The first single from The Dead Weather’s Sea Of Cowards is kind of a monster, as is its new video. Jack White and Alison Mosshart echo each other’s taunts over the song’s lurching, massive guitar hook. Mosshart always sings as if she’s ready to boil over, but White is singing at full, manic bluster. This video was meant to be equally menacing, but honestly, the video’s stylist made Jack White resemble VH1’s Mystery. White may be the ultimate pick-up artist though. The video was directed by Floria Sigismondi, who most recent did The Runaways movie. She also directed The White Stripes’s “Blue Orchid” video.

The Dead Weather - Die By The Drop
The Dead Weather - Old Mary

A single from former Damn Arms member Gloves means more happy house from the ever prolific Bang Gang 12 Inches. "PYX" is available now through the usual spots–its most playoutable cut is this no frills piano dub from Boys Noize Records affiliate Strip Steve.

1.P.Y.X (Golden Bug Remix)
2.P.Y.X (Strip Steve Paradise Dub Mix)
3.P.Y.X (Strip Steve Remix)
4.P.Y.X
5.Too Much To Dream
6.P.Y.X (Ben Browning Remix)

Enjoy!

Gad, following the success of their debut album 'System May Fall', return with a new album entitled 'The Perfect Crime'. The interesting electro pop and brit rock elements that marked the sound in which we were introduced to Gad are still here, but this time the main focus is more on a guitar and less on an electronic sound. Without losing their ability to create a good melody, Gad are a bit darker, but still manage to cause the same powerful emotions.

Track list:
1. Deep blue world
2. The perfect crime
3. True love
4. Parallel lines
5. Over the moon (feat. K BHTA)
6. Waves
7. Everyday I die in Rome
8. Separate ways
9. You know the way
10. Wise girl
11. Dead town



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The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers gives us our first taste of his upcoming solo album with the single 'Crossfire.' Pulling from the Killers' distinguished sound, 'Crossfire' features not only layers of piano mixed with a steady back-beat, but an electric guitar interlude just after Flowers croons in the sing-a-long chorus: "lay your body down, lay your body down, lay your body down."

Brandon Flowers - Crossfire! (Radio Rip)

The Amplifetes are a brand new 4-piece band from Sweden. Being accomplished songwriters & producers on their own, the members have worked with names such as Kelis, Madonna, Grandmaster Flash & Peter Bjorn and John. While having occasionaly crossed paths during the course of their careers, they have existed as a unit for about a year. The band think of themselves as a dreamteam collaboration of their influences – listing 60s Psychadelia, The Electric Light Orchestra, The Ramones, Elvis Costello, David Bowie & Chicago Trax Records House releases.

The highly addictive result can be heard in The Amplifetes debut single “It’s my life”, a spitting image of urban life & a happy three-part marriage between garage pop, electro & punk. It was featured recently in a promo campaign for Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli, starring a lightly dressed Milla Jovovich, creating quite a stir over europe .

The Amplifetes - Whizz Kid
The Amplifetes - It's My Life
The Amplifetes - Somebody New

James Lavelle's UNKLE project has had a few interesting moments, but it's never really recovered after the early departure of Tim Goldsworthy and DJ Shadow. Lavelle spent the last decade working with a revolving door of UK producers and teaming with guest collaborators both high profile (Josh Homme, Brian Eno) and low-impact (The Duke Spirit, South). His latest, Where Did The Night Fall, is scheduled for a May release, and it boasts guest spots from Mark Lanegan and Autolux, among others.

On early album teaser "Natural Selection", Lavelle enlists Texas psych-rockers the Black Angels. The fuzz-drenched production couples well with the Black Angels' swirling drone and dive-bomb guitar lines, adding a sense of aural paranoia UNKLE have often tried for and missed. Where the Black Angels' vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Alex Maas refined his acid-fried whine on his band's 2008's underrated Directions to See a Ghost, here his delivery is hypnotic and bears a British affectation, comparable to Broadcast and Clinic. There's a messy mid-song breakdown here that brings the track crashing to earth, but if nothing else, maybe "Natural Selection" signals a promising new sonic direction for Maas and his Angels.

UNKLE - Natural Selection (Feat. The Black Angels)
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows (UNKLE Reconstruction full length vocal)

Eskimo Disco have been playing their infectious party music at warehouse parties, clubs and festivals across the UK, including supports with the Arctic Monkeys, The Rakes, The Subways, The Young Knives, Chromeo, Mint Royale and Jamie Liddell. They have developed their music into a powerful live show that has taken the band throughout the UK and Europe. "One of the best live bands of the year," says Playlouder.com.

Their debut single 7-11 reached number 15 in the charts and second single 'What is Woman?' was released by legendary Stiff Records with a remix from Fred Falke that became a summer club classic. "Their new single Japanese Girl is several shades of amazing" says Pop Justice, and was their Song of the Day.

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Eskimo Disco - Final Countdown
Eskimo Disco - She Plays Her Game