-- Modest Mouse's Marr-less winter tour is now bigger and probably better than it was before. The trek will start tomorrow and run through March 15 and take the band from [Obama voice] Oregon...to Oklahoma City...to Baltimore...to New York. All dates are listed at the band's site. And those who can nab tickets will be able to buy a tour-exclusiv...

"'Can You Tell' represent[s] the breezier, brighter side of the band, taking perky melodies and swelling them with luscious string arrangements." So wrote Rebecca Raber in her review of the band's 2008 album, The Rhumb Line. The video for the track, directed by Taryn Gould and Emily Kowalczyk, has been floating around online for a minute, but we...

 -- As Bloodshy & Avant, the Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg provided the deliriously great synthetic whizzing noises for jams like Britney Spears's "Toxic" and "Piece of Me", as well as hits for Kylie Minogue and Rachel Stevens. And now they've pulled an N.E.R.D., hooking up with musician Andrew Wyatt (...

The last time we saw "Can You Tell," Ra Ra Riot were showing David Letterman his first cello. For the The Rhumb Line track's official video, the Syracuse-based Barsukers show up outside someone's door breathing steam, showing themselves one-by-one through the peephole with flowers (and drum sticks) and lines like "my bed's too big for just me," ...

I'll admit it, when I saw Death Cab on The Late Late Show about a month back, I felt a twinge of cognitive dissonance. I knew the song ("Cath...") and I knew that was Ben Gibbard's voice coming through the TV, but the guy singing totally didn't look or act like Ben Gibbard. He was svelte with long hair, and he was kinda attacking his guitar. Thr...