Here’s a bit of tasty experimental/post-metal from a 4 piece group based in Manchester, UK. It’s easier to explain with a bong hit or two. Find out more about MBM here.

The Truth – Mountains Became Machines

Technically, I should be crediting “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” but if you don’t know this is Bowie, then I’m going to send the ghost of Chris Farley over to hit you on the head with a tack hammer. Only Bowie can pull off singing a song as a fictional character, about a fictional character that happens to be the same fictional character he’s portraying.

So sit back and enjoy the dulcet tones of David Bowie’s alter ego. If you somehow happen to be looking for a more modern interpretation of this song check out Boston-based The Daily Pravda who recently covered this song better than just about anyone. It can be found here.

Ziggy Stardust - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Hollywood, CA based four-piece, The Yelling crushes the Indie Rock vibe on the track Fire and a Microphone. You can find out more about the band on their myspace page and be sure to check out their upcoming tour dates here.

The Yelling – Fire and a Microphone

Check out this very cool mashup/remix of The Black Keys track, Psychotic Girl and Jay-Z’s track Say Hello. The Keys’ haunting melodies make the perfect backdrop for Jay-Z’s vocals. Enjoy.

Psychotic Girl Say Hello – The Black Keys & Jay-Z

I long for the days when Billy Corgan was a douche that made good music. Now he’s just a douche. At least we’ll always have Drown. This is the full length 8 minute version that appeared on the Singles soundtrack.

Drown – Smashing Pumpkins

Turbonegro is a Norwegian punk rock band. Their style combines glam rock, punk rock and hard rock into something that the band describes as “deathpunk”. Despite the fact that they look like a deranged version of the Village People, they’ve made some pretty good music.

There are currently 5 members in the band; Hans Erik Dyvik Husby on vocals; Thomas Seltzer on bass/drums; Knut Schreiner on lead guitar; Pål Bottger Kjærnes on keyboards; and Tomas Dahl on drums. The track All My Friends Are Dead appeared on Turbonegro’s 7th album titled, Party Animals. You also might have heard it while watching Jackass Number Two.

All My Friends Are Dead – Turbonegro

You might have heard this track during the closing credits for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. It’s an interesting mix of rap and well…gospel. At the time of its release there was supposedly quite a lot of pressure on Bizarre’s label to pull the song since religious groups found it offensive. Perhaps those folks should have taken the advice in the song? Anyway, play it below or check out the video here.

Gospel Weed Song – Bizarre

20 years from now will everyone be waxing poetic about this period in time as yet another great blues revival? Think of all the bands right now in the genre – Kings of Leon, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Super 400, The Black Keys, Band of Skulls, the list goes on and on. While we can’t foresee the future, we can tell you that Left Lane Cruiser is a two-man blues outfit worth listening to right now. Crackalacka is the first track from the bands third release (due 9/29/09) titled All You Can Eat.

The track gets right down to business with the kind of slinky slide guitar and frighteningly raw vocals that we’ve come to expect from Freddy Evans and is whipped into a frenzy by the firecracker drumming style of Brenn Beck. As Evans alternates between greasy power chords and slide licks, Beck continues to lay down a relentless beat until the song ends.

Crackalacka – Left Lane Cruiser