New Releases: November 2010

Round up of some of the most interesting releases of November 2010:

Albums

STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 - Northern Aggression
GREENHORNES - ****
SHANNON WRIGHT - Secret Blood
STEREOLAB - Not Music
KANYE WEST - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
KID CUDI - Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager
LAKE R▲DIO - Planet Earth About to Be Recycled
BLANK DOGS - Land and Fixed
BO NINGEN - Bo Ningen
OFF! - First Four EPs
MICE PARADE - What It Means to Be Left-Handed
MASERATI - Pyramid of the Sun
GANGRENE - Gutter Water
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - Delicacies
WEEKEND - Sports
FOREST SWORDS - Dagger Paths
THE 1900s - Return of the Century
ORANGE JUICE - Coals to Newcastle
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Rough Trade Shops Synth Wave 10


Singles & EPs 

WHITE RING - Black Earth That Made Me EP 
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - I Lived My Life To Stand In The Shadow Of Your Heart EP 
GRINDERMAN - Worm Tamer 
THE NATIONAL - Terrible Love 
JAPANDROIDS - Heavenward Grand Prix 
DUM DUM GIRLS - Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout
BEST COAST - Crazy For You
FOALS - Blue Blood
LYKKE LI - Get Some
JJ - Let Them
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS - Commotion
WOLF PARADE - Semi-Precious Stone
WILD NOTHING - Golden Haze EP
THE RADIO DEPT. - Never Follow Suit EP 
GIRLS - Broken Dreams Club EP
ZOLA JESUS - Poor Animal / I Can't Stand
!!! - Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass EP
DEERHOOF (with BUSDRIVER) - Hoofdriver
THE GAA GAA’s - Voltaire
THE THERMALS - Never Listen to Me
KILLING JOKE - European Super State
KURT VILE - In My Time
THE CORAL - Walking In the Winter
GORILLAZ - Doncamatic (All Played Out) ft. Daley
TRICKY - Ghetto Stars
KELE - On the Lam
MYSTERY JETS - Show Me the Light
LAURA MARLING - Blues Run the Game / Needle and the Damage Done
SHARON VAN ETTEN - I'm Giving Up On You
GOSPEL MUSIC - Duettes
EELS - Baby Loves Me
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR - Meet Me On The Dark Side
SMASHING PUMPKINS - Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol. II: The Solstice Bare
THE WAR ON DRUGS - Future Weather EP

White Ring's limited edition vinyl EP "Black Earth That Made Me" was the first 12" for both the band and Disaro Records. It sold out almost immediately but you can get your digital copy here. Among its six tracks is "IxC999", one of the best I've heard this year from the rising Witch House scene. The track is also featured in Robot Elephant Records' compilation "ISVOLT" which will be released this Monday, December 6th. The 9 track compilation, also featuring †‡† (Ritualzz), Party Trash, Fostercare, //Tense//, Modern Witch, Mater Suspiria Vision, ///'HORSE MACGYVER\\\ and Raw Moans, is a collaboration with Disaro Records and you can find out more about it here.

Check out below the video for White Ring's "IxC999" and go here to listen to their brand new track "Felt U" from the still-untitled album they're preparing to unleash sometime in 2011:

White Ring - IxC999

New Releases: October 2010

Shall we get back to business, then? Here's our round up of the most interesting album and single releases for October 2010 with links to related videos:

Albums

WARPAINT - The Fool
THE CORIN TUCKER BAND - 1,000 Years 
SUFJAN STEVENS - The Age of Adz
TWIN SHADOW - Forget
GIANT SAND - Blurry Blue Mountain
PARAMOUNT STYLES - Heaven's Alright
CLINIC - Bubblegum
SMALL BLACK - New Chain
FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS - Frankie Rose And The Outs
CLOUD NOTHINGS - Turning On
THREE MILE PILOT - The Inevitable Past Is the Future Forgotten
AVEY TARE - Down There
BROKEN RECORDS - Let Me Come Home
THE PHANTOM BAND - The Wants
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - Belle and Sebastian Write about Love
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS - Swanlights
ELVIS COSTELLO - National Ransom
BADLY DRAWN BOY - It's What I'm Thinking Pt.1 - Photographing Snowflakes
KINGS OF LEON - Come Around Sundown
MONSTER MAGNET - Mastermind
WHITE DENIM - Last Day of Summer
THE CONCRETES - WYWH
A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW - Autumn, Again
MARNIE STERN - Marnie Stern
BERLIN BRIDES - Modern Celibacy
DARKSTAR - North
GOLD PANDA - Lucky Shiner
MAGNETIC MAN - Magnetic Man
IT SOUND - Hard Pop for Blue Trees
PRINCE RAMA - Shadow Temple
PS I LOVE YOU - Meet Me at the Muster Station

Singles

LIARS - Proud Evolution
PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL - Seed, Crop, Harvest
oOoOO - oOoOO EP
CRYSTAL CASTLES - Baptism
CRYSTAL STILTS - Shake the Shackles
CLOUD NOTHINGS - Hey Cool Kid
SMOKE FAIRIES - Hotel Room
ESBEN AND THE WITCH - Marching Song
ANNA CALVI - Jezebel
ZOLA JESUS - Valusia EP
PANDA BEAR - You Can Count On Me
FUCKED UP - Year of the Ox
OFF! - 1st EP
BRITISH SEA POWER - Zeus EP
THE JOY FORMIDABLE - I Don't Want To See You Like This
BROKEN RECORDS - A Darkness Rises Up
KINGS OF LEON - Radioactive
BADLY DRAWN BOY - Too Many Miracles
SPECTRALS - A Spectrals Extended Play
THE GASLAMP KILLER - Death Gate EP
GOLD PANDA - Snow & Taxis 
65DAYSOFSTATIC - Heavy Sky EP
IT SOUND - Walking (on a Tall Fence)
LOW-FI - Low-Fi EP

The Corin Tucker Band's "1000 Years" was certainly one of the most anticipated releases of the month for me, ever since I heard that Corin was on her way back. Sleater-Kinney has been one of the most important bands of the late '90s-early '00s and I'm happy that we finally have some brand new material from one of them. Pretty soon we'll also hear from Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss as well, as they recently announced that they have formed a new band called Wild Flag together with Rebecca Cole of The Minders and Mary Timony, once the leader of Helium (another one of our '90s favorites).

We'll have more about "1000 Years" soon, as I've just started listening to the album. Meanwhile, you can go here to get the free track "Doubt" and below you can check out the video for "Riley":

The Corin Tucker Band - Riley

New Releases: September 2010

Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in September 2010 plus links to videos and free & legal promotional mp3s:

Albums

GRINDERMAN - Grinderman 2
BLONDE REDHEAD - Penny Sparkle
LES SAVY  FAV - Root for Ruin
SUPERCHUNK - Majesty Shredding
NO AGE - Everything in Between
BLACK MOUNTAIN - Wilderness Heart
BLACK ANGELS - Phosphene Dream
INTERPOL - Interpol
THE WALKMEN - Lisbon
CROCODILES - Sleep Forever
GLASSER - Ring
SALEM - King Night
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS - The Hundred In The Hands
DEERHUNTER - Halcyon Digest
LAETITIA SADIER - The Trip
OF MONTREAL - False Priest
THE THERMALS - Personal Life
THE VASELINES - Sex with an X
KILLING JOKE - Absolute Dissent
SWANS - My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky
BOSTON SPACESHIPS - Our Cubehouse Still Rocks
SMOKE FAIRIES - Through Low Light and Trees
SUMMER CAMP - Young EP
ABE VIGODA - Crush
TRICKY - Mixed Race
PETE YORN - Pete Yorn
EDWYN COLLINS - Losing Sleep
THE POSIES - Blood/Candy
WEEZER - Hurley
BRANDON FLOWERS - Flamingo
SHIT ROBOT - From the Cradle to the Rave
UNDERWORLD - Barking
THE CHARLATANS - Who We Touch
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Postcards From A Young Man
HURTS - Happiness
DAS RACIST - Sit Down, Man

Singles

LES SAVY FAV - Let’s Get Out Of Here / Sleepless In Silverlake
DEAD WEATHER - Blue Blood Blues
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - Heart Is Strange
GANG GANG DANCE - Kamakura
WARPAINT / SISTER CRAYON - Ashes to Ashes / The Bewlay Brothers
MGMT - Congratulations
CLINIC - I'm Aware
FLYING LOTUS - Pattern + Grid World EP
UNKLE - The Answer EP
OWEN PALLETT - A Swedish Love Story EP
EGYPTIAN HIP HOP - Some Reptiles Grew Wings EP
SUMMER CAMP - Round the Moon
SPECTRALS - Peppermint
THE CORAL - More Than A Lover
FIRST AID KIT - Ghost Town
BAND OF SKULLS - Fires
KILLING JOKE - European Superstate
THE CHARLATANS - My Foolish Pride
EDWYN COLLINS - Losing Sleep
PAUL WELLER - Fast Car/Slow Traffic / Andromeda
RPA & UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND - This Thing Called Life
BRANDON FLOWERS - Crossfire
WEEZER - Memories

Another September release was the tribute album to David Bowie "We Were So Turned On". One of the standout tracks is Warpaint's cover of the 1980 classic "Ashes to Ashes" which was also released as a split 7" single along with Sister Crayon's cover of "The Bewlay Brothers". At the end of this month we're expecting Warpaint's full-length debut "The Fool". Meanwhile, you can go here for a free download of "Undertow" from the upcoming LP and below you can check out the video:

Warpaint - Undertow

New Releases: July-August 2010

Time to catch up with the latest album and single releases of the last couple of months. The summer break has put us a little behind schedule, but now that we've done our homework, we're ready to bring you the round up of the most noteworthy new releases plus links to relevant videos and mp3s:

Albums

ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
M.I.A. - Maya
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - Disconnect From Desire (video)
BEST COAST - Crazy For You (mp3)
WAVVES - King of the Beach (video)
MENOMENA - Mines (mp3)
LAND OF TALK - Cloak and Cipher
AUTOLUX - Transit Transit (mp3)
!!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It?
ZOLA JESUS - Stridulum 2 (stream)
BOOKS - The Way Out (mp3)
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN - Hawk (video)
JENNY AND JOHNNY - I'm Having Fun Now (mp3)
THE CORAL - Butterfly House
KLAXONS - Surfing the Void
MYSTERY JETS - Serotonin (video)
THE MAGIC NUMBERS - The Runaway (mp3)
VERSUS - On the Ones and Threes (mp3)
MAXIMUM BALLOON - Maximum Balloon (video)
BIG BOI - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (video)
EL-P - Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 (video)
CHIEF - Modern Rituals (video)
MT. ST. HELENS VIETNAM BAND - Where the Messengers Meet
RA RA RIOT - The Orchard (video)
PVT - Church with No Magic (video)
TAME IMPALA - Innerspeaker (video)
EELS - Tomorrow Morning (video)
DANGER MOUSE, SPARKLEHORSE, DAVID LYNCH - Dark Night of the Soul 
MAGNETA LANE - Gambling With God (video)
MAGIC KIDS - Memphis (mp3)

Singles

DUM DUM GIRLS - Stiff Little Fingers
GRINDERMAN - Heathen Child
ARCADE FIRE - We Used To Wait
INTERPOL - Barricade (video)
SUPERCHUNK - Digging for Something/February Punk
NO AGE - Glitter (mp3)
THE SOFT PACK - More Or Less (video)
THE THERMALS - I Don't Believe You (video)
FOALS - Miami (video)
BLOOD RED SHOES - Heartsink (video)
M.I.A. - XXXO (video)
CARIBOU - Sun (video)
!!! - Am/Fm/Hammer (video)
OF MONTREAL - Coquet Coquette (video)
PANDA BEAR - Tomboy
SUFJAN STEVENS - All Delighted People EP (stream)
BJÖRK / DIRTY PROJECTORS - Mount Wittenberg Orca EP
THE CORAL - 1000 Years (video)
THE CRIBS - Housewife
TRICKY - Murder Weapon (video)
KLAXONS - Echoes (video)
BRANDON FLOWERS - Crossfire (video)
KELE - Everything You Wanted (video)
GORILLAZ - On Melancholy Hill (video)
CEE-LO - No One's Gonna Love You (video)
BROKEN BELLS - The Ghost Inside (video)
FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - Cosmic Love (video)
PEGGY SUE - Yo Mama (mp3)
STEVE MASON - Am I Just a Man (video)
VILLAGERS - Ship of Promises (video)

Here's the new Arcade Fire video for "Ready to Start", one of the top tracks from their excellent third LP "The Suburbs". Looks like it must have been one hell of a show:

Arcade Fire - Ready to Start

New Releases: June 2010

Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in June 2010 plus links to videos and free & legit mp3s:

Albums

WOLF PARADE - EXPO 86 (mp3)
STARS - The Five Ghosts (mp3)
TOKYO POLICE CLUB - Champ (video)
THE DRUMS - The Drums (video)
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - Before Today (mp3)
RAEKWON - Cocainism, Vol. 2 (mp3)
THE ROOTS - How I Got Over (video)
HEALTH - Disco2 (mp3)
UFFIE - Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans
HOT HOT HEAT - Future Breeds (video)
LOU BARLOW + THE MISSINGMEN = Sentridoh III (mp3)
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM - American Slang (video)
WOVENHAND - The Threshingfloor
PERNICE BROTHERS - Goodbye, Killer (video)
WILD NOTHING - Gemini (mp3)
BLITZEN TRAPPER - Destroyer of the Void (mp3)
NINA NASTASIA - Outlaster (video)
ELK CITY - House Of Tongues
PEGGY SUE - Fossils And Other Phantoms
RATATAT - LP4 (mp3)
KELE - The Boxer
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Further (video)
DELAYS - Star Tiger, Star Ariel
MELVINS - The Bride Screamed Murder
DEVO - Something For Everybody

Singles

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - Say No To Love / Lost Saint (video)
THE NATIONAL - Anyone's Ghost
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Holiday (video)
CROCODILES - Sleep Forever (mp3)
MAXIMUM BALLOON - Tiger (video)
COLD CAVE - Life Magazine Remixes EP (mp3)
UNDERWORLD - Scribble (video)
ORBITAL - Don't Stop Me / The Gun Is Good (video)
KELE - Tenderoni (video)
MICAH P HINSON - Take Off That Dress For Me
PAUL WELLER - Find The Torch Burn The Plans (video)
RICHARD HAWLEY - False Lights From the Land EP
DELAYS - Unsung (video)
CHIEF - Breaking Walls
DELPHIC - Counterpoint (video)

Just say no, kids:

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Say No To Love

More summertime fun:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies

New Releases: May 2010

We didn't post our usual selection of the month's new releases on time as we were busy with Primavera and Synch, but we didn't forget. Here's the round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in May 2010 plus links to videos and free & legit mp3s:

Albums

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - Forgiveness Rock Record
THE NATIONAL - High Violet
THE DEAD WEATHER - Sea of Cowards
FOALS - Total Life Forever
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - This Is Happening
FLYING LOTUS - Cosmogramma
SLEIGH BELLS - Treats (mp3)
CRYSTAL CASTLES - Crystal Castles (II)
HOLY FUCK - Latin
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Together (video)
GUN OUTFIT - Possession Sound
MALE BONDING - Nothing Hurts (mp3)
COCOROSIE - Grey Oceans
INDIAN JEWELRY - Totaled (video)
EFFI BRIEST - Rhizomes (mp3)
UNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall
THE BLACK KEYS - Brothers (video)
THE HOLD STEADY - Heaven Is Whenever
BAND OF HORSES - Infinite Arms
TEENAGE FANCLUB - Shadows
THEE OH SEES - Warm Slime
WOVEN BONES - In And Out And Back Again (mp3)
EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER - Blood And Fire
BORN RUFFIANS - Say It
PHOSPHORESCENT - Here's To Taking It Easy
KAREN ELSON - The Ghost Who Walks
MINUS THE BEAR - Omni
STEVE MASON - Boys Outside
THE CHAP - Well Done Europe
JAPANDROIDS - No Singles (mp3)
FACTORY FLOOR - Untitled
BEACH FOSSILS - Beach Fossils (mp3)
BLITZEN TRAPPER - Destroyer Of The Void
NADA SURF - If I Had A Hi-Fi
RUSSELL CRAWFORD - Floating Aimlessly (video)

Singles

THE NATIONAL - Bloodbuzz Ohio (video)
ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs / Month Of May (mp3s)
LIARS - The Overachievers (video)
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Ego Death EP (video)
HOLY FUCK - Latin America (video)
FOALS - This Orient (video)
BLOOD RED SHOES - Don't Ask (video)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Giving Up The Gun (video)
THE DRUMS - Forever & Ever Amen (video)
BEST COAST - Far Away (mp3)
TEENAGE FANCLUB - Baby Lee (mp3)
PONYS - Deathbed Plus 4 EP (mp3)
KURT VILE - Square Shells EP (mp3)
EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER - Love Turns To Hate (video)
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS - This Desert EP (video)
THE VIOLET MAY - Bright Or Better / This Crowd Is Overcrowded (video)
HURTS - Better Than Love (video)
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT - Activate (mp3)
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Swoon (video)
SILVERSUN PICKUPS - The Royal We (video)

Recommended mp3 downloads:

Dum Dum Girls - Bhang, Bhang, I’m a Burnout / Pay for Me
Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure / What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way)
School Of Seven Bells - Babelonia
Stars - Wasted Daylight
Versus - Invincible Hero
!!! - AM/FM

As I was saying in my recent review of their thrilling performance in Primavera Sound 10, Dum Dum Girls' debut LP "I Will Be" is filled with future classics. The link above gives you the opportunity to download one of these, the excellent "Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout", along with the also fine non-album track "Pay For Me" (from a limited split-single with Male Bonding). And if this isn't enough Dum Dum-related fun, here's the brand new video for "Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout", directed by Christin Turner who's going to make videos for every track on the album. Something tells me that we'll be seeing these Girls again in here very soon:

Dum Dum Girls- Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout

New Releases: April 2010

Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in April 2010 plus links to videos and free & legal mp3s:

Albums

THE FALL - Your Future Our Clutter
MGMT - Congratulations (video)
AVI BUFFALO - Avi Buffalo (mp3)
CARIBOU - Swim (video)
MUSIC GO MUSIC - Expressions (video)
LALI PUNA - Our Inventions (mp3)
THE RADIO DEPT. - Clinging To A Scheme (mp3)
THE FUTUREHEADS - The Chaos
BLACK FRANCIS - NonStopErotik
HOLE - Nobody's Daughter (mp3, video)
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR - Out of Our Minds (video)
TRANS AM - Thing (mp3)
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH - The Wild Hunt
JONSI - Go
DELOREAN - Subiza (mp3)
METH GHOST RAE - Wu-Massacre
PAUL WELLER - Wake Up The Nation
KATE NASH - My Best Friend Is You
SHE & HIM - Vol.2
OPERATOR PLEASE - Gloves
HARLEM - Hippies
MI AMI - Steal Your Face
SIGHTINGS - City of Straw (mp3)
65DAYSOFSTATIC - We Were Exploding Anyway
PLANTS AND ANIMALS - La La Land
THE APPLES IN STEREO - Travellers in Space and Time
DR. DOG - Shame, Shame
ROKY ERICKSON/OKKERVIL RIVER - True Love Cast Out All Evil
KILLING JOKE - Feast Of Fools
FROG EYES - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph

Singles

JAPANDROIDS - Art Czars (video)
THE DEAD WEATHER - Die By the Drop (video)
THE FALL - Bury Pts 2+4/Cowboy Gregori (video)
THESE NEW PURITANS - Attack Music (video)
HIGH PLACES - Can’t Feel Born (mp3)
CRYSTAL CASTLES - Celestica (video)
FOALS - Spanish Sahara (video)
BEACH HOUSE - Zebra (video)
BLUR - Fool's Day (mp3)
THE BIG PINK - Tonight (mp3)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Pow Pow (stream)
YEASAYER - O.N.E. (video)
MGMT - Siberian Breaks (stream)
COCOROSIE - Lemonade/Surfer Girl (mp3)
METRIC - Gold Guns Girls (video)
BAND OF HORSES - Compliments (video)
BLACK KEYS - Tighten Up/Howlin' For You (video)
FUCK BUTTONS - Olympians (video)
HOT CHIP - I Feel Better (video)
GORILLAZ - White Flag
PAUL WELLER - No Tears To Cry/Wake Up The Nation (video)
THE FUTUREHEADS - Heartbeat Song (video)
THE JOY FORMIDABLE - Popinjay (video)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Shampoo/Alien
DUM DUM GIRLS/MALE BONDING - Pay For Me/Before It's Gone
THE CRIBS/THE THERMALS - So Hot Now/Separate
MENOMENA/HELIO SEQUENCE - Pilgrim's Progress/Converter
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - Your Woman is a Living Thing/Just Maybe
BON IVER/PETER GABRIEL - Come Talk To Me/Flume
THEM CROOKED VULTURES - Mind Eraser, No Chaser
SURFER BLOOD - Swim (video)
JONSI - Go Do/Boy Lilikoi (video)
KATE NASH - Doo Wah Doo (video)
MAJOR LAZER - Lazers Never Die
ALBUM LEAF - There Is a Wind (video)
SPECTRUM - Words May Shatter
DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE - Just War (featuring Gruff Rhys) (video)
65DAYSOFSTATIC - Crash Tactics (stream)
WE ARE SCIENTISTS - Rules Don't Stop (video)
RUSSELL CRAWFORD - The Bad Luck EP (video)

Recommended mp3 downloads:

Interpol - Lights
Gun Outfit - My Whole Life
Stars - Fixed
HEALTH - USA Boys
Male Bonding - Year's Not Long
Mates Of State - Laura
Ponys - Check The Doors
Pernice Brothers - Jacqueline Susann
Chrome Hoof - Crystalline

"Your Future Our Clutter" is The Fall's 28th album and one of the year's greatest releases so far. Here's a live performance of "Bury", one of the album's standout tracks, an alternate version of which was also released as a limited edition single for Record Store Day:

The Fall - Bury (live at the Brook, Southampton, November 18th, 2009)

New Releases: March 2010

Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in March 2010 plus links to videos and free & legal mp3s:

Albums

LIARS - Sisterworld (video)
DUM DUM GIRLS - I Will Be (video)
HIGH PLACES - High Places Vs. Mankind (video)
BROKEN BELLS - Broken Bells (video)
BLOOD RED SHOES - Fire Like This (video)
ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT - Coconut (mp3)
TITUS ANDRONICUS - The Monitor (mp3)
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - Beat The Devil's Tattoo (video)
SERENA MANEESH - No 2: Abyss In B Minor (video)
LOVE IS ALL - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (video)
GORILLAZ - Plastic Beach
NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB - The Optimist (video)
JJ - JJ Nº 3 (video)
THE BESNARD LAKES - The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night (mp3)
TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS - The Brutalist Bricks (mp3)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Happy Birthday (mp3s)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - The Big To-Do (mp3)
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG - The Wonder Show Of The World (mp3)
EMMA POLLOCK - The Law Of Large Numbers
AIR FORMATION - Nothing To Wish For (Nothing To Lose) (video)
THE MORNING BENDERS - Big Echo (video)
ROGUE WAVE - Permalight (mp3)
THE RUBY SUNS - Fight Softly
FRIGHTENED RABBIT - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (mp3/video)
LAURA MARLING - I Speak Because I Can (video)
ELLIE GOULDING - Lights (video)
GONJASUFI - A Sufi And A Killer (mp3)
AUTECHRE - Oversteps
GOLDFRAPP - Head First
GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY - Wolves And Thieves
BRIGHT EYES AND NEVA DINOVA - One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels (mp3s)
WOODEN SHJIPS - Vol 2
THE WHITE STRIPES - Under Great White Northern Lights
PAVEMENT - Quarantine The Past
THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION - Dirty Shirt Rock'n'Roll: The First Ten Years

Singles

HOLE - Skinny Little Bitch (stream)
ARCTIC MONKEYS - My Propeller (video)
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - The Crash Years (stream)
VIVIAN GIRLS - My Love Will Follow Me
THE BABIES - All Things Come To Pass (video)
GLASSER - Tremel (mp3)
NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB - Chaos (mp3)
FOUR TET - Sing (stream)
GORILLAZ - Stylo (video)
THE DRUMS - Best Friend (video)
VERONICA FALLS - Found Love In A Graveyard / Stephen (mp3)
CRYSTAL ANTLERS - Little Sister / Dead Horse (mp3s)
ZOLA JESUS - Stridulum EP (mp3)
LAURA MARLING - Devil's Spoke
WILD BEASTS - We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues (video)
LOCAL NATIVES - Airplanes (video)
THE ART MUSEUMS - Rough Frame EP
KING KHAN - Fiery Tears Of St Laurent
EELS - A Line In The Dirt
GONJASUFI - Kobwebz/Speaketh
JOY ORBISON - The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow EP
DJANGO DJANGO - Wor / Skies Over Cairo
LATE OF THE PIER - Best In The Class (video)
FRIENDLY FIRES / HOLY GHOST - Friendly Fires vs. Holy Ghost
DELPHIC - Halcyon (video)
TANLINES - Settings EP
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - Extra Temporary EP
GOLDFRAPP - Rocket (video)
JAMIE T - Emily's Heart (video)
A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW - Nitetime Rainbows EP (video)

Recommended mp3 downloads:

The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
High Places - Can't Feel Nothing (Remix)
Holy Fuck - Latin America
MGMT - Flash Delirium
Woven Bones - It Feels Alright
The Hold Steady - Hurricane J
Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed
Neon Indian - Sleep Paralysist
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee

We had some great releases this month and one of them is the simply amazing second High Places album, "High Places Vs Mankind". Once the music starts, pressing the stop button is no longer an option! We'll have more about them in the upcoming "Listening Habits" post, but for now here's the new video for one of the album's highlights, "The Longest Shadows":

High Places - The Longest Shadows from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

New Releases: February 2010

Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in February 2010 plus links to videos and free & legal mp3s:

Albums

YEASAYER - Odd Blood (mp3)
THE SOFT PACK - The Soft Pack (mp3)
QUASI - American Gong (mp3)
YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! - XXXX
MOON DUO - Escape
SHEARWATER - The Golden Archipelago (mp3)
JOANNA NEWSOM - Have One On Me (stream)
HOT CHIP - One Life Stand
MASSIVE ATTACK - Heligoland
THE KNIFE - Tomorrow, In A Year (stream/mp3)
TORO Y MOI - Causers of This (video)
LONELADY - Nerve Up
XIU XIU - Dear God, I Hate Myself (mp3)
ROBERT POLLARD - We All Got Out of the Army
JULIANA HATFIELD - Peace & Love
HOLLY MIRANDA - The Magician's Private Library (mp3)
GIL SCOTT-HERON - I'm New Here (stream)
THE ALBUM LEAF - A Chorus of Storytellers (mp3)
THE WATSON TWINS - Talking to You, Talking to Me
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - The Family Jewels
FIELD MUSIC - Measure (mp3)
BABYBIRD - Ex-Maniac
THE COURTEENERS - Falcon
LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION - Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You (video)
PANTHA DU PRINCE - Black Noise (mp3)
SHOUT OUT LOUDS - Work (mp3)
K-OS - Yes!
PHANTOGRAM - Eyelid Movies (mp3)
EFTERKLANG - Magic Chairs (video)
THE ANTENNAS - The Antennas (video)
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 09
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Casual Victim Pile (mp3s)

Singles

DUM DUM GIRLS - Jail La La (mp3)
BLOOD RED SHOES - Light It Up (video)
LOS CAMPESINOS! - Romance Is Boring (video)
THE SOFT PACK - C'mon (video)
YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Skeletons (video)
TUNE-YARDS - Real Live Flesh (video)
GIRLS - Morning Light (video)
JOHNNY FOREIGNER - Every Cloakroom Ever
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - Evening/Morning (video)
OPERATOR PLEASE - Logic (video)
EGYPTIAN HIP HOP - Wild Human Child / Heavenly
MOONFACE - Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums (mp3)
MEMORYHOUSE - The Years EP
GIL SCOTT-HERON - Me And The Devil (video)
FIELD MUSIC - Them That Do Nothing (video)
ELLIE GOULDING - Starry Eyed (video)
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS - Hollywood (video)
COURTEENERS - You Overdid It Doll (video)
THE MACCABEES featuring ROOTS MANUVA - Empty Vessels (video)
ALKALINE TRIO - This Addiction (video)
VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB - Bored In Belgium (video)
HOT CLUB DE PARIS - With Days Like This As Cheap As Chewing Gum, Why Would Anyone Want To Work?

Recommended mp3 downloads:

Japandroids - Art Czars
Broken Social Scene - World Sick
The New Pornographers - Your Hands (Together)
The Secret Machines - Like I Can
Wooden Shjips - I Hear the Vibrations (E-Z version)
Serena-Maneesh - I Just Want To See Your Face
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow
Vampire Weekend - Ruby Soho
Archie Bronson Outfit - Shark's Tooth
UNKLE feat. The Black Angels - Natural Selection
Gonjasufi - Ancestors
Flying Lotus - Quakes
Kate Nash - I Just Love You More
Vivian Girls - He's Gone
Glasser - Tremel

Louisiana rock'n'rollers Research Turtles are offering their entire self-titled debut album for free download at their new site.

Singles of the Month: We have already talked about Dum Dum Girls and their excellent single "Jail La La" in a previous post. Here's the videos for the two other rockin' singles that make up our Top 3 for this month:

Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up


Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring

New Releases: January 2010

Round up of the most interesting album and single releases of January 2010 plus links to videos and free (and legal) mp3s:

Albums

VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Contra (mp3s)
SPOON - Transference (stream)
THESE NEW PURITANS - Hidden
BEACH HOUSE - Teen Dream
MIDLAKE - The Courage of Others
RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR - 2
FOUR TET - There Is Love In You
LOS CAMPESINOS! - Romance Is Boring (stream)
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - IRM
OH NO ONO - Eggs
SURFER BLOOD - Astro Coast (video for "Swim")
SCOUT NIBLETT - Calcination of Scout Niblett
GET WELL SOON - Vexations
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - Realism
OWEN PALLETT - Heartland
EELS - End Times
FREE ENERGY - Stuck On Nothing
FOOL'S GOLD - Fool's Gold
OK GO - Of The Blue Color Of The Sky
ADAM GREEN - Minor Love
LAURA VEIRS - July Flame
HT HEARTACHE - Swing Low
RJD2 - The Colossus
DELPHIC - Acolyte
PIT ER PAT - The Flexible Entertainer

Singles

SPOON - Written in Reverse (video)
THESE NEW PURITANS - We Want War (video)
BEACH HOUSE - Norway (mp3)
SERENA MANEESH - Ayisha Abyss (mp3)
BROKEN BELLS - The High Road (video)
GORILLAZ - Stylo (video)
THE XX - VCR (video)
HURTS - Wonderful Life (video)
DELPHIC - Doubt (video)
EDITORS - You Don't Know Love (video)
BIFFY CLYRO - Many Of Horror (When We Collide) (video)
JOHN VANDERSLICE - D.I.A.L.O (stream)
BETTIE SERVEERT - Deny All (video)
AU REVOIR SIMONE - Another Likely Story (video)
ASH - Space Shot (video)
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO feat. BETH DITTO - Cruel Intentions (video)

Recommended downloads:

HIGH PLACES - On Giving Up (mp3)
RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR - Hide it Away (mp3)
SPOON - Mean Red Spider (mp3)
THESE NEW PURITANS - Orion (mp3)
JJ - My Way (mp3)
CARIBOU - Odessa (mp3)
THE KNIFE - Colouring of Pigeons (mp3)
PIT ER PAT - Water (mp3)

This week "Transference", the seventh LP from Spoon, debuted at number 4 of the Billboard Album chart after shifting 53000 units, giving the band its highest charting album and best sales week. Well-deserved commercial recognition for one of the most consistent and reliable indie-rock bands of the last 15 years. We'll have more about Spoon and their excellent release very soon. In the meantime, here's a live performance of new single "Written in Reverse" on KCRW:

Spoon - Written in Reverse (live on KCRW)