February 24th, 2010

According to a recent tweet by the artist known as @_M_I_A_, her new album may be out as soon as June. She recently posted a video for one of her new tracks “Space Odyssey,” which she also used her Twitter account to announce. Who needs public relations anymore? Check out the video [...]
February 20th, 2010

If you’ve read my list of the Top 50 Albums of 2000-2009, then you’re already aware that I’m a pretty big LCD Soundsystem fan, and if you haven’t, get ready for a major spoiler alert – their most recent album, 2007’s Sound of Silver, is #1 on the list.
According to a recent interview with NME, the group [...]
February 19th, 2010

Four Tet
There Is Love In You
(Domino) 2010
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By the time the hypnotic female vocal sample crept into the mix about 30 seconds into “Angel Echoes,” the appropriately titled opening track of There Is Love In You, I was totally sold on Four Tet. Despite releasing four albums and several EPs under the Four Tet [...]
February 18th, 2010

The above image is the cover art for Congratulations, the new MGMT album due in stores on April 13th. If you pre-order now you can get a limited edition CD or vinyl with a “scratch off front cover” and “custom metal coin.” I’m not kidding. As for a first single, the group said in a [...]
February 17th, 2010

If you love big dumb guitars and fist pumping, and who doesn’t every now and then, you’ll probably enjoy West Palm Beach export Surfer Blood. They are a brand spanking new band, which you can clearly tell from this Polaroid photo I got off their MySpace page (as counterintuitive as that may seem), and [...]
February 8th, 2010

Sometimes there’s a man… I won’t say a hero, ‘cause, what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man. And I’m talking about the Murph here. Sometimes there’s a man, and well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s James Murphy, in [...]
February 7th, 2010

No. 50
The Horrors
Primary Colours
(XL) 2009
No. 49
Nas
God’s Son
(Columbia) 2002
No. 48
Midlake
The Trials Of Van Occupanther
(Bella Union) 2006