Urban electro pop phenom Theophilus London releases his debut LP Timez Are Weird These Days on Warner Bros. Records world wide on July 19th. Following a series of wildly popular independent mixtapes and the Lovers Holiday EP that landed him a performance on The Late Show with David Letterman earlier this year, Timez Are Weird These Days arrives as Theophilus’ most fully realized work to date: a wide-open album of original music, genre bending sound, mesmerizing storytelling and inspired, honest…

Before the boys in Florida indie-rock outfit Surfer Blood teamed up to record their BNM'd debut, Astro Coast, ? guitarist Thomas Fekete, bassist Brian Black, and touring percussionist Marcos Marchesani, along with vocalist and non-Surfer Nick Klein, played pigfuck thrash-punk together under the moniker of Weird Wives. Even though Surfer Blood's profile is steadily rising, the guys aren't leaving Weird Wives behind. Far from it, in fact.

Big Freedia (pronounced ?Free-da?) is the undisputed ?Queen Diva? of Bounce Music, and performs six or more times a week in various venues throughout her home town of New Orleans. Bounce Music is an original urban music rising up from the intimate and fun-loving nature of the New Orleans housing projects which dominate the city?s street culture, and Freedia performs a derivative of Bounce reserved for self-proclaimed ?Sissies? (a locally used name for biological men with varied and ambiguous sexual…

Learn how to shake that ass with the Queen Diva of New Orleans Bounce BIG FREEDIA! Class starts at 4pm-6:00 and is $5 per hour. No advance tickets available.

Back to basics. Take your time. Guitars and golden noise. Meet Bleached, two sisters from LA creating rough-hewed, high-collared, melodic Rock & Roll. Formerly part of Mika Miko, Jessica and Jennifer Clavin were best known for their freewheeling '77 punk and riot girl lawlessness. In Bleached, they share the same slant towards the hard-edged, but instead veer towards a more vintage ensemble of Ramones bubble-gum, Merle Haggard country, and 60s psychedelic rock. Raised up deep in the San Fernando Valley,…

Thurston Moore first saw Beck way back in the early 90s when Beck was mowing lawns with an amplified hand-push ill-blade mower at a backyard BBQ on Toul Avenue in Westwood L.A., a coconut's throw from the 405 freeway. Beck only sang a couple of songs, both about TV destruction and toxic inhalants, before he lifted a German Shepherd over his head and threw it into the crowd. I was from NYC and had never seen a real live canine…

Old King Cole Younger is Cole from Black Lips side project. Blunt Fang: Once a member of backpack eccentric crew Supreeme, Atlanta’s Negashi Armada has been reborn as Blunt Fang. With "Crystal Power" he mumbles decidedly post Based raps about H. Rap Brown and FAO Schwartz while pacing awkwardly in front of a blue screen with a very Spirit of Truth swagger. He also smokes an amethyst crystal like it's a crack rock (word to Ray from Slam. In an…

Natural Child is a garage/punk/pop band from Nashville, TN on the Infinity Cat label. http://www.myspace.com/naturalchildband Wez Traylor rocks! One day he ate pot brownies and called Zack and called Seth like 3 times telling them he wanted to start a band. Seth said cool but only if they toured and recorded all the time so that's what they're doing now. They have songs about eating drugs and white people and various other subjects.

Wings and teeth. No two symbols could've been better chosen to represent Minneapolis rap stalwarts Doomtree. The endlessly innovative crew/label has defied categorization from the start, leaving behind convention for what's best described as aggressive transcendence. Through a tireless work ethic, take-noprisoners production, lyrics that never shy from truth, and an always shifting stylistic mix, this family has carved out an elevated corner unto itself. And like most families, as well as the imagery this one employs, Doomtree is as…