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Our long-standing love of British metal-pop band the Wildhearts has been well-documented, and so we’re especially excited for next week’s release of The Wildhearts, even though it’s a U.K.-only release (alas). More »

A trusted commenter had been politely nagging imploring us to take a listen to Judgement, the just-released album from European electronic act VNV Nation. More »

The blogosphere has been talking up Glasgow’s the Twilight Sad for some time now, and with good reason: The band’s recently released Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters is as enjoyably frowny-faced as you’d expect from a bunch of Scots, with guitars that our inner-hack wants to describe as… More »

Glasgow’s the 1990s is just one of the numerous pub-meets-club rock outfits to emerge since Franz Ferdinand broke big a few years ago; and while a song like “You’re Supposed To Be My Friend,” below, isn’t going to teach you anything new, its up-and-down-and-up-again guitar line will stay with you… More »

When promo copies of El-P’s I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead were sent out earlier this year, music writers found that their name was uttered repeatedly during each track; as a result, listening to the album was a noisy and confusing (though weirdly ego-boosting) experience. More »

Fluo Kids has the radio edit of “Pogo,” the appropriately titled, synth-saturated new cut from German electro–dance-pop outfit Digitalism. More »

Antibabalas’ Security was released on March 6th–a day upon which all new albums were overshadowed by the record that taught America how to love again. More »

Afrikan Majik–the upcoming record from Georgia psych-pop-punksters Je Suis France–landed on our desks Monday morning, and it’s been on repeat ever since. More »

This Hot Chip remix of Junior Boys’ “In The Morning” has been bumping around for a while as a streaming track, but Let’s Sexy Fighting finally landed an MP3 copy. More »