Mixel Pixel Music For Plants (Kanine Records) Don't judge Mixel Pixel based on their hilariously bad website. Trudge through the mangled HTML and take a listen to "You're the Kind of Girl". A tit for tat dialogue between two disaffected hipsters, it could have easily been glib garbage, but instead, shambles about in hypnotic honesty, the negative image of Yo La Tengo's "Our Way To Fall". Sample back-and-forth: "I heard it all before/thought you......

New music by Cursive, Kelis, Amy Millan, and more...

The Eastern Stars’ particular brand of indie folk isn’t really all that particular. The duet, consisting of Mixel Pixel members Rob Corradetti and Kaia Wong, makes the sort of unobtrusive music that gets played late in the evenings of house parties hosted by college radio djs.* Nothing that great happens on the Stars’ debut album, July 5th, 1961, but nothing that terrible happens either. The album was recorded using an 8-track in Corradetti’s basement,......

We've given the IST list a fab makeover - now with pictures, music links, and more! exclamation! marks! Whether you love it or hate it, let us know - we do this for you, after all. And we apologize for the delay in posting this; one word: meetings. Another word: narcolepsy. We're bummed that We Are Scientists decided to bail on their Austin show, but nevertheless there's a full week ahead of us. Pace yourselves,......