With SXSW 2010 creeping up,  Discosalt has a preview of this years bands to watch. There are some amazing bands to check out, so clear the rest of your schedule for the afternoon and comb through our list:

MINUS THE BEAR

Recent Dangerbird Records signees, Minus The Bear, are set to release their new album, OMNI, [...]

Psychedelic new video for “Vanishing Cream” from San Francisco based band The Fresh & Onlys. While they might try to convince you they want to disappear, the band has an upcoming 7″ EP being released by the French label Plastic Spoons in April. Just Keep your eyes on the mystical triangle…

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Following up the divinely tragic Rook, is Shearwater’s new album The Golden Archipelago, released last month. While the album is somewhat of a concept album about living on islands, the new cinematic video for the melancholy track “Hidden Lakes”, directed by Alma Har’el is filmed in a desolate countryside where a sparkly mascara wearing [...]

Scissor, the first single from forthcoming Liars LP Sisterworld, is out now. It includes the B-side Covenant Heart. There is also an iTunes exclusive track Manslaughter Oops.
Sisterworld is set for release March 9th, 2010 on CD, vinyl and a 2CD expanded version. The expanded version includes track reinterpretations by a host of artists including Thom [...]

The new 80’s movie montage friendly, synth heavy album Head First from Goldfrapp is out March 22nd via Mute, along with the release of the new single /video for “Rocket”, which you can get HERE.
‘Head First‘ is Goldfrapp’s most powerful trip to date, a speedy rush of synth optimism, euphoria, fantasy and romance. With life [...]

New Video from Fang Island for “Life Coach”.

Discosalt Video of the Week 7/3/10: Quail Lung’s 7″ single, “Dumb Dadadum,” on the Post Present Medium label, directed by Joshua Jay Elliott. Giving his best Dylan, Quail Lungs aka Portland, OR-based crooner Travis Bonilla, is a mix of DIY home-recorded, countrified Americana and 60’s British Rock (sorta the poor man’s, mustachioed Dylan and the [...]

With the release of their debut EP Journal of Ardency ,  last month, sexy Brooklyn electro-pop trio Class Actress have been getting a lot of  local media hype lately. The new EP is available on vinyl at Terrible Records or you can check out the new video for “Journal of Ardency” and read what Pitchfork [...]

TOLA! Presents : Bridging the Gap V1. : Directed and edited by Joseph Lobato, this  short piece is the first chapter in a series of videos featuring Riders from Los Angeles and her surrounding cities. The video features  BMX / Fixed rider, Hernan Montenegro from Santa Monica, California. Nice editing, nice riding.  I haven’t been [...]

New video for “Northern Lights” off the Bowerbird’s EP Upper Air. Moving away from the existential themes of Hymns of a Dark Horse, the most recent EP, Upper Air from the North Carolina folk group is a much more confessional album. No longer are the band bystanders viewing the world objectively, but rather are fully [...]

Discosalt Video of the Week 2/28/10: This weeks video of the week  for “Nothing Like You” comes from Scottish indie band Frightened Rabbit. Formed by the Hutchinson brothers, drummer Grant and guitarist Scott, the project started as Scotts 4-track  solo project. Since then,  the band has grown, adding 4 more members, building a [...]

For Spike Jonze, LES staple and director of  “Where the Wild Things Are”, the lines between childhood and adulthood are always blurred.  On March 2nd, you can re-ignite your childhood imagination when the  adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic, Where The Wild Things Are is released on DVD.  While you are filling the cart,  [...]