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321 : Is Tropical London trio Is Tropical wear masks. They are the kind of dudes who enlist a Mystery Jet to help them bash out a rampaging Fela Kuti cover. They also steal boats. After the jump they talk cocktails, Jim Morrison and sonic booms. [Continues...] Is Tropical - Seasick Mutiny (demo) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 30/07/09 Always Online The lovely and amazing Internet Forever are the stars of this week's Dollars To Pounds. Posted by: Scott 29/07/09 Vanity Fair When we heard grunge freaks Japanese Voyeurs had written a song called You're So Cool we were flattered, but not surprised, so we asked Romily the band's hot singer to elaborate. "The song is about obsession. It's not about one person or even necessarily a person, more about longing and idolization and how powerful that can be." Oh. Their debut EP Sicking & Kreaming is out soon on Fiction. Japanese Voyeurs - You're So Cool [mp3] Posted by: Scott 28/07/09 Come Out To Play Cheatahs - Warrior In which a sketched forest, a lion jumper and a tiny pink guitar battle for the title of Coolest Thing In This Video. Posted by: Scott 28/07/09 Set Default Location Remember when ADD was called hyperactivity? It sounded so much cooler. Hands On Heads are a hyperactive kind of band. Their instant release Ritalin rock is giddy and breathless, but tightly focused. "When you point at your heart, it's like you're pointing at a map," they yelp on this track from their new album, a boisterous GPS love song in search of a lost land. Hands On Heads - Phantom Island [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 27/07/09 In Cold Blood My only experience of ice skating involved being dropped on my face in a car park then spending a few torturous hours learning how to not fall over while bleeding heavily all over the rink. Ice skating is scary and Quad Throw Salchow know it. They combine death-defying leaps with pitch-black vocals and grooves that are part- motorik, part-demonic. Get their new single at Pure Groove. Quad Throw Salchow - Matters Of The Mind (Version) [mp3] Quad Throw Salchow - Fate Will Find (Version) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 24/07/09 Vanity Fair When we heard grunge freaks Japanese Voyeurs had written a song called You're So Cool we were flattered, but not surprised, so we asked Romily the band's hot singer to elaborate. "The song is about obsession. It's not about one person or even necessarily a person, more about longing and idolization and how powerful that can be." Oh. Their debut EP Sicking & Kreaming is out soon on Fiction. Japanese Voyeurs - You're So Cool [mp3] Posted by: Scott 28/07/09 Green And Pleasant Land Two weeks ago other dudes were filling our ears with bold, swooning chamber-pop, but this is the internet and we don't listen to anything for more than 36 hours. So as those harmonies fade away, Sleeping States returns. Markland Starkie's grand and subtly unsimple new record, In the Gardens Of The North, was recorded in the great outdoors (a wood near Bristol) and is almost as impressive as his amazing name. Sleeping States - Gardens Of The South [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 23/07/09 Electric Dreams When we were tiny we spent endless days lost in gaudy Spectrum gameworlds and troubled nights dreaming about them. Cold Cave and Geneva Jacuzzi, the latest additions to the beautiful Big Love family, sound how those adolescent, attribute clash-filled dreams felt. Freaky. Cold Cave - The Laurels Of Erotomania [mp3] Geneva Jacuzzi - Clothes On The Bed [mp3] Posted by: Scott 23/07/09 American Graffiti On Dollars To Pounds this week, the awesome Graffiti Island. Posted by: Scott 22/07/09 321 : Screaming Tea Party Screaming Tea Party might be the most fun band ever, as proven by their amazing new cover of Material Girl (which you can stream below). They also might be killing megastars. "We will release a 7" single in October," explains the band's Koichi Yamanoha. "One of the songs is about Michael Jackson. We recorded it and the next day he died!" Watch out, Madonna. Check out their lovely version of Bokutachi No Shippai at our NME blog. After the jump Koichi talks cars, Tornados and terrifying buttons. [Continues...] Screaming Tea Party - Material Girl (Madonna cover) Posted by: Scott 22/07/09 Fly High Salem - Legend In which Salem indulge their whimsical side by recreating the giant piano scene from Big with the help of Barney, Kermit and Spongebob. Not really. Posted by: Scott 21/07/09 Okey Dokey Yes Way trailer [music: Pens - Networking] In which a rad festival is immortalised. Posted by: Scott 17/07/09 321 : Babe Rainbow [Photo: Leah Benetti] Over the last few months Babe Rainbow has been switching off lights all over the internet, crawling out of speakers and screaming BOO into unsuspecting ears. Now he's collaborated with Basketball on what he describes as a "more heartbreaking, melancholic" take on his spine-tingling dirge-step sound. After the jump he takes a bold stab at our 321 questions. [Continues...] Babe Rainbow (ft. Basketball) - Proper [mp3] Posted by: Scott 16/07/09 . Grammer Tyme Thred Palls izan awesom Iresh bannd whoo mak stript doun pos-puk noyz-rck/ an r nyce enuf too giv rway tuns ov mazin toons vya te innerned; Thy rool# Thread Pulls - Typos [mp3] Posted by: Scott 15/07/09 Black And White Hey, aspiring musicians. Sometimes it's not enough to just be young and hot and have an awesome new wave band. Sometimes you have to go the extra mile and live on an island and rehearse in a Napoleonic fort. That's why The Mono are better than you. The Mono - Sparkling Furrs [mp3] Posted by: Scott 14/07/09 Of Time And The City photo: Dan Wilton Stricken City are sweethearts and the stars of this week's D2P blog at the FADER. Posted by: Scott 13/07/09 So Wavey It's freakin' gnarly, dudes. F.L.Y. (Fast Life Yungstaz) - Party Time (Feat. Band Geakz) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 10/07/09 See You Later, Alligator Sexbeat are our dudes. Crocodiles are Sexbeat's bros. So Crocodiles are our brodudes. On 03/08 you can buy Crocodiles' new single, the first 7" on Sexbeat, which contains the surprisingly non-murder-related I Wanna Kill and breezy beach ballad, Here Comes The Sky (pre-order here!). If you are in London on Sunday 12/07, see our brodudes play our dudes' party at the Old Blue Last with our bros Internet Forever. So wavey! Posted by: Scott 09/07/09 Get Trashed Thanks to Vice we have remembered how great Trash Kit are. They are a super-fun, no-fi, no-dick, triple-threat of awesomeness. See them support the amazing Marnie Stern on 23/07 for an epic evening of estro-shredding. Trash Kit - Fame ! ! [mp3] Trash Kit - Cadets [mp3] Posted by: Scott 08/07/09 Baby Wants To Fuck (Sebastian Thomson AKA Publicist) What if Frank Booth made a disco record? What would that be like? Turns out it would be amazing. Publicist - Momma (ft. Ian Svenonius) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 08/07/09 321 : Hounds Of Hate Hounds Of Hate and Hype Williams have made an awesomely freaky new mixtape together. It sounds like it was recorded in the Red Room. Read more about it over here. After the jump Hounds Of Hate provides 321 answers that are "total entropy." [Continues...] SIDE 1 - Hounds Of Hate - II III Eye (ft. Hype Williams) [mp3] SIDE 2 - Hype Williams - II III B (ft. Hounds Of Hate) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 07/07/09 Get Money Billionaires by Your Twenties is offically our #1 summer jam. Grab it at the FADER blog. (PS - the FADER blog made more sense when I wrote it last week, before it started raining.) Posted by: Scott 06/07/09 Teen Wolves PRE - Teenage Lakes In which PRE make the perfect music video. AMAZING. Posted by: Scott 06/07/09 Summer Lightning Last week in Italy we witnessed the most ridiculously relentless electrical storm ever. It was amazing and made everything seem weirdly artificial. Like being inside a plasma lamp on a giant lake surrounded by luminous mountains, except we weren't inside a lamp, we were on a balcony, a bit drunk. Silk Flowers are like that feeling. They are theatrically macabre and weirdly warm. Secretly synthetic, like the blooms they're named after. Silk Flowers - Costume [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 06/07/09