Live: Unicrons label launch party this week + win tickets

This coming Friday, Brooklyn's own Famous Friends are throwing a little bit of a rager to celebrate the label launch of San Francisco-based Unicrons, who'll be sending two acts from their roster (Robbers and Futuristic Prince) to help in the fanfare this coming Friday …

News: The Very Most to release new EP, Spring

Days like today, when that goddamned groundhog sees his shadow (seriously, when was the last time you remember it not being like that), need pleasant pop music to get you through.

News: New Cursive record out next month

The new, sixth studio record forthcoming from Cursive finally has details!

News: Please help J Dilla's mom fight lupus

In one of the most shocking turn of events in recent memory, the same disease that took the life of J Dilla three years ago, lupus, has apparently struck the late rapper's mother.

Video: King Khan and The Shrines played Amoeba Records in-store

The California icon of record stores got turned topsy-turvy by King Khan and The Shrines recently when the band came by to play a blistering garage rock set.

Download: Don Diablo - "Black Heat"

Here's a skronk and synth soaked banger for your Monday blues, straight from the mind of Don Diablo, one of Amsterdam's newest hot tickets.

Download: Faunts - "It Hurts Me All The Time"

A new single from the dazzling, guitar-and-synth-heavy soundscapes of Faunts is not only never a bad thing, it's also one of the things we've been looking forward to in advance of the release of the band's new full length, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of., which we're still …

Video: Benjy Ferree - "When You're 16 (acoustic)"

Recorded at the LES bar Heathers by the good kids over at FADER, Benjy Ferree's album track "When You're 16" (off of Come Back to the Five and Dime Bobby Dee Bobby Dee, out tomorrow via Domino) is nothing more than a plaintive lament about coming-of-age and, well, for …

Download: The Answering Machine - "Another City, Another Sorry" + tour dates

Following in a line of humongously talented punk-inspired pop bands from the UK (cf. The Rakes, The Futureheads, et al.), Manchester-based The Answering Machine are a perfect dose of straight-ahead, fun-as-shit rock 'n' roll.

Video: Shiny Toy Guns - "Ghost Town"

Looking distinctly like they both kidnapped the art director for MXPX circa 10 years ago and the cartoonist for those Esurance ads, Shiny Toy Guns (complete with new female singer Sisely Treasure) released a video for their new single "Ghost Town" a few days ago.

Video: The Von Bondies - "Pale Bride" + lots of news

One of the unsung stories (footnotes, really) of the early 2000s garage rock revival, The Von Bondies, have consistently played to their strengths.

Photos: The Golden Filter make their US debut

In what's become one of the best mysteries in the electro world over the last nine months or so, the identity-hiding disco pop group The Golden Filter have been able to catch the attention of much of the blogosphere without even a bio.

Download: The Ropes - "Water And Headphones (Mr Vega remix)"

In October, we added NYC's alternative rock duo The Ropes to our class of "emerging" artists, seriously falling for singer Sharon Shy's incessant and sultry coo.

Download: Congorock - "Exodus (Boy Boy remix)"

(photo by Giorgia Malatrasi)

Our good friend Boy Boy (one half of Sweden's The Chimney Climbers who just recently made the move to Brooklyn aka Mecca) about a new remix he just completed of Congorock, an Italian whose been cause for a lot of hype lately.

Download: Tittsworth - "WTF (feat. Kid Sister & Pase Rock) (DJ Wool remix)"

Another sign of life from the just-moved-to-NYC half of The Glass, DJ Wool.

Download: Tennis - "Dancing On A Knife (WOW remix)"

Two weeks ago, the WOW track "Future Ghost" was covered by fellow Australian jangle-poppers Tennis and now, the favor is returned.

News: Now, Now Every Children almost crack CMJ's Top 50

One of our most favorite of band crushes from last year, Minneapolis trio Now, Now Every Children have something to seriously celebrate.

Live: Razorlight to play February dates in the US

If "Wire To Wire", the first song to be released from Razorlight's upcoming third album, Slipway Fires, is to serve as anything, it's bright and sparse piano-ballad-devoid-of-everything-else tone instantly reflects lead songwriter Johnny Borrell's increasing amount of …

Live: Pendulum chart a course for a US takeover in March

What we like most about Pendulum is that it's fairly easy to pigeonhole them ("they're drum n bass", "they're rock") and at the same time, it's impossible to look at them from only that one point of view.

Emerging: Novel

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