Balmorhea – Constellations
MP3: Balmorhea – “Bowsprit”

Clem Snide – The Meat of Life

Efterklang – Magic Chairs
MP3: Efterklang – “Modern Drift”

Eluvium – Similes
MP3: Eluvium – “The Motion Makes Me Last”

Epstein – Reissues (Digital)

Hunx & His Punx – Gay Singles
MP3: Hunx & His Punx – “U Don’t Like Rock’N’Roll”

Holly Miranda – The Magician’s Private Library
MP3: Holly Miranda – “Waves”

Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
STREAM: Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me at NPR.Org

Nice Face – Immer Etwas

The Pink Noise – Birdland

Quasi – American Gong
MP3: Quasi – “Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler”

Jack Rose – Luck In The Valley

Sambassadeur – European
MP3: Sambassadeur – “Stranded”

Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago
MP3: Shearwater – “Black Eyes”

Shout Out Louds – Work
MP3: Shout Out Louds – “Walls”

V/A – Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox

Rocky Votolato – True Devotion
MP3: Rocky Votolato – “Red River”

White Hills – s/t
MP3: White Hills – “Dead”

We Are Wolves – Invisible Violence
MP3: We Are Wolves – “Blue”

Wolf People – Tidings
MP3: Wolf People – “October Fires”
STREAM: Wolf People – Tidings in its entirety via Listen@MBV

Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself

Zeus – Say Us
MP3: Zeus – “Marching Through Your Head”

Vinyl / Vinyl Reissues

These Are Powers – Candyman

Hoquiam – s/t

Hot Chip – One Life Stand

Jerusalem & the Starbaskets – Room 8b
MP3: Jerusalem and the Starbaskets – “Gulf Of Mexico”

The Morning Benders – Promises
MP3: The Morning Benders – “Promises”

Parenthetical Girls – Privelege Pt. 1
MP3: The Morning Benders – “Promises”

Phantogram – Eyelid Movies
MP3: Phantogram – “When I’m Small”

She & Him – In The Sun
MP3: She & Him – “In The Sun”

Tuung – Hustle

Roky Erickson & Okkervil River – “Goodbye Sweet Dreams”From the Erickson/Okkervil collaboration True Love Cast Out All Evil, out 4/20 on Anti.

Pantha Du Prince - “Bohemian Forest” The brightest notes in this piece all sound like circles to me. Spheres in three dimensions, floating on their own, or in clusters of bubbles through the air. It’s almost impossible for me to hear this any other way, though the title suggests a dark, dense landscape for the circles. Maybe it’s like glowing orbs hovering through the woods at night, like unknown, otherworldly insects. You could see it, and it would seem peaceful and beautiful, but a little uncomfortable and vaguely menacing because you’d have no idea what it is.

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PopMatters interviews Glasvegas guitarist Rab Allan.

Getting back to the music, Glasvegas makes a lot of grand gestures in their songs. There are elements, like the children's rhymes or the use of Beethoven, that might seem silly if you read them on paper, but work incredibly well in the actual songs. Did you guys worry about how these elements would work when songwriting, or was it just sort of "This is what we want to do, this is what seems natural to us"?

It's funny, we’d almost finished the album, and James said he had an idea for the song ["Stabbed," which combines spoken word with a rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"]. He always had those lyrics, and he went away and spent a day in the studio, and came back and he had that. And I thought it was genius. Our manager thought, “You can’t do this!” [Laughs]. He said “It won't work, you can't do it.” And we said “Who says?” There's no rules. You can do anything you want, you know.

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New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has news of his next book, Listen To This, which will include chapters about Radiohead, Bjork, Dylan and Brahms.

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