Looking for your next Klaxons? Oxford band Foals might just be it.
These lads have a full length coming to US record stores soon that was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. This “Hummer” track may or may not be on it, but it’s giving us a Franz Ferdinand if they were more [...]

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Gorillaz D-Sides hit stores two weeks ago in perhaps the quietest album campaign all year. I mean, it is a rarities and b-sides album so maybe they don’t want you to buy it. We can only assume they do want you to watch the video for “Rock It” which is hella good.

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MTV News dug into their practice space (which looks an awful lot like someone’s family room that hasn’t been redesigned since the 70s) to find out what else Vampire Weekend know.
BTW, did you catch a few seconds of “APunk” on Friday Night Lights last week?

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Today’s videos you forgot is for readers on the younger side, who may know the name Helium but aren’t familiar with the band’s sorted indie rock history. It breaks down like this.
The original Helium line-up, not actually called Helium but instead known as Chupa, was formed in 1992 by chanteuse Mary Lou Lord that included Juliana [...]

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Between Apple and Zune it’s like indie rock time in commericalville. First you had the Feist iPod mini or whatever blowing up “1 2 3 4″, then CSS’s “Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex” making me want to touch a touch screen, The Shins making Zune’s player actually look kind of cool and introducing us [...]

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