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JanuaryJan 13 Tuesday 09
Tours: The Shaky Hands to open up for Meat Puppets
For the entire leg of west coast dates this coming month, Portland, OR-based indie rock troupe The Shaky Hands has the honor of opening up for the Meat Puppets on their tour in support of Rise To Your Knees, which came out in 2007 and was the first material from MP since 2000.
News: Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Pearl and Johnny Rash back in action?
Not long since the break-up that shook our world last year, Be Your Own Pet's lead firethrower Jemina Pearl and drummer/too-boyish-to-be-grimy-garage-rock Johnny Rash are back, in, well, some way, shape or form. A cryptic MySpace page exists for the two of them under …
Live: The Rub invades S.O.B.'s this Saturday
We had way way fun at the holiday party thrown by DJ Ayres, Cosmo Baker and Eleven a little while back and we're stoked that the boys are bringing the hooks, pops and locks over to S.O.B.'s this coming Saturday, January 17.
Download: Hostage - "The New Gun" + playing NYC soon
Oh snap do we have an awesome track for you guys.
Download: Jemex - "Dance Till Day"
We'll always have a soft spot for funky, blissed out 2-step garage beats and R&B melodic vocals, which makes loving this track from Brooklyn-based producer/artist Jemex pretty easy.
Download: More tracks from Tigersapien's EP
(photo by Gregory Keith)
Proving that the top of the game will (perhaps) be in their ownership in the very soon future tense, the dudes from Tigersapien have just released unto the world yet another track from their eponymous EP and, what's this, a remix from Designer Drugs?
Download: Little Pictures - "Buddy Holly (Weezer cover)"
(photo by Dan Batkin-Smith)
New Zealand awesome-pop group Little Pictures covering any Weezer track ever (well, maybe anything before Make Believe) is like a meeting of after school clubs, all braces-filled smiles and sharpening number two pencils.
News: Patrick Wolf to work with Tilda Swinton on new album
(photo by Ingrid Z)
Gingers unite!
Photos: Girls & Boys on January 9
Russell and Matt from Bloc Party stopped by Webster Hall on Friday night to throw down a set of awesome banger faves circa 2001-2007.
Tours: The Shaky Hands to open up for Meat Puppets
For the entire leg of west coast dates this coming month, Portland, OR-based indie rock troupe The Shaky Hands has the honor of opening up for the Meat Puppets on their tour in support of Rise To Your Knees, which came out in 2007 and was the first material from MP since 2000.
News: Darren Keen releases Slumberparty Record tomorrow
(photo by Jess Ewald)
Short songs: big in 2009.
Video: Database post teaser to debut record + cover Digitalism
The boys in Database have nothing but good things coming to them in the next year, with the impending release of their first-ever full length, which now has a title: Noise Frequency Processor, not to mention a snazzy video teaser to pump its release.
Download: Cape Town's Lapse makes wild remixes
(this photo had this orientation so we left it alone)
Lapse is nothing more than what Hipster Runoff would call an "altBro" from South Africa who likes to get behind the turntables and throw down bangers at parties.
Video: Robyn stops by the Cherrytree House
The most amazing indie pop goddess Robyn stopped by the offices of Cherrytree Records recently and the guys at the label finally put the teaser video up for the full length performance.
JanuaryJan 10 Saturday 09
Live: The Submarines announce tour dates with The Morning Benders
(photo by Orrin Anderson)
Everyone's favorite iTunes App Store soundtrack band, The Submarines, are heading out to play gigs for, wait for it, you, me and the bourgeoisie.
Download: We Plants Are Happy Plants
Earlier in the week, we posted a remix that the Budapest-based We Plants Are Happy Plants (WPAHP) did of fellow Hungarian electro heads Tits & Clits.
Video: Excepter - "Waiting For A Bus"
Spontaneous and bored, the kids from swirly, avant, rhythmically-moving outfit Excepter were hanging out in Chinatown in LA recently and were, well, waiting for a bus.
Live: Cubic Zirconia are a band (that you should totally see)
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Lockhart (PPP fame) along with Nick Hook and Todd Weinstock (of Men, Women, and Children) have joined forces into a Voltron-like organism they've dubbed Cubic Zirconia.
News: Thursday reveals a bunch about the new record, Common Existence
The record, titled (duh) Common Existence, has an official release date of February 17 and you can get in on the pre-sale right now over at Epitaph for only ten bucks.
Photos: Steam Machine on January 8
After a year-end break, the dudes at Happy Endings Thursday night takeover, Steam Machine, came back for their first party of 2009.