Yes, the bandwagon has already departed Brooklyn full-steam ahead to a mystical place in the cosmos with the brilliant Here We Go Magic at its helm, (tardy me again! It’s just that dang full-time job thing and all… oh ok fine, ‘excuses, excuses…’) but it’s never too late to hop onboard for a trip this aurally blissful, right?

The recently, and beautifully Web 2.5ishly so, — if slightly disorienting to longtime visitors — redesigned Pitchfork has a nice vid up of “Tunnelvision” for your kick-back-with-the-Mac-at-full-screen-and-a-post-work-Tecaté-(or-two)-enjoyment.

I’m even more a fan of the track “Fangela” which you can listen to at latest social-network darling du jour lala.com. If only all music could be so simultaneously ecstatic and soothing… Hmm, then where would they file BrokeNSYDE?

Wavves is my favves this week.

With their (banned! on YouTube!) video for “Austere” from the recent release A Balloon Called Moaning, Welsh trio The Joy Formidable is already an early odds-on favorite for mtvU’s Woodie of The Year Award.

So, without further foreplay, come get your voyeur on (thanks to this fan-made montage of clips from nsfw-but-it’s-”art”-so-that’s-cool-right? BeautifulAgony.com) and enjoy the ecstatic fuzz-pop of a new fave sensation…

Phew! When you’re back from that cigarette, go ahead and start stalking them on Twitter ;)

File this one under “Guilty Pleasures” if you must, but after checking it out over at good ol’ mtvU’s Music Blog — I’m quite liking the new MCR track “Desolation Row” (yes, pals, that really does stand for My Chemical Romance).

OK, well, first off it’s a cover of a Bob Dylan song (Rolling Stone’s #185 best song of all time, for whatever that’s worth) so how bad can the archetype really be?

Second, while clocking in at just 3 minutes — down about 8 from the original’s beautifully rambling 11 or so — MCR manages to pack into the rip-roaring-fist-pumping-mosh-riling-punk-homage that comprises its hypercondensed version what sound to be at least 20 knowing winks and nods to all manner of influences as varied as Meatloaf, Poison, Social Distortion and more. Not the least of which being a fun little tease of the “God Save The Queen” riff and a sweet Brian May-ish solo for good measure.

It all seems to reveal a level of knowing musicianship I had no idea this band possessed and adds up to a fun listen and great watch. And yes, in about 2 weeks, dear readers, I might be kicking myself for admitting to enjoying a My Chemical Romance track. Til then, Desolation Row is the place to be.

Oh and PS, I’m pleased herein to report the unexpected resurrection of a once left-for-dead feature on this blog: the Tass Cover Song du Jour.

Just about a year ago, I started up this here blog for the sole purpose of sharing my newfound crush on Times New Viking with a few pals. Since then, I’ve affectionately etched a well-worn groove into each of their proper LP’s Dig Yourself, The Paisley Reich and my own gateway drug to the euphoria that is TNV: Rip It Off. Not sure if I’d finally over-listened them a bit (we’re talking constant rotation for a good 9 months) or was just totally distracted by the Marnie Stern explosion of awesomeness last Fall, but for whatever reason, never quite embraced Cousin Oliver the Stay Awake EP. And that was, sort of, that for a few months.

Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say. So thanks Pfork TV for reminding me that yeah, that record actually kicked much ass too. Still not as sublime as the main releases but man what an appetizer for my most eagerly anticipated album of 2009.

Here’s “Sick and Tyred” in — what else would you expect? — lovely lo-fi video (is that some kinda PixelVision filter… or even the real thing?)

The notorious Safetybear (aka David Bratton) — all-around swell dude and one of Tass Times’ most reliable sources for great new music to check out — also happens to comprise 50% of the rad electro-pop duo Oars. They were recently profiled over at Stay Thirsty Media and answer the question you know you’ve been dying to ask them yourselves:

“What happens when you put a self-described jazz geek from Seattle and ex-BMX rider from east of LA in a recording studio for half a year?”

Well pals, the mystery is cleared up here!

Check it out, then do yourself a big favor and iTunes up their debut album, full of irresistible ants-in-your-pants-so-just-dance tunes by two super-talented, multi-instrumentalist, knob-twiddling (and guitar rocking, keyboard pounding, microphone checking…) electronic evil geniuses. OK, fine, they’re not evil. More like a ray of headphone sunshine peeking through your dour-as-of-late heavy rotation MP3s.

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