New MGMT song Your Life Is A Lie

Like many, many people, I love MGMT's 2007 début album Oracular Spectacular. Perhaps on purpose, their subsequent output has never hit the popularity of that début. They released Congratulations in 2010 and now have an eponymous album coming out September 17.

Will "Your Life Is A Lie" hit the earworm status of songs like "Time to Pretend", "Kids" and "Electric Feel"? I guess only time will tell.

For now, listen to brand new MGMT.

And if you missed it before, check out MGMT's Record Store Day tune "Alien Days", which will be on their new album, too.

Five-by-Five: 2005 was a very good year

2005 stands out as an amazing year in music for me. I discovered some amazing bands and some of my favourite bands put out their strongest albums in 2005. Here's part one of a two-part Five-by-Five post on amazing tunes from 2005.

"Helicopter" from Bloc Party's incredible début Silent Alarm. One of the most frantically amazing albums from front to back.

"An Honest Mistake" from The Bravery's eponymous 80s tribute

"7/4 Shoreline" from Broken Social Scene's amazing self-titled album

"Munich" from Editors unparalleled The Back Room

"Broken Ship" from Immaculate Machine's Ones and Zeros

Video for Chvrches' The Mother We Share

Hey, everybody, it's Friday! A great day to get happy with the official video for the first song I ever heard from Scotland's Chvrches. I love this song. It was number 28 on my favourite tunes of last year list and I posted it at the end of October 2012.

So listen to the polished new version with the new video and start your weekend right.

Chvrches début full-length album The Bones Of What You Believe comes out September 24.

Never before heard Stars song Wishful

Stars are releasing two never before heard songs from The North sessions. The songs are "Wishful" and "The Light". Limited edition 7" vinyl is available September 1 and the songs are available digitally September 10.

Check out "Wishful". Great tune!

Great tunes from Haim's forthcoming album Days Are Gone

Haim, the Los Angeles quartet who released the earworm "Forever", which came in at number 35 on my top tunes of 2012 list, have finally given us a release date for their début full length. The album will be called Days Are Gone and it will be out September 30.

Here's a smattering of songs from the album:

The new single "The Wire",


The official audio for "Let Me Go",

The video for "Don't Save Me". I posted this song late last year.

The video for "Falling",

And if you've never heard "Forever" check out this post or check out the great performance of the tune on Letterman below.