Das Racist, the kooky multi-ethnic electro rap crew that first came to prominence with their ode to the wonders of combination fast food establishments, is back with “Who’s That? Brooown!” off of their recent Shut Up, Dude mixtape.  The video itself is an 8-bit epic where our heroes have to make to the club while evading an overly aggressive women and shady cabbies.  Like the video? You can play the actual game on Das Racist’s website.  Also, look out for their new mixtape Sit Down, Man. It features a guest verse from El-P and production from Diplo, Chairlift, Boi-1Da, Keepaway, and more.

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.

I don’t know what this is, but I like it! Fuzzy, psyched out, and completely danceable. These Hungarian cats call themselves Piresian Beach and they make lo-fi, shoe-gazy, mood music with a female vocalist that drones and moans in just the right way. I doubt this is a offical video, but I like it none the less, and the chopped up archival footage just ads to the otherworldly feel. More to come as I find out about these guys.

Who are Rad Omen? Hiding behind the faces of our most beloved fast-food mascots, Rad Omen refuses to be seen as individual, but instead as the anthropomorphic representation of the party massive itself. Rad Omen is not one for they are many. Their mission is a clear one: Search, Party, & Destroy. And, they want you to join them in this pursuit. The soundtrack to this mission statement became available for download today on their newly launched website. Weighing in at a compact 10 songs deep, Search Party & Destroy, contains a variety of electronic strains from the aggression of the drum and bass inspired title track to the synth pop of All The Girls to the four on the floor house stomp of the information age.  The album ends with a pretty synth ballad that glows with that post-party feeling you get as you head home at the end of the night and the sun begins to peak its head out over the horizon.  Join the collective and become one of the many.

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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

Ashes to ashes, dust to… vinyl? Hardcore music lovers live and die music. Now, they can literally die music… or die on music… or something like that. UK company And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes into a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favorite tunes or their last will and testament. They warn that “minimalist audiophiles might want to go for the simple option of having no tunes or voiceover, and simply pressing the ashes into the vinyl to result in pops and crackles. The process itself involves embedding the ashes in raw vinyl before the record is pressed. This means that when the plates exert their pressure on the vinyl in order to create the grooves, the ashes are pressed into the record.” Founded by electronic musician Jason Leach, And Vinyly was the result of his mother’s job at a funeral parlor bringing death closer to home, and his realization that he “might not be invincible.” Vinyl immortality doesn’t come cheap. The basic package will run you £2,000 (about $3,100) for up to 30 LPs — and that’s without a personalized portrait (also containing your ashes), an original song, “global distribution of your record in vinyl stores,” or a FUNeral (for which prices start at £10,000).

Creative way to be immortalized or super creepy? I say the latter, but you have to admit, it beats being six feet under or trapped like a genie in a bottle.

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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.

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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.