Passion Pit: we gotta have a talk. Sit down. Let's discuss this "Little Secrets" video for a moment. Your album, which I think I once read described as akin to "diving head-first into a ball-pit filled with MDMA-stocked grapes," still sounds fresh after months of good listening. You're not a band that needs music videos; instead, you're a band who -- and I'm a huge fan -- needs to work on making live performances more substantial, and a band that needs to put money where mouths (and high-pitched voices that will wreak hell on vocal chords) are. Instead, what time, effort, and cash have you spent on music videos? Put it somewhere else. And if you've got to spend it on videos, this one? "Little Secrets" is my favorite track on the album. This treatment's just lazy.

The Notorious B.I.G. isn't going anywhere, anytime soon. Tupac may put out posthumous album after posthumous album, but B.I.G.'s rhymes apparently live forever, and ever, and ever. Nowhere is there better evidence of this than in the mashups produced with his tracks mashed into them in it year after year. The latest batch aren't too new, but they are nothing short of stellar, and we've rounded them up: teen popster Miley Cyrus gets her party on, epic post-punk/R & B revivalists The xx go "Runnin" with B.I.G. and 'Pac, MGMT gets their electric felt, and Passion Pit goes toe to toe with Biggie Smalls and Beyoncé Knowles.

Phoenix has finally -- finally -- released a remix album for their career-changing and year-end-list-destined Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. After the disappointing Wolfgang Diaries which, once procured by hardcore fans, were found to have nothing more than 40-someodd insubstantial demos of boring studio tweaks, it was time they gave us something more to go with what still is many people's favorite album of the year. Better demos! An albums of entirely acoustic tracks! Anything. And we got remixes, some of which are meh, some of which are decent, and some of which are great. There's even a special appearance by none other than 2009's Indie Rock A-List: Animal Collective and Passion Pit, with special appearances by Chairlift, Friendly Fires, and Devendra Banhart, and others. After the jump, the breakdown, and where to find them.