The Finest Hour has a solid all-the-way-through album, a case when you could not even imagine skipping to the next song.

LA-based Beware of Darkness provoke a raw heavy metal stage presence, while spinning the room with a repeated guitar riff that you won’t forget anytime soon.

Leading with the high strings of the guitar played on a repeated tune, it will make you want to jump from one moment to the next.

Created with sensual drum machines and synthesizers that are used as the heartbeat prescription of the vocals that lash out through the lyrics.

Some can only dream of making such a prophetic album, while he succeeded with an acoustic guitar and sometimes just happened to be hooked up to a fuzz pedal.

You have The Velvet Underground but also the atmosphere that was never censored or denied of its perpetual honesty.

Menomena is a band with a heavy history. Their next full-length album entitled Moms will be released on October 8 through Barsuk Records.

The track called Memoir releases this Beach House fuel, but with a heavier driven path being played around with vocals and drum patterns.

The xx recently played on Conan debuting their new song Angles from Coexist. True to their word, The xx are the type of band that you don’t just call a hype.

TOY’s new single Dead & Gone has proven that they continue on their not only psychedelic path but a repetitious one with a vicious intent of a smooth intellect.

Blur could disband after the closing ceremony marking it not only the end of the London Olympics but the end of Blur… that is for now.

With Jack White announcing a tour with his solo album Blunderbuss, – while Freedom at 21 had its debut last week, – you always wonder what can this man not do.