New from Vice Records, the Japanese Motors and their swinging new beach party single “Single Fins & Safety Pins.” <cough cough, industry shill, cough cough > If you’re like me, you no longer need to imagine what The Strokes would have sounded like if they repped Pismo Beach instead of Manhattan.

No flute here, just a Tricycle, a car battery, an inverter, an amp and some speakers. Graffiti Research Lab mobs through Manhatten and eventually over the bridge into Brooklyn. Compare reactions of the people in Manhattan with the ones in Brooklyn.