We All Want Someone To Shout For

I got a pair of tickets to giveaway for The Henry Clay People + The Dig at The Mercury Lounge on October 16th. Both are bright young bands who you shouldn’t miss. All you got to do to win is leave a comment below telling me how you found my blog. I’ll pick a winner with the coolest answer within the next week. Sound cool?

Unfortunately all Mercury Lounge shows are 21 and over. So just make sure your old enough to enter, please. Good luck to all!

Here are songs from both bands to give you a taste, if you’re unfamiliar:

[mp3]: The Henry Clay People – Something In The Water
[mp3]: The Dig – You’re Already Gone
[mp3]: The Dig – Two Sisters In Love

Also, here is a video of The Dig played “Sick Sad Morning” live at The Mercury Lounge:

“Sick Sad Morning” by The Dig @ Mercury Lounge NYC from VVUSIC on Vimeo.

Today Does It Offend You Yeah? released a new song called “We Are The Dead”. It’s set to come off their new album Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You, which should come out next year.

The band gave the song away for free on their website along with the following message:

Hey! We’ve been writing an album for nearly two years, whilst trying to fit in touring as well. It’s been a rollercoaster ride for us with ups and downs (as well as lefts and rights).We’re just in the final processes of putting the album to bed, so as a treat to you guys who’ve supported us at clubs and festivals all over the world we’re going to give this track + remix parts away for free.. (Shhh don’t tell our label). All we’ve got to do now is wait on a few sample clearances and go to mastering.

This track is called We Are The Dead. It’s been through more re-writes than the “Ghostbusters 3″ script.We hope you like it, we’ll post more details on our new album “Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You” soon.

So this isn’t the final version, but it will certainly do for now. It starts uncharacteristically calm, but don’t worry, things then kick off into the bands murky electronic territory. Really good sounds coming out of this band. This one should kill live.

Download it for free, below:

[mp3]: Does It Offend You Yeah? – We Are The Dead

Big bass grooves and sexy female vocals are what you get from Miami Horror’s (aka as Lebron/Bosh/Wade) “I Look To You”. It features Melbourne’s Kimbra. Check out the music video below:

“I Look To You” is taken from their debut album Illumination, which came out last Friday.

The dark mysterious sounds of Burial’s song “UK” from Untrue have been used in a pretty cool unofficial spot for the sunglass company Ray-Bay. Credit goes to production company Fortune Films. Watch the clip, below:

We got a new song from El Guincho’s new album Pop Negro called “FM Tan Sexy”. This is a fine follow-up to the excellent “Bombay”, another song off the album. The tropical electronic feast is a lot more clear and concise than what we heard on his last album, Alegranza!. I’m certainly more favorable towards his current sound. It’s colorful and full of live. Those beats are quite nasty.

I saw this thanks to One Thirty BPM.

[mp3]: El Guincho – FM Tan Sexy

Pop Negro is coming out on September 14th via Young Turks.

I got a pair of tickets to give away for The Black Angels secret show on September 7th. All we know is that it’s going to be in a very special lower Manhattan location. This show is a special, invite only show, so this is a pretty sweet deal. Even I have no idea where the location will be. Luckily I have a week off from school that week (so early, I know!), and will be able to attend the show.

The show will be in celebration of the band’s new album, Phosphene Dream out September 14th via Blue Horizon Records. Posted below is “Bad Vibrations” from the album:

[mp3]: The Black Angels – Bad Vibrations

You can win tickets by commenting below. I will pick a winner tonight, so you best be quick.

Why is this soo funny and catchy?

After a news clip showing Antoine Dodson’s outrage over his sister almost getting raped, The Gregory Brothers who have a youtube show called Auto-Tune The News noticed a hidden melody within the way Dodson spoke. They added some auto-tune and now they have a hit on iTunes. Gotta love technology.

[mp3]: Antoine Dodson – Bed Intruder Song (Autotune)

You can buy it on iTunes right now.

Libertines fans have been waiting a while for this:

It’s a photograph taken at their “rehearsal gig” for their upcoming Leeds & Reading comeback festival performances. It was taken by NME’s Matt Wilkinson. Hopefully all goes well so they can come play in America. Would make my life, that much better.

Thanks to Steve Bennett for sending it my way.

If you missed it, you can hear a new solo song from Carl Barat called “Run With The Boys”.

“Gonna Beg You” is a song from The Bird Day’s debut album Collect Vibrations. The Bird Day are a band located in Buffalo, New York who have certainly caught my attention. “Gonna Beg You” is a mesmerizing piece of guitar rock that has its fair share of electronic tricks. With an addicting guitar riff coinciding with their organic vocals, there is plenty of good going around. All the pieces come together to combine into a song with tones of allure. Just when you think it’s over, they kick things back in for a slight tease before really ending it. Perfect.

There is no reason for the band to beg you for attention. They have certainly earned it with a song as good as this:

[mp3]: The Bird Day – Gonna Beg You

Collect Vibrations will be released soon the band says. Stay updated on their on goings on their myspace or twitter. Keep an eye out.

What’s with music videos with weird creatures dying? First it was Yeasayer’s video for “Madder Red” and now we got MGMT’s “Congratulations”. It features the band walking in the desert while their camel-like animal literally falls apart. Mildly disturbing? Yeah. It’s very MGMT.