Arcade Fire! Live! Tonight! Sold out!

Going to see this lovable group of misfit Grammy winners tonight at The Backyard! Hazaa!

Traffic's going to suck! Boo!

Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

Hooray Gang Gang Dance! Listen to the whole album below. Drops May 10th from 4AD.

Bathsalts

Check out this slow burning cassette screw from Austinite Stefanie Franciotti, better known as the temptress Sleep ∞ Over. "Bathsalts will appear in some form or another on the LP due out this summer from Hippos In Tanks.

BathSalts by Sleep ∞ Over

Washed Out

Washed Out's debut LP, "Within and Without," comes out via Sub Pop on July 12th just in time to cool us all off from the inevitable heat wave we'll be experiencing (although it's like 50 degrees now, so what do i know). For the price of an email address, you can download the opener, "Eyes Be Closed," below.

(I think it would have been funny if the title was "Eyes Be All Closed And Shit." But, once again, what do i know?)

Turtleneck and Chain

May 10th is looking to be a pretty good day for music releases, what with Tyler, The Creator and Zombi both releasing LP's. Top that off with The Lonely Island's latest, and it's like the proverbial cherry on top. The guest list on this album includes Beck, Santigold, Akon, and Michael fucking Bolton. Hazaa!

Oh, and i'm going to have to start dressing like that.

Gonjasufi - Bury Me

Gonjasufi (creator of my favorite album of 2010) has posted a cool new song, "Bury Me," on his Myspace page. It's pretty damn good. Stream it here.

Wedding of the century

Bourbon and Coke. I think i'll have some...

Mark Ingram to New Orleans

It's not all indie jams and horror flicks around here. Football is also alive and well in the Heaven Is An Incubator household (lockouts be damned). And my Saints have scored a couple of good picks in the first round, nabbing DE Cameron Jordan from Cal at 24 and then trading with New England for the 28th pick to secure running back Mark Ingram from 'Bama. Should be good fits. Who Dat!

Blanck Mass

Benjamin John Power (half of the blissed-out ambient electro-dynamos Fuck Buttons) is set to release a solo work in June called Blanck Mass. It's what you'd expect it to be if you're into Fuck Buttons at all...awesome. Listen to "Land Disasters" and download below. Hooray!

Blanck Mass - Land Disasters by One Thirty BPM

Lone Star Lowlands

Everyone should go ahead and do themselves a giant favor and buy Numero Group's "Lone Star Lowlands." It's a great compilation of really obscure music recorded in Beaumont, Texas back in the day. Everything (and i seriously mean everything) that Numero has ever put out is brilliant and should be owned by everyone, but as a Texan, i'm highlighting this entry. Check out this synopsis for God's sake:

"The songs themselves run the gamut; southern boogie rock, CSNY clones, British blues thunder, garage-psych hangovers, Morricone-esque supper club instrumentals, yacht rock, and what can only be described as Bobby McPherin fronting the Velvet Underground."

You know what sounds cooler than that? Nothing.

Sample and buy it here.

(Look at those people in the picture above. You know you want to party with them.)