The Culture Of Me — Science laboratories, facial hair and awesome period-piece costuming. The new video from Massachusetts's next great white hope, Passion Pit, and their song "To Kingdom Come" has all sorts of graphic bells and whistles, cartoonish renderings of mitosi... more info

Said the Gramophone — Mount Eerie - "Between Two Mysteries". Mount Eerie's thrilling and exhausting new record, Wind's Poem, expands on the idea of "black wooden", from last year's Black Wooden Ceiling Opening. Black wooden is like black metal, but instead of roaring t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Passion Pit (more by Tim Griffin) Not quite on the scale of their last NYC music event (that I know about), but Diesel Jeans's U:Music tour will visit NYC for a show at Webster Hall on Thursday, July 30th. The... more info

Stereogum — Now in it's third year, Denver's Monolith Festival has laid out its plan to lure the mountain west region's indie minded music fans to Red Rocks for a noteworthy weekend of bloggable bands. Headlining the two-day festival are Yeah Yeah Yeahs and t... more info

My Old Kentucky — The 2009 Monolith Music Festival at Red Rocks in Denver, CO has just about completed this year's lineup. There are a few more bands that apparently will be added, but most all the big guns seem to be in.As I have said previous, I have discovered, ove... more info

JamBase — Monolith Announces 2009 Lineup Indie Rock Fest Set To Go Down September 12 & 13 at Red Rocks The final touches are being put on the lineup of the Monolith Music Festival which includes Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Girl Talk, MSTRKRFT, Phoenix, The Walkmen, Hea... more info

Altsounds — Passion Pit will release a new single ‘To Kingdom Come’, taken from their highly acclaimed debut album ‘Manners’ on August 24th on Columbia Records. Passion Pit are currently in the midst of a month long adve... more info

NME — Band showcase their debut album to dance-friendly crowd more info

My Chemical Toilet — Passion Pit managed to get London's Vibe Bar pounding on a Wendesday night, and blew away even the most cynical of bloggers... more info

Stereogum — In addition to speaking in sexy French accents, hey perform "Lisztomania," "1901," and the older "One Time Too Many." You've likely already seen performances of those tracks, but things get stripped down in the Spinner studios -- acoustic, no drum... more info