Ghost Wave: "Hippy"

The reverbed 70's punk riff that kicks off "Hippy" sounds like it wants nothing to do with the 60's, but the washed out Beach Boys harmonies kick in and it all makes sense. Ghost Wave hail from New Zealand, which just goes to show that not every Kiwi band plies that Dunedin / Flying Nun sound.
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The Company Band: "House of Capricorn"

The Company Band - in case you don't know - is a supergroup / side project for Neil Fallon (Clutch), Brad Davis (Fu Manchu), Jess Margera (CKY), and James Rota (Fireball Ministry). Yes, it's a Viva la Bam-certified ensemble, with all the scuzz boogie implications that entail. Of all those bands they predictably sound the most like Clutch, but it's definitely a more streamlined version of the latter's stoner blues rock. Basically Company Band : Clutch :: A Perfect Circle : Tool, if that makes any fucking sense.
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Fat Tony & Tom Cruz: "Double Dragon"

Nintendo Famicom vs Scott Pilgrim in this bitch. Ghetto tech style.

KILLER COVERS || Bettye LaVette: "I'm Not the One"

These lyric videos are getting visually sophisticated enough that you wonder why they don't just go ahead and produce some legit visuals. Anyway...

Bettye LaVette is looking to further establish herself as a key interpreter of modern music with an album of covers sometime later in the fall. With announced renditions by the likes of Neil Young, K.D. Lang and Bob Dylan it's good to see her stretching beyond a predictable old school R&B palette. That said, a Black Keys cover is something you'd expect her to kill effortlessly, and that she does. That she does.

Agalloch: "Faustian Echoes"

Portland black metallers Agalloch give the album teaser trend a swift kick in the nuts by streaming their entire new 21-minute EP, Faustian Echoes, a single epic track which is nominally split into two parts which run sequentially over the course of a single track. Actually it's out today although strangely you can't actually purchase it through either Bandcamp or the band's own website. Foul ball, gents.

Jimmy Edgar: "Let Yrself Be"

Jimmy Edgar is back in that ass with this kinetic, epileptic-averse video for "Let Yrself Be", an otherwise agreeable (rather old school) tech-house heater from his extant Majenta LP. He's also a photographer if ya ain't heard. Give it up or turn it loose.

RAC: "Hollywood" [feat. Penguin Prison]

Still jocking on Penguin Prison over last year's "Don't Fuck With My Money", and the RAC crew can basically do no wrong with their endless procession of high profile remixes. Here they step out with a rare original (their first?) and knock it out of the park with a mainstream pop finesse that's right in Penguin Prison's wheelhouse. Check the video for the original as well as the audio for "The Magician Remix" below.

Municipal Waste: "You're Cut Off"

We all know the three words men are reluctant to utter. But the three words we fear hearing the most are "you're cut off" (or as my local bartender more ominously puts it: "I'm gonna keep you where you're at"). Municipal Waste illustrate - literally - the consequences of making such a line-in-the-sand pronouncement. Fuck yeah.

SpaceGhostPurrp: "Osiris of the East"

So SpaceGhostPurrp is touring with hardcore punkers Trash Talk... hip hop has officially entered the Twilight Zone. Which is frankly right where I want it. Trap rap, blings and hoe stories... it all has its place in the rap pantheon, but I'm of the opinion that no artistic form truly crystallizes until it gets off on some extra-dimensional shit. With a few notable exceptions, hip hop has been too literal - too grounded - for too long, so it's good to finally witness a full blown explosion of abstract expressionism issuing forth from the genre.

Delect: "Love Song"

Well now. One might be tempted to paint the minimalism of "Love Song"'s four-on-the-floor house as a tepid excuse to back visuals of scantily clad club vixens writhing around sexually. Listen again. It could be that there's more to the insistent, charged rhythm than that. At the very least the video is worth seconds.