VIDEO: 'STONE SETTING' - A GRAVE WITH NO NAME

Directed by Anupa Madawela

ENIGAMI

VIDEO: 'NOT SO PRETTY' - ROGUES

People have so much goodwill towards bands who look cool, that sometimes they totally forgive them for not having any good songs; take The Virgins for example. Rogues however do the double whammy by looking really, really cool in a 'Generation Terrorists'-era Manics meets 'Pirates of the Caribbean' kind of way, and then have audacity to have the awesome songs to match. Their debut single 'Not So Pretty' could mark them out as this generation's answer to Duran Duran...the tunes; the looks; the girls; the drugs...the bastards.

Video directed by Anupa Madawela

MANTAPOOK

Anupa Madawela aka Mantapook is self-professed "second coolest Asian man in rock". He's probably right in saying: "Kim Thayil from Soundgarden is cooler and a better guitarist than me (he's 100th best guitarist in rock according to Rolling Stone magazine), but I'm cooler and a better guitarist than the singer from My Vitriol and that guy from Cornershop".

After covering Pearl Jam's 'Alive' in the vein of 'Locust Abortion Technician'-era Butthole Surfers (if they only had a Bontempi-organ and a Random Tone Generator at their disposal), Mantapook uploaded a few tracks to his My Space which are pretty much some of this best shit I've heard all year. I'm kind of biased though, because I like music which sounds like a really, really heartbroken Dave Pajo backed by the world's oldest drum machine.

Download: Atmosfear - Mantapook