New Releases: October 2012

Round up of October’s most interesting albums, singles and EPs:

Albums

Metz

METZ - Metz
TAME IMPALA - Lonerism
BAT FOR LASHES - The Haunted Man
MOON DUO - Circles
...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - Lost Songs
TY SEGALL - Twins
TAMARYN - Tender New Signs
PAUL BANKS - Banks
FLYING LOTUS - Until The Quiet Comes
DEATH GRIPS - No Love Deep Web
TITUS ANDRONICUS - Local Business
TRASH TALK - 119
BO NINGEN - Line The Wall
EGYPTIAN HIP HOP - Good Don't Sleep
TAKEN BY TREES - Other Worlds
TOPS - Tender Opposites
THIS MANY BOYFRIENDS - This Many Boyfriends
ALLAH-LAS - Allah-Las
BENJAMIN GIBBARD - Former Lives
A.C. NEWMAN - Shut Down the Streets
MARK EITZEL - Don't Be a Stranger
JASON LYTLE - Dept. of Disappearance
TILLY AND THE WALL - Heavy Mood
EARLIMART - System Preferences
PINBACK - Information Retrieved
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - Allelujah! Don't bend! Ascend!
MASERATI - Maserati VII
DAPHNI - Jiaolong
U.S. GIRLS - GEM
KENDRICK LAMAR - Good kid, m.A.A.d city
SEAPONY - Falling
CHELSEA WOLFE - Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
PETER BUCK - Peter Buck
JASON MOLINA - Autumn Bird Songs
MOUNTAIN GOATS - Transcendental Youth

Singles & EPs

Brats

LIARS - Brats
BAT FOR LASHES - All Your Gold
STILL CORNERS - Fireflies (mp3 via pitchfork)
HOSPITALITY - The Drift / Monkey
JACK WHITE - I'm Shakin'
THE BLACK KEYS - Little Black Submarines
BEST COAST - Do You Love Me Like You Used To?
DJANGO DJANGO - Life’s A Beach
EGYPTIAN HIP HOP - Syh
FOUR TET - Lion / Peace for Earth
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING - Cough Cough
THE JOY FORMIDABLE - Cholla
PINS - Luvu4lyf EP
MUSHY featuring A.R. KANE - My Life So Far
TIMES NEW VIKING - Over & Over EP ("Sleep-In" video)
MY DISCO - Wrapped Coast / All I Can Do
THE DEATH RAYS OF ARDILLA - Diamonds / Daggers
PALMA VIOLETS - Best Of Friends / Last Of the Summer Wine
CHARLIE BOYER AND THE VOYEURS - I Watch You / Be Nice
DEAP VALLY - End Of The World
FUN ADULTS - Sap Solid
ANGEL HAZE - New York (mp3 via stereogum)
ALT-J - Something Good
DEAD CAN DANCE - Opium
FEAR OF MEN - Mosaic / Your Side

TELEPATHE - Destroyer

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD / HELL'S BEACH - Turpentine / Teenage Whore

THE WALKMEN - Dance With Your Partner / Vermeer ’65

1998: Top 50 Singles

Time for our monthly trip back to the '90s, with another killer playlist featuring our favorite singles from 1998.

Despite a recent “gleeful” attempt to ruin it, “Celebrity Skin” retains its captivating glam rock glow after all these years and remains one of the best moments of '90s alternative rock. The lead single from Hole's third album of the same name was co-written by Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson and Billy Corgan and became the band’s most commercially successful release, reaching number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song on the b-side of the single, the gorgeous “Best Sunday Dress” (co-written with Babes In Toyland’s Kat Bjelland and originally recorded by their short-lived band Pagan Babies in 1985) is another reason for naming “Celebrity Skin” our Single of the Year for 1998.

Check out below the Top 10 and click here for the complete Top 50 Singles of 1998 list:

1.   Celebrity Skin - HOLE
2.   Waltz #2 (XO) - ELLIOTT SMITH 
3.   Goddess On A Hiway - MERCURY REV
4.   Somethin' Hot - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
5.   Space Lord - MONSTER MAGNET
6.   Boys Better - THE DANDY WARHOLS
7.   Intergalactic - BEASTIE BOYS
8.   Sunday - SONIC YOUTH
9.   A Perfect Day Elise - PJ HARVEY
10. Talk About The Blues - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION

The 1998 playlist: