Band of the Day: Viva City

Have you heard Viva City yet? An UK electronic-rock band that will blow your mind. Currently we only have their 2010 music sampler with six tracks, but those six tracks provide a dance party you can't resist. They played our HIGH VOLTAGE event last night at The Viper Room and if their recorded music wasn't enough, their live show took the band to a whole new level in our eyes. With a high energy stage presence, glam rock style and electronic flare it's possible this band might be music's best kept secret at the moment. However, that won't last long... SPREAD THE WORD - VIVA CITY ROCKS!



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OK Go - This Too Shall Pass

A real life Rude Ginsberg machine. OK GO, we love you.

Music Video: Twin Atlantic - You're Turning Into John Wayne

Upcoming High Voltage favorites, TWIN ATLANTIC, will be hitting The Viper Room stage this Friday, October 30th as direct support to Oliver Future & Crash Kings. We first heard of this band in April of 2009 as they were completing their debut album... instantly intrigued & captivated by them we made sure to pay attention for future tour dates and album release news. Now with their debut album, Vivarium, out and a recent appearance at CMJ, Twin Atlantic is ready to take the world by storm. Watch out 2010 - Twin Atlantic is coming.

Check out their music video for "You're Turning Into John Wayne":



MySpace | Official Site

Music Video: Elefant - Lou

NYC's Elefant just finished recording their 3rd studio album and have released this video/new song teaser for all of us to long-time fans to get pumped up on. The song is called "Lou" and the music video is encouraging a brand new drinking game. So bust out your PBR, Miller High Life or whatever you're preferred beer to pound is and drink whenever you hear the word "Lou"!



Also, if you're lucky enough to be in the Las Vegas, Los Angeles or San Diego area make sure you venture out in November to catch Elefant live. Check their tour dates for more information, links below.

MySpace | Official Site

New video from The Bronx

Check out The Bronx' brand spanking new video "Inveigh" from the album The Bronx (III).

THE BRONX - INVEIGH from Jamie-James Medina on Vimeo.

The Sounds - "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake"

MySpace | Official Site

Jon McLaughlin - Beating My Heart Video

Longwave - Shining Hours

Longwave recently released their 4th studio album, Secrets are Sinister. Check out their new music video:



And check them out on tour OK Go starting March 8th.

MySpace | Official Site

Honorable Mention: Butch Walker

Butch Walker's new album, Sycamore Meadows, was such a close call for Chelsea's Top 5 list that we decided to post Butch's video for the first single off his latest album, "The Weight of Her". Check it out!



MySpace | Official Site

Black Gold - "Detroit" Video

Introducing Black Gold, your new favorite band from Brooklyn, and their music video for "Detroit." Check it out!



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Ronson Just Does It

Mark Ronson covers Radiohead's "Just" while using Alex Greenwald from Phantom Planet's voice box (and wicked camera stare downs). Makes you wanna boogie a little bit.

Delicious.


Mark is a busy man. He's also revamped The Smiths' "Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before" with a dash of Motown featuring Daniel Merriweather. Bold move, friend. Bold.

Excellently executed.

MySpace

"U R A Fever" by The Kills

The Kills are bringing it back — all the way back to 1965. Their new video for single "U R A Fever" is like the Mod Squad on LSD and it doesn't get much better than that!



Make sure to see these kids live in the flesh when and where you can as their heroin chic love never fails to excite. — Jill Wierenga

UPCOMING DATES
Feb 9 @ Yellow --- Tokyo
Feb 11 @ the Nylon Party --- New York, NY
Feb 14 @ Pop Scene --- San Francisco, CA

MySpace | Official Site

Ludo - Love Me Dead

Recently the world of music videos has seen tons of artists turning their song into a short movie. Think of Panic! At The Disco and The Killers latest videos. However, when was the last time you watched a lead singer perform in his own video like he's in Broadway musical? Singer, Andrew Volpe, of the band Ludo definitely hits that note in their one-shot video for "Love Me Dead" that features several fascinating escapades in the background. It could be the best music video I've seen since OK Go hit those treadmills. Check it out!



Myspace | Official Page

Just Sayin' Please

Who do I have to talk to to make this happen? Seriously. Need contact information. My little music crush, Operator Please, have yet to lilly dally their way through the US of A. They've played shows in NY and LA but not enough times. Is there a petition that needs signing? What's the deal?!

In case you're still in the dark, here's some visual knowledge.


New Video: "Get What You Want"


What more can be done to get them over here besides physically kidnapping them? Last I checked that was still illegal. Any suggestions?!

For the rest of you on this planet, if you're lucky enough to be within driving distance from any of their gigs, please go out and support.

UPCOMING SHOWS
Jan 28 @ Big Day Out Melbourne Flemington Racecourse --- Melbourne
Feb 1 @ Big Day Out Adelaide Showground --- Adelaide
Feb 3 @ Big Day Out Perth Claremont Showground --- Perth
Feb 6 @ Karova Lounge --- Ballarat, Victoria
Feb 7 @ The Pub --- Bendigo, Victoria
Feb 8 @ Albury City Convention & Performing Arts Centre --- Albury, New South Wales
Feb 9 @ Peninsula Lounge --- Moorooduc, Victoria
Feb 10 @ St. Kilda Beach --- St. Kilda, Victoria
Feb 14 @ New Slang At The Works --- Kingston, London
Feb 15 @ Pure Groove Records Instore --- London
Feb 17 @ The Watershed, Wimbledon --- Wimbledon, London
Feb 18 @ The Bodega Social Club --- Nottingham, Midlands
Feb 20 @ L’Ubu - Les Inrocks Indie Club Tour --- Rennes
Feb 21 @ La Maroquinerie - Les Inrocks Indie Club Tour --- Paris, France
Feb 22 @ La Cartonnerie - Les Inrocks Indie Club Tour --- Reims
Feb 23 @ Le Grand Mix - Les Inrocks Indie Club Tour --- Tourcoing
Feb 25 @ Pressure Point --- Brighton, London and South East
Feb 27 @ The Faversham --- Leeds, Northwest
Feb 28 @ The Barfly --- Glasgow, Scotland

If you ever get this, dear members of Operator Please, please consider playing one of our High Voltage Nights! We'd looove to have you. Like a lot.

Please and Thank You...

MySpace | Official Site

MGMT - "Time To Pretend" video

This video has elements that have become way too common in many of my dreams (and wake life): bodies of water, frolicking, fire, space travel, vibrant colors, babies, poor Photoshop skills, shirtless pretty boy, and kittens!

Enjoy.


Discuss.

Don't know what the hell a MGMT is? Two dudes who make cool trippy music. Or ask the hip kid standing next to you.

UPCOMING DATES
Jan 25 @ The Casbah * --- San Diego, CA
Jan 26 @ Echo * --- Los Angeles, CA
Jan 28 @ Bottom of The Hill * --- Oakland, CA
Jan 30 @ Holocene * --- Portland, OR
Jan 31 @ Neumos * --- Seattle, WA
Feb 1 @ The Bourbon * --- Vancouver
Feb 2 @ Neurolux * --- Boise, ID
Feb 3 @ Kilby Court * --- Salt Lake City, UT
Feb 4 @ Hi-Dive * --- Denver, CO
Feb 6 @ The Slowdown * --- Omaha, NE
Feb 7 @ 7th Street Entry * --- Minneapolis, MN
Feb 8 @ Schubas Tavern * --- Chicago, IL
Feb 9 @ El Mocambo * --- Toronto, Ontario
Feb 10 @ La Sala Rossa * --- Montreal
Feb 12 @ Great Scott * --- Allston, MA
Feb 13 @ Bowery Ballroom * --- New York, NY
Feb 14 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * --- Brooklyn, NY
Feb 15 @ Johnny Brenda’s --- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feb 23 @ l’Omnibus (la Route du Rock) --- Saint Malo
Feb 25 @ Maroquinerie --- Paris, France
Feb 26 @ Koko (NME show) --- London
Feb 28 @ The Bodega --- Nottingham
Feb 29 @ The Beat Club --- Glasgow, Scotland
Mar 1 @ Night & Day --- Manchester
Mar 3 @ Bar Academy --- Birmingham
Mar 4 @ Pressure Point --- Brighton
Mar 5 @ ICA --- London, London
Mar 6 @ Paradiso (upstairs) --- Amsterdam
Mar 7 @ Lido --- Berlin, Germany

* appearing with Yeasayer

MySpace | Official Site

You're gonna Die Tonight!

Wounded Cougar, the best bred musicians in LA, with their balls-out in-your-face big rock n roll have released their first music video today for the song "Die Tonight." It's got utterly cheesy violence and death to match their magically crafted genius band. You just gotta watch it!



For more Wounded Cougar goodness visit their Myspace.

Justice & Chromeo on Spring Myspace Tour!

I just received word that Justice will be headlining the upcoming spring Myspace music tour! Justice is an amazing electro rock band that I've been in love with since I first saw this video in July:



Also on the tour are High Voltage favorites Chromeo (which we have been spinning on our DJ nights since May) amongst other great acts such as Fancy & Busy P!

The following is the schedule for the Spring 2008 MySpace Music Tour:

3/3 Austin, TX Stubbs
3/4 Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom
3/6 Orlando, FL The Club at Firestone
3/9 Baltimore, MD Sonar
3/10 Philadelphia, PA The Electric Factory
3/11 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
3/12 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
3/15 Boston, MA Paradise
3/16 Montreal, PQ Cepsum
3/17 Toronto, ON The Docks
3/19 Detroit, MI Royal Oak Music Hall
3/20 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
3/22 Denver, CO Ogden Theater
3/24 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
3/25 Vancouver, BC Commodore
3/26 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
3/27 San Francisco, CA Concourse Design Center
3/31 Los Angeles, CA Mayan Theatre

Raveonettes US Tour Dates

Wonder what they're looking at... probably the vast space known as the US of A! Supporting the upcoming release of Lust Lust Lust (in stores February 19), the Raveonettes are spreading their haunting awesomeness with the kind US folk. They will also be all over SXSW this year, so if you're lucky enough to attend make sure to check them out with the rest of the cool kids in Austin.

US DATES
02-29 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
03-01 Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse
03-02 Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar
03-04 LA, CA @ El Rey Theatre
03-05 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
03-07 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
03-08 Vancouver, BC, CAN @ The Plaza Niteclub
03-09 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
03-17 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
03-18 Chicago, IL @ Double Door
03-19 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
03-21 Toroto, ON, CAN @ Opera House
03-22 Montreal, QC, CAN @ Les Saint
03-23 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s
03-24 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
03-27 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
03-28 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar
03-29 Washington, DC @ Black Cat

VIDEO "Dead Sound" from Lust Lust Lust


Visit their MySpace page for more dates. Rave on, folk. Rave on.

MySpace | Official Site | Vice Records

"The City Is At War"

Hope you've all regained consciousness after ringing in the new year! Anybody broken their new year's resolution yet? One of mine was to find a group of people willing to profile around in white, cause social disorder, and cream people in the face with pies all the while lookin' super slick. Gangsta style. Then I watched Cobra Starship's new video and apparently it's already been done!

Happy New Year, here's pie in your eye!!!

Cobra Starship - "The City Is At War"


Good clean gangsta fun. Check out the rest of Viva La Cobra!

MySpace | Official Site

"Don't Shoot Me Santa"

For a band that kills for a living, they sure have a lot of holiday cheer. "Don't Shoot Me Santa" is The Killers' second holiday single and now available for your downloading pleasure on iTunes. All proceeds from the song benefit the (RED) Campaign. So ... it's a good thing. Download that sucker! Help make the world a better place. And please enjoy the video.

Official Site | MySpace | (RED)

OTM: Operator Please

Isn't love ... lovely? Current new love is the Aussie band of young misfits known as Operator Please. Ah, it's so refreshing to know that some of today's youth still remember to say "please."

According to their MySpace page, they're classified as "Indie / Alternative / Rock," but according to me they're Me Likes / AweSome. Please enjoy.

Video: "Leave It Alone"


Upcoming Dates
Oct 19 @ MTV2 Gonzo on Tour --- Liverpool
Oct 20 @ MTV2 Gonzo on Tour --- York
Oct 21 @ MTV2 Gonzo on Tour --- Glasgow, Scotland
Oct 23 @ The Mercury Lounge --- New York, NY
Oct 24 @ The Knitting Factory --- Los Angeles, CA
Oct 30 @ Annandale Hotel --- Sydney, New South Wales
Nov 2 @ Corner Hotel --- Melbourne, Victoria
Nov 3 @ Adelaide Uni Bar --- Adelaide, South Australia
Nov 4 @ Amplifier Bar --- Perth, Western Australia
Nov 7 @ The Zoo --- Brisbane, Queensland
Nov 8 @ Southport RSL --- Gold Coast, Queensland
Dec 8 @ Homebake Festival - The Domain --- Sydney, New South Wales

MySpace | Official Site

OTM: The Presets

according to Melissa...

Meet The Presets. Not sure where they came from (Australia), not really sure what they do (make electro pop that gets your ass shaking), but I like it.

If you're one of those who need precise descriptions and want to have a grip of what's going on here, keep reading.

Biography:
Kimberley Isaac Moyes was but a young man, small of stature but big of heart, down on his luck, doing the odd performance in a downtown gay bar and eating anchovies from tin cans discarded in the alley behind a local Italian restaurant, putting all his dollar bills in a pillow, with the dream to one day have enough money to buy a Moog synthesiser.

Julian Hamilton was the new bus boy in said food joint, robust and ambitious, taking out the trash and sweating like a malaria ravaged wrestler when he one day chanced upon poor Kim out the back, sucking on those oily little fish like hed never tasted such a delicacy.

These encounters out the back of Luigis Linguini And Pasta Allsorts became regular, and led to the occasional lunch date, when Julian would not only smuggle Kim a fresh can of anchovies, but would even share his own chef-cooked meal. The boys found friendship over faggotini, had leisurely lunches scheming up ways for Kim to stay one step ahead of the Child Protection Services who longed to send the delinquent off to an orphanage in Mongolia, they dreamed of the myriad ways Julian could swindle his evil boss Luigi, and held heated debates about their shared passion, music.

It was in these early days that Kim and Julian realized their meeting had been fateful, and that one day they would make good on their shared desire to make moody, crisp electronic future pop.

If youve ever wondered what they might play when youre standing there staring at the fork in the road between heaven and hell, this could be it.

Album: Beams (Modular Records)
1. Steamworks
2. Are You The One?
3. Down Down Down
4. Girl and the Sea
5. Black Background
6. Worms
7. Kitty in the Middle
8. Hill Stuck
9. Girl (You Chew My Mind Up)
10. I Go Hard, I Go Home
11. Bad Up Your Betterness
12. Beams


Video: "Are You The One"


Official Site | MySpace | Modular Records

Nighttiming, baby!

Alright, we posted a week or so ago about Mai's opinion of the Coconut Records CD, which is Jason Schwartzman's current project. And I agree, it's killer stuff! But nothing at all can top the video for "Nighttiming" and as such, I just had to post it.

This video, I guarantee, can turn anyone's sour mood around. Hit play and enjoy.

Fight the Fight, Ape Fight!

Some very dear friends of ours are started to gain some much needed exposure, so we decided to give them even more! Maybe you read the HV review of their album. Maybe you heard them recently on Howard Stern. If not, get familiar with Ape Fight NOW!

In fact, why don't you start with their YouTube! webisodes? In fact, I'll even include some of my favorites.

Ape Chores -- reminds me of OK Go's Truth in Music videos.


One Fan At A Time, New York -- it's just brilliant


Make sure you download "You Think We Suck" off their myspace while you still can. You can thank me later.

CSS - "Alcohol"

CSS - "Alcohol"

I'll give you back 2 minutes and 55 seconds of your life if you do not enjoy this video.

MySpace | Official Site

Gossip - "Listen Up!"

I just dig it.

MySpace | Official Site

Gran Bel Fischer - "Bound By Love"

Gran Bel Fischer - "Bound By Love"


Amazing talent. If you don't know the name, you will in a little while.

MySpace | Official Site

video of the day : alala (css)

According to Melissa...

You should never invite a bunch of Brazilians wearing fluffy dresses to a pool party. But if you do, remember to put your dog away so there aren't any crazy altercations ... like in the following:

"Alala" - Cansei de Ser Sexy (that's CSS for you cool kids)

Runner up video was K-Fed getting smacked down. It's about time someone hurt that guy. Check that out here. Sure it's all fake but I could watch that over and over again.

Video that made my night!

I don't watch music videos too often. Usually if I do it's because I've inserted a CD into my computer that has some kind of automatic pop-up program where the video is an option to watch. However, tonight, I found myself cleaning out my apartment getting ready for the move to California and there it was. A Dual Disc CD/DVD with music videos on it. I initially put it in because Ambulance LTDs video for Stay Where You Are was on it. And being an Ambulance addict I had to watch it on my big screen. After watching Stay Where You Are I decided to skim through the rest of the videos... that's when I discovered the music video/band that made my night... TOWERS OF LONDON!

Now I've met Towers of London, I've heard stories about the chaos that surrounds them, but I've yet to hear the music. Not only was the video too amusing to tear my eyes away -- the song was awesome! I love when I find music I like!

The moral of the story? Go watch the music video for How Rude She Was by Towers of London! I've even linked ya ;)