The Cribs!

This smashing 3-piece rock band of three brothers from the UK known as The Cribs have a new video on the internets for the single "Men's Needs" and need I say more it is smashing... The new sound is way more polished and it seems like they are venturing into bigger and better dynamic soundscapes! If only we could have the uncensored version. Ladies and gentlemen, THE CRIBS!

Tokyo Police Club

Tokyo Police Club out of Canada have been remixed by these guys I just found out about called the Remix Artist Collective, and if you check out the latter's website, you can find streams of more of their work (including Bloc Party, The Shins, and M.I.A., among others). I don't know too much about RAC, but their remix seems to me to have enhanced TPC's original many times over. Tokyo Police Club's latest album A Lesson In Crime came out last year and it has got to be the shortest, greatest indie rock kicker of 2006.


Tokyo Police Club - "Be Good (RAC Remix)"

Datarock + Riton

Throw together the Norwegian disco-rock band Datarock and UK electro-dance maestro Riton (link to his remixes) and you have one of my favorite remixes of 2007 so far. Although the original version of "Fa Fa Fa" is one hell of a fun dance song, Riton ups the ante and turns up the remix factor to 11.

Riton has been pumping out so solid remixes for the past few years, including Chromeo, Mystery Jets, and Para One, and has a new 12" out called "Hammer of Thor." But instead of sharing that as well, I'm throwing in his cover of The Cure's "Killing An Arab" from his 2004 release, Homies and Homos.


Datarock - "Fa Fa Fa (Riton Re-rub)"


Riton - "Killing An Arab" from Homies and Homos