NME’s 25 Bands Making America Cool Again

Woo hoo! I’m definitely glad NME released this list. For a second I was starting to get consumed by British/foreign music. It’s cool to know that America is cool again. Here’s what the press release regarding the new NME issue said.
As the USA steals itself for a new president this year, it seems the country [...]

Urban Outfitters wants you to DOWNLOAD their AMAZING Mix

So Urban Outfitters is really one of the coolest stores to ever exist, right? Yeah, totally. I was there the other day (@ this one!) and one of the cute sales people there named Sara just handed me a VitaminWater to “cool me down” while I shop. It was like 100+ degrees that day so [...]

The 11 Absolute Best Songs of 2008 (58% of it)

Southern California was hit with an earthquake today… it was pretty exciting. But sometimes naturally dramatic events like these (the phones were out! ZOMGWTFBBQ!) really straighten up ones priorities in life. So as soon as I was allowed to, I rushed home to work on my Top 11 songs of 2K8.58 list.
Go ahead and tear [...]

Monday Has The Beat: (Re)mixtape #28

Here’s (Re)mixtape #28. These are some of the coolest remixes I’ve come across by this week. Kicking stuff off with another MR GASPAR, who’s material, along with all of Burn The Fire will be distributed by Hot Biscuits apparently — yep, I’m eating that shit but Beats ;).
Daft Punk Vs. Boys Noize - Harder Better [...]

Top 10 on Friday

Top 10s that are burning up in the charts that we actually care about

Top 10 Elbo.ws Tracks
1. Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud
2. Bloc Party - Mercury
3. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
4. Takka Takka - Everybody Say
5. The Great Northwest - chief john
6. Albert Hammond, Jr. - GfC
7. The Presets - Talk Like [...]

When Coffee Dreams, It Dreams of Chocolate.

So I just forced to got around to trying out this Hershey’s and Starbucks love child at work this morning… and they’re DAMN GOOD. It’s like dramatic good, almost over-dramatically good. You know that kind of good that’s sort of pretentious-bitchy, but you love it anyway? Yeah that kind. My personal favorite is the Mocha [...]

To-Do List: Talk About Kelly Clarkson, Giveaway These Coachella Tickets

I have some sweet swag for a couple of lucky readers. You may have heard of this little music festival called Coachella, well the shindig is going down Friday, April 25th all the way through Sunday, April 27th. I have two 3-Day Passes to giveaway. But more on that later.
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It has been one crazy week [...]

Monday Morning Sonic Tonic #1

Don’t we all love your New Yorker Music Sluts? They have a little ol’ blog segment called MMM (Monday MP3 Madness), and its simply divine! I will do my best to mimic them, just kidding, but I will offer some amazing music every Monday morning to sober out you naughty weekend party-goers. Sounds like a [...]

Covers On Toast v2

Smile! Its Tuesday which must mean its covers day here at the PMA offices (my brain). I’ve got to say, this has to be my favorite compilation of covers to date. If there ever was a hall of fame for covers, this sure comes damn close. Amazing gems that can be found here are the [...]