Stereogum — Ramshackle indie rock duo Secret Music builds their frenetic pop around simple, catchy synth or guitar lines, and that’s the basis of their single, “T.O.Y.S.” The video, directed by TV Carnage, piles up Jerry Springer clips, Full House snippets... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin Passion Pit It's now Saturday and Fun Fun Fun Fest's second day is already underway and streaming on Pitchfork. Yesterday, Friday, while BBG was holding down the black stage (which Danzig eventually played), Tim (who ran... more info

I Think You're Swell — It’s always nice to run into people that you actually like at festivals and shit — it’s why I was so stoked to run into Naeem, I mean, Spank Rock during Day one of Fun Fun Fun Fest. Naeem has always been a nice dude and is also pretty fuckin’... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The folk world has cabin fever. Bon Iver’s incubation period in his Wisconsin cabin may have caught on. Vermont Americana outfit Chamberlin have now coined the term “cabinize” as something entirely different. In defining the term “CA-bin-IZE... more info

Stereogum — For the Passion Pit faithful, and given the blown-out audio quality perhaps only for said faithful, here are live clips of two songs that will presumably appear on the band’s Manners followup: Both come via Consequence Of Sound, and were filmed at ... more info

Altsounds — *Stepdad Announce More Fall Tour Dates, Including Dates With Passion Pit Daytrotter Session Out Now Ordinaire EP Out Now On Quite Scientific * Stepdad was formed in a sweltering Chicago apartment in the summer of 2009 when two songwriters turned ... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Video of the DayArtist: Chamberlin Video: 'Little Secrets (Passion Pit Cover)' Highlight: "We filmed this video for 'Little Secrets' with film-maker Matthew Day at some cliffs nearby our cabin in Goshen, Vt., over the summer," Chamberlin... more info

VH1 Blog — Last week, ‘influential’ music blogger Carles of Hipster Runoff fame coined a new term to describe songs that “you’d imagine a group of suburban girls driving around suburbia blasting while they pour vodka into their Sonic slushies.” He (so... more info

Nialler9 — This is what we do know: The Bullitts is the all-star narrative project led by one Jeymes Samuel which so far has featured or is set to feature Roisin Murphy, Tori Amos, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu, Passion Pit and Mos Def. It’s more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Do you guys all know about Chiddy Bang yet? They’re an alternative hip hop group from Philadelphia comprised of Chidera Anamege and Noah Beresin. The group is notable for their untraditional sampling choices – they use stuff from bands like MGMT,... more info