more >>

M.I.A. @ the Fillmore, Detroit, MI - 5/8/08

Man, the Faint gotta be pissed. What, with all the Cut Copys and Presets out there, jacking their sound. The Faint were ripping off Depeche Mode first, goddamn it! Now they’re back, with a new-wave juggernaut they like to call Fasciinatiion, their first since 2004’s Wet From Birth. It comes ... more >>

Not to be confused with the Archie Bronson spinoff group Pyramids on Domino, or the 1960s surf band the Pyramids (big single: "Penetration"), this Pyramids hails from Denton, Texas, which apparently has been uprooted from the surface of the Earth and is now floating on the jet stream, making its ... more >>

"Sunrise" seems to work better outside of Debt Dept than as part of it. It helps to have an awesome time-lapse shot to daydream to while you're smoking whatever Excepter does, of course, and maybe after all

"The night belongs to you and I," Julian Hamilton sings drolly on "This Boy's in Love," and the line's followed by the chorus, sung in falsetto and matched to a descending flutter of keys that sounds like champagne flutes clinking in the night.

It might be cool to be good at Guitar Hero, but it's cooler to be great at actual guitar. Take the Old Haunts' Craig Extine, for example, who shreds and squeals through this song with the fluidity and Adventure-ism of

"No time like the present to get RIPPED APART!" Mudhoney was fucking with everyone even when they were getting paid.

Let's hope this is the beginning of a full-length friendship. At only three tracks, this set from Detroit combo Zoos of Berlin barely counts as an EP. That's physically. When everything else is counted -- the "feel" points -- they've made what amounts to the ... more >>

Drive-By Truckers and Dexateens @ the Crofoot Ballroom, Pontiac, MI - 5/6/08

Word on the street is that they took “miracle cold buster” Airborne off the market for being a placebo. Good thing, then, that noise-mongers Health are hitting the road, bringing remedy through rock, and not