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.

Get $$

San Fran noise pop group Sic Alps just dropped their latest album Napa Asylum. Check out the video for Do You Want To Give $$? below.

Trill Trill

Sleigh Bells finally releases a video for Rill Rill, the only slow tempo track off their 2010 debut, Treats. While the song may be lazy and sweet, the video is super creepy.

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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.

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.

Sleigh Ride

Brooklyn based noise pop duo, Sleigh Bells, have an new unofficial video for Riot Rhythm, which is on their 2010 debut LP, Treats. Screeching guitars and an epic chess match make up this Bo Mirosseni-directed gem.

Undefined

Cobbling together an array of influences, U.K. trio cozimnot!, have formulated a unique sonance exemplified by their latest effort, Before the Post-Hop. The genre-defying EP, is a cacophony of sounds ranging from poppy bits and glitch to darker, droning moments. My two favorite tracks, Day After Darlington and Hero Jack, feature IDM beats and go pretty hard. Cop it for free on their Bandcamp along with last year's EP, Fidelity Street. While you're at it, peep Another Hard Day in the Jungle, yet another free EP over on Last.fm. The second track, Reaching For The Nines, has a dreamy, ambient quality remindful of Toro y Moi or French shoegazer, M83.

80's Baby

Nashville bedroom rockers, girls in the eighties (lack of caps intentional), released a couple of albums earlier this year for free via their MySpace. Information on these guys is sparse but from what I gather, these tracks were all recorded in late 2008 and just now released. As of yet unsigned, they are giving away two LP's and three EP's in the form of mp3's but you can order one of the LP's in compact disc format for the sum of $5, that is if they still have any copies. Anyway, these guys need more exposure or a label, whichever comes first. Download their stuff on their MySpace Blog (make sure to copy the link and paste it in your browser as instructed, the links don't work because MySpace is wack). "Vacation" is by far my favorite and it's featured on both of the LP's, Teenage Royalty and Faceless Sonic Boom (pictured). It's a clashing of noise and pop that lacking the former, could land it on commercial spots or on the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack [shivers].

Going Costal

Hot on the heels of Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls and Best Coast are Costa Rica's all-girl retro band, Las Robertas. These chicks mix punk and surf into a perfect poppy blend. Apparently they put their album out for free on bandcamp.com in May, but it has since been reduced to just a couple of tracks ahead of their North American release on October 12th. The album is called Cry Out Loud and it features 10 original compositions, my favorites so far being, "Back To The End" and "History Is Done".