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What to Download: New Music This Week

Happy new-tunes Tuesday! We've already covered the DVD releases hitting shelves, but I'm particularly jazzed for this week's music offerings — rock, hip-hop, and .

Happy new-tunes Tuesday! We've already covered the DVD releases hitting shelves, but I'm particularly jazzed for this week's music offerings — rock, hip-hop, and . . . disco?! Take a look!

Disco fever: The fun-loving Scissor Sisters are back with Night Work, an album full of energetic songs fit for Saturday Night Fever. "Any Which Way" calls to mind the Bee Gees, using high falsetto with tongue-in-cheek (and often blatantly dirty) lyrics that recall '70s nostalgia, while "Harder You Get" takes a grittier tone. Pay special attention to a cameo from Sir Ian McKellen on "Invisible Light." Yes, really.


Rockers exposed: Wolf Parade brings us new music on their LP Expo '86, named for the World's Fair. The latest from the Canadian indie group is a solid collection of new tunes that keeps up a good pace and energy right until the last song, "Cave-O-Sapien." The second track, "Palm Road," is the one that will be stuck in your head, but I'm partial to "Little Golden Age," with beats that remind me of '80s punk.

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FABTV: Scissor Sisters "Kiss You Off"

Thank goodness for the Scissor Sisters.

Thank goodness for the Scissor Sisters. They are the closest thing we have to glam rock nowadays. This band from New York is also an extreme pleasure to see in concert — Fab recommended. As for this video, I dedicate it to my gal pal Bella. The mod beauty shop setting and pseudo Japanese cosmetics commercial scenes are pretty rad. And Ana Matronic, in her white and silver sci-fi dress and funky metallic makeup is a sight to see — love her. Oh! And how cool is it when she has multiple arms with scissor hands circling around her? "Kiss you off my lips . . . Well I think I'm gonna buy me a brand new shade of man."

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Star in a Scissors Sisters Video

Apparently, this hilarious site, Dance Sister Dance has been around for a while, but I just found it today and had to share.

Apparently, this hilarious site, Dance Sister Dance has been around for a while, but I just found it today and had to share. The Scissor Sisters are letting fans record their own "music videos" to the tune of the band's single, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'." To make yours, just upload photos of yourself and a friend (I decided to pair myself with new James Bond, Daniel Craig), chose your costume, wig, and dance style, and the site does the rest. Trust me, it's inexplicably hilarious.