Heads We Dance Remix Red Blooded Women & Depeche Mode Simultaneously!

Leeds electro group "Heads We Dance" return yet again with a remix of Red Blooded Women's cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence". They take the tune in a Pet Shop Boy's direction because they were inspired by their claiming the Lifetime achievement award at the Brit awards. If you're looking for an epic start to your Thursday, here it is!

Red Blooded Women - Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode Cover, Heads We Dance Remix)

The Kindness Kind Live @ The Crocodile, Seattle Video!

The Kindness Kind "Suckerpunch" from The Crocodile on Vimeo.

Up and coming Seattle band The Kindness Kind perform an acoustic version of their song "Suckerpunch". I particularly like the xylophone and the whistling. Pretty cool.

The Kindness Kind - Suckerpunch

The Ready Set Touring! New Single!

The Ready Set is Jordan Witzigreuter of Fort Wayne Indiana. His debut album "Tantrum Castle" is available at your favorite music retailer. Featured below is his song "The Scientist", which features pop punky vocals with the autotuner turned on high as a hamster dance backing track wiggles and explodes with joy.

The Ready Set - The Scientist

The Ready Set Music Myspace

Union of Knives Working on New Album with NIN Collaborator Atticus Ross!

Glasgow, Scotland indie group Union of Knives is back with a new album and a new single. "Doing Drugs" is a roaring and soaring new single that shows off an edgier sound that is probably in part to them working with Atticus Ross who has collaborated with Trent Reznor on many NIN albums as well as his own work. Union of Knives is the second band to turn to NIN personnel to produce their albums after Ladytron recruited NIN keyboardist Alessandreo Cortini to produce their 2008 album "Velocifero".

Union of Knives - Doing Drugs

Union of Knives - Redivider

Union of Knives Vs. Underworld - Doing Druxx

Union of Knives Myspace

The Hundreds and Thousands Release new Single "Rat Race"!

Canadian group The Hundreds and Thousands have released their debut single "Rat Race" from their Self-Titled Debut to be released May 26. The track has the galloping epic drama of Muse, some guitar work reminiscent of the razor sharp licks of Les Savy Fav, and good blue collar shouting backing vocals that should get the indie kids and the punk kids shaking their way to the dance floor. Is May here yet?

The Hundreds and Thousands - Rat Race

The Hundreds and Thousands Myspace

The BPA Offer Up Vocal Remixing Contest!

The BPA are offering up another delicious little contest, this time they've made a track and it's up to you to write the lyrics and sing them. For more details click here. What will they think up next?

The BPA - He's Frank (Ft. Iggy Pop)

Frantic Friday Mix & Wesley The Robot!

Wesley strikes back! Giant tentacled things should know better than to attack mild mannered robots...

Van*Gloria - Headstrong Gotham

Evening Magazine - 18 Wheels

The Rakes - The Light from your Mac

Daft Punk VS. Flapswitch - Work It

Red Blooded Women Vs. Designer Drugs - Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode Cover)

Transformer - Cinema Car [Tenth Dan + Riskotheque Rmx]

New Video & Album from Broken Spindles (Joel Petersen of the Faint!)

Introvert from Broken Spindles on Vimeo.

Joel Peterson, the driving force behind the low frequencies for The Faint has a new album out under his solo moniker Broken Spindles entitled "Kiss/Kick". This time around Petersen wraps a somewhat pop structure around his morbid sonic experiments. Sample a smattering of savory songs below.

Broken Spindles - Introvert

Broken Spindles - Everyone Wants to Fit In

Broken Spindles Website

Heroes of the Dancefloor Donate Proceeds of New Album to the Homeless!

Scissor Sisters side project Heroes of the Dancefloor has dedicated their entire album, "Torch", publication rights and royalties included, towards helping the homeless. The money will go to two NYC charities; Picture the Homeless and Coalition for the Homeless. The band was inspired to do this because the number of Homeless people in NYC has risen 11% and the number of homeless children in NYC has risen 14%. Suddenly thier name seems very appropriate.

Heroes of the Dancefloor - Some Scandal

Heroes of the Dancefloor - Hooky

Chiptune Cover of Blondie's "Atomic"!

"Atomic" cover by Glomag f. stealthopera @ Blip Festival 2008 in NYC from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.

I was looking up chiptunes software the other day and came across this. Pretty awesome.

Blondie - Call Me

Monday Mayhem Mix and The Return of Wesley the Robot!

Sound the bell! Wesley versus the octopus round one! Here are some slammin' tunes to uhh... watch Wesley get..er... slammed into the ground to...

Right Turn Left - Lost at Sea

Amazing Baby - Bayonets

Don Diablo - Teen Scream Machine

Don Diablo Vs Missy Elliot - Working is Overrated

Asobi Seksu - Familiar Lights (Twins Remix)

Pharcyde Vs. Ghostland Observatory - Passin' Me By (Dave Wrangler Myspace Remix)

Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Mr. Vega Remix)

Transformer Cinema Car [Tenth Dan + Riskotech Remix]

Crystal Fighters - I Love London (Kid Cola Remix)

Sportsday Megaphone's New Video & Single "Meet Me in The Middle!"

Hugh Frost of Sportsday Megaphone has been busy! Not only does he have a fantastic new video that starts off all cutesy that warps into something that might make all you bunny lovers a little queasy, he has a whole new album called "So Many Colours, So Little Time" which is chock full of electro/synth-pop goodness. If that weren't enough there's also a cornucopia of remixes and one excellent cover available below.

Meet Me in the Middle (Vincent Oliver Remix)

Meet Me in the Middle (David E. Sugar Remix)

Sportsday Megaphone - Ever Fallen in Love (Buzzcocks Cover)

Buy "So Many Colours So Little Time" @ Beatport

Orchestral Indie Pop! Emanuel and the Fear

Emanuel and the Fear is the product of Brooklyn based indie-popster Emanuel Ayvas and 11 of his orchestral minded buddies. Together they make some tunes with the propulsion of Ra Ra Riot and diversity of the Polyphonic Spree. Either way they're sure to help you keep your head up the rest of today, if not the rest of the week!

Emanuel and the Fear - The Rain Becomes the Clouds

Emanuel and the Fear Myspace

Shuttle Ft. Cadence Weapon, "Rotten Guts!"

Shuttle, a producer from Massachusets has a new EP entitled "Tunnel" coming out on March 16th, that features Cadence Weapon on the track "Rotten Guts." The tune might start off saying "No more bangers", but that's what the song turns into. Bon appetite.

Shuttle Myspace

Shuttle - Rotten Guts (Ft. Cadence Weapon)

Free! Throcke's "Sometimes Not Unpointful"

Chris Carson is a musician from Brooklyn who goes by the name of Throcke. His music is a collection of strange electronic sounds and fuzzed out vocals. For a limited time you can download his album "Sometimes Not Unpointful" for free at his official site. The album is something like a lo-fi combo of James Figurine and The Berg Sans Nipple. Act now before it's too late!

Throcke - Twigs

Throcke - Matriculate Yo

Dan Black of the Servant Returns!

Dan Black of the Servant has returned with a new single called "Alone", and I'm glad he's back. I didn't even know that The Servant had broken up, luckilly Mr. Black made up a substantial amount of the band's sound so his solo efforts are thoroughly satisfying. Let's hope that he doesn't leave us alone for a good long while.

Dan Black Myspace

Dan Black - I Love Life

Live! Stars at Ithaca State Theatre!

Stars graced the town of Ithaca with it's presence yesterday and I count myself fortunate to be among those who were present. The trip down was relatively painless despite the cold and a pit stop for an impromptu bathroom break in the creepy desolation of a roadside forest. I joined the throng of cleverly coiffed individuals making their way to the Ithaca State Theatre where Kevin Devine was already onstage amidst many instruments adorned in decorative flowers. He made his way through a spirited acoustic performance, pouring his heart out into two microphones, at varying distances for effect, even though the lights were still on and and most of the audience was still talking and drinking. He made several great attempts at connecting with the crowd though, one was by throwing out Sean Hannity's name for a laugh and coming up short. It was when the typical college doof shouted out "Freebird" that he scored. After responding; "Oh yeah, no one has ever requested that song before..." he began the first verse to joyous cheers from the audience.

Soon after, Stars took to the stage and all those college kids who had been drinking and socializing migrated to the front of the stage where Torquil Campbell, Amy Milan, and company launched into a rendition of "The Night Starts Here". Which was followed by a powerful performance of "Take Me To The Riot". The band paused for a moment for Torquil and Amy to connect with the audience. "This is our first show with President Obama!" exclaimed Torquil, "We're not far from you Ithaca, up in Montreal, we share your snow and your wind" Amy said before they played a few more songs off of their last full length "Our Bedroom After the War" and some new tracks off of their "Sad Robots EP". In between songs Torquil and Amy showed off their shimmering chemistry, reminiscent of Ana Gasteyer and Will Ferrell's High School music teacher characters, as they roughed out a request from an earlier album that wasn't nearly as embarrasing as Torquil thought that it was.

Flowers and petals regularly flew off the stage from various band members finding a break in their energetic songs to hurl them into the crowd. Stars were definitely having fun as they played their hits "What I'm Trying to Say", "Bitches in Ithaca (Or Tokyo!), "Ageless Beauty" and many more. Torquil in particular sprang around the stage engrossed in some meticulous mischief whether it was creating noise on a microkorg, melodica, or trumpet.

After they finished off their set, Stars left the stage to riotous applause from the crowd of college kids. Whose cheers morphed into the Queen "We Will Rock You" beat. The band took the stage once more to encore with "My Favourite Book" which led to a caucouphenous interlude into an epic turn on their tune "Calendar Girl" which ended with Torquil bouncing around the stage screaming "I'm alive!" Everybody in the Ithaca State Theatre that night was surely reminded that they were too.

Stars Myspace

Stars - The Night Starts Here (Blank & Jones Remix)

Stars - Sleep Tonight (Junior Boys Remix)

Ladytron announce Co-Headlining Tour with The Faint!

This is a hot little nugget of news that I have to share with you. This spring Ladytron and The Faint will be touring North America... together! The awesomeness is unfathomable to me at this point. Anywho, Ladytron will be releasing an EP of mixes from their last album Velocifero. In related Ladytron news, the band have been in the studio with Christina Aguilera helpering her to write new songs for her forthcoming album and in addition to the epic tour with The Faint the band is slated to DJ around the world and perform with Brian Eno and Depeche Mode.

LADYTRON and THE FAINT w/ FIGO (DJ Set):
Wed, Apr 1 - Milwaukee, WI @ Tuner
Thur, Apr 2 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Fri, Apr 3 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
Sat, Apr 4 - Chicago, IL @ Metrto
Mon, Apr 6 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix
Tue, Apr 7 - Montreal, QB @ Theatre Telus
Wed, Apr 8 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Fri, Apr 10 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Sat, Apr 11 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Mon, Apr 13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
Tue, Apr 14 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Wed, Apr 15 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
Fri, Apr 17 - Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
Sat, Apr 18 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
Mon, Apr 20 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
Tue, Apr 21 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's
Wed, Apr 22 - Dallas, TX @ Granada
Fri, Apr 24 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
Sat, Apr 25 - Anaheim, CA @ The Grove
Sun, Apr 26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda
Wed, Apr 29 - San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore
Thus, Apr 30 - San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore
Fri, May 1 - Portland, OR @ Roseland
Sat,May 2 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO
Sun, May 3 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore
Tue, May 5 - Denver, CO @ Ogden

WITH DEPECHE MODE IN EASTERN EUROPE
Sat, May 16 - Bucharest @ Parc Izvor
Mon, May 18 - Sofia @ Vasil Levsky Stadium
Wed, May 20 - Belgrade @ Usce Park
Thur, May 21 - Zagreb @ Arena

TOMMORROW EP TRACK LISTING:
1. Tomorrow (Jim Abbiss Radio Remix #1)
2. Tomorrow (Port-Royal Remix)
3. Tomorrow (Jeuce Rework)
4. Tomorrow (Vector Lovers Lucky Remix)
5. Tomorrow (Great Norther Remix)
6. Tomorrow (Album Version)

The Faint - The Geeks Were Right (Shadow Dancer Vocal Remix)

Ladytron - Tomorrow (Vector Lovers Lucky Remix)

Scissor Sisters Side Project: Heroes of the Dancefloor!

Heroes of the Dancefloor is a band composed of some members of the Scissor Sisters as well as some of their friends. Their music is exactly as that would suggest with a few jazzy touches. If you're looking for some unabashed disco goodness, look no further.

Heroes of the Dancefloor - Ricky

Heroes of the Dancefloor - Some Scandal

Heroes of the Dancefloor Myspace