Annuals Got the Buzz

The music sites and blogs have been bickering over who heard this band first for the last several weeks, and with good reason. What few songs are available on their myspace page (their first album, Be He Me, is due out October 17th on Ace Fu Records) sound pretty damn good. They've drawn comparisons to Arcade Fire, The Hold Steady, Animal Collective and Broken Social Scene -- that is, right before everyone else chimed in that they don't sound anything like any of those bands.

Those ungrateful, lucky-ass New Yorkers will get to see them at Sin-e and Northsix in mid-September and with Art Brut at Irving Plaza in mid-October. Us West Coasters will have to wait indefinitely for a national tour, as usual.

Dude looks just like Beirut's Zach Condon in that picture. Coincidence?