Filed under: Audio, Internet, Windows, Freeware I wrote about LastSharp a while back - it's an application developed in C# that allows you to download tracks from Last.fm. If you'd prefer an option that doesn't require the .Net runtimes, there's Last.fm Music Downloader - which is also totally porta...

Handsome Furs' second album is being released today.  Short review -- very good album, not quite as good as their debut.  There aren't any real downspots on the album and the entire effort plays well throughout, but ultimately, I've heard too much else good from Dan Boeckner to call this one of hi...

Twenty-year old knob-and-party tweaker Kid Cola just completed a 12-track mixtape for this new UK-based (Cola's home country too) website called Trouble Stereo, whose aim it is to combine all sorts of talent from a huge amount of genres and release playlist after playlist for their reader's appetite...

In all honesty, none of this really needs much inspirational descriptions from us here, because, well, just look at the four tracks that the dudes in Mustard Pimp have decided to remix.  Also, the original track from the duo, "Valium", is slithery and acid-tongued. (mp3)    Mustard Pimp - Valium...

Somewhere between the black of angular post-punk and the white of subtle, dreamy indie pop lies the grey area that the London band Your Twenties inhabit.  The band, just for your own bullet-pointed reference, features Gabriel Stebbing of Metronomy.  The guys also have a supreme literacy of their p...

Premature?  Yes.  But after a shitty week of work and travel and driving all the way to and from the middle of Pennsylvania today, I was delighted to see the temperature had climbed above 60 degrees and with daylight savings this weekend (move your clocks ahead!), spring and summer are just around...

The 12", entitled Play Music, will--after too much talk and not enough listening--be out next week, with a physical release for the CD set for April 7 (check in on Shelflife.com to get in on it earlier).  The digital tracks are already up on iTunes.  The three-piece American/Swedish band now livin...

With the first single off an EP called XoXo (set for April release), "Do The Criminal", the Canadian young man who calls himself GoldenGirls creates the sort of hyped up, minimal, pogo-inspiring synthpop that brings out the listener's love of casio hums and the glee of teenage innocence.  Combine t...

(photo by Phil Knott) Everybody and their mothers, brothers, etc. has been raving about this new single from Paris rockers Phoenix, "1901".  And, well, since we're one of them and since we just got this toaster-hot remix from our favorite Athens son Immuzikation, we think you'll get an even further...

Zodiac Cartel (a name that any comic book geek would recognize) is as secretive a DJ/producer as you can get.  For one, most of the "photos" you'll find of him (we've been able to confirm that, at least) are, obviously, not him.  They're of fellow comic book supervillain General Zod.  Also, he's ...