Music Blog

Come April 2010, MGMT fans will be able to give Oracular Spectacular a rest, as their new creation, Congratulations,  will be ready for full consumption. Get it, Kids...

Attention Tennesseans or those planning to pilgrimage to the 2010 Bonnaroo Festival: Artists have been revealed! Some of the ear-catching acts are Weezer, Jay-Z, Regina Spektor, She & Him, OK Go and The Dropkick Murphys. Please sir, can I have some more?

Days Difference has hooked up Buzznet with 2 tickets to their show in Philadelphia on 2/14/10. We are also giving the 1 winner a meet n' greet with the band. Enter to win ...

Valentine's Day approaches, and there's nothing we'd like more than to gather all our favorite bands in a room and eat cupcakes and candy conversation hearts and get fruit punch mustaches. Unfortunately, time, distance, and a lack of teleportation restricts us a bit. To make up for it, we've asked a bunch of our fave musicians five lovely questions. First up is crushable Canadian LIGHTS. Read on...

This Century teamed up with Buzznet to release our first voice log aka podcast. This podcast features a new song 'Lightning' and an interview with Austin Gibbs. Let us know what you think and check back every week or so for a new one! Give it a listen ...

Right now at a chilly warehouse in Echo Park, things are down to the wire on the construction of the great mouse-trap like set of "This Too Shall Pass." Inspired by the wacky contraptions built by inventor Rube Goldberg (see here), this is the music video for the recorded version of their second single. Damian Kulash gave us a careful (there were rigged up pianos and the miniscule risk of electrocution) conceptual tour of the whole shebang, which is filming on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, for State Farm.

OK Go set a high bar for themselves when it comes to music videos—they've exhibited smooth moves on treadmills for "Here It Goes Again", joined the Norte Dame marching band for the live version of "This Too Shall Pass", summoned trip-tastic visual effects for "WTF?" and—as a personally stupefying experience—played their song "What To Do" with nothing but hand bells. Right, that last one wasn't a music video, but it was really effing cool. You'd be floored at the amount of competent engineers, set designers, circus workers and artists who are involved (most as unpaid volunteers) in making this whole vision a reality. Oh, and Damian's dad was clocking hours, too. You think you know, but you have no idea...