Times New Viking

Ohio Lo-Fi pop band, Times New Viking, just released a vid for my favorite track from their new album, Dancer Equired. Watch Ever Falling In Love below.

Cloud Nothings

Cleveland power poppers Cloud Nothings have another new vid. Check out Forget You All The Time, off their 2011 self-titled LP, below.

Bad Kids

New video from raucous Atlanta rockers, Black Lips, for Modern Art, off their upcoming album Arabia Mountain, due June 7th.

Nothing's Wrong

Cleveland power poppers Cloud Nothings have a funny new vid. Check out Nothing's Wrong, off their 2011 self-titled LP, below.

Vivian Grrrls

All-girl pop band Vivian Girls have a new album, Share The Joy, due out April 12th on Polyvinyl. Watch the video for the first single, I Heard You Say, below. Also, the girls are touring with garage rockers, Black Lips, and will be coming to Kansas City at the Beaumont Club on April 26th!!! Check out the rest of the tour dates here.

Tracklist for Share the Joy:

01 The Other Girls
02 I Heard You Say
03 Dance (If You Wanna)
04 Lake House
05 Trying to Pretend
06 Sixteen Ways
07 Take It as It Comes
08 Vanishing of Time
09 Death
10 Light in Your Eyes

King of the Beach

Video for the title track off last year's LP, King of the Beach by Wavves. Plus possible cameo from Best Coast's cat, Snacks.

Killer Instinct

New track from The Kills off their upcoming album Blood Pressure, due April 4th. Watch the video for Satellite below.

Killed It

New track from The Kills off their upcoming album Blood Pressure, due April 4th. Listen to Satellite below.

The Kills - Satellite by DominoRecordCo

Listen Up

Portland lo-fi rockers The Thermals, just released a video for Never Listen To Me, my favorite track off their latest LP, Personal Life. Shot on Kodachrome, a simple yet lovely video for a genial song.

Sign of the Times

Ohio Lo-Fi pop band, Times New Viking, just announced a new album, Dancer Equired, to be released via Merge on April 25th. Check out the animated video for the first single, No Room to Live, below.

Clouded

Cleveland's Dylan Baldi, the 18 year old behind the pop outfit Cloud Nothings is set to release his self titled debut LP on Carpark Records on January 25th. Check out Consequence of Sound for tour dates and info on an upcoming split with lablemates Toro y Moi. 

Make sure to see them at Riot Room in KC on April 1st, with Toro y Moi. Watch the new video for Should Have below.

Summer > Winter

Photo by Shannon McClean

With all the snow, some of which is still in my shoes, I could really use something warm and sunny.

Check out Best Coast's new song, Sunny Adventure, off of a previously reported split 7" with JEFF the Brotherhood on Volcom; you can check it out below.

Best Coast-Sunny Adventure by VolcomEnt

Source: Gorilla vs Bear and Pitchfork

Cat Party

New vid from Best Coast for Crazy For You off last year's debut LP by the same name. This hilarious video premiered on icanhascheezburger, you know, because of all the cats and their misspelled thoughts.

Good Girls

Vivian Girl Katy Goodman's La Sera project is set to release their self-titled debut LP February 15 via Sub Pop offshoot Hardly Art. Before that, La Sera will release a new 7" single on the label, "Devlis Hearts Grow Gold", January 18. 

Below, you can check out the single's title track (which also appears on the La Sera full-length). Like her previous release Never Come Around, covered here, this song sounds like sunshine with a beautiful catchy melody. It'll be paired with the non-LP cut "Dedicated to the One I Love" as the B-side. That's the ultra-strange single art above; check out the tracklist for both the single and LP below.

Devils Hearts Grow Gold

"Devils Hearts Grow Gold" 7":

01 Devils Hearts Grow Gold
02 Dedicated to the One I Love

La Sera:

01 Beating Heart
02 Never Come Around
03 You're Going to Cry
04 Sleeptalking
05 I Promise You
06 Left This World
07 Hold
08 Under The Trees
09 Devils Hearts Grow Gold
10 Dove Into Love
11 Been Here Before
12 Lift Off

Source: Pitchfork

Table Tennis

Husband/wife surf pop duo Tennis is finally releasing their much anticipated debut LP, Cape Dory, on January 18th on Fat Possum Records. Check out the vid for Pigeon below.

Tramps Like Us...

New Jersey punk rockers Titus Andronicus just released a concept album, The Monitor, which is based on the American Civil War. Here is the video for A More Perfect Union.

Could've, Would've, Should've

Cleveland power-pop band, Cloud Nothings, covered previously on this blog here and here, are about to release their self-titled debut LP January 25th. Below you can listen to Should Have, a catchy cut from the upcoming album.

Cloud Nothings "Should Have" by carparkrecords

Spaghetti Western

Chi-town rockers, Smith Westerns, just put out a video for their first single off the upcoming album Dye It Blonde, set to be released 1/18/2011 on Fat Possum Records. Weekend is a bit more poppy and less noisy than what can be found on their 2009 self titled LP, but it works well, just in different ways. Peep the vid below.

Also, make sure to check out my two favorite tracks from their last album, which I'm extremely fond of. Be My Girl and My Heart are both noisy, aural perfection.

Beachy Keen

Budapest gloom pop band, Piresian Beach, is not just more surf rock. Info on her is sparse but she describes herself as "cheap lo-fi music from Hungary". That coupled with the following fantastic description from futuresoundstemporary is really all we have to go on right now but I'm sure she will be catching mad hype soon; "It’s like this fuzzed out, psych, noise trip with this wailing female crying out in the distance."

So fucking good. Easily one of my favorite discoveries of the year. The gloomy, fuzzy sound reminds me a bit of The Vera Violets.

Piresian Beach has two offerings out right now, her debut EP, Parttalan EP, and Space Grrl, which I can't tell but looks to also be an EP. The two EP's can be downloaded here and here respectively. But please make sure to cop something legit once she inevitably gets signed.

My fave track so far is Wasting Away, a murky tune with lots of reverb and distortion. Below is a vid for the song made up of what looks like found/archival footage.

Vivian Girls Gone Wild

Kate Goodman of all-girl punk trio, Vivian Girls, recently started a solo project called La Sera. Under this new moniker Kate produces 50's inspired, celestial pop. Hardly Art, a Seattle-based subsidiary of Sub Pop, just released her 7", "Never Come Around" b/w "Behind Your Eyes", ahead of her eponymous full length due in early 2011. Check out the spooky vid for Never Come Around, directed by Brady Hall. I love the juxtaposition of the violent, gruesome visuals and Kate's cheery vocals and mannerisms.