Photos: Girls & Boys on February 6

We know guys, you've been waiting on these for what seems like forever, but give us a little bit of a break.

Video: Sportsday Megaphone - "Meet Me In The Middle" + new remixes

Koalas, puppies, windmills, candy canes, flying scissors, seesaws, baby deer and an underground meat factory.

Emerging: Golden City

Oh no he didn't.

Photos: Steam Machine on February 5

Boasting nothing but a good time, the kids came back once again to Happy Ending for Steam Machine, the weekly party we hang out at (which, if you follow this site/us at all you'd already know that).

News: Dave Wrangler finishing work on album + new remix

Dave Wrangler, the bro-looking awesome remixer from Houston just sent us over a new remix and a message about his status in putting the finishing touches on the Heads Up Houston album, which is comprised of Houston
artists--both mainstream and underground.

Download: Ida Maria - "l Like You So Much Better When You're Naked (The Lowbrows remix)"

(photo by Susan Hildebrant)

Here's a sugar sweet, really rad remix of the Norwegian pop shouter Ida Maria (who just recently made news by winning the "Best Newcomer" category at Spellemannsprisen, the Norwegian Grammys as well as being recognized by Time magazine for

News: Propagandhi do a "donate to download" business model

Never ones to ride behind the cusp of new ideas, the dudes in Canadian political-skate-punk godfathers Propagandhi have teamed up with three of their favorite charities in a "donate to download" ploy.

Photos: Unicrons Launch Party on February 6

Unicrons, the San Fran-based independent music label, threw a party alongside our pals in Famous Friends this past Friday night at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, bringing from their stable the alternative-90s-emo Robbers [insert as many references to Jawbreaker, …

Download: DJ Morsy - "On Fire!"

One of our favorite soft-spoken party DJs (trust us, he lets his mixes do the talking), DJ Morsy, founder of the DJ collective NANA CHILL, has been gaining a reputation across the globe for shaking up the dancefloors.

Download: Ricky y Rulo turn Buenos Aires upside-down

Buenos Aires-based electronic duo Ricky y Rulo (real names Hernan and Tomas) may now be living in Amsterdam tweaking and perfecting their sound, but the remix work they've done thus far has its roots completely in the soil of Bangersville, USA.

Emerging: Golden City

Oh no he didn't.

News: One For The Team record Daytrotter session

One of our favorite acts of the last year, Minneapolis indie pop band One For The Team, played a four-song set for the Internet mainstay (dudes, make sure you go to this site on the regular).

Download: Kitsune releases the Pioneer sampler

French on-the-cusp-of-everything label Kitsune (cf. Guns'n'Bombs, We Have Band, La Roux, Cazals) has joined forces with Gen-Y-ish Scion to release a new sampler for 2009, which they've titled Volume 23: Kitsune Pioneer.

Video games: Does being great at "Guitar Hero" really mean anything?

We've been wondering this, if only because it shows, yet again, that people who want to live vicariously through their rock 'n' roll idols have been able to since the beginnings of the "Guitar Hero"/"Rock Band" age really can sort of go and gain marginal amounts of fame for it.

Live: WAVVES playing NYC three times this weekend

(photo by Alex Miranda)

The fuzz-pop 22-year-old who's responsible for the best thrashy tracks we've heard lately, WAVVES, is finally playing New York tonight and this weekend for three Todd P-curated shows. The second LP from the California kid, WAVVVES, will be out …

Photos: PRP at Le Royale on February 4

With just-recently-overage rager upstarts Skitsnygg, Anton Glamb and Sean Wilson at the helm, a new bi-monthly party debuted at Le Royale on Wednesday night (the party itself happened only once before--in Williamsburg), what turned out to be one of the coldest nights …

Live: Foals to share the stage with Bloc Party + new remix from The 9000

Foals, a band it seems we cannot stop thinking/blabbering about lately, are set for higher marks this coming April as they've been pegged by the boys from Bloc Party as openers on two back-to-back nights at the Olympia in London.

Download: N.A.S.A - "Whatchadoin (David Starfire remix)"

Epic banger times nine from remixer David Starfire.

News: The Memories Attack just released their sophomore record

If you're like us, and by that we mean you're constantly seeking out melodies that sound like they were made in the 90's and you just sort of missed them, you'll instantly be caught by the tracks we're about to bestow upon you from The Memories Attack.

Video: Dan Black - "Alone"

As unlikely a pop star as we think we can get in 2009, Dan Black first rose to semi-prominence last year with the epicly appreciated "HYPNTZ" video/mash-up.