Listen | The Technicolors - Sweet Time

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Phoenix-based rockers The Technicolors are what you'd get if you married Tom Petty to Oasis and they bore a child named Wolfmother. The quartet is poised to fill arenas with their massive, eclectic sound, but for now they're whetting appetites in clubs across the US. Their summer tour kicks off tonight and will hit SIC's home bases: The End in Nashville on June 8th, The Evening Muse in Charlotte on June 11th and The Demo in St. Louis on June 20th. Check out their crushing single "Sweet Time" below, and if you like what you hear, pick up a copy of Listener Deluxe on iTunes or on vinyl at TheTechnicolors.com. Better yet, go see them at a venue near you!

Jam of the Day | Cut Copy - Where I'm Going

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Cut Copy, Australia's premier dance-synth-rock outfit, has high expectations to meet. Their 2008 sophomore effort, In Ghost Colours, garnered worldwide attention, received near universal critical acclaim, and made fans and concert-goers dance and sweat all over the globe. While the band's new, as yet untitled, record is not scheduled for release until early 2011, they have rewarded patient fans with a free track to break the fever for more Cut Copy (if you are willing to cough up your e-mail address, which you should).

"Where I'm Going" offers up a slight derivation from most of the material on In Ghost Colours. It is still anthemic, but a little more spacey and a smidgen less dance-y. It is still upbeat and entrancing, but more deliberate and restrained. Despite that apparent restraint from the band's perspective, from the fan's viewpoint, "Where I'm Going" is a hand clapper and a crowd chanter... "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. WOO!" The track evokes faint memories of English greats Oasis, Doves, and the Stone Roses (nothing wrong with that). If "Where I'm Going" is meant to serve as an indicator of tunes that will make up the new record, the 2011 release will be filled with solid tracks that sound a touch methodical and calculated, but can, at the same time, be whipped up by the band as a way to enhance Cut Copy's already dazzling live show.

Cut Copy - Where I'm Going