Please welcome aboard young Superfangs, my shiny new Wednesday Smörgåsbord correspondent. He’ll be scouring the Interweb from his secret headquarters somewhere in the Midwest, digging up nugget after nugget of mp3 goodness for your skull every Hump Day.
MP3: Aloha - Body Buzz from Light Works (December 2007, Polyvinyl)
Aloha followed up 2006’s much-hyped prog-pop album […]

It’s the end of the line in our pre-coverage of the Tomorrow Never Knows festival, which can only mean one thing: It’s here! That’s right - tomorrow night kicks off the 2008 TNK week, and we know you’re well-prepared for the rockness.
The Walkmen keep throwing it back to the original foundations of rock music: gravel-coated […]

Crazy wild lineup for this Saturday’s Tomorrow Never Knows show at Schubas. Let’s take a look, shall we?
White Williams is the current hip hop-electro indie wunderkind, and perhaps the blogosphere’s favorite young son since Beirut’s Zach Condon. While his recent tourmates Girl Talk and Dan Deacon are relatively over-the-top in their use of pop culture […]

Thanks to reader ‘b” for pointing out the change to next Friday’s TNK show. From the Schubas website: - Cloud Cult has canceled due to personal reasons and
rescheduled for Friday, April 25. Tickets on sale soon.
Taking over headlining duties are reborn retro rockers The Redwalls, and NDFY is ok with that. The northern suburban […]

The addition of soul crushing songwriter Bon Iver makes next Friday a must see for NDFY.
Minneapolis art-rock maximists (if you can have minimalists, you can totally have maximists) Cloud Cult appear courtesy of both tragedy and the unending hopefulness of finding one’s center. Mastermind Craig Minowa lost his infant son in 2002 and has used […]