Passion, not Pungee!

Passion Pit has released the first single from the upcoming(may 24th on this side of the pond) full length release Manners. The song is called The Reeling and it features the childrens choir video shoot I posted a while ago. while it's not on par with Sleepyhead, It's still a pretty solid effort. Bombastic, colorful, and energetic nail it pretty well.

Other Animals

Other Animals are some pretty different animals! They've got their self titled EP up for free here. It's pretty fine atmospheric rock material.

Buke and Gass

I was listening through the Oct '08 Indie Rock playlist and stumbled across Buke and Gass. they are quite simply amazing. You'd never guess they're a duo from the sound, but they indeed are. Two acoustic guitars and a bass drum with a tambourine attached to it never sounded so complete. They hail from brooklyn (yet another band that makes me wish I was out east) so if you're in the area, check 'em out.

I bought their EP +/- today, so it should be here soon. review to follow!

Buke and Gass - Sleep Gets Your Ghost

Respekt!

Regina Spektor, the quirky Russian singing beauty, has a new album 'Far' in the works according to this Pitchfork interview. 4 big names share production duties: David Kahne (Regina's Begin to Hope) , Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Rilo Kiley), Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee (Snow Patrol, REM, U2) and Jeff Lynne (ELo frontman, Tom Petty), so it's up in the air what the final product will sound like. Hopefully they haven't tamed her, but I don't really know if that's possible. I'm trying to dig up a leaked copy so I can hype this more, but I've got nothing right now. The official release date has not been set, but 'sometime in June' is the hubbub.

teh grates touring again!

The Grates are touring again and playing a lot of SXSW shows. I'm hoping for another album soon, but I haven't heard any hubbub.

New Kid

Royksopp is streaming their new album Junior on their Myspace. Sounds pretty good to me!

Swoon!

The Silversun Pickups are releasing a new album on April 14th, but David Dye is previewing a track tonight on World Cafe, so expect a MP3 single soon. Consequently, it's also on their myspace.

NEWS FLASH!

An Horse will be on the Letterman tomorrow night @ 11:30 on CBS. WATCH!
[EDIT: It was awesome, in case you missed it]

An Horse - Company

Azeda Booth free dl EP

Azeda Booth released a free EP Tubtrek of 4 remixes and 4 new tracks on March Second.

[edit] I got a chance to listen to this yesterday after a somewhat lengthy DL time, but it was worth the wait. As you might've figured out, this is one of my favourite bands right now so I'm a bit biased.

Tubtrek is a fair bit less polished than In Flesh Tones. The beats are more jagged, the vocals less inhumanly perfect. Hell, there is even a song that you can tell the gender of the vocals!

So, in short... if you liked In Flesh Tones, download this.