We saw New Young Pony Club yesterday, along with about 10,000 other bands

BUT THIS SERIOUSLY HAPPENED.



What you just witnessed was NYPC covering "Pump Up the Jam" by TECHNOTRONIC. COULD A BAND POSSIBLY GET MORE META. It made our night, and we are SO glad we traipsed out to the butthole of Brooklyn to see the Pony Club in action.

Muscles opened for them, and were amazing. Guns Babes Lemonade is the best record of the year etc.

We give up

Graphic Designers,

While it's evident which one of these albums is of higher sonic quality (hint: it is the New Young Pony Club one), please refrain from making every dance-pop band super fucking boring by using the band-on-white-background-with-some-color-and-mic-cord-flexing-and-neon-fonts until further notice.

Best,

DN

Super Belated Band Crush Alert

OOOOOKKKKKKKKK. First we were obsessed, then we got over it, then we kind of didn't like it as much as we thought we did, and now, the official verdict has been cast: NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB = OMG AMAZING. We mean, just look at them:



Don't they just look like they're about to make you dance until your feet fall off? So, so good. "Hiding in the Staircase" is our default summer dancey good vibes jam, and for a year that has already given us "D.A.N.C.E.", 2007 is shaping up to be Very Good Indeed.

To celebrate the awesomeness that is NYPC, here is a song from Fantastic Playroom, "Fan".

Here it is.

Right here.

New Young Pony Club - "Fan"

Anticipation for Fantastic Playroom has reached CRITICAL.

FUN FACT!

We set up the photoshoot for the above picture with Abbey Punk Photo at our friend Andrew's house, who lives in the apartment complex where the White Room (a highly, HIGHLY illegal Williamsburg nightclub) used to be. It was awesome.

It's the sound...

Ok, we're getting our acts together. It's been a long weekend.
We're so ready for summer and here's your new favorite jam!

New Young Pony Club - Hiding in the Staircase (MP3)

In Which A New Hyperbolic Word Enters Our Lexicon Forever

As pop music journalists (or some dubious variations thereof) we possess, at our "fingertips", an arsenal of hyperbolic vocabulary fit for an issue of Smash Hits circa 1989. We often use, and misuse, words and phrases such as "amazing", "awesome", "brilliant", "fucking brilliant", "mind-blowing", etc etc. One word, however, is rarely used on DN, but given what we are about to demonstrate with our astute BLOGGING, its position in our lexicon is about to change, forever.

The word at hand is: "FANTASTIC".

First we have Dame* Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Trip the Light Fantastic, which will probably never be released in this Land of the Free Home of the Brave, but can we just say thank God for amazon.co.uk. The masterful first single, "Catch You", has been on heavy rotation since somewhere slightly before the Fall of Pompeii, and isn't going anywhere soon. It's sex, pop, love, guitars and synths devoid of all fucking-around and compressed into the Best Song Ever About Stalking A Man--an emotional depth we have all experienced at one point or another. Thus, readers, it is UNIVERSAL. And who are we to question The Universe. We ask you.

Here's the video. YES, AGAIN. If you don't like it go read some other blog where they talk freely of Sufjan Stevens and other Arcade Fires.



Another pop band (and not a new rave band as Klaxons would like you to believe) are making good use of the word "fantastic" this summer-- and of course we are referring to sexy kittens (yes, even the guys) New Young Pony Club, and their album Fantastic Playroom (DO YOU GET IT NOW?). We went through a phase, about 2 years ago (estimate) where we LOVED NYPC and their tune "Ice Cream", then we saw them live in 2006 and enjoyed it dare we say even profusely, then lost all interest whatsoever and moved on to liking Sexual Earthquake in Kobe instead. But our faith in Tahita Young Pony and co. has been rekindled with the shitloads of songs that have been leaked from Plyaroom, notably "Hiding On The Staircase" which we can't be bothered to upload to YouSendIt, so you'll have to take our "word" for it, or at least type into the Hype Machine.

This is the video for "The Bomb".



So, in conclusion, we'll be using the word "fantastic" much more as of this summer, because if two of the best pop records of the year are badgering it left and right, we believe that more people should be doing just the same. Fantastic, then.

*Not a real Dame.

the DN's <3 the Teenagers!

Take us to London, take us to France...we want to be where the Teenagers will be!

Here's the video for their debut single, "Homecoming" directed by Kinga Burza:

Also check out their remixes of Simian Mobile Disco's "It's The Beat," Au Revoir Simone's "Fallen Snow," New Young Pony Club's "The Bomb" and Lo Fi Fnk's "City."

Tasty.

New Young Pony Club make you ICE CREAM

It's been announced! The new rave party train known as New Young Pony Club are coming to America. Since we've been shaking our asses to the tune of the band's genre-hopping single, "Ice Cream", for a good year now, we're incredible stoked to finally have the opportunity to see this band in all their finger-lickin' glory. Dates are as follows:

Wednesday, Dec 6 - LA - The Stone Bar - Modular Party in LA!
Thursday, Dec 7 - SF - Popscene Party
Friday, Dec 8 - NYC - Annex - Anthem Magazine Party
Saturday, Dec 9 - Williamsburg, Brookly - White Room - Modular Xmas Party w/ Juan MacLean, Tim Sweeney and more!

Hot. Check the still-very-engaging video for "Ice Cream" above.