Yes, the bandwagon has already departed Brooklyn full-steam ahead to a mystical place in the cosmos with the brilliant Here We Go Magic at its helm, (tardy me again! It’s just that dang full-time job thing and all… oh ok fine, ‘excuses, excuses…’) but it’s never too late to hop onboard for a trip this aurally blissful, right?

The recently, and beautifully Web 2.5ishly so, — if slightly disorienting to longtime visitors — redesigned Pitchfork has a nice vid up of “Tunnelvision” for your kick-back-with-the-Mac-at-full-screen-and-a-post-work-Tecaté-(or-two)-enjoyment.

I’m even more a fan of the track “Fangela” which you can listen to at latest social-network darling du jour lala.com. If only all music could be so simultaneously ecstatic and soothing… Hmm, then where would they file BrokeNSYDE?

With their (banned! on YouTube!) video for “Austere” from the recent release A Balloon Called Moaning, Welsh trio The Joy Formidable is already an early odds-on favorite for mtvU’s Woodie of The Year Award.

So, without further foreplay, come get your voyeur on (thanks to this fan-made montage of clips from nsfw-but-it’s-”art”-so-that’s-cool-right? BeautifulAgony.com) and enjoy the ecstatic fuzz-pop of a new fave sensation…

Phew! When you’re back from that cigarette, go ahead and start stalking them on Twitter ;)

The notorious Safetybear (aka David Bratton) — all-around swell dude and one of Tass Times’ most reliable sources for great new music to check out — also happens to comprise 50% of the rad electro-pop duo Oars. They were recently profiled over at Stay Thirsty Media and answer the question you know you’ve been dying to ask them yourselves:

“What happens when you put a self-described jazz geek from Seattle and ex-BMX rider from east of LA in a recording studio for half a year?”

Well pals, the mystery is cleared up here!

Check it out, then do yourself a big favor and iTunes up their debut album, full of irresistible ants-in-your-pants-so-just-dance tunes by two super-talented, multi-instrumentalist, knob-twiddling (and guitar rocking, keyboard pounding, microphone checking…) electronic evil geniuses. OK, fine, they’re not evil. More like a ray of headphone sunshine peeking through your dour-as-of-late heavy rotation MP3s.

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Sometimes, when the weather in NYC on a Sunday in February hands you a little tease of the springtime to come, makes you feel just like… a sexy kid.

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You know how on some rare and exhilarating mornings you wake up to a “new favorite band”?

Well dang if ol gal Pitchfork didn’t deliver just that today by way of its spot-on review of the new eponymous LP by fuzz-pop revivalist geniuses The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

I won’t bother trying to concoct a sounds-like-xyz-filtered-through-soandso thing here which would only restate what becomes immediately obvious when you just take TPOBPAH for a spin and just further delay the moment of pure bliss to ensue after hitting play on this here super-8ey fun video for “Everything With You”

Crystal Stilts‘ US label Slumberland describes the band as “50s/early 60 rock thump meets Suicide buzz and post-punk chill. Essential garage-pop for these troubled times.”

Right on.

Check out the Alight of Night LP and fall in love with Crystal Stilts.