So far the videos from Brendan Canning's Something For All Of Us... have found the Broken Social Scenester running for his life in the woods and battling Kevin Drew. BC's also at the center of this Shelley Lewis-directed "Love Is New" clip, as the amp-toting and sparkling-sneakered star of his own T...

San Diego BTW Crocodiles evoke Jesus & Mary Chain, VU, and the Spacemen 3 with their stripped-down, dark noise-pop, but the duo is one of our favorite new bands because they write super songs, not because I'm obsessed with Darklands: It's one thing to own a good set of influences, another thing enti...

Finn Andrews recently performed an acoustic set of songs from the Veils' forthcoming third album Sun Gangs at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts in London. We posted Sun's post-punked, Wire-inspired "Killed By The Boom" a couple of weeks ago. "Scarecrow" is a quieter, more fragile offering. And not ...

Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry had a lot of fun with their half-naked Face Control promo pics. The duo bring a similar energy to the video for one of the album's standouts "I'm Confused." The clip, directed rather excellently by Scott Coffey, starts out like a standard house party performance, but th...

When we prematurely praised It's Blitz!, we noted Karen O sounds more commanding than ever. The retooled instrumentation (icy and fuzzed analog synthesizers, skittering electronic beats) puts her square in the spotlight -- a radio-ready post-punk diva, or whatever -- and it works. The Barney Clay-di...

Haa, well Mastodon really went for it with the first Crack The Skye clip. In a Progress Report they told Jessica the album would be a "combination of 'brutal,' 'fucking' and 'epic,'" and that the record would be "dissecting the dark matter that dominates the universe, in a nutshell." The Roboshobo-d...

The first single from Vetiver's Sub Pop debut is a straightforward and breezy little jangle-pop ditty, coming from a crew which has gotta have a sense of humor (of people who can tolerate Devendra, I assume it must be so), so I'm glad to see it get a video this playful. The story about a hardluck lo...

No secret we've been excited about this one for awhile. And as the band blogged, it's no secret that a transcode of the album is burning up torrent sites a bit earlier than anticipated. On the other hand, between live shows and television appearances, the wait for a Yellow House followup's seemed in...

Although they never seem to be too far from each other, the She and the Him reunited last night for a few songs during M. Ward's very sold out show at Henry Fonda Theater. Matt ran the spread, from whisper quiet "Hold Time" to rollicking "Roll Over Beethoven," but naturally it was Zooey's (somewhat)...

When affixing a BTW to Oakland's Clipd Beaks, we said upon first listen "you might think about Liars trying to belt their tribal, Kraut-y Drum's Not Dead or Liars material from a sinking ship," adding that their compositions include "a noise-rock's sense of scree and jagged, Sightings-style DNA-peel...