When you go the MGMT website to download their new song, Flash Delirium, take a moment to gaze at all of the doodled band logos circulating on top of the page. There are some really cool ones. I think my favorite is the sunglasses. There's one where the letters are melting into a puddle that is pretty cool to. Just remember to not forget the free song. It's great.
Have you seen the new music video from Neon Trees and their track Animal? This time around the Utah pop rockers take over an art show. Where everyone happens to be an animal!
In the 21st century digital world, where the most popular form of buying music is illegally downloading it for free, MGMT is providing an incentive to purchase their new compact disc in a 'pre-sale'. Pre-sale opportunties are interesting to record labels because file-sharing sites and teenagers laptops aren't filled with the new mp3s.
Congratulations pre-sale purchases come with a bonus, really cool, collectable coin and 32-page booklet. And the cover is interactive in the form of scratch-off technology.
I feel like back in the '90s record labels would charge you at least 20% - 100% more for collectable items like this. But now when competing with consumers who will rob them blind, the price remains at the affordable $13.00. Here is a demonstration video they made:
The indie electronic artist from England known as Dan Black just released his debut album ((UN)) in the United States. If you live in California, and near a Best Buy, you can get it pretty cheap - thanks to a few radio stations. At the San Francisco Best Buy it's $1.05 (Live 105), in Los Angeles it's $1.06 (KROQ 106.7), and in San Diego it's $0.91 (91X). Those assholes in San Diego get the best of everything. Sun, nine-cent cheaper CDs.
Murdoc Niccals of the Gorillaz has revealed why he is stuck out on the Plastic Beach, where floating silcone implants are mistaken for jellyfish and green fog surrounds the island. In nonspecific fearful detail Murdoc claims "One of the reasons I’m out here….I…I …something. Something happened out in California…"
"I got chased through the desert. Shot at! Bullets flying everywhere!! And now I’ve seen the footage!!! It’s….IT’S HIM!!!"
They were nominated for 'Best New Artist', along with Silversun Pickups and The Ting Tings, and Keri Hilson, who all came up short when the Zac Brown Band won the prize.
"I try to do it whenever I can. I'm going to Costa Rica to surf this Sunday. I love it and it's definitely a theme on 'Congratulations'. There's one song called 'Siberian Breaks', and it's about 12 minutes long. It's kind of like eight different songs strung together into one, and the general theme is about surfing in the Arctic Circle by Russia."
- Andrew VanWyngarden talkin' 'bout surfin' 'n music.
Our cartoon friends the Gorillaz have returned for twenty ten. The Brits will be headlining one day at a wonderful California music festival, and have a new album coming soon. The first song, Stylo, from that album, Plastic Beach, can be heard at this very moment. Just need to head over here.
Chicago indie - electro band Hey Champ has reinterpreted 10 songs by artists like The Cool Kids, Passion Pit and The Sounds on a new mixtape called Winner's Circle. Plus a new sound on the guys original hit 'Cold Dust Girl'. Go download Winner's Circle on their website heychamp.com asap.