Hearing “What You Won’t Do For Love” on the overhead speakers in the deli across the street today absolutely made my morning. Then finding out that we have a significant chunk, if not all, of Bobby Caldwell’s entire discography made my week. And THEN finding these youtube clips pretty much made my whole [...]

It feels very retro to describe something as “the latest dance craze sweeping France”  - I thought that dance crazes stopped sweeping nations at some point in the late eighties. But I was wrong – and here are some French tektonik dancers to prove it. Retro the phrasing may be, but tektoniks has spread in [...]

A bunch of us 17 Dotters were at this show. So good. If you click through check out the second clip, a new song called “Oceanus” that’s my favorite song of theirs.

Is Thao’s “Beat (Health, Life and Fire).”

And here it is live:

Download her record here.

Over the course of the last six months or so, I’ve fallen back in love with going to see bands live. I think it started in Iceland, where I was hearing new (and often unusual) bands every night, and it’s continued unabated since then. These days, I try to primarily check out bands whose albums [...]

Thanks yet again goes to the Fader blog for uncovering this treasure: Kutiman, an Israeli R&B producer, and a singer named Karolina busting out this absolutely sick soul jam, “Music Is Ruling My World.” Best of all? It’s on eMusic. Download the album here, or the single with several remixes here. Iz hot!

Just cuz it’s an amazing song, cuz the Make Up have been forgotten and ’tis a shame. And the album version of “I Am Pentagon” — even better.

Emmy The Great has been pleasing me in a quiet, understated way for almost a year now. London girl Emmy, real name Emma-Lee Moss, makes wonderfully delicate indie-folk, but never really stumbles over the twee-line. She’s supported Martha Wainwright and Kimya Dawson and if you’re fan of either of them then you’ll probably find Emmy [...]

Next month, Rough Trade is issuing the debut album by Canadian singer/songwriter Basia Bulat. I had the chance to see her play live recently, and though her music is not quite my thing, I was completely suckered by her song “In The Night” — so much so that I’ve been listening to it at [...]

So the excellent Madlib/MF Doom collaboration Madvillain came out almost four years ago, but turns out Stones Throw is still digging up gems. Below is a video for “Accordion” that features Doom in all his metal-masked glory, back when he was still making records and showing up for things. Oh, we were all so innocent [...]

This is the week for great new upcoming releases, apparently. Following up Atlas Sound, here’s another called Scary Mansions, which is a Brooklyn woman singing songs that to me sound like if Sparklehorse were a lady. Cat Power, too. But she’s already a lady. Anyway, above is a really great little apartment performance that’s powerful, [...]

As a quick complement to the Juno feature we’re running on the homepage today, I thought some Arrested Development fans might enjoy these promo spots that Jason Bateman & Michael Cera shot. They barely mention Juno at all, which somehow makes them even funnier. The first one is called “Bateman & Cera on Women [...]

Okay, Daniel, you win. Above is a 10-minute video (incredibly well edited, btw) of Tinariwen performing live at Other Music here in NYC. It is, to put it mildly, pretty damned good.
Elsewhere, I updated that best-selling albums of the year hub with the final tally, and the list expanded to 100 titles. A few things [...]

…and i continue to love My Teenage Stride. This video is adorable, proof that a funny concept trumps a big budget any day.

17 Dots has been pretty heavy on the aggregation front these past few weeks (it’s that time of year!), but as an astute comment pointed out, there hasn’t been anything from us in terms of what we, as people, actually favored from 2007. And since we’re folks who only need the slightest nudge to get [...]

Because it’s Friday, because it’s gray, just because.

Okay so the new single is their best song so far and the video is WONDERFUL and hopefully we will have it on eMusic soon. I love them so.

In five years, the Octopus Project have gone from an Austin oddball instrumental trio to A Band With Buzz. The buzz was built on the back of their live show — which, damnit, I still have yet to see — and they’ve regularly become That Opening Band people end up liking more than the headliner, [...]

How can you not love these guys?

In 2005 Edwyn Collins, one of my all-time favorite songwriters, suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. For a while it was unclear whether Collins would even be able to walk and speak again, let alone record any more music. I followed his progress via his son’s MySpace updates, each of them simultaneously encouraging and heartbreaking. [...]