My Old Kentucky — Show up tonight for Cymbals Eat Guitars and get a free ticket to MOKB's July 4th INDIE-PENDENCE DAY BASH with Pterodactyl and Early Day Miners!(poster design : Elijah Schroeder)MP3 : Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind PhoenixWhy There Are Mountains will be r... more info

Pop Candy — I just posted something about films for each state, and now I'm looking at/listening to a feature that surveys the best music across the country. The Boston Phoenix has just unveiled its "50 Bands, 50 States" list, in which it... more info

Culture Bully — Phoenix performs on the June 29 episode of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. more info

JamBase — The Dodos Announce U.S. Fall Tour To Coincide With Third LP The Dodos With a title like Time To Die, you might think San Francisco's Dodos' third disc is their "mature album," a deadly serious undertaking punctuated with string sections and synt... more info

Get Weird — Crystal Fighters latest single ‘Xtatic Truth’ is out now with some great remixes from the likes of Renaissance Man and Lvis – 1990. Get their remix of ‘Back Magic’ by Magic Wands here if you haven’t already and there’s a one hour ... more info

My Old Kentucky — I'll pay you a million dollars to teach me to dance like Rye Rye and friends and not look like and idiot when I do so. Actually my brothers and I used to rock most of these moves back in 1985 on the back porch on a piece of big cardboard. (thx!)Rye... more info

Live Daily — Finnish heavy-metal outfit Children of Bodom [ tickets ] will follow up a European festival run and South American jaunt with a North American tour this fall, all in support of the group's forthcoming album, "Skeletons in the Closet." The fall out... more info

Rollo & Grady — [Via - Bob Lefsetz - Lefsetz Letter, June 29th] “Why was everybody there? I e-mailed Stacey to park beneath the building and she said: “I’m glad you already have tickets, because this show is totally sold out.” Huh? Daniel Glass told me it wa... more info

Big Stereo — The most popular June downloads: 1. Yelle – “Qui Est Cette Fille” 2. Marina & The Diamonds – “I Am Not A Robot” (Starsmith’s 24 Carat Remix) 3. Bag Raiders – “Turbo Love” (Flight Facilities featuring Louis Austen Bu... more info

MTV.com News — Hov says 1970's 'Zabriskie Point' has the same rebellious feel as Bluepoint 3. By Shaheem Reid Jay-Z in his video for "D.O.A." (Death of Auto-Tune) Photo: Roc Nation via BET Just as Jay-Z looked to the past for the soundscapes of his origi... more info