Time once again to bask in the w armth of the inbox:

++Brooklyn's Boy Genius have an album coming out on the 26th of January called Staggering on vinyl only and in limited numbers. The co-ed quartet makes snappy, jubilant, college friendly music specially engineered to create that vinyl sound.

Boy Genius: Ramona Saves The Day.mp3

++ Berlin's Dieter Sermus, AKA The Go Find, will be coming out with his third album titled Everybody Knows It's Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight. It's completely fine to judge the book by its cover here, the song below, like the album art is crisp and clean with a tasteful amount of oohs and ahhs. Not nearly enough "rockatongkatongkatongkatongtongs", but whatevs.

The Go Find: Everybody Knows It's Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight.mp3 (recommended)

Not from the inbox:

++The other day I posted and then quickly took down a video by Miles Fisher in which he did an homage that was a little *too* faithful to the movie American Psycho. Tryin' to keep things G rated in this piece in case my Grams is reading nahwhahmthayin? Anyway, take 2, here's Patrick Bateman lookalike Miles Fisher's song sans video, a Talking Heads Cover, via molls:

Miles Fisher: This Must be the Place.mp3

++Wow, so Jessica Simpson and Billy Corgan? Hit it, Kenan!

I very much like the way that KCRW has visuallly presented their DJ's Top Album Picks for 09. User friendly! Yup, we keep rolling toward the day when there won't be a need for words. Just pictures.

Flipping through the many picks, there are a few spots of overlap... with Grizzly Bear, Fink, Animal Collective, Miike Snow, Band of Skulls and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix coming up again and again.

Just a reminder that I still have a bunch of Dave Matthews 3D Larger Than Life Concert film stuff to give away to anyone who emails me...now with more pictures. The tee shirts are XL and are super thick and comfy to use as a layer in this rain, all you L.A.wusses! The poster would make a cute stocking stuffer too.

You have an extreeemely good chance of winning if you email me at stop_okay_go@yahoo.com. Just send your address. The film is a limited run engagement from December 11th -17th. More info here.

Contest is closed. Thanks to everyone who wrote in!

++An essay aboot how Broken Social Scene changed the musical landscape.

++With all the plaid you see people wearing all the time, a black suit and red sneakers is a welcome fashion surprise.

That would be the ensemble on 'Swaby', lead singer of The Heavy. In this entertaining interview he talks about the time he saw someone in the dancing in the audience and because the person couldn't find the rhythm, he wondered if he should call the paramedics. (Heh.)

The Heavy's sophomore album,  The House That Dirt Built is out now.

The Heavy: Sixteen.mp3

Much like Paris Hilton, Eric Clapton has maintained a relatively low profile over the past year. The veteran bluesman hasn't retired, he and Jeff Beck will be playing MSG for two nights in February and pre-sale tix go on sale tomorrow.

It might be because I've watched too many Funny or Die videos but I was kinda hoping that after the long pan upwards at the start of this video there would be a comical payoff at the top of Jack Ladder's body; a weird mask or head...something.

The kool Australian singer and former Expatriate bassist recently won a Red Bull prize for best album and has an Antony-like voice.

Jack Ladder: Not Worth Waiting For.mp3

Someone is counting down their 10 favorite underrated albums of the past decade and included Swimming by my darling French Kicks. Here's a short playlist from some of the other picks. (thank you to Satin in A Coffin for the inspiration.)

I've looked a couple of different places and can't find what the Kicks are up to lately. They did a video starring Olivia Wilde; girlfraynd is *everywhere* I look this week!

Dirty On Purpose: Light Pollution.mp3

Blonde Redhead: 23.mp3

The Distillers: Beat Your Heart Out.mp3

French Kicks: Love In The Ruins.mp3

++George Lopez teaches L.A. youth how to pick on Paula Abdul. Forget Little League, it's the new American pastime.

++Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have announced the name of their new album: Beat The Devil's Tattoo. The full length is set to release on March 9th. They'll be playing the Echoplex on March 14th.

++New Spoon: Woo hoo. Can't wait for the 19th. The lyrics seem to indicate some kind of new found fascination with lightning bugs light bulbs on Brit Daniel's part.

++To download the new Whigs song all you have to do is enter your email address. And then wait all the way until their new album, In The Dark, comes out on March 2nd, 2010. Boo!

++I don't remember this When Trumpets Fade Movie that's associated with Saving Private Ryan, but the spam makes it sounds cryptic and magical.

++Izod Robot: A brief look back at the career of Giorgio Moroder and his awesome shirts and eyewear.

Giorgio Moroder: Baby Blue.mp3

++This isn't related to music, but I just saw an ad for Effen Vodka on The Onion today with the tagline "Effen Rocks." Gimmick? No, turns out that 'Effen' is an actual Dutch slang word for smooth or even.

All sorts of interesting news in today's inbox:

++From December 11-17th, select theaters will present Larger Than Life in 3D, a film starring The Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper/Relentless 7 and Gogol Bordello performing at Austin City Limits and All Points West. More info here. If you are interested in seeing the movie here in L.A., email me and a random winner will be selected. 

Contest is closed. Thanks to everyone who wrote in!

++Twin Texan brothers David and Will Mora lead a quartet known as Morakestra.

The video for the song below features CSI Miami's Megalyn Echikunwoke and was directed by Tao Ruspoli, the man behind "Fix, the Movie." (I wonder if the title lead to any "Who's On First" type arguments with the film's editors.) Morakestra's second album Witness To Connection is out now: