If you're not lucky enough to live on the West Coast to catch Talkdemonic on their current string of gigs, you can at least soak in the golden strumming of the duo's new track, "Ending The Orange Glow." From the forthcoming follow up to their sophomore effort, Beat Romantic, "Glow," like the best of Sufjan Stevens' compositions, radiates seemingly contradictory qualities: it's lushly arr

"Dashboard," the wonderfully yelpy and horn-injected lead single off Modest Mouse's forthcoming We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, has been circulating the internet since a Washington radio station spun a demo version of the track that fans converted into an MP3.

Prepping for a February tour with Monsters Are Waiting and currently in the studio working on new material, dark art rock quartet stellastarr* have released a demo version of new tune "War Child." The track boasts some of the band's finest moves, as it drives through anthemic chord progressions accented by post-punky chimes.

This Kent, Ohio collective crafts experimental, instrumental dreamscapes and are influenced by "hard-beating hearts [and] our small place among the stars," according to their MySpace page. It sounds corny, but it's accurate when listening to "Falling Over," which teems with slow, soft explosions, and is best experienced gazing up into a vast and starry night sky.

The thrilling new track, "The Fences," from this Wichita, KS band is perfectly ebullient and exotic. The ooos are as angelic as they are off-kilter, and with slow-building bridges and intricate breakdowns, the Paper Airplanes prove, though young, they're already masters at crafting wonderfully lush indie pop.

New Orleans MC Baby Boy Da Prince started rapping when he was 16 and became a stand-out in that city's hip-hop game by opening for the likes of Paul Wall, 50 Cent, and Juvenile. Then, Hurricane Katrina hit, and his burgeoning career was placed on hold.