Whilst at Avatar Studios recording his upcoming album Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You, Lightspeed Champion (AKA Dev Hynes of the Test Icicles ) recorded live versions of several tracks  – which he’ll be be making available for you to download over the next four weeks.

In classic Lightspeed style the kickoff is an unexpected corker, a cover of Elvis’ Devil In Disguise – featuring the studio admin staff and whoever else wanted in – to celebrate Elvis’ 75th birthday. To get your live version of Devil In Disguise, click the download button on the widget below, but over the next four weeks the remaining tracks will all be available for download from Domino’s Soundcloud page.

He explained: ‘Due to a popular band having leftover studio time at New York’s historic Avatar Studios, I had the opportunity of going into Studio A to record some music, Obviously I decided an Elvis song would be best. I got my friends from the band Spacecamp down and together we recorded an “almost” live version of Devil In Disguise with the help of whoever was in the building that felt like singing… including the receptionist.

Dev has also made an accompanying video in LA:

Those crafty, well-choreographed boys from OK Go have offered up a very special MP3 over at NME.com ahead of their February release of the album Of the Colour of the Blue Sky.

Passion Pit have remixed the album track ‘This Too Shall Pass’ with a really light touch and something slightly wistful. In other words, this isn’t your stock standard doof doof remix!

The band’s first ‘official’ single ‘WTF?’ is out now complete with a trippy technicolour, green screen video clip. David Fridmann (MGMT, Flaming Lips) produced the album, so you just know there’s more fantastical music in store.

Holy smoke, this video is A-mazing!!!

We Want War is the bombastic, epic (read seven minute) new single from These New Puritans’ forthcoming brilliant new album Hidden, out January 15.

Crazy video, crazy song and played LOUD, it’s like some indie industrial orchestral aural attack with BIG DRUMS and BIG SWORDS! Yes peeps, BIG FREAKING DRUMS – six foot to be exact – and BIG FREAKING SWORDS. The video was directed by Sydney-based motion-ographer Daniel Askill.

We Want War is a great intro to the sound of new album which is more broodier and steelier and interesting and experimental than we last heard with Beat Pyramid – which was, that’s right, Triple J Album Of The Week!

This band REALLY push the boundaries while still keeping this listenable and this album is super impressive.

AND! You can also download the Album Preview MP3 – a mash up of what’s to come on the new record, by heading to thesenewpuritans.com

AND AND, here’s UK electro star SBTRKT’s remix of We Want War for you to download immediately Just hit the arrow on right hand side of the player below.
These New Puritans – We Want War (SBTRKT Remix) by theinsound

Mystery abounds!

We have received word and sight of a new project from Jón Þór Birgisson, but the mystery is yet to unravel…

Head over to jonsi.com to preview 5 snippets from tracks (in English no less!) from the upcoming solo release. And if that doesn’t sate your appetite, sign up to his mailing list to receive a free mp3 of Boy Lilikoi.

For those of you unacquainted with the ethereal mews of Jónsi, he is the voice behind Icelandic heart-melters, Sigur Ros and recent side project Jonsi and Alex.

Lots of heart-broken fans missed seeing Phoenix when they were out here in August but they are coming back in March 2010 and our boys, Miami Horror, will be taking to the road with them! Tickets go on sale December 10… get in quick cos they’ll sell out quickly

Miami Horror are not stopping this summer touring their new album due out early next year and of course crowd pleaser Sometimes.

2010 Miami Horror and Phoenix tour dates are below:

• March 1 – Brisbane – Convention Centre
• March 2 – Sydney – Hordern Pavilion
• March 5 – Melbourne – Festival Hall
• March 6 – Perth – Belvoir Amphitheatre

To keep track of them over summer sign up to their fanbase or street team at http://miamihorror.fanbridge.com and get a free download of the Sometimes G.L.O.V.E.S remix

Short but sweet:

• Head to theinsoundfromwayout.com/robbiewilliams to download your free album Reality Killed The Video Star medley.
• We’re all heading to the cinema for Robbie’s BBC Electric Proms screening on Nov 6. Come join!
• 7 days until Reality Killed The Video Star hits Australia.
• … and 24 days until the man himself arrives in Australia for the ARIAs!

Yep, exactly what it sounds like… hit up www.lcdsoundsystem.com for your one of 20,000 free mp3s of Bye Bye Bayou;  LCD Soundsystem’s unique and wonderful take on Alan Vega’s original, recorded for November’s Record Store Day spinoff Vinyl Saturday.

Pitchfork called it a “hypnotic deadpan disco treat”, and to be honest I can’t think of a better description. LCD’s Bye Bye Bayou creates a space of slightly unsettling bliss, like a zombie reunion at a spaced-out disco filmed in slow-mo… or whaddeva (see below).

Get on your LCD twitter-stalking shoes at http://twitter.com/lcdsoundsystem

The new Royksopp video This Must Be It is hella trippy: a semi-biblical story set in a nude hippy utopia (but doesn’t it get cold in Scandinavia!?). It was directed by acclaimed Swedish directors Filip and Andreas Nilsson, who are also responsible for some great nuggets like Moby’s Alice,  Jose Gonzalez’ Teardrop, Domino-fave Bonde de Role’s Office Boy, and my personal fave The Knife’s Silent Shout.

And yep those vocals are courtesy of fellow Scandinavian Karin Dreijer Andersson – another connection with The Knife.

The central character (protagonist, even?) in is a friendly chap named Runar. I get the feeling he’s a friend of the family, but he clearly had to audition anyway:

The This Must Be It digital single comes with TEN brand new mixes, all of which you can grab from Oct 24… but for the moment you can download the Leht MoJoe remix for free from the Royksopp members page. (LMJ is responsible for some pretty hot remixes of Major Lazor, Kings of Leon, and Au Revoir Simone)

If you fancy doing your own Royksopp remix – and winning yourself a copy of Ableton Live 8 while you’r at it – head over to Royksopp’s Soundcloud for the stems to another Junior album track, Tricky Tricky.

So, to recap:

• This Must Be It (Leht MoJoe remix) download
• Tricky Tricky remix comp instructions
• Royksopp Soundcloud with Tricky Tricky stems