So we are huge fans of THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM here in the office. In fact we’ve been listening to their album Sink Or Swim so many times we even caught cynical Graham asking for us to give him the cd to put it into his iTunes this morning. Trust us, that’s a feat.

The band just released their next video (and my favorite song on the album) “Ida Called You Woody, Joe”. The song is reportedly about the first time lead singer Brian Fallon heard The Clash. The vid is of a jersey band doing what they do best, hanging out in Asbury Park, mixed with live footage of their show from Jersey City’s Iron Monkey back in July. If you look closely in the crowd you may even catch a glimps of our very own Bill Shouldis rocking out in the crowd taking some pictures.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18883947

The band just wrapped up a tour opening for Against Me! and is hitting the road with The Draft beginning in October. See them!

SIA has been knocking around the music world for the last few years with some good success. She spent some of hear earlier years as the vocalist for lounge rockers ZERO 7, but her career didn’t really see a boom until she embarked out on her own.

Her track “Breathe Me” a sparse and haunting piano ballad that was tapped to be the last song ever heard during the final montage of the amazing and critically raved about HBO series Six Feet Under. Her song played to the background of one Claire Fisher driving cross country to NYC as the final years of the main characters played out until their deaths.

Topping her previous album of beauty, Sia Furler will soon be releasing her 3rd LP onto the world titled Some People Have Real Problems this fall. An album that once again displays her powerful voice wile projecting sincerity and lyrics that swing between emotional self-awareness and youthful exuberance.

STREAM: SIA :: Some People Have Real Problems

Tracklisting as well as the “Buttons” promo video for the album can be seen after the jump. (more…)

There are some busy times coming up for IDLEWILD and their fans. Following their recent festival appearances at Connect and Truck, the band are about to release Scottish Fiction their first ever “Best Of” collection (including a 3 hour bonus DVD). The compilation will be released in October in the UK with a scheduled November release for us stateside.

In addtion to that the band is releaseing a digital only album of B-sides and hard-to-find tracks entitled A Distant History: Rarities 1997- 2007 will be available for download only beginning in October. (more…)

INTERPOL took the stage at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden last week for their largest headlining show yet. The band’s nearly 2 hour set focused itself on material from their most recent effort Our Love To Admire, but saw the biggest crowd reaction during tracks from 2004’s Antics and their 2002 debut Turn On The Bright Lights. The band used a variety of stage backdrops and lighting schemes to highlight the songs, but (characteristic of Interpol) remained mostly stationary on the enormous MSG stage. Liars and Cat Power served as the openers to the show. (more…)

People are talking about the new PJ HARVEY album White Chalk quite heavily here in our office. The album is said to be a very minimal album full of piano ballads which is exciting to hear that different size of Polly Jean.

Well now we’re going to get a bigger look into the new album with a White Chalk player that was just launched.

STREAM: PJ Harvey :: White Chalk Player

White Chalk Tracklisting

1. The Devil
2. Dear Darkness
3. Grow Grow Grow
4. When Under Ether
5. White Chalk
6. Broken Harp
7. Silence
8. To Talk To You
9. The Piano
10. Before Departure
11. The Mountain

PATRICK WATSON has been awarded the prestigious Polaris Music Prize for the best Canadian record of the year. He beat out an extremely formidable group of nominees including Arcade Fire, Feist, The Besnard Lakes, and The Dears.

Also, Watson’s video for “The Great Escape” is currently also one of the featured videos of the week on the main page YouTube.

OSLO has posted an mp3 from their forthcoming sophomore release The Rise and Fall of Love and Hate, which they co-produced with Grammy Nominated engineer/mixer Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Mickey P (Beck, Peaches, The Eels) and Sam Fogarino (Drummer, Interpol).

The album is available digitally from all major mp3 outlets, including something called “the iTunes store”. Hardcore compact disc fans will have to wait until October 23rd to pick up their copy at The Wall. Personally, I’m going for the hard copy, but I won’t be paying $17.99. In the meantime, I’m downloading this…

MP3: Oslo :: “The Rise and Fall of Love and Hate”

There are reports that MANDO DIAO are already prepping a new album and followup to 2007’s Ode To Ochrassy.

The band has a new video titled “I Don’t Live Today, Then I Might Be Here Tomorrow” which went live on myspace earlier today. The video, is a trippy surf inspired video was directed by Andreas Nilsson, the same person responsible for Jose Gonzalez’s most recent videos “Down The Line” and “Killing For Love” and The Knife’s DVD.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18487666

On the post they mentioned the song was the first single from the new album titled Never Seen The Light Of Day due out in October.

For this IdioSYNcratic Routine, we caught up with Richard Z Kruspe, guitarist of longtime German rockers RAMMSTEIN. We caught him hot on the heels of the release of the amazing live DVD/CD Rammstein boxed set Volkerball and in the middle of launching the record for his side project EMIGRATE.

The first big launch of Emigrate will be the appearance of their song “My World” as the theme song to the new movie Resident Evil: Extinction which hits theaters this weekend. (more…)

There’s been speculation about what songs were going to be in the latest installment of the wildly popular video game GUITAR HERO. Want to understand the massiveness of the buzz? Well take this story into consideration…we know someone who had to get surgery on his knee. The reason being he blew it out doing a power slide while shredding out to EVERY TIME I DIE on GHII. It’s that important folks.

The complete list along with the bosses that will surely be keeping us all entertained as the weather gets colder after the jump. (more…)