The sample happy Illegal Art roster recently made a four-song sampler available for the price of free online, featuring the likes of patron saint Girl Talk, Realistic, and Steinski. Good stuff and…   Read Story »

Funny man/animated rat Patton Oswalt is the most recent person to submit his picks and pans for P4K's Guest List and -- surprise! -- it's a great read. In addition to showing love for TVOTR's "Wolf…   Read Story »

This year's 'Roo is Saturday heavy -- today we get Franz, Hold Steady, Regina, Dr. Dog, and a band called Police your parents loved -- but the tame opening day brought some stuff worth writing home…   Read Story »

Pretty sure we've heard live-staple "Shake A Fist" at every Hot Chip show we've seen dating back to their LCD-rescued set at Bowery last March, so it's nice of the Hot ones to finally give us a…   Read Story »

Hot Chip's curating the next in the DJ-Kicks series, which sees artists compile other folks' jams. That's not stopping the Hot Chippers from contributing a new track of their own, which they've…   Read Story »

The Hot Chippers' new clip for the bliptastic track takes it back to the old school DOS days, with 1s and 0s, commas and apostrophes, pulled together to make a mosaic of the geeky electro-dance crew.…   Read Story »

While we're almost done with thinking about the year that was, we can't let it go by without recapping the year in our favorite concerts. Most of the shows we saw were in the LES ('cause it's closer…   Read Story »

With all of the lists coming at ya this time of year, it's tempting to fuck selective attenuation and just ignore 'em all -- but today Pitchfork published their top tracks list and, naturally, we…   Read Story »

UPDATE: Since this post was published, we've made MySplice an annual tradition. Listen to and download all editions here. // Do albums matter as much as singles anymore? We like to think so. But…   Read Story »

'Tis the season for music journos and bloggers to rank and rate their favorite musical discoveries of the year. And thanks to a fine transcribing soul at ILM, we have NME's rankings right here. By…   Read Story »