MGMT played a secret show last night at NYC’s Mercury Lounge under the name “The Smirking Worm,” and some website called Youtube taped the whole thing! I just made myself LOL. The band debuted tracks from their upcoming sophomore album, Congratulations, including “Flash Delirium,” which I’m still trying to wrap my head around. Below are [...]

Summit on the Summit is a group of actors, musicians, and friends of singer, Kenna, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to create awareness for the global clean water crisis. Lupe Fiasco, Santogold, Emile Hirsch, and Jessica Biel were among the celebrities involved with the Summit. The peak of Kilimanjaro is 19,340 above sea level, and their [...]

MTV recently got some footage of Broken Bells at The Boat, the famous studio in Los Angeles (Madonna, David Byrne, and The Sex Pistols are among the clientele), performing “The Ghost Inside” from their self titled album. Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer play here with a full band (DM on drums). Sounding pretty [...]

The National gave a “super early preview” on Jimmy Fallon of the opening track, “Terrible Love,” from their upcoming full-length, High Violet. According to Stereogum, this hadn’t even aired as of yesterday. Nothing shocking to report here. Trumpets dance among a calm sea of guitar and piano as Matt Berninger’s voice scratches through the smooth [...]

After seeing the new video for last year’s “Fo Yo Sorrows,” I expressed my concern yesterday via 140 characters regarding the unknown release date of Big Boi’s long-awaited solo album. He Tweeted @me, says “very soon young Jedi.” G-h-e-t-t-o-m-u-s-i-c-k. Stay down!

My favorite hipster children’s choir, PS 22 Chorus, added a cover of Phoenix’ “Lisztomania” to their impressive playlist of pop/indie favs over the weekend. In case you forgot, the chorus appeared on Passion Pit’s debut album, Manners, and is currenty the best thing on the internets.

These aren’t the best quality, but if you’ve been anxiously awaiting a release date for We Are Lasers for the past 9 months, then these might be of interest. Lupe Fiasco premiered 3 new tracks off of the upcoming [someday?] album at his ‘Steppin Lasers’ Tour kick-off on Friday in Claremont, CA. “Scream,” “State Crime [...]

Look at this f*cking Barcelona house party!
Vampire Weekend apparently made friends at a local bar after a gig in Barcelona, and then somehow ended up playing at a random birthday party. Their impromptu performance of “A Punk” and “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” has luckily (for me and my mom, she loves Vampire Weekend) made its [...]

British singer-songwriter, Dan Black, visited LA this week for the first time since he was 13. I sadly did not make it for the late start at Cinespace (not having a car in LA = not fun things). Black performed the remix of his hit, “Symphonies,” with special guest Kid Cudi, who gets kissed on [...]

We may be entering back into Kanye-post-a-day territory.
Mr. West launched a new blog today that, for the most part, is exactly like the one at Kanye University. He’s only posted a couple of things so far, but I get the vibe that this will be a non-ALL CAPS ranting affair, which is thoroughly disappointing. Hopefully [...]