Guardian Music — Robert Smith's blessing and a monster performance with Leftfield at Rockness have given Jess Mills the confidence to strike out aloneIt must take nerve, at your biggest gig to date, to step up and sing guest vocals on a long-adored tune in front of 2... more info

Dirty Physics — I've been saving it all up for the big DP summer comeback! I'm really digging this new track from Foster the People. Largely following the music trend of late Foster the People sound like a less frenetic version of MGMT mixed with Passion Pit. Their ... more info

Guardian Music — A delicious slow jam that's all the better for its slight whiff of Davidoff Cool WaterFrancis and the Lights actually represents the work of just one man, Francis Farewell Starlite (we're assuming that's not his real name). Since emerging in 2008 –... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Yo Gabba Gabba with MGMT at Radio City in 2010 (more by Alexander Stein) Yo Gabba Gabba! Live!: It's Time to Dance! hits over 50 cities in North America this fall. Hip hop legend Biz Markie and "Razzle Dazzle Gabba!-favorite... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Wolf Gang is a British Alternative and Symphonic Rock band and the project of Max McElligott. Having played with different musicians McEligott settled on the current live set up in late 2009 which includes Lasse Petersen (Drums) previously of The R... more info

Guardian Music — Gearing up to release their MGMT-esque debut album Suego Faults, here's the premiere of the latest Wolf Gang videoWolf Gang, led by frontman Max McElligott, are one of those blog bands that seem to have been around for ages yet are only just about to... more info

Guardian Music — The deranged, pointy-hat-and-fairy-unicyclist genius of Moldova's Eurovision entry, despite finishing 12th, had Twitter abuzzDid you see it? The Moldovan entry for last weekend's 2011 Eurovision Song Contest? So Lucky, by the veteran Gypsy punk band ... more info

Guardian Music — Fancy listening to some anthemic summer sounds? Then check out an exclusive video by this duo from the Sunshine StateFlorida-based ANR (or Awesome New Republic as they used to be known), are Brian Robertson and Michael-John Hancock, a duo who have so... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Holy Ghost! are an American electropop duo from New York City consisting of Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel. Holy Ghost! is the debut album by the band of the same name. It was released on 4 April 2011 on DFA Records. Millhiser and Frankel bot... more info

Stereogum — Both MGMT and the Flaming Lips played the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis last Friday, and together they did this version of MGMT’s “Kids” during the latter band’s headlining set. Maybe it was a way to distract themselves from thinking... more info