Fang Island makes life-affirming music balls-to-the-wall party music. Their recently released second record, Fang Island, is full of epic guitars that mix more genres than most music critics can spell in thirty seconds. In their guitarist’s words they are trying to “make music for people who like music.”

Hello from Austin! This is a quick update because I really didn’t do much yesterday. Sad, I know, but yesterday was all about seeing people and getting the lay of the land.

Ariel Pink with and without his band Haunted Graffiti has made so much music over the last fifteen years that it is hard to keep track of it. Between underground cassettes or his stint on the AnCo run Paw Tracks, Pink’s penchant for hazy , lo-fi, 60’s television inspired music has not changed, but Ariel Pink now has a real band behind him. The latest in a large wave of acts to sign to 4AD Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti are set to drop their first single, and today’s song of the day “Round and Round.”

Wednesdays are the worst, so today’s song of the day, so I picked today’s song of the day, Jamaica’s “I Think I Like U 2,” to get you through the week. Formerly known as Poney Poney, Jamaica they have hooked up with Ed Banger to take the world by storm. This dance jam was produced by Xavier de Rosnay (one half of Justice). This track is super poppy, so if you break out dance routine, you’ve been warned. Keep tabs on the band through their Myspace.

Does anyone remember 2007’s “blog-house” explosion? Well between all of your Siman Mobile Discos, and Justice’s there were lesser know, but still respected artists putting out similarly Daft Punk inspired bangers. One of those artists, Kavinsky, dropped a couple EPs worth of amazing driving music. Kavinsky has a pretty wild back-story, so watch the clip for brilliant “Testarossa Overdrive” to catch-up.

Hello Monday morning. Today’s song of the day is Baltimore’s Wye Oak. Last year’s full-length The Knot propelled Wye Oak into the majors, and their new EP, My Neighbor / My Creator (4/20), is sure to take them further. Despite the dark title, “I Hope You Die” is an awfully pretty song. The track beings with glimmering keyboards, then builds around Jenn Wasner’s smoky voice.“I Hope You Die” is perfect to chill-out to, as well as put on the mixtape for the motherfucker who broke your heart.

3/9—Never forget. This was the biggest week in indie music thus far, so it is broken up into two parts. If you don’t see your favorite record from the week here, expect it next week, ’cause your boy be steady listening to everything so you don’t have to trudge through the music world without guidance.

Today’s song of the day is the most aggressive and polarizing thing I will ever post, but the track is fucking good – trust. Captain Ahab are a duo from LA and they know how to party. Their shows consist of both dudes running around sing-screaming their lyrics while humping members of the audience and having an all around good time. Sure there are many party bands out there, but none do it with the general fuck all of Captain Ahab.

Neon Indian is a favorite here at TNG, so I am pretty excited that today’s song of the day is their first new offering since 2009’s fantastic Psychic Chasms LP. “Sleep Paralysist” is a collaboration with Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sounds, and was produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear at Taylor’s Terrible Studios.

Hello all. If you have been missing my drunken musings about music—because we all know a week without Driveway to Driveway is a bad week—the wait is over. If you didn’t know I had a column (as well as providing you your songs,and doing the colorful Weekly Music Roundups), well I do, and here it is.