JanuaryJan 21 Wednesday 09

Don't worry guys, our spell-check was on.

And just like that, Max Justus, the genius-level composer of too much awesome music to fully realize right now, has done something so epic, so beautiful, so heartbreakingly astonishing, we are in a 100% love affair with him right now.

There's an immediate sense of whimsy and escapism in Via Tania's track "Wonderstranger", almost certainly set out to grab your attention like the clockwork ticks within.

Berlin, Germany's nu-yacht rock (trademark pending) group The Whitest Boy Alive return this year with their sophomore album, Rules, released on their own label, Bubbles.

The second record from Brooklyn's Soft Black, The Earth Is Black, was allegedly inspired by a series of dreams (well, nightmares) that principal songwriter Vincent Cacchione had before setting out to record the disc.

House legend Roy Davis Jr. gets remixed by French touch legend Fred Falke.

The Golden Filter, the most anonymous of bands to come through our speakers as of late, will finally have their great unveiling next Friday, January 30, at New York's Le Poisson Rouge venue, alongside HEARTSREVOLUTION and Pink Skull.
The night before MLK's holiday (which we had off this year, yes!), the kids from Mean Red and Good Peoples threw another Korrupt party in a Dim Sum restaurant in the upstairs of a mini-mall right under the Manhattan Bridge, with special guest DJ sets from the Throne …
The new single from The Prodigy's next record, Invaders Must Die, is called "Omen" and it's already got itself a video.

Confusing song title and all, this track, from the UK-based power-pop-obsessives Favours For Sailors, is all gleam and sheen and "whoa oh oh!"s.
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Valerie Collective from western France will be making their first-ever US and New York City debut this Friday at Webster Hall, mixing up a toxin of synths, sci-fi and sequencers.

(photo by Mathieu Zazzo)
The Rakes, as we're sure you've already been made aware, have a new record coming out in March called KLANG.

The only way that the dudes in The American Dream Team know how to send a congratulatory pat on the back for the newly minted President of These United States (name change pending) is, of course, a fresh new remix and a fresh party.

New York's Mr Vega is at it again today with this new treatment of Phillipa "Pip" Brown aka Ladyhawke's debut single, "Back Of The Van".
JanuaryJan 18 Sunday 09

This is the definition of an epic banger, an instant classic, a memorable jam that is so good it makes you want to start the day (or end the night) with. The dudes in Montreal-based party-hyping crew BSBTRGDCLUB take on Electrika, and while we can't understand a …

The former Three One G act (now on Metal Blade Records) and one of the most amazingly hardcore, purpose-filled acts to ever come out of San Diego, Cattle Decapitation, have posted their latest album, The Harvest Floor, in full for you to stream.

Shwayze, one-time MTV-show-having playboys and top-40-chart-wreckers, are coming through New York City to play Webster Hall's new, hottest ticket, The Studio.

Prepare to get punched in the face, get your toes stomped on, sweat like never before and maybe have one of the most fun nights of your life.