Have you listened to Wallpaper.'s "Txt Me Your Love" and thought, "you know, I could totally remix this, get famous, get chicks and beat Ricky Reed to the punch".]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:38:44 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087354 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087353

Sporting everything that's really quite wrong/right about the university freshmen experience, newcomer-white-not-nerdcore-rapper Asher Roth's new clip for "I Love College" is a geek's wet dream of what life will be like at 18, and an 18-year-old's dream of what it should've been like.]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:38:44 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087353 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087352

Well, Happy Valentine's Day to you too, Sam Bisbee.]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:38:43 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087352 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087351

Welcome to the new alley kids.]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:38:42 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087351 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087350

We can seriously never go to Happy Ending again.]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:38:42 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1087350 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1086234

An overly synthetic tone surrounds every second of this remix, brought to you by the Hungarian duo known as Dirty Monkeez.]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:29:22 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1086234 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1086233

Last Saturday night (we know, we've been terribly behind on posting photos lately) saw the "soft" opening of 303GRAND, a new revolving "pop-up storefront" in Williamsburg run by the guys at Street Attack and Famous Friends.]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:29:21 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1086233 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1086232

Goddamn these guys The Young Punx are everywhere: on the lips of your favorite tastemakers; in the ears of world famous DJs and producers; on stage at venues around the world.]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:29:20 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1086232 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1085011

March 3 sees the release (finally!) of the long-awaited second album from Canadian repetitious word and synth band Shout Out Out Out Out, a disc called Reintegration Time.]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:24:38 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1085011 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1085010

The Paris-based threesome of Thieves Like Us (though none are actually from France...two are originally from Sweden and the other hails from the US) are finally releasing their first album, Play Music, in the US next month and to coincide with the news, they've released a new album track called "Miss You", which you'll only get here and on the disc on March 10.]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:24:37 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1085010 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083525

We're not going to lie.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:05:51 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083525 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083524

In a move that's as free as it is important, non-profit IntraHealth International has partnered with musician/humanitarian Youssou N'Dour on a new charity EP titled OPEN Remix, benefiting a new initiative created to address the most critical health issues in Africa by putting the latest open source technologies directly in the hands of health workers.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:05:50 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083524 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083523

But seriously Snow Patrol.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:05:49 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083523 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083522
(photo by Victoria Jacobs)

So there's still not much to talk about other than inklings of more news for the upcoming debut LP from psych-rock-glam band Amazing Baby (who you either really love or really hate, apparently), but we're happy as hell to be bringing you guys the first track to be released that will definitely be on the album, a strings-and-pomp romper called "Bayonets", which has crescendos aplenty and soaring, spaced-out instrumentation all around.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:05:48 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083522 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083521

March 3 sees the release (finally!) of the long-awaited second album from Canadian repetitious word and synth band Shout Out Out Out Out, a disc called Reintegration Time.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:05:47 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1083521 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082404
(photo by Deneka Peniston)

Twee band alert you guys!]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:50:09 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082404 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082403

Toronto dance-punk duo Woodhands create the sort of dirty, slithering electro that is unapologetic (like most music should be), and we can't help but fall in love with them for it.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:50:08 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082403 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082402

Here's a rad as shit new banger that tears up the old conventions of "big beat" styles, pulsing and pounding your mind with drums, blips, effects and sirens.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:50:07 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082402 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082401

Okay, but seriously, this is all we need to say: holy god.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:50:07 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082401 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082400

We know guys, you've been waiting on these for what seems like forever, but give us a little bit of a break.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:50:06 -0800 http://virb.com/thatdudejeff/posts/text/1082400