"WITHOUT YOU," RAINBOW ARABIA: FIRST LISTEN.

Rainbow Arabia might just be the "next big thing" to transfer from Williamsburg parties to MTV playlists. Their single "Without You" gives listeners a catchy blend of loud, impassioned vocals and very visible percussion styles. The album Boys and Diamonds is up for grabs in March. (Click for more on Rainbow Arabia.)

FIRST LISTEN: THE SHOW GOES ON.

From Lupe Fiasco's upcoming LP Lasers. Miraculously, this man is able to make Modest Mouse-- a band I despise-- sound pretty good. Lupe's a cutie.

VICKI LEEKX: FIRST LISTEN.

M.I.A. is so edgy. For a while, we thought that she was done, just because she's that edgy. Guess not! Her ViCKi LEEKX mixtape is not okay. I had to stop listening eleven minutes into the mixtape, because it reminded me of my high school music taste. I then realized that it isn't the music that bothered me. It's her fake badass persona that we all got tired of three years ago.

Try out the mixtape via Gorilla vs. Bear. May be you'll like it better than us.