New video for Kids by MGMT. There's a lot of angles I could take to describe it...a satire on contemporary Sunday morning cartoons, an acknowledgment of '80's TV generation, just a straight up-trippy-as-balls day in the life of MGMT.
I recommend you be the judge.

www.whoismgmt.com

Joke's On...Me?

NME recently posted on the new side project from production wiz, DangerMouse. His newest musical endeavor, you ask? A partnership with London-based folk singer, Helena Costas, who together have produced 14 tracks under the moniker, Joker's Daughter. Combining traditional folk guitar arrangements with sweeping strings, synthetic squeaks and pops, and stripped down production, the album plays out like a sign of orchestral futures to come.

You can preview the album here.

Heavy Cross - Gossip

Ever since I stumbled upon this band by throwing the Live In Liverpool DVD on my PlayStation and watched Beth Orten gyrate through an intense of stripped down club rock, wearing pretty much only a tinsel wig, I know I was privy to something special.
The first single from their upcoming album, Music For Men, is Heavy Cross. Check the vid & get excited for the pending release.

Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up

Sunny Side Up is the follow up full length to the well received debut LP These Streets, which featured the obnoxiously catchy "New Shoes." I was recently handed the new album and on my first listen through I'm already intriged by the growth and diversity within the first 4 tracks. "Growing Up Beside You" is a shuffling ballad with feathery backing vocals and a bouncing snare beat.
The same acoustic sounds we've become accustomed to on Nutini's debut LP return with an added depth and a slightly more ambitious and polished effort. His uncharacteristically-aged raspy voice fits nicely with slide guitar on the track "Candy" and the album plays out like a tribute to Paolo's most influential singers and songwriters.

Here's a live rendition of "10/10," the first track from Sunny Side Up, from BBC's - Late Night with Jools Holland.