• Thanks for the tip Facebook Recommended Pages, “Many who like Barack Obama like Vin Diesel and Mafia Wars.
• Enjoying “Goodbye, Killer” by Pernice Brothers. Streaming here: http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/11
• Catching up on “Little People Big World” because it’s the first night of vacay and my family is away. I’m a maniac. I am unstoppable.
• 2-week vacation starts now! Look out nothing, I’m coming to do ya.
• I’m running http://www.20in24.com to raise funds for @backonmyfeet. Donate a few bucks & you’ll get a big sweaty hug
• I take care of my kids! 12 Impressively Active Animal Fathers
• “Blind In One Eye” by Coliseum. Get MP3 via @magnetmagazine FFO: Black Cross, Young Widows
• “Sink / Let It Sway” by Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin. Get MP3 via @spinnertweet FFO: sunshiney pop
• Was Video Mailbox The First Movies-By-Mail Rental Company? via neatorama

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Fan of the fierce and fuzzy distortion and gritty, free-wheelin’ production of early Husker Du, Squirrel Bait and Dinosaur Jr? If so, you’ll love this popular young duo.

Download MP3: No Age “You’re A Target”

More: From the Losing Feeling EP out on October 6th (Sub Pop).

Website: MySpace

Directed by: Andrew Paynter + JUICE

HD: Watch large high def version

CD: Beacons Of Ancestorship

Web: www.trts.com

Download MP3: “Prepare Your Coffin” (MP3 via Stereogum)

The pride of Omaha is back and Tim Kasher’s voice has never sounded better. Beautiful!

Download: “From The Hips” [MP3]

Website: www.cursivearmy.com

Vally Lodge

Heaping helping of power pop served with a side of awesomeness.

Download: Baby It’s a Shame [MP3]

Website: www.valleylodgemusic.com

Lukestar

Highly-inventive and super catchy indie rock from Oslo, Norway.

Download: White Shade [MP3]

Website: www.lukestar.com

Love these kids, nice marriage of melody and math rock hijinx, a must for fans of Les Savy Fav, Minus The Bear, Dismemberment Plan and Maximo Park.

Free MP3 Download: “Once, Twice, Again!”

Websites: www.dartzisgood.co.uk and MySpace

We played this high-energy, eclectic Brazilian band on our podcast many moons ago and I loved them, then their slightly annoying song “Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex” became much more annoying when it appeared on some national TV commercial ad nauseam. I’ve gotten over it and these crazy kids are back with an excellent new CD Donkey. This song rules, reminds me of early Sonic Youth and Versus.

Download MP3: Rat is Dead (Rage) {via Stereogum}

If you dig really sweet songs and enjoy videos of the whimsical nature featuring a wooden lumberjack, this one’s for you.

Download Free MP3: “Restless”

More Langhorne Slim:

• Kemado Records
• MySpace
• UsedWigs Interview

Hope… You Have a Lot of Cash if you’d like to bid on this extra-large piece of handsome Obama art. Created by agitprop artist Shepard Fairey, this impressive mixed media stencil collage on cotton rag paper is 4 foot x 6 foot in size. Good gravy, that’s some big art! Perfect size for covering up all those nail holes and chipped drywall on that rec room wall of yours.

The piece, only 1 of 3 in existence, will be part of The Art For Life auction, an annual event which benefits Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. Current Bid: $65,000.00. Like most Fairey art, look for it on eBay after the auction for twice the price.

You Down with GOP? These peeps are voting Republican. How ’bout you?

London Calling… Teens Who Party: Tired of asking your friend’s creepy 28-year-old, Camaro-driving, mulleted brother to get you party supplies? Just move across the pond, kids: 15 year old uses his brand new debit card to order cigarettes, alcohol, pornography and Viagra over the internet.

Office Webisodes! Lovable lump Kevin has money trouble.

Need Another Reason to Love WFMU? Awesome new music geek site (in beta) will offer: “an online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal.” {via Metafilter}

Slice Me Off a Hairy Pec Please! Artist Alicia Policia baked a Tom Selleck cake for her friend. So many jokes, so little time… {via Geekadelphia}

Quick Movie Review: Be Kind Rewind was absurdly delightful! Netflix it now. Mos Def rules (and yes, I’m white.)

Brett Favre is a Dick (and yes, I’m a Bears fan.)

Free MP3: Enjoy a big scoop of indie pop with just a dollop of math rock for a little kick. Download: “Traditions” by The Hush Now.

Must Read: Patton Oswalt gave an inspiring speech at the graduation ceremony of his old high school. It is quite awesome: hysterical and heartfelt.

“The week before graduation I strangled a hobo. Oh wait, that’s a different story. That was college.  I’m speaking at my college later this month. I’ve got both speeches here.  Let me sum up the college speech – always have a gallon of bleach in your trunk.”

World’s Worst Dad with a Camera: “Hi Doctor, I guess it all started when my dad got a camera, some horror movie props and wanted to get noticed on the Internet… yes, I have about 10 bloodcurdling nightmares a night… and in the day too… pretty much around the clock.”

Beijing Tour Guide: “If you look to the right we have totalitarian oppression and lung-collapsing smog and if you look to the left, we have pretty gardens!”

Low-Tech Googling: The kids at Geekadelphia are having some old-time crafty DIY fun with Google Image Search. I can’t wait to take one of these nifty templates to an Eagles/Dallas games when the Birds are getting crushed and the fans are getting a tad unruly. I bet I’ll get some swell pix.

New Mogwai! A nice departure from the heavier stuff, “sunny” I dare say! Free MP3: “The Sun Smells Too Loud” {via Stereogum}