My friend and I were talking earlier today about Guitar Hero and different moves we could pull off in front of the screen. I think something like pulling off an excellent power chord to blow someone’s clothes off would be a good one. Jesse ‘the Devil’ is pretty awesome at it, check it out.

New album ‘Death by Sexy’ is in stores now.

Click here to watch ‘I Want You So Hard’.

For anyone wondering what happened to Craig Kilborn’s career, check him out on the sticks.

Oh man! This song is so hard it makes me want to play Guitar Hero until my fingers bleed.

Click here to [get your ass kicked] watch ‘Dimension’.

I saw these guys about a year ago in Birmingham and it was an amazing show. I got a chance to chat with the guitarist, Benji, for a second and I think he thought I wanted to take him out on a date because I later told him I was getting a drink and wanted to know if he wanted one and he said no, since he was “on the wagon”. Well, cut to an hour later and he was at the bar with a drink and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t kool-aid. But I’m not sure, I guess it could’ve been.

Anywho, the new EP really blows my socks off. Each one of these 7 tunes is a well worthy b-side to the collection. The two demos, ‘Heavy Lifting’ and ‘Sugar Pill’ are also a really nice bonus. I really like how diverse these songs are, yet everything really seems to fit.

‘New English’ is in stores now.

Click here to listen to title track ‘New English’.

I love the fact that The Charlatans are so continuously and effortlessly cool. This is the first single off the upcoming album, ‘Simpatico’. I just wish I could get a version without the background dialogue. I mean it’s almost interesting, but stuff like: “Ya seen Jonny?!”, “The Tang brothers? Those chumps? I’m here”, and “I’m gonna get a backhoe and uproot dat tree. I wanna know where da gold at” just kinda take away from the song.

‘Simpatico’ is out April 18.

Click here to watch ‘Blackened Blue Eyes’.

p.s. This is the last post for a few days but the sounds will be back in about a week.

If you haven’t seen Delays before you heard them you’d probably think this band had both a guy and a girl on lead vocals. Lead singer Greg Gilbert really pulls the fluctuating voice thing off though, but that’s probably cause this sounds a lot like the theme song to Neverending Story; word. New album ‘You See Colours’ is out now.

Click here to watch ‘Valentine’.

Check out the video to ‘Gross Out’, the first single off The Vines third album, ‘Vision Valley’. This Nirvana-esque number’s only 1:20 long, but it packs a lot of punch, kinda like Rocky in that movie.

‘Vision Valley’ is in stores on April 10.

Click here to watch ‘Gross Out’.

Picking up where the video for Feel Good Inc. left off, this fourth single from ‘Demon Days’ takes the direction of the first video down a completely different path - one that’s much darker and kinda confusing. The song has a great chilled out vibe to it, and I’d say you should listen to this song when you’re driving down country roads thinking of inventions. Even if you’re not a fan of the music, the animation will probably blow your mind off.

Click here to watch ‘El Manana’.

Up there with Jarvis Cocker and David Bowie, Ashcroft is one of the coolest dudes in music. If you’re not sure who he is, think Bittersweet Symphony which you’ve probably heard a million times. I’m glad to say the tunes are still up to par on the latest album, ‘Keys to the World’ (out now, as of March 21).

Honestly I’m not a big fan of anyone stressing their political beliefs in their music, which this album has its share of, but this uplifting tune makes up for all of that. It’s like one of those you could leave on repeat all day.

Click here to watch ‘Music is Power’.

I’m gonna try to bring some life back to the music news, but I’m not big on words so I’ll probably just post awesome audios and videos accompanied by my random thoughts, along with some free downloads and stuff like that.

Despite talks that hugely popular 90’s British pop scene The Stone Roses would reuinite, looks like all rumors are as good as flat after a recent talk I had with lead singer Ian Brown over our blackberries. Even still, Ian and Mani appeared on stage together at Glastonbury this week playing old fav’s ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ and ‘Waterfall’ among a few others.

Oh well, you can still reminisce with this classic vid to ‘Fools Gold’.

Some day, I swear, I’ve gotta walk through the desert with some friends like we just own the place.

If, like me, you’re a fan of cool, take out a few minutes to listen to this one rad tune by Razorlight. Comparisons to The Strokes might seem obvious but are a little played out in my opinion. The sounds are similar, but song structure and harmony really make these lads from London stand out.

Click here to listen to “Golden Touch’

*Bonus* Click here to watch ‘Somewhere Else’ and see if you don’t get tre emotional.

The Walkmen, best known for that Saturn commercial probably, are getting increasingly popular among little chiefs and critics alike. This 5-man-band out of NYC has a very cool vintage sound, mostly attributed to their analog style instruments and recordings.

Lead singer Hamilton Leithauser looks a lot like comedian Dane Cook. Just thought I’d point that out cause Dane Cook is frickin hilarious a lot of the time.

Click here to watch ‘Little House of Savages’

Sophomore album ‘Bows + Arrows’ is in stores now, playah.

I wonder how many arrows it would take to take me down.

Everything about this video is wrong. Everything. The lead singer is like someone you’d have gone to middle school with who had no skills (who I’m convinced is related to John Basedow), and the rest of the band is comprised of a mix of Megadeath groupies, a dude who looks like he teaches kids tennis and Pam Grier. Ok, I hate it, right? Well, then, why is this video so f’ckin righteous!?

See for yourself, I can’t really explain it.

Click here to watch Move In Stereo!

Single ‘Move In Stereo’ is out June 21.

“He made Thriller, man. Thriller.”

Let’s Beat It y’all!

Tunes on TV

Letterman
Monday 6 - Black Eyed Peas (this one’s for you, Insane)
Tuesday 7 - Ben Lee
Wednesday - Paul Anka
Leno
Tuesday 7 - The Bravery
Thursday 9 - Foo Fighters
Conan
Monday 6 - John Doe
Craig Ferguson
Tuesday 7 - Jaguares
Friday 10 - Angie Stone