We All Want Someone To Shout For

The Vestals music video of “Perfect Pain” is just the band hunched tightly together, banging out an intimate performance of their incredible debut song, “Perfect Pain”. Aside from the image you see posted above, and the music video, a hazy cloud comes between us and the band. They haven’t revealed much about themselves other than what they have decided to share on their facebook, and tumblr. All I know is that they’re a 5-piece from South Wales.

They described themselves as an melancholic indie-pop band in their email to me. Don’t think any of us could argue with that. A modern comparison would be Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, but there is something about this band that makes them stand out from the rest of the crowd.

The Vestals come from that special breed of bands that come out of the gate holding their heads higher than the rest. This isn’t your normal debut single. No, this is something very tight, above the rest of the fold. I think these guys are headed towards big things. Don’t sleep on them.

[mp3]: The Vestals – Perfect Pain

Hit the jump to watch the music video for “Perfect Pain”.

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Gotta hand it to this young 18-year-old singer named Noah out of North Carolina. His cover of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know” rules. He made one of my least favorite songs and made it incredibly different and actually awesome. Boy can sing.

Watch his performance of the newly arranged version of the song below.

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I’m still enamored with the awesomeness of Swiss Lips previous release “U GOT THE POWER”, but have been awaiting some new tunes from the Manchester band. The band is back with “Danz” and it doesn’t disappoint.

This one’s eye is pointed straight at the dancefloor with plenty of power. It’s a song that leaves you with nothing to do but want to dance, and that’s exactly what you should do.

We can expect the bands debut album sometime in August. This one should keep you chugging until then. Watch the video below. It features a gandolf look-a-like busting some pretty incredible moves.

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Beast Make Bomb have released a new single with “Dream Boat”. It’s the first in a series of singles that Beast Make Bomb plan to release this year.

“Dream Boat” works off a truly 90′s sounding riff and molds it into a wide sounding little gem. More great stuff from one of NYC’s hardest working young bands.

[mp3]: Beast Make Bomb- Dream Boat

Baltimore, Maryland’s Dope Body have one mean tune with “Lazy Slave”. With some heavy, fast-paced guitar riffs it will have your heart pounding, fist clenched and blood pumping.

It’s taken from their 2nd album Natural History, which comes out on May 22 via Drag City. Download it below along with the slower paced, but equally heavy, “Weird Mirror”. If you’re really into them, the whole album is available to stream over at Spin.

[mp3]: Dope Body – Lazy Slave
[mp3]: Dope Body – Weird Mirror

The Static Jacks new single “Young Guns” comes from their new EP, Spray Tan, which just came out today. The New Jersey band has that edgy prideful New Jersey sound that I really have been falling in love with as of late. The music video features home videos of children, well, being children.

Find the video below. Head to their website to download the EP for free.
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The Walkmen’s new album Heaven is due out on Fat Possum on May 29. Right now amazon is has short preview snippets available to stream. Check it out right here.

The band started streaming new song “We Can’t Be Beat” last week. Listen to that here.

This September will see the release of Animal Collective’s new album, Centipede Hz. Last night the band posted a cryptic video on their website revealing the albums title and September 2012 release date (via Domino Records).

It also came with a bunch of names, that are likely the song titles. I have the video embedded below, along with the possible tracklisting. Note that “Honeycomb” & “Gotham” are nowhere to be found.

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“Jumanji” is the fiery first listen from Azealia Banks’ upcoming mixtape Fantastic. It features a worldly tropical production via Hudson Mohawke and Nick Hook.

The mixtape is due this summer, Banks will release her 1991 EP within the next month, and her debut album Broke With Expensive Taste is due in September. Get used to hearing from Banks, you’re going to be hearing a lot about her in the next few months.

Enjoy the awesomely fun “Jumanji” below.

[mp3]: Azealia Banks – Jumanji

Grimes new music video is for “Nightmusic” which features Majical Cloudz. It’s the 2nd video from Visions. Directed by John Londono, the video definitely has an earthly connection. The video is slightly NSFW so just a little heads up.

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