If for some crazy reason you didn't watch Desperate Housewives last night, you missed Tokyo Police Club's prime time network television debut. The Canadian indie rock group has a friend who writes for ABC's Sunday night drama and namechecked the... CONTINUE READING TOKYO POLICE CLUB VISIT DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES»
Posted on November 17, 2008 in MP3, Video (4 comments)
Tags: Desperate Housewives | The Kills | Tokyo Police Club
Back in April, Tokyo Police Club released their first full-length Elephant Shell. In this week's Drop, we bring you a brand new UK/Japanese bonus track, "New New Song." The title says it all. Or, at least we assumed it did.... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP LXII: HEAR NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB, WIN A SNOWFLAKE USB MICROPHONE»
Posted on November 5, 2008 in Giveaway, MP3 (6 comments)
Tags: Herman Dune | Passion Pit | Popo | Tokyo Police Club
The latest clip from TPC debut full-length Elephant Shell ("solid, engaging..." - Stereogum) finds the Newmarket indie act rocking out in an antiques store with haunted lamps. All the customers are freezing in place (Canadian flash mobs are so much... CONTINUE READING NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB VIDEO - "GRAVES"»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in Video (2 comments)
Tags: Tokyo Police Club
Folks seem to be souring on Weezer. How about Matt Sharp's band? Those tessellating (right) Canadian youngsters Tokyo Police Club have tackled the Rentals' "Friends Of P." This isn't the first time we've heard the Elephant Shell-ing RAC grads do... CONTINUE READING TOKYO POLICE CLUB COVER THE RENTALS»
Posted on June 18, 2008 (4 comments)
Tags: The Rentals | Tokyo Police Club
André Allen Anjos's Remix Artist Collective came on our radar last spring with some inspired Bloc Party and Tokyo Police Club remixes. We've kept an ear on the 23-year-old Portuguese artist ever since, and late last year cooked up with... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM PRESENTS... RAC VOL. 1»
Posted on June 11, 2008 in MP3 (63 comments)
Tags: Au Revoir Simone | Bloc Party | Chromeo | Femme Generation | Ra Ra Riot | Robbers On High Street | Tokyo Police Club | You Say Party! We Say Die!
It's totally reductive to associate Memorial Day Weekend solely with drinking and eating (and not, you know, Memorializing), but here it is, that special weekend custom made for welcoming summer, getting drunk, and eating bbq, and yay for that. Before... CONTINUE READING AN MP3 MIX FOR YOUR MEMORIAL DAY»
Posted on May 23, 2008 in MP3 (20 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Awesome New Republic | Brendan Canning | Burning Star Core | Grizzly Bear | Hercules And Love Affair | Los Campesinos! | Mates Of State | Mount Eerie | Music Go Music | My Morning Jacket | Phil Elverum | Quiet Village | Takka Takka | Tokyo Police Club
TPC are masterminding the duration of their blog buzz in powerful ways so take notes, young bands. Start with a remarkable EP. Follow that with another. Then put out a video for practically every track, including one that predicts the... CONTINUE READING NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB VIDEO - "IN A CAVE"»
Posted on May 12, 2008 in MP3, Video (2 comments)
Tags: Tokyo Police Club
When we gave warm but tempered thumbs up to Tokyo Police Club's Elephant Shell, we made note that "somehow bassist/vocalist David Monks sounds more like Colin Meloy than he has previously, especially on 'Tessellate' ... Maybe it's just the way... CONTINUE READING NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB - "TESSELLATE (TOM CAMPESINOS! REMIX)"»
Posted on May 9, 2008 in MP3 (5 comments)
Tags: Los Campesinos! | Tokyo Police Club
Formed way back in 2005, Tokyo Police Club have had a ton of success on the back of two very short EP's -- 2006's Lesson In Crime and Smith, the following year. On the Ontario quartet's first full-length Elephant Shell... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: TOKYO POLICE CLUB - ELEPHANT SHELL»
Posted on April 4, 2008 in MP3, Premature Evaluation, Video (29 comments)
Tags: Tokyo Police Club
Tokyo Police Club's still a young band and already they've given us two releases -- the wave-making A Lesson In Crime EP, the sturdy Smith EP -- but given TPC's penchant for two-minute tunes, really it's only fair this next... CONTINUE READING NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB - "IN A CAVE"»
Posted on February 29, 2008 in MP3 (8 comments)
Tags: Tokyo Police Club
There's a grand tradition being hatched at mtvU's Woodie Awards show. Sure, there's the live performances that come at a 50/50 mix of stuff we like (last year TV On The Radio, this year, say, Rilo Kiley) and stuff we... CONTINUE READING MTVU 2007 WOODIE AWARDS: SPANK ROCKED»
Posted on November 9, 2007 in Concert (13 comments)
Tags: Annie Lennox | Fall Out Boy | Jenny Lewis | Keenan Thompson | Lupe Fiasco | mtvU Woodie Awards | Pete Wentz | Rilo Kiley | Santigold | Spank Rock | The Academy Is... | Tokyo Police Club | Tom DeLonge
"Citizens Of Tomorrow" is Tokyo Police Club's sketch of a dystopian future in which man and machine are at odds, people wear all white and have microchips implanted in their hearts, women are dragged down long hallways while sobbing, and... CONTINUE READING NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB VIDEO - "CITIZENS OF TOMORROW"»
Posted on August 15, 2007 in Video (15 comments)
Tags: Tokyo Police Club
They took a good eight years between recordings, and suddenly they are everywhere: Matt Sharp's geek-rock troupe gave us a taste of the forthcoming Last Little Life EP, and now they pop on our radar within the same six-week stretch... CONTINUE READING TOKYO POLICE CLUB & YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! COVER THE RENTALS»
Posted on August 1, 2007 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: The Rentals | Tokyo Police Club | You Say Party! We Say Die!
Last night we got word that our OMG fave band received some casual, inevitable namedrop love on indie-talk overloading dramedy Gilmore Girls. From the Grizz's MySpace:May 1 2007 8:36P I believe it was in this context: (girl is talking about... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR'S GILMORE GIRLS MOMENT»
Posted on May 2, 2007 (19 comments)
Tags: Gilmore Girls | Grizzly Bear | Tokyo Police Club
We'll be blogging live from Coachella this weekend, provided we continue to find free Internets. If you're not at the festival (which is probably the case if you're reading this) know that you can stream performances live at AT&T... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA STARTS HERE»
Posted on April 27, 2007 in Concert (14 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Noisettes | Tokyo Police Club
The original clip for TPC's "Cheer It On" had the Canadian quartet in a frozen forest, but the original doesn't even feature the band. Not live versions of 'em anyway; Tokyo Police Club turn up as lilliputian figures in an... CONTINUE READING ALTERNATE TOKYO POLICE CLUB VIDEO - "CHEER IT ON" (AND TREY TOLD EM REMIX)»
Posted on April 19, 2007 in MP3, Video (2 comments)
Tags: Girl Talk | Jessica Lea Mayfield | Modest Mouse | Shakira | Stevie Wonder | Tokyo Police Club | Usher
The same crew behind the "Hunting For Witches" remix we posted last week (The Remix Company) has given the cut-and-splice treatment to TPC's "Be Good," keeping the "hey!"s and handclaps you know and love, adding some skippy glitches and a... CONTINUE READING NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB - "BE GOOD (RAC REMIX)"»
Posted on April 11, 2007 in MP3, Tour Dates (9 comments)
Tags: Tokyo Police Club
Emo's was our first stop on late-start Thursday, and after a few tunes with Dosh and Bird, we were off to see Marnie Stern and her Rodney Dangerfield impression at Ms. Bea's. But the lineup the Tag Team folks pulled... CONTINUE READING SXSW: TAG TEAM PARTY @ EMO'S»
Posted on March 18, 2007 in Concert (15 comments)
Tags: Amy Millan | Andrew Bird | Clem Snide | Dosh | SXSW | Tokyo Police Club
The second vid from the A Lesson In Crime EP features much less Saran Wrap consumption than their last clip, and much more winter gear and breath condensation. Outdoor band practice is hardcore, but apparently there are great acoustics in... CONTINUE READING NEW TOKYO POLICE CLUB VIDEO - "CHEER IT ON"»
Posted on February 26, 2007 in Video (10 comments)
Tags: Tokyo Police Club
Here are a few choice selections from the list of what rocked Oh My Rockness this year. They're representing with a group of Stereo-faves and perfectly articulate those tough-to-pinpoint things that make us love these bands so.Best Rock Band Full... CONTINUE READING REMINISCE WITH OH MY ROCKNESS»
Posted on December 14, 2006 (3 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Goes Cube | Serena-Maneesh | The Big Sleep | Tokyo Police Club
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