First Ryan Gosling breaks up a street fight in New York City, and now he’s wearing leather gloves in an action movie? Just plain unfair.
Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, stars Gosling and an awesome soundtrack featuring French electro and a Cliff Martinez score. My Poproks is giving away a prize pack that includes [...]

Mark Ronson’s Record Collection has been out for a few weeks now – but if you’ve been silly enough to still not have a copy (see examples of your silliness, below), you should probably enter this contest to win a free CD.
To enter, simply tweet @mypoproks with your favorite collaborator from the album (psst, Q-Tip [...]

It’s been a bit of a slow week on My Poproks (for various reasons involving GRR ARRGH), but I’m going to attempt to make up for that before the weekend officially arrives. I wasn’t able to make it out to Florence + the Machine’s recent LA dates (3 sold out shows at the Wiltern – [...]

Chiddy Bang did a lot of things correctly right off the bat. Their tracks sampling MGMT’s “Kids” and Passion Pit’s “Better Things” (also Sufjan Stevens and Radiohead), were basically irresistible to music blogs/the internet, and quickly led to success in the UK and US. Their debut EP, The Preview, is out now via EMI.
The hip [...]

It would seem that MGMT are in on it. Between not playing any of their beloved singles at festival appearances (though, my sources say they did do “Kids” yesterday at Bamboozle), to “not giving” a “sh*t” if people say the album sucks, to letting that weird wide-eyed guy steal the show on their SNL appearance, [...]

Christian Scott, the New Orleans jazz trumpeter who recently released a mesmerizing cover of Thom Yorke’s “Eraser,” has a new record out on Concord Jazz, and an upcoming show at The Roxy in LA with Raul Midon. The album, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, was produced by legendary jazz engineer Rudy Van Gelder, and is a [...]

Heligoland is Massive Attack’s upcoming 5th LP (spent most of yesterday on their site listening to new tracks and that “Pray For Rain” Goldsworthy remix), and My Poproks is giving away 2 copies on CD courtesy of the wonderful people at FILTER.
If you’d like to win a copy, comment on this post with a link [...]

It’s true, The Mars Volta are up to LP5. I’m not exactly sure when that happened, but I think it was around the time that Cedric Bixler Zavala was talking about possibilities of an At the Drive-In reunion and bla bla new album bla bla. What was that about an At the Drive-In reunion?
Anyway, I [...]

Not gonna make it out to the Inaugaration next Tuesday? Don’t worry, I’ll take some pics for you! Meanwhile, if you’re in the New York City area, you can check out singer/songwriter Anya Marina at Mercury Lounge, celebrating the release of her new album, Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II. Doors open at 7:30pm. As [...]

Last week I told you about New York City singer-songwriter Jaymay and her Blue Note debut LP, Autumn Fallin’. I am proud to announce that a signed limited edition 7” vinyl of her UK only EP, Sea Green, Sea Blue, is the prize for My Poproks very very first contest!
If you’d like to enter to [...]