Town Hall Riot

Click here to view the embedded video. Funnest music video of the year? Probably. We are giving away the Cousins 7″ single. Entries will be accepted until the December 15th release date. Enter here . Contra is out 1/11 via XL. Pre-order it at InSound or at Amazon . Tags: Vampire Weekend While I Was Gone (5) Vampire Weekend plus Ra Ra Riot equals Discovery (12) Vampire Weekend – Horchata (8) Vampire Weekend – Cousins (Live in Guadalajara!) (3) Read Full Story

I watched Gigantic for the first time tonight. It was an odd movie, for sure, but I was delighted to see the movie’s last few seconds scored by Animal Collective’s “Did You See The Words?” It was the perfect odd-ball song to close an odd-ball film. What was better yet was the music binge I went on right after the credits closed. These songs are what make up this twentieth episode of the pmaCAST. Hopefully you’ll find the track list fitting of this milestone episode. pmaCAST #20: There’s Something Living In These Lines Tracklist Animal Collective – Did You See The Words Vampire Weekend ... Read Full Story

MUSIC NEWS - L.A.-based Princeton released its debut record, Cocoon of Love , (sure, buy a copy below) this week on Kanine Records and has just announced tour dates for this October and November to support the release, finishing up their run with RA RA Riot then joining with OK GO and Art Brut ! To give you a taste of the new collection, listen to SADIE and ANDY below (with guest Meredith Metcalf ). Growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, the group now lives in an aging green house on a hillside in the Eagle Rock district of LA where their ... Read Full Story

Pretty Good Dance Moves, the Chicago/Brooklyn duo of Aaron Allietta and Jimmy Giannopoulos, are set to release a self-titled full-length this year to follow up on their self-released EP of last. “Leave Me Alone” is its first single and wrangles guest vocals from Swedish pop vet Björn of Peter Bjorn & John and Chicago newcomer Angelina Lucero on a triumphant little electro-pop track that tickles hearts and synths and hearts like Passion Pit, trades and harmonizes vocals like Ra Ra Riot or those guys behind “Young Folks.” Which makes sense. “If you don’t leave me alone / I will find somebody who will” is ... Read Full Story

Syracuse, NY’s indie-rock outfit Ra Ra Riot launch their final tour of 2009 today in Ithaca, NY. The twenty-one date tour will take them throughout the United States with one date in Canada at Lee’s Palace in Toronto on September 11th, 2009. All but three shows will be with folk-pop L.A. band Princeton and/or Chicago math-rock group Maps & Atlases . Ra Ra Riot released their debut full-length CD the Rhumb Line late in 2008. Hopefully they’ll be heading back into studio once the tour wraps. See below for full tour dates; September 10, 2009 ~ Ithaca, NY ~ Castaways #* September 11, 2009 ... Read Full Story