Disco Ensemble’s new video for the first single “White Flag For Peace” from their upcoming album is now online. The video is directed by Sami Sänpäkkilä who is also known for running a pretty sweet Finnish label called Fonal Records.

No information has been released yet on the title of the new record or its exact release date, but make sure to watch the video above as many times as possible to hold you over. You can also pick up the band’s latest EP, Back on The MF Street, on iTunes.

Shout Out Louds tour dates:
3/1 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg **Sold Out!
5/2 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
5/3 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
5/5 New York, NY Webster Hall (see you there???)
5/6 Boston, MA Paradise
5/7 Montreal, QC Cabaret Music Hall
5/8 Toronto, ON Mod Club
5/10 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
5/11 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
5/14 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
5/15 Seattle, WA Neumos
5/16 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
5/18 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
5/20 San Diego, CA House of Blues
5/21 Los Angeles, CA El Rey

The Tiny, a Swedish pop-folk ensemble, is one of the best bands on earth. If you don’t believe me, just listen to a few tracks from their previous album, Starring: Someone Like You, especially “Everything is Free,” (a Gillian Welch Cover) that can double as a swan song for both truly independent music and print media. But that they continue to produce such beautiful, almost mind-bogglingly complex works of art makes “Everything is Free” more a vision of the future than a too-late tear for the present.

The video above is from The Tiny’s new album, Gravity & Grace, which hasn’t been released in the U.S. yet, but can still be gotten to thanks to the wonders of the internet.

OK, enough words. Just check it out.

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Animated watercolor paintings and construction paper not only make this video for “What A Drag” a beauty to watch, but the fact that the band is trying to escape from hipster farmers makes this video a must see. Welcome to “Video of the Week” super-stardom, Bear Hands!

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These two brothers from Nashville, Jake and Jamin Orrall, received plenty of buzz during this year’s CMJ, but if you have not had the chance to listen to JEFF the Brotherhood yet, this is where I tell you to do so. They just upped this video for “The Tropics” alongside the announcement that their third full-length, Heavy Days, is now available for purchase in CD form. The vinyl is in its second pressing now and was originally released in October.

Heavy Days is easily one of my favorite records in my rotation right now. Just ask anyone who has had the unfortunate experience of swapping bands we’re both in love with. What is perhaps the best thing about JEFF the Brotherhood is that while sometimes you can throw them alongside a contemporary like Kurt Vile and at another time think back to something like early Offspring, what it really comes down to is that it just straight-up fucking rocks. Call it psychedelic grunge/punk or whatever, but it’s really just rock n’ roll and that unfortunately is something that’s not being done and done well as of late.

Lucky for all of us who missed them during CMJ (or for those of you not located in NYC), the band is about to embark on a massive tour the lasts until April. They will be stopping by the Bowery Ballroom on February 6th, but make sure you check out the other dates on their MySpace too. In the meantime, I’d recommend purchasing Heavy Days (it’s out on their personal label Infinity Cat Records) so you can yell the words with me when they come to town.

Fuck it, I’m gone.

Clocking in at a minute and fifteen seconds and consisting of solely the couplet above, Titles’ “Fuck It” keeps it simple. Titles is an indie band from New Haven, CT with two albums under their belt and a third, Dirt Bell, on the way.

The reason this song stands out to me is not just its pithiness, but the fact that it – among a wasteland of bands attempting to ‘beachify’ their sounds – actually succeeds in channeling the whimsy and experimentation of Brian Wilson’s finally-finished Smile. “Fuck It” drapes its 3/4 stomp with kazoos, organs, triangles, dog barks, and god only knows what else, creating a simultaneous sense of playfulness and escape.

And the video combines these two elements to great effect. It follows a red-shirted, red-haired bicyclist from the streets to the shore, keeping a cool distance as he dodges cars, races other bikers, and lands, ultimately, in the Long Island Sound.

“Fuck It” provides a great soundtrack for mild weather weekends, as we all begin to bore of winter and become anxious for the change of seasons.

Titles- “F#ck It” from Matt C on Vimeo.

Man, doesn’t it feel like you never watch music videos anymore? Everyone knows about the soul corroding rot of MTV, and then they created MTV2, where the rot has since spread. People tell me to watch FUSE, but I don’t think I’ve ever received such a channel in my life.

Who remembers The Box? In Milwaukee, it was channel 8 on regular TV ONLY. You could call in and type a number and pay a somewhat-nominal fee and they would play your music video. Sure, the picture was complete crap, but sitting around waiting for Mr. or Ms. Moneybags to call in and order a video for everyone was awesome.

Oh right, this is a video we love by Logh.

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I can remember one night driving home from the city on the NJ Turnpike, rain was coming down sideways and it was hot as hell out. I fumbled around looking for something to play, I just put in the first thing I could grab and it wound up being Greetings From Asbury Park. I immediately put on this song, lit a cigarette and cracked a window to let some of that steamy air in. Sometimes you can hear a song 50 times and then one day for whatever reason it hits you hard. For me it was on a hot Summer’s night and I was lost in the flood on the NJ turnpike… makes sense that it would happen that way I guess.

The kids call him Jimmy The Saint.

I never thought I’d actually like something with Taylor Swift in it… or that had anything to do with Twilight. Proved me wrong, SNL. Proved me wrong. Check it out on Hulu:

Check out this video from our buddies @ $99 Music Videos. Not only is the video a crafty creation that demands your attention, but this song will get branded into your head and you’ll be humming it’s melody in the shower tomorrow morning – be warned.

And I should know: See the guy in the background of the Cafe scenes at Nita Nita in Brooklyn wearing a long black coat and enjoying what seems to be a delicious meal and hilarious conversation? It’s me. And I had never heard the song before becoming an extra for that day, but it was at least a week before I went back to my normal routine of absently humming Jock Jams.(Don’t judge me)

Anyways, now that I have this insider knowledge, I feel the need to let you know two very important things about this video you can’t appreciate just watching.

1. It was cold as hell out there, and I wasn’t actually bouncing around because of the lovely conversation (and it was lovely, ladies). It was actually hypothermia-induced insanity.

2. The heater outside the cafe broke, and it got colder. But it was totally worth it.

Afterward, I had a few words with Neil in the bar – I can’t remember what about because, quite frankly, I was a bit tipsy at the time. But he is awesome, and we will interview him about musical-type things soon, I swear. But for now, just watch this video, and appreciate that they somehow did it all for $99.