1. Patrick Wolf - Hard Times
"For me this video is my homage to two of my biggest heroes, Elvis Presley and Klaus Nomi." says Patrick. Klaus and Elvis are my hereos too, i love both of them so much. Now, we know why this Patrick Wolf guy makes great music.
Watch Hard Times.

2. Regina Spektor Video - Laughing With Video

3. Bat For Lashes - Pearl's Dream Video

4. Dizzee Rascal/Armand Van Helden - Bonkers

5. Mika - Lonely Alcoholic

6. Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin

7. Malcolm Middleton - Red Travellin' Socks

8. Mastadon - Divinations

9. Agnes - Release Me

10. Kasabian - Fire

Flashback Songs:
Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes - download from rapidshare
the song is from his self-titles (1985) album. Klaus Nomi is such a classic, revolutionary album which destroys all cliches on usual musical styles.

Elvis Presley - Summer Kisses Winter Tears - listen at youtube

The First Single of the new Placebo's album named Battle For The Sun. These guys are amazing, i'm totally loving the new album. It's been several weeks since the first release. However i wanted to mention and share this great song.

Plus, All fans signed up to PLACEBOWORLD will be recieving their exclusive code to access the World Premiere playback of the stunning new album 'Battle For The Sun' from here.

Placebo - Battle For The Sun

Click here to get ‘Lonely Alcoholic’, ‘Lady Jane’ and ‘Blue Eyes’ plus a digital preview of the ‘Songs For Sorrow’ book, featuring exclusive interpretations of each song by some of Mika’s favourite artists - click here for a sneak peek.

The physical ‘Songs For Sorrow EP’ - featuring four tracks and the beautiful, 68-page book - will be released on June 8th.

tracklist:
1. Blue Eyes
2. Lady Jane
3. Lonely Alcoholic

Fitz And The Dizzy Spells is actually an EP with the title track and the rest being reworkings of songs previously on the tracklisting for 'Noble Beast'. Official music video directed by Digitelio. Featuring Mucca Pazza and shot at the Hideout and various other locations in Chicago.

I sat and listened the whole Fitz & the Dizzy Spells Ep. One of the sadest moments of the Ep, Sectionate City makes your mind free with Andrew Bird's usual whistles and authentic instruments.

Andrew Bird - Fitz & the Dizzy Spells Video
Andrew Bird - Sectionate City

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Kasabian, to be released on 8th June 2009.

Kasabian will be releasing their new track Vlad the Impaler as a free download from Kasabian.co.uk for a limited period of 4 days only. The download will be available from 7:30 on March 31st until Midnight April 3rd only from Kasabian.co.uk.

The single is taken from their forthcoming album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, out Jun 8th and the first physical single release will be Fire, out June 1st.

"Fire" and "Underdog" Videos are avaiable at Kasabian official page.

mp3: Kasabian - Fire

1. Passion Pit - The Reeling
Stream songs at Passion Pit Myspace:
...read Manners Review.

2. Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin

3. Patrick Wolf - Damaris
Stream at Myspace.

4. Wilco - Wilco (The Song)

5. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

6. Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart

7. Röyksopp (Feat. Robyn) - The Girl & The Robot

8. Kanye West & Rihanna - Paranoid

9. Iggy Pop - King of the Dogs

10. Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
Stream: Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin

Flashback Mp3:
Human League - Rebound
A great tune from their Romantic (1990) album. I love 80s

Vocalist Keyboardist Spencer Krug of the critically hailed Montreal band Wolf Parade (as well as part time Frog Eyes member) leads Sunset Rubdown, returns another rock album with lots of lauds, dreams, bells, piano beats and a broken voice.

"Dragonslayer" grabs soul of rock music, throws indie waves with eight new songs. The piano parts rings in your ear, opener "Silver Moons" is maybe one of the best Sunset Rubdown work. Its laud, spicy beats do not change here, Idiot Heart is the first single from "Dragonslayer". Like a disco rock song, fast guitar lines echo through the song, and i must note his amazing keybord performance at the end of song.

His anthem-like indie rock style comes once again to disturb your usual taste in music.

Highlights: Idiot Heart, Paper Lace
Rating:6/10

mp3 download:
Sunset Rubdown - Black Swan

'Manners' is finally out, and Passion Pit does not disappoint! After building up inordinate amounts of hopes and expectations for this release I was excited (and relieved) by how strong the entire album is, and how well it lives up to the hype. While 'Sleepyhead' is as good as ever and 'Moths Wings' is still my favorite, I've added several new favs to that list. 'To Kingdom Come' is a stand-out and the opener 'Make Light' is a brilliant wake up call to this band's talent.

The songs waver between soft and soaring to glowing and ecstatic, but the album does not waver in strength. There are fun dance tracks here, and they live side by side with much deeper sonic pools. Each of the tracks is a delight to tumble into; synth beats swarm throughout, and falsettos are keen and howling. Lyrics are brilliant, and the depth of each song grows with every listen. It’s great to see a band touch on delicacy and beauty and then swing right into raucous and carefree abandon. There was not a single song I didn't love, and my admiration for this band has reached new heights. In short... this may be my pick for album of the year!

Crank this thing up loud!

10/10

Listen here:
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/1

Each track on Manic Street Preachers’ new album, “Journal For Plague Lovers”, is to be remixed for future release.

Following on from the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Mogwai, Stereolab, David Holmes, The Avalanches, Cornelius and Massive Attack, the Manics have given free rein to a diverse, hand-picked selection of studio hands.

The results range from a Public Image-meets-Charlie Watts cosmic disco stomp to a galloping Joe Meek goes shoegaze homage. The stellar cast of ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ remixers is:

Andrew Weatherall ‘Peeled Apples’
Saint Etienne ‘Jackie Collins Existential Question Time’
British Sea Power ‘Me And Stephen Hawking’
Patrick Wolf ‘This Joke Sport Severed’
Optimo (Espacio) ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’
The Pariahs ‘She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach’
Adem ‘Facing Page Top Left’
New Young Pony Club ‘Marlon JD’
The Horrors ‘Doors Closing Slowly’
Errors ‘All Is Vanity’
Four Tet ‘Pretension/Repulsion’
Fuck Buttons ‘Virginia State Epileptic Colony’
Underworld ‘William’s Last Words’
Jonathan Krisp ‘Bag Lady’

As for music, here's the previously mentioned track listing:

Wilco (the song)
Deeper Down
One Wing
Bull Black Nova
You And I
You Never Know
Country Disappeared
Solitaire
I'll Fight
Sonny Feeling
Everlasting Everything

More details to come very, very soon. In stores and on the nets June 30, at the latest. I've been listening new Wilco songs, and they're all lovely and powerful ones. I loved the flood of emotion in songs such as One Wing, Deeper Down, Everlasting and more.

WILCO (the album) consists of amazing eleven new melody. Check out show dates.

1. Maxïmo Park - The Kids Are Sick Again
Watch Video at Maximo Park Webpage
2. Patrick Wolf - Vulture (listen Vulture, Hard Times at Myspace)
3. Phoenix -1901
4. Passion Pit - Moth’s Wings
5. Coldplay - LeftRightLeftRightLeft
6. Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
7. Astrid Williamson - How You Take My Breath Away
8. She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here
9. Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
10. Lily Allen - Not Fair

I've been a long time fan since i first discovered her previous band Goya Dress. Brighton-based cult singer songwriter Astrid Williamson
marks the release of the 4th solo album at 8th June . Here Come the Vikings is a good rock record, blending its style in rock, pop, torch song and soul.

Here Come the Vikings is a bold, self-assured effort resplendent in detailed artful arrangements exploring the mysteries of faith, gender dynamics, and physical love. Even without the electric component, the music remains vivid and full of emotion. I hope she reach more of her listeners this time.

mp3 Astrid Williamson - How You Take My Breath Away

Myspace | Official Page

Joining to bands' email updates is so hot right now. Because you can download and listen their the newest songs by this way. And Coldplay's LeftRightLeftRightLeft is available for download at the band's site.

Coldplay - LeftRightLeftRightLeft

TORTOISE RELEASE BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP JUNE 23RD ON THRILL JOCKEY. FIRST FULL-LENGTH OF NEW MATERIAL IN FIVE YEARS. The great majority of artists spend their formative years, if not their entire careers, working to shake off the gravitational pull of their predecessors, and the many masters and masterpieces that came before them. Rare indeed is the artist who outgrows their early influences, and instead become one of the markers by which other groups are measured. Almost alone among bands of the last two decades, Tortoise is a group that resists easy metaphors and analogies, who can be described as sounding like only themselves and no one else

you can listen two songs "High Class Slim Came Floatin' In" and "Prepare Your Coffin" at Tortoise Myspace.

Japandroids (aka JPNDRDS) is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. I've discovered this band with a weird name Japandroids recently. And i got their recent album "Post-Nothing (Promo)", there is a song named as Young Hearts Spark Fire. A very great song, i mean. These days, it's hard to find the hooks like these, a very powerful single.

This 'band' started in 2006 as a creative outlet for the post-teenage angst of Brian King and David Prowse. Originally intended to be a trio, the boys decided to forgo the logistical nightmare of having a 'lead singer' and do it themselves.

listen:
Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
you can download and listen Japandroids music here.

myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/japandroids

Exclusive two disc (DVD/CD) U.S. edition includes a bonus 10 track live album recorded in Austin, Texas (exclusive to this release). At The Apollo is the first ever official live DVD release by the Arctic Monkeys. The 76 minute film documents the last gig of their 2007 world tour at the Manchester Apollo. It was directed by Richard Ayoade who has directed music videos for Super Furry Animals, Vampire Weekend and The Last Shadow Puppets but is better known as an actor in The Mighty Boosh and The I.T. Crowd. Disc extras include two bonus tracks, a split screen option for the first half of the film and a multi angle option with Matt Helders drum track.

mp3s:
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (live version)
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance (live version)

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Datarock to release "Give It Up" Ep Via Itunes On May19; With remixes from kissy sell out, fan death and chateau marmont and second album track, "True Stories"

Band to headline "spin magazine presents datarock @ the key club" june 13 in La in anticipation of forthcoming album red, out september 1.

Datarock's first video from their new album "RED". Watch here.

Give It Up - Single

Upcoming Datarock shows:
Friday, June 12 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Saturday, June 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Spin Magazine Presents Datarock @ The Key Club

Datarockmusic.com
Myspace.com/datarock

The Bachelor is set to be released by Universal Records on June 1. New record sounds authentic and poppier than previous Patrick Wolf albums.

A guest actress Tilda Swinton also appears on many songs such as "Oblivion","Theseus" and "Damaris. I loved her appearance. Each songs were written at two totally different times. You can feel this interruption in the middle of "The Bachelor". Some songs are amazingly great, however some of them have good reason to ignore listening, like every Wolf album. "Vulture" makes your whole spirit black, and i thought it would be a dark electronic album. However, first single "Vulture" is maybe the strangest one of all the new songs.

The artwork looks like a playstation 3 game cover. It's designed by Ada Zanditon and Gary Card.
I wonder what is the idea about purple magic light on Patrick Wolf's hands? Is he going to cast a magic spell on us?

Another nice Patrick Wolf album, i love his music despite all queerness.
Rating:9/10

Highlights: Hard Times, Oblivion, Damaris, Vulture

links:
Patrick Wolf - Vulture
Patrick Wolf - Magic Position

The New York Dolls’ second album since their reactivation five years ago is the return of Todd Rundgren as producer. Rundgren was behind the boards for their paradigm-shifting New York Dolls ’73 debut, and the group — whose sole still-breathing members from that first run are singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain — were wise to offer him a rematch. Unlike 2006’s uneven One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This, ’Cause I Sez So is not faux retro, and neither does it overreach in order to speak to 2009. It’s just solid, classic Dolls, with all the swagger, muscle, righteous kitsch, and ballsy defiance you expect, plus some new twists.

Listen their new songs on NYD myspace.

Download:
New York Dolls - Cause I Sez So

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Superman High Lyrics R. Kelly	Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) Lyrics Lady GaGa
I Don't Really Care Lyrics Ne-Yo	Boss Chick Lyrics Rasheeda
Kinda Like A Big Deal Lyrics Clipse	Masquerade Lyrics Backstreet Boys
If It Means Alot To You Lyrics A Day To Remember	Radar Lyrics Usher
No Denyin' Lyrics David Banner	I Wanna Know You Lyrics David Archuleta

I love music lists, here comes my favorite records in the first half of 2009.

1. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
2. John Foxx And Robin Guthrie - Mirrorball
3. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
4. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - S.T
5. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
6. Asobi Seksu - Hush
7. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
8. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
9. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
10. Fastball - Little White Lies
11. John Vanderslice - Romanian Names
12. Peter Bjorn and John - Living Things
13. Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo
14. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
15. Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart
16. The Rifles - The Great Escape
17. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
18. Franz Ferdindand - Tonight
19. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Out Of Noise
20. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix