The Buzz of the Music Blogs!

Memorial Day is nearly upon us and we're itching for the start of summer. We've even bought tickets already for the new Indiana Jones movie, even though we're pretty sure it won't exactly be amazing.

No such disappointments with this week's show, however, which brings together some of our favorite music blogs with a great selection of fresh new tunes. Green Peaness gives us an abbreviated Coachella wrapup; Pop Tarts Suck Toasted prepares us for having our "minds blown away" by Pattern is Movement; Irish blog Nialler 9 makes a long-awaited return to tell us about Jape; we get a Boston indie rock history lesson courtesy of Bradley's Almanac; and Aussie blog Ocean's Never Listen introduces us to the band that might just be Australia's answer to the Arcade Fire.

We also run down the ten hottest bands in the blogosphere this week via our official chart, and hear a track from Brooklyn's most buzzed-about new band, Violens (which, if you like it, is a free download at RCRDLBL.com). And, for better or worse, absolutely no crystal skulls anywhere...

1. VIOLENS - "Violent Sensation Descends"
2. SAM SPARRO - "Black and Gold"
3. PATTERN IS MOVEMENT - 'Right Away'
4. JAPE - "I Was a Man"
5. THALIA ZEDEK - "Lower Allston"
6. --BLOG FRESH CHART--
7. CHART SELECTION: MATES OF STATE - "Get Better"
8. PLASTIC PALACE ALICE - "Empire Falls"

Blog Fresh theme performed by High Contrast (courtesy of Hospital Records.)