Atlas Sound – “Attic Lights”

From the forthcoming Logos, out 10/20 on Kranky.

The Babies – “Meet Me In The City” One of the first tracks to surface from the Vivian Girls/Woods collab project (One more on the Myspace).

P.S., I’d think it’s probably safe to assume there’ll be a single or an EP out Woodsist (or a like-minded bro-label) in the near future.

Deerhunter
Webuyyourkids, 2009

Lootube: The Making of Goodnight Unknown (Lou Barlow)

Wild Beasts “Hooting & Howling” As per usual, the most fascinating and alluring thing about this Wild Beasts song is the vocal tone and mannerisms of Hayden Thorpe. The man sings like a street tramp affecting the style and grace of an opera diva, resulting in songs that are at once disarmingly beautiful and disorienting in their outright weirdness. As the band have progressed, they’ve gravitated toward a spare, romantic guitar style that makes them sound like something an alternate universe version of ’80s U2 in which The Edge is forced to reckon with serving the aesthetics of a silly, foppish oddball rather than the world-beating earnestness of Bono.

Buy it from Amazon.

The Santa Barbara Independent offers a "grownup's guide to indie rock."

Amazon MP3 offers 1,134 free song downloads.

On sale at Amazon MP3: the 21-track soundtrack to the 1982 film TRON for only $1.99.

NPR Music lists songs to say goodbye to your summer sweetheart.

Newsweek's Pop Vox blog interviews Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.

The new record sounds like it was an adventure to make. It's less pop-oriented and more tripped-out than your last two records: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and At War With the Mystics. Was that always the plan?

In a sense you want them all to be an adventure that way. You really do want to get lost in this sh-- that's coming out of your subconscious and let it overtake you. I've said it, but it's not my quote, it's [filmmaker] John Cocteau's: "I don't have ideas. Ideas have me." And it's like you're just a slave to them. You know Cocteau?

Alison Mosshart of The Kills and Dead Weather talks to Seattle Weekly.

Gawker lists the initial slate of acts scheduled to play this year's CMJ Music Marathon (October 20-24).

Cracker visits The Current studio for an interview and live performance.