I guess “California Gurls” is not going away anytime soon, especially since it just entered remix territory. Passion Pit recently reworked the extremely annoying Katy Perry hit into something surprisingly still annoying. In other non-annoying Passion Pit news, the band laid down an impressive cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight” for that Levi’s Pioneer Sessions [...]

As soon as I read about a Passion Pit cover of The Cranberries “Dreams,” I imagined Michael Angelakos’ falsetto nailing the song. And…it does. The cover will appear as a bonus track on Passion Pit’s deluxe edition reissue of Manners (one of the best albums of ‘09), along with alternate versions of “Sleepyhead” and “Moths [...]

As I skimmed through my iTunes and posts from the year, I realized very quickly that putting together a 40 track playlist to represent the best songs of 2009 was going to be impossible. And, according to Jay-Z, impossible takes a week. I don’t have that kind of time! So here’s My Poproks 49 Best [...]

Hey, 2009. I’d like to thank you for wrapping up what has been the best decade for music, and I’ll argue this til the day I’m convinced that the next decade is the best. What I’m trying to say is, it keeps getting better. And, technically, doesn’t the decade end after 2010? Uber confusing. But [...]

Pianos in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one of my favorite venues/bars/restaurants in NYC and home of some deadly margaritas, announced that Passion Pit will be DJing their New Years Eve party. I left New York and stuff, but I will be back for Christmas/New Years – and I kinda wanna go to this. [...]

The mtvU Woodies air in, like, a week, but for some reason you can watch some clips of the show and even see the entire list of winners on the awards’ site (Matt & Kim’s “Lesson Learned” won best video, beating out YYY’s, The Dead Weather, and Kid Cudi). Besides a portion of Death Cab’s [...]

Passion Pit week much?
The latest in the Myspace Transmission series are some in-studio live performances and interviews from Passion Pit (remember them from yesterday?), all of which are available as a free audio download over at Myspace (Thnx Tom!). The band performed 4 tracks from both their Chunk of Change EP and Manners.
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Going to have to agree with Nathaniel @IGIF when he says that this Passion Pit performance on Jimmy Fallon was a little “toned down,” and the song selection not the best. Given I spent about 2 weeks straight listening to only this record, I do think all of the songs are fantastic…but, I’d say “The [...]

Speaking of Passion Pit…

The PS 22 chorus, who you may remember from their Perez Hilton requests (including the Lady Gaga cover that trumped the original), also blessed Passion Pit’s Manners with appearances on a handful of tracks. I haven’t listened to much else in the past week or so, so I thought it only fitting to post up [...]