In the mood for something sweet on Valentine’s Day?

- Jason Mraz has an e-card for you to send to a loved one.
- Simple Plan’s e-card includes the song “Your Love Is A Lie”.
- The Dollyrots have a song called “Valentine’s Day”.
- Happy Valentine’s Day from Fountains Of Wayne.
- Nine Inch Nails have “My Violent Heart”.
- Dick Valentine from Electric Six will rock you.
- The Loved Ones are on the road with The Gaslight Anthem.
- Bell X1 have a song called “Rocky Took A Lover”.
- Jaguar Love have a new label.
- Listen to Oslo’s song, “The Rise And Fall Of Love And Hate”
- Here’s the video of Jose Gonzalez “Killing For Love”
- Heavens cover “Love Will Tear Us Apart”.
- Hear Amy Winehouse perform “Love Is a Losing Game”.
- Interpol’s Our Love To Admire album art.
- Fountains Of Wayne have a video for “Someone To Love”.
- Watch Echoboy’s video for “Lovesick Antelopes”.
- We love Dane Cook.
- My Chemical Romance don’t love you.
- Young Love finds a new way.
- Dustin Kensrue wrote a love song about the girl of his dreams.

Many of you are probably celebrating the holiday today. If you were wondering what us here at The Syndicate were up to during our winter break, take a gander at our winter photo album.

What can Jimmy Fallon do when he’s on stage at Roseland performing “Do They Know It’s Christmas”? He can invite Jack Black on stage with him to rock out, that’s what he can do.

So we had a little get-together last night at Fontana’s in NYC to celebrate the end of 2007. Gifts were exchanged, pool was shot, friends came by, spirits were lifted and Saaga Vodka was on hand to make sure everyone was feeling great. Here are some pics. (more…)

Wondering what to gift to get for a loved one this hoiday season? Well look no further than The Syndicate’s Official Holiday Gift Guide.

We found products that are exciting to us, this means lots of randomness and even more related to monkeys. Check them out, who knows maybe you will like them too. Happy shopping. (more…)

Long Island Pop-Punkers PATENT PENDING have brought their sugary sweet hooks to an original Christmas song, complete with a hip-hop-holiday breakdown! The song titled “She’s a Ho-Ho-Ho Merry Christmas” will make an excellent addition to any holiday mix! You can buy the song over at Amazon.com or stream it below!

STREAM: Patent Pending :: “She’s A Ho-Ho-Ho Merry Christmas”

The band will also be embarking on the Ho-Ho-Holiday Tour this December. More info here.

THE KILLERS are just in a video making mode as of late. In addition to one of their Joy Division cover song, they have launched another new vid. This one is for their new Christmas song “Don’t Shoot Me Santa”. Proceeds from all sales of this song will go to AIDS charities as part of Bono’s RED campaign.

This Friday marks the first shopping day of the Christmas holiday season (even though I definitely saw commercials for it before Halloween).

Regardless, the fine folks over at Dovecote Records are in the giving spirit and have something for you that you can have for nothing, free, zip, nada. They teamed up with J. Gale Kilgore to cover Dovecote artists and give them away free as a download-only album.

Kilgore covers songs from Tim Williams, Aberdeen City, Mason Proper, Bad Veins, and Don The Reader for J. Gale Kilgore Presents A Dovecote Christmas.

When we asked Dovcote owner/thrashmaster general Carter Matschullat about the project and he stated,

Many people think this is just a simple grouping of artist mp3s. But when J. Gale is involved only his sublime work ethic and musical style will suffice. Therefore, he chose to use only the lyrics and write the songs…the right way.

MP3: J. Gale Kilgore Presents A Dovecote Christmas

Apparently the third Thursday of April is National High Five Day and what would High Five Day be without it’s own soundtrack?! The soundtrack is actually way more indie rock then dude rock as many might expect including tracks from The Hold Steady, The Thermals, Loudon Wainright III (who has built up quite a filmography lately) and of course the man who embodies high fives and everything that is awesome, Andrew W.K.! Check out the Mp3s for the soundtrack here

At time of publication there was no response from the people at National High Five Day as to why The Italian was left off the soundtrack again this year.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE have posted a new track for you to hear. It’s called “Someone To Love” and you can stream if off their e-card. The band’s new album Traffic And Weather is due out April 3rd via Virgin Records.

[Listen to "Someone To Love" here]