As a huge fan of The National (and ok, ok, a fan of Barack Obama - this is a music blog after all, what did you expect?), I found this video by Existenz of OldManMcCain.com to be one of the best montage/music videos I’ve ever seen on Youtube. Even if you are not voting Obama [...]

Someone posted on the youtube page below this video calling it “lousy.” Liz thinks you’re crazy.
Pitchfork.tv debuted this video yesterday. One of the best songs of the year from one of the best albums, The Walkmen’s interesting silent horror video (featuring Nosferatu?) fits this echoed, vintaged track to perfection. Hamilton Leithauser scratches his way through [...]

I first heard this somewhat raunchy new Common track a couple of months ago, and I liked it. “Announcement” off of Common’s upcoming album, Invincible Summer, is produced by The Neptunes and features Pharrell in his fly BBC Ice cream. Yum.

Mog.com is streaming a leak of another new track, “Dancing Choose,” off of TV on the Radio’s upcoming third full length, Dear Science. From what I can gather between this track and “Golden Age” (the first official single off of the album), this record is taking a bit of a different direction as far as [...]

Kanye West is on a roll with this video thing, what with getting shoveled to death by a hot chick and doing a bunch of other weird stuff in the other versions of “Flashing Lights.” He also seems to have a thing for animation, puppets, and spaceships. While it’s been pointed out that you can’t [...]

T-Pain never bought me my drank (even though I heard him say he would about a billion times last summer), but the new video for the single, “I Can’t Believe It,” is making me feel a little better. Lil Wayne’s part on this track is a kinda strange (there he is again). In fact, the [...]

John Legend performed his new track, “If You’re Out There,” for the first time ever last night at the Democratic National Convention. The political message is less corny than Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” (and worlds away from Dave Stewart’s cheese-fest). You can watch a video of Legend’s performance from last night here, and download the [...]

The Game LAX
The Game’s third full length album, with the single, “My Life,” featuring Lil Wayne (what isn’t these days?). The album features production by Kanye West, Cool & Dre, Scott Storch, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, and many others. The Game has also called this his final album.
Woodhands Heart Attack
Debut album by the Canadian electro-pop band. [...]

Talib Kweli and David-David-David Banner will hook up for a co-headlining tour this fall. Talib Kweli is supporting his latest album, last year’s Eardrum (one of the best hip hop albums of 2007), and Banner is supporting his brand new record, The Greatest Story Ever Told,  which features the single “Shawty Say” featuring Lil Wayne. [...]

You made a cool record, you have cool black and white videos, and you’re riding cool bikes. I get it, you’re cool. BTW: New video for No Age’s “Goat Hurt” off their Dead Plane EP (released last year), and according to the band’s official blog, “is also available shortly on a limited edition 10″ that [...]