WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - KINGS OF LEON

And now you can watch the world premiere of "Radioactive" from KOL!!

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - LAND OF TALK

Land of Talk have unveiled the music video for “Quarry Hymns,” the second single from their recently released new album Cloak and Cipher (Saddle Creek). 

Check out the new video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8KSJ_zyzk

Directed by Land of Talk regular Joseph Yarmush, the video was filmed at the Ukranian Federation in Montreal’s Mile End and produced by Petros Kolyvas. Using the theme of “Cloak and Cipher” as a springboard, the video evolved over the course of shooting much as the creation of the song itself, incorporating imagery from the songs lyrics which were penned brilliantly by Land of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell. 

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - KT TUNSTALL

"Fade Like A Shadow" is the latest music video from singer KT Tunstall. I like this video and this song is pretty catchy. I saw her a little over a month ago at the Hotel Cafe and it was more of an acoustic thing, which I like, but I must say I like the more upbeat KT!

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - MGMT

"CONGRATULATIONS" is the new video from MGMT. Thoughts? Like the song! Video...not so much! You decide, check it out!

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - THE CHAPIN SISTERS

Chapin Sisters - "Digging a Hole" from Mog Dotcom on Vimeo.

With less than a month till their sophomore record, Two, hits stores, The Chapin Sisters have released their latest single, "Palm Tree". Heartfelt and earnest, the song illuminates the sisters' signature harmonies and beautiful compositions.

Abigail and Lily will continue to showcase the new record into the fall, as they embark on their own tour, as well as continued support for She & Him (as both openers and part of their backing band). They will also celebrate the new record with two album release shows in both San Francisco (9/15) and their hometown of Los Angeles (9/16).

Two drops September 14th courtesy of Lake Bottom Records. Here is the brand new video for their single, "Digging A Hole."

Upcoming Tour dates:

# opening for and part of She & Him's back up band
! The Chapin Sisters only

August
25 Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room (opening for Jackie Greene)
26 Salt Lake City, UT - Twilight Music Series (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
28 Omaha, NE - Anchor Inn #
29 St. Louis, MI – St. Louis, MI (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
30 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater (part of She & Him’s backing band only)

September
1 Nashville, TN - The Ryman Auditorium (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
2 Nashville, TN - The Basement
3 Atlanta, GA - The Red Light Cafe !
5 Los Angeles, CA - LA Times Food and Wine Festival (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
15 San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord !
16 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo ! (album release show)

October
9 New York, NY - City Winery (John Lennon Birthday Benefit)
12 Portland, ME - One Longfellow Square !
14 Shelbourne Falls, MA - Mocha Maya
15 Boston, MA - The Red Room
17 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Music Festival (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
22 Portland, OR - Arelene Schnitzer (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
23 Seattle, WA - 5th Avenue Theatre (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
24 Vancouver, BC - Orpheum Theatre (part of She & Him’s backing band only)
25 Arlington, VA - Iota Club & Cafe !
27 Charlottesville, VA - Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar !
28 Philadelphia, PA - Tin Angel
30 Easton, MD - The Nightcat !

November
1 Pittsburgh, PA - Thunderbird Cafe !
2 Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark !
3 Kent, OH - The Kent Stage
4 Oberlin, OH - Cat in The Cream Coffeehouse !
5 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern !
9 Zumbrota, MN - Crossings at Carnegie !
10 Minneapolis, MN - Dakota Jazz Club !
13 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club !
14 Evanston, IL - S.P.A.C.E !

http://www.myspace.com/thechapinsisters
http://www.thechapinsisters.com

F**K YOU

the best song i've heard all day! new Cee Lo Green...ENJOY!

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS

Thirty Seconds To Mars - Closer To The Edge

Thirty Seconds to Mars | MySpace Music Videos

Thirty Seconds to Mars who were just nominated for four 2010 MTV Video Music Awards premiered the new video for their latest single “Closer To The Edge” today. The latest video from the band is already added on MTV Network’s MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits and TR3 with spins beginning on Tuesday, August 17th.

The video directed by Bartholomew Cubbins was shot live in 89 cities throughout 27 countries during the first leg of the band's hugely successful "Into the Wild" world tour where they played in front of over 1.3 million ecstatic fans. A second U.S. leg of the tour will begin on August 30th in Syracuse, NY. A complete list of tour dates can be found at www.30secondstomars.com.

It was announced last week that the video for the first single “Kings & Queens” from the band’s new album This Is War was nominated for Four VMA’s including Video of the Year, Rock Video of the Year, Director of the Year and Best Art Direction. The “Kings & Queens” video was also directed by longtime Thirty Seconds to Mars collaborator Bartholomew Cubbins. Both “Kings & Queens” and the album’s second single “This Is War” both reached #1 on the alternative radio airplay charts, giving them a total of three #1 singles. They recently won the 2010 Kerrang Award for Best International Band, their 4th career Kerrang Award. The band has also previously won an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV EMA’s, an MTV Latin and Asia Award and a Fuse Award.

WORLD PREMIER VIDEO - ANGUS & JULIA STONE

I love, love, love this song...so I was thrilled to hear they just released a brand new video for their single, "Hold On." I was even more thrilled to actually see them in the video this time!

IT'S FRIDAY. TIME TO DANCE.

Kids of 88 - Downtown (Official Video) from Dryden Street on Vimeo.

Kids Of 88's released their new video for "Downtown." Having just supported Passion Pit in Auckland and Scissor Sisters in Australia, the band is gearing up to release their debut album Sugarpills - out in Australia and New Zealand on August 16th through Dryden St.

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - M.I.A.

M.I.A. has a new video!! The video is for her single "XXXO" and it's a lot lighter than her last one. Check it out!

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - SARAH BLASKO

Whimsical Australian indie-pop/singer-songwriter, Sarah Blasko is back with a new video for the song "No Turning Back".

TODAY, Sarah Blasko’s haunting new collection of songs, As Day Follows Night (Dramatico Records), hits stores stateside. As Day Follows Night was produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn, and John, who has also worked on records by Lykke Li, Shout Out Louds, and Primal Scream.

The album has already been on quite the ride around the globe, cementing Blakso as a sensation in her home country of Australia, where she’s earned multiple Australian Recording Industry Awards. After receiving massive praise when the album was released in the UK this past Spring, the singer and songwriter has her sights set on the US – keep a lookout for tour dates to be announced soon.

Album is avialable now from AMAZON.COM



Blasko has also recorded a cover of “Seems Like Old Times,” a song performed by Diane Keaton in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.

Sarah Blasko "Seems Like Old Times" (Annie Hall) by Sneakattackmedia

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS

I'm loving this band and their new video for their single "Pigeons." It's off their upcoming debut release The Hundred In The Hands.  If you don't know this band, get to know them!  They are going to be opening on some of The Temper Trap dates this fall.

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - CRASH TEST DUMMIES

Wow, it's been a minute since we have heard anything from this band. Well, maybe they released some stuff in the past few years, but I haven't heard anything out of them.

Anyway, here is a brand new video from the Crash Test Dummies. It's called, "And It's Beautiful off their upcoming new record, OOOH LA LA.

**NOTE** It's been 6 years since last release!

The Crash Test Dummies continue to garner critical praise upon the release of Oooh la la!, their first record in six years, out now on Deep Fried Records. Lauded by the Huffington Post as “intelligent and humorous,” the Washington Post notes that the “quirky instrumentation certainly makes for a group that's enjoying itself.” The album features frontman and driving creative force Brad Roberts—best known for 1993’s platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated God Shuffled His Feet and the ubiquitous hit “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”—teaming up with co-writer and producer Stewart Lerman (Antony & the Johnsons, The Roches) to write and record 11 tracks conceptualized using `70s-era analog musical toys.


The seeds for Oooh la la! were first planted when Roberts and Lerman became infatuated with vintage analog musical toys, particularly one manufactured by the Mattel company called the Optigan (an acronym for “optical organ”). Using celluloid discs, the Optigan projects the sounds of other instruments with different sets of keys triggering chords and individual notes. The discs, with names like “Nashville,” “Swing It!” and “Guitar Boogie,” rotate to produce different arrays of sounds. The process is eerily similar to the digital sampling that is so common today, but the antiquated analog system produces quite a different effect. “Because we wrote using these discs, we were inspired to do things that we wouldn’t have done,” Roberts points out. “I don’t write big band style, but all of a sudden I had this big band [on disc], so I’m writing in a genre that I normally wouldn’t be writing in. I can’t say enough about how great it is to write on these toys.”

The Crash Test Dummies first rose to prominence while based in their hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1991 with their Juno Award-winning debut album, The Ghosts that Haunt Me, featuring their first hit single “Superman’s Song.” Their 1993 breakout record God Shuffled His Feet has sold over five and a half million copies worldwide and the single “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” peaked at #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart. Oooh la la! is the band’s ninth record, following 2004’s Songs of the Unforgiven.

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - TWIN SHADOW

Twin Shadow 'Slow' (NSFW) from Twin Shadow on Vimeo.

Modeled after Calvin Klein’s super-creepy 1995 porno audition ads, dreamy-eyed new waver Twin Shadow’s positioning himself as an unlikely sex symbol, singing longing, desperate love tracks while still letting his denim vest be totally objectified like it’s a pair of gams. Directed by Alex Markman, live drumming hasn’t been this sensual since “The Spirit of Radio.”

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - BAND OF HORSES

Band of Horses have a brand new video for their single, "Laredo." This song is off their latest album, INFINITE ARMS. It was filmed in Pioneertown, CA, not a shot was shot in Laredo!, the video features a collage of video desert scenes -- open highways, cacti, mountains, stars -- that accompany a loose plot about a man seeking his lost love, a woman in a bright red sundress. Footage of the quintet playing the melancholy track at local watering hole "Pappy and Harriet's" is intercut.

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB

Here is the brand new video for "Come Back Home" from Two Door Cinema Club. The band is currently in the UK touring pretty heavily with stops at some of the major festivals. They will be back to the states in October.

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - HENRY CLAY PEOPLE

The Henry Clay People premiere "Your Famous Friends" this week. They also release "Glory" on Aguarium Drunkland's LA Music Tribute of Television's L'Adventure and add more dates with Silversun Pickups.

Due out June 22nd: L'Aventure-- A Los Angeles local sampler featuring eight L.A. bands each covering a track off Television's second LP, 1978's Adventure

Following up last year's RAM On LA, Justin Gage of Aquarium Drunkard, gathers up eight of his favorite L.A. artists in an effort to highlight Los Angeles' disparate music scene.

L'Aventure will be a suggested‐donation digital compilation with 100% of proceeds going to the Silverlake Conservatory of Music similar to RAM on L.A. which benefited No More Landmines.

About Silverlake Conservatory of Music:
The mission of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a non- ‐profit organization, is to facilitate basic music education. Our primary focus is on the youth of the community but all are welcome and encouraged to participate. The Conservatory offers private music lessons at a reasonable cost and grants scholarships to children in need, providing free lessons and instruments. The study of music enriches the life of the student as well as the community and society.

TELEVISION ‐ L'Aventure

01. Glory - The Henry Clay People
02. Days - Foreign Born
03. Foxhole - The Happy Hollows
04. Careful - Local Natives
05. Carried Away - The Deadly Syndrome
06. The Fire - Imaad Wasif (featuring Lykke Li)
07. Ain't That Nothin' - Dirt Dress
08. The Dream's Dream - Growlers

Summer Tour With Silversun Pickups

June 23rd - Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall
June 24th - Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theatre
June 25th - Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Waterfront
June 27th Boston, MA - Landsdowne Street
June 28th - Philly, PA - Great Plaza at Penns Landing
June 29th - Toronto, ON - The Sound Academy
July 1- Lansing, MI - The Loft *with Against Me
July 2 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore
July 3 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
July 4 – Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
July 16 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel
July 17th Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
July 19th - Austin, TX - Stubb's
July 20th - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
July 21st - Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom
July 23rd - Columbia, MO - Mojo's
July 24th - St Louis, MO - Live on the Fair St Louis
July 26th - Denver, CO - The Fillmore Auditorium
July 27th - Salt Lake City, UT - The Rail
July 29th - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
July 30th - Spokane WA - Knitting Factory
July 31 -Seattle, WA - The Paramount Theatre
Aug 2-Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Resort & Casino
Aug 3 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre
Aug 6th - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
Aug 7th - San Diego, CA - Soma
Oct 9th Austin City Limits

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - NEEDTOBREATHE

NEEDTOBREATHE is touring in support of their current album The Outsiders, and just performed at Bonnaroo this past Thursday.

The South Carolina-based rock outfit consists of brothers Bear and Bo Rinehart and childhood friends Seth Bolt and Joe Stillwell. The Outsiders was released last summer to universal critical acclaim and a top 20 debut on the Billboard 200. Be captivated by their ability to mend warm, organic textures to their powerful brand of skyscraping, heartfelt rock. With The Outsiders, NEEDTOBREATHE has truly come into their own, seamlessly blending ambient, arena-ready soundscapes with a decidedly Southern sensibility.

In 2006 the band released their major label debut, Daylight, and had a relentless, national touring schedule. NEEDTOBREATHE returned the following year with The Heat, which went to #2 on the Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart thanks to the top 10 Triple A hit single, More Time. The song was also featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture P.S. I Love You, where it was the most downloaded track on the collection.

For more information regarding NEEDTOBREATHE, please visit www.needtobreathe.net/ or www.myspace.com/needtobreathe

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - FANFARLO

Fanfarlo has just debuted their new videos for "Fire Escape," directed by Jamie Thraves (Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay).

The UK five-piece will release their new digital-only "Fire Escape" EP on July 13th. In addition to its title track, the EP also features exclusive new remixes of the single by British folk-rockers, TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek, The Horrors, Toro Y Moi, and Tom Elmhirst.

Don't miss Fanfarlo at this year's Bonnaroo, performing tomorrow, Thursday June 10th at The Other Tent from 4:15-5:15pm.

Then click the link to watch the video for "Fire Escape" with the alternative ending.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnhUmwVTxzI

WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO - THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS

Brooklyn duo The Hundred in the Hands have premiered a video for new track ‘Tom Tom’ (directed by Ben Crook) today at the Fader, as well as giving away the track “Ghosts” (the first song the duo ever wrote together as The Hundred in the Hands) at their website, http://thehundredinthehands.com/.

Both tracks are taken from their EP This Desert, released last week and described as “an absolute pleasure” by Drowned in Sound and given “two thumbs up” from Time Out London. You can sample the EP here (with a little help from Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash): http://bit.ly/9JvqJj

The band follow the EP with a slew of worldwide tour dates and festival slots, kick-starting things with a US tour in June supporting Golden Filter before moving through Europe and the UK towards the release of their debut album in the Autumn. A list of dates is below, with many more to be announced in the coming weeks.