Radiohead are no strangers to the idea that music is something the modern fan sees as less of a commodity and more of a basic human right guaranteed by the United States of Bit Torrent. Back when In Rainbows was released, the band decided to buck the label system (middle finger to The Man!) and give their seventh studio album away on a pay-what-you-wish basis through their website. That esprit de corps is still in fine form with Thom Yorke and the boys from across the Pond, as they’ve decided to provide the full audio masters from a 2009 concert for a fan-made concert DVD. The group of about 50 loosely organized videogrpahers used Flip HD cameras to record the show from a variety of vantage points. According to the organizers, the footage was shot by a “group of Radiohead fans [who] descended on the Výstaviště Holešovice exhibition hall in Prague to capture the band perform, using as many different angles as possible …” The camera work is raw, frequently shaky but endearingly enthusiastic.

The Arcade Fire have teamed up with, of all partners, Google to release an official video for “We Used to Wait” off their new album The Suburbs. The tech savvy video uses the emerging web standards of HTML5 to deliver a complex and highly interactive experience to help personalize the sense of nostalgia inherent in the song. The Chris Milk directed clip works best on Chrome. If you can remember it use your childhood address and visit http://www.thewildernessdowntown.net/ to play around.

Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait by the ruckus

Detroit duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott) come out of left field with a sound that’s closer to Sufjan Steven’s than anything a typical NASCAR fan would probably be caught listening to. On their debut four song EP “Horse Power” they tread a fair bit of ground including noisy folk and sparkling electro-pop, even throwing in a sensitive cover of the Beach Boys’s classic “God Only Knows.” “Nothing But Our Love” is a sonically layered, diffuse jam that hovers melodically between definable genre’s of sound, a sweet spot of musical tension and tight-rope-walking production.

London’s Still Corners is the kind of musical ephemera that is almost too painfully beautiful to listen to casually. From the fetching lead singer’s (think Rachel Goswell ) breathless delivery to the simple and dreamy melodies the band is nothing but pure pop sugar cut with enough melancholy and nostalgia that it doesn’t come across as saccharine. Along with dancier acts like Spain’s Delorean and the 80′s retro of fellow Brits Summer Camp they also prove the growing global reach of the indie movement known as chillwave.

What would you get if Peter Gabriel sang hard-rock? Virginia Beach based rockers The Influence seem a likely candidate. The best way to describe their sound is crunchy, tight, 90′s style hard rock. Anyone who can shred a wicked rock solo is a welcome relief from the sometimes monotonous lo-fi aesthetic currently strangling pop music into a hazy coma.

When we last heard from Sufjan, the cipher of indie rock dropped a symphonic look at the BQE on us, a kind of love note indie symphony of precious melodies and delicately soaring brass that expounded on the virtues of a New York freeway. A man after Robert Moses’ heart if I ever saw one. Now it seems he’s taken that preciously anthemic sound and expounded on it for the nearly 12 minute, post-apocalyptic epic of ennui “All Delighted People”. The 8 track EP also includes a “classic rock version” of the title track which is a slightly more digestible 8 minutes and features a pared down arrangement with Sufjan pickin’ away on his trademark banjo. The disc also includes a 17 minute scorching, distortion laden blues guitar jam bearing his sister’s name, “Djohariah”.

New Jersey’s pysch/surf pop group Real Estate are back with a sparkling diamond of a new single, “Out of Tune”. Weaving, reverb laden guitars and a swaying bass-line complete the picture of a late summer day of melancholy.

Out Of Tune by truepanther

Yes, we would all like Justin Bieber to fall into a Black Hole, but someone has finally made that dream a reality. Well…they made his music fall into the singularity, anyway. Apparently if you take the annoying little munchkin’s “U Smile” and slow it down 800% (courtesy of Florida artist Shamantis) you get something akin to a Boards of Canada grand opus. Give it a listen, pretty crazy stuff. I’m not going to post the original for comparison because I’m not that evil.

J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

In case you haven’t heard Best Coast (Bethany Cosentino) is the hottest thing other than the Sun this summer. Her debut album Crazy For You with partner Bob Brunno made quite the surf-pop splash after it’s release last month and now gets a fun, quirky video to go along with single “When I’m With You”. It even features Snacks, her adorable cat that you can also follow on Twitter!

What do you get when you mix 2 parts Baroque retro-hop beats with an equal measure of Ghostface Killah’s legendary flow? Two minutes and six seconds of unadulterated jams. Enjoy.

Mark Ronson – , Lose It (In The End) (ft. Ghostface Killah) by jassahota