Silversun Pickups

Weezer, Kings of Leon, Silversun Pickups, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cage The Elephant and others will headline KROQ’s Weenie Roast this Saturday, May 16th. The event is sold out, but you can find reasonably priced tickets on Craigslist (click here).

MP3: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero [AC Remix]
MP3: Silversun Pickups – Well Thought Out Twinkles [Live]
MP3: Kings of Leon – Bucket [Live – London]

Download:
Kings of Leon – Only By the Night (iTunes)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!(iTunes)
Silversun Pickups – Swoon (iTunes)

MP3: Calico Horse – Idioteque [Radiohead Cover]
MP3: Vienna Teng – Idioteque [Radiohead Cover]

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MP3: Burial & Four Tet – Moth

The Shining twins and the Poltergeist clown scarred me as a child. Other frightening movie experiences, the original When A Stranger Calls – “Have you checked the children,” the rest of the movie sucked, but the first twenty minutes of the movie is worth it.

MP3: Scary Mansion – Sorry We Took All Your Money
MP3: Deerhoof – Twin Killers
MP3: Clinic – Coda

MG Siegler of TechCrunch.com reports:
Pandora is a company that mainly makes its money through advertising deals on its streaming Internet radio service. But a growing portion of the business is also affiliate downloads of songs that users hear on Pandora and want to buy on either iTunes or Amazon’s MP3 service. And the biggest mover accelerating growth in that regard are downloads taking place on the iPhone.

Users are buying about a million songs a month now from these affiliate links on Pandora, CTO Tom Conrad tells me. Of those, a solid 20% are coming directly from Pandora’s iPhone app, which includes an easy link to open the iPhone’s iTunes app, and buy a track. That’s really impressive considering that it’s just one phone that a relatively small percentage of their users use. Continue Reading

Daytrotter recently posted two fantastic sessions with J. Tillman and The Soft Pack.

The Soft Pack Session (Click Here)
J. Tillman Session (Click Here)

MP3: The Soft Pack – Parasites (SXSW Session)
MP3: J. Tillman – When I Light Your Darkened Door (SXSW Session)

MP3: The Kills – Black Balloon (Vega Remix)
M.I.A. – Paper Planes (PAPL Remix)

The Kills and The Horrors @ Henry Fonda Theater – May 22nd (Buy Tix)