There is no doubt in our minds that director Chris Cunningham is a disturbed individual. However, when you are comparing his visual aesthetic to the auditory styling of Richard D. James a.k.a. Aphex Twin, it's 1. hard to figure which of the two is more mad than genius, and 2. easy to see why they work so well together. “Come to Daddy” epitomizes both those points, merging the IDM-signature we’ve come to associate to James ...

With SunnO))) playing Oslo, Norway's Oya Festival, we thought this would be a perfect excuse to throw up a video from their Southenlord label-mates (and a personal fave at the RCRD LBL offices), Boris. "A Bao A Qu"—based on the extended version from The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked rather than the Soundtrack from Film "Mabuta no Ura" version—undeniably resides on the mellower side of this Japanese band's spectrum and provides a fitting drone/ambient Yin to ...

What do you get when you cross A-HA with Hall & Oates? Why, we're so glad someone asked! The new Chromeo video, "Momma's Boy" has some serious "Take on Me" overtones with the whole sketch-like animation theme. The song is pretty cute, even though it borders slightly on the creepy side: watch the video and you'll get what we mean. Love you Mom! Download: Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin' (Yuksek remix)

If you enjoy: 1) Moody folk rock and 2) standing in the sun for long periods of time, you might want to hit up Conor Oberst’s upcoming instore tour, where he’ll be traveling coast to coast and record store to record store with his Mystic Valley Band promoting his new, self-titled record. Just one question: is there going to be a VIP line or anything…? Here are the dates: 7/30/08 Seattle, Easy Street Records @ ...

We know you guys have been salivating for some new Cold War Kids tracks, and we have just the thing to quench your overwhelming desire for urban indie Americana this morning. “Something is Not Right With Me” is a brand new, RCRD LBL exclusive track off of the Cold War Kids’ second album Loyalty To Loyalty (out Sept 23rd) , and if we use this as a measuring stick for the new material, then we’re ...

We're on a full-blown '90s kick at the moment--watching Party Girl and Unzipped, YouTubing old episodes of MTV's House of Style and of course, going through all of our old Britpop records. After Pulp and Blur, our favorite band from that era was Elastica, whose front woman Justine Frischmann embodied the spunk and style of the times. "Stutter" was their first single and it remains a classic.

No '90s band matched the wit and pop appeal of Pulp and their charismatic frontman Jarvis Cocker. After This is Hardcore came out in 1997, Jarvis described it in the press as having almost destroyed his band, life, and sanity, but man, was it worth it. Almost as good as its predecessor, the modern classic Different Class, This is Hardcore and our favorite single off the record, "Party Hard", were Pulp to a "T": lines ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we’re willing to wager that that’s true for each pixel of the image above. Seriously we could stare at this thing all day. DJ extraordinaire and Dim Mak label head Steve Aoki guest starred recently on Current TV’s cartoon spoof show Hipsters in Space and the Dim Mak RCRD LBL blog has the full scoop. Check it out, it’s pretty funny. Steve Aoki at the ...

Every time we hear some dumb interviewer ask some amazing all-girl band like, the Coathangers or something a question like, "So, what's it like to be an all-girl band?" A) it makes us pukey and B) we get really pissed off when the band actually answer the question instead of doing what the Slits would do, which is obviously just be awesome, not care and do whatever (which is what the Coathangers pretty much do, ...

We're so excited for Donkey, the new album by Brazilian pop-rock juggernauts CSS, we're actually contemplating going to a record store and buying it on the day it comes out, something we haven't done since at least 2002 when we were really, really into the White Stripes. Like, really into them. It just might be that we love CSS even more, and even though we're still giving their debut album Cansei de Ser Sexy healthy ...

Welcome to the RCRD LBL Top Ten. We've started our very own so we're able to bring you our most popular tracks for the week in the form of a handy weekend digest. Not to mention we thought it would be fun to let our artists have some bragging rights (we kid!). Props to UNKLE, again, for netting the number one spot this week, and a warm top five welcome to Bodies of Water, Loney, ...

So, it's all over. Last night we went all the way to Southpaw in Brooklyn to see the Vaselines play what is sure to go down as one of the best sets of our entire lives. As Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee swapped lyrics over their indie pop/psychedelic punk masterpieces, we kept flashing back to this Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra song from the late '60s. "Some Velvet Morning" has been covered to all hell, ...

The streets are beginning to hum right now in the Pacific Northwest, kids raising their eyebrows at a group of crazies in Seattle with a name as serpentine as their indie-rawk: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. Say that shit ten times fast! Totally kidding! That would be silly! Anyway, the four men and a little lady of MSHVB have been promoting their band not with their tunes (very very scarce), but with a series of ...