Freezepop just collected three awards in the Boston Phoenix’s Best Music Poll, and for good reason. Please to enjoy Less Talk More Rokk.

I thought Skeewiff’s O Skeewiff Where Art Thou? was already pretty cool – great driving riff, great backbeat – and then the vocals kicked in, and lo, did a cookie-eating grin spread across my face.

Bold Headed Broadcast, a podcast, brings us Massive, Tangled Up Tubes, a thumping remix of the incoherent technological beliefs of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK).

(More on the esteemed Senator’s remarks over at Bray New World.)

RX – or the Party Party; I’m not sure which is the preferred moniker, and I’m only guessing it’s a plural – take political speech and remix it into tunes, usually to spoof those in power.

Their site has a big ol’ list of tunes, but given recent events, I’m emphasizing Dick Is A Killer.

(Lyrics very NSFW.)

F-R-E-squared-Z-E-P-O-P. Freezepop forever.

Freezepop are an electroclash band – that is, retro-style synthpop. A Boston and Internet staple for years, their audience grew manifold when their music made its way onto the video games Karaoke Revolution, Amplitude and FreQuency, thanks to their chief songwriter working at the company who made said games.

They’re silly and fun, and you have to admire any band whose sole instrument is a tiny little blippy Japanese box.

Their Music page has a bunch of free tracks, but I’m especially fond of the Bike Thief and Stakeout remixes.

(And be sure to check out their videos for “Freezepop Forever” and “Stakeout“.)

JDW accused me of being into “folksy girl singers”, so today’s entry is Braces Tower’s Eleven Twelve, which contains neither folk nor girl singers. It does, however, contain a great groove blended with a healthy dose of childhood nostalgia, provided that “childhood” meant “the 70s”.