Tracey Thorn – “Oh, The Divorces!” From the ex- Everything But The Girl member’s forthcoming record for Merge, Love and Its Opposite, due out on 5/18.

Gil Scott-Heron talks to the Telegraph about his new album, I'm New Here.

“I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too,” he says. “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – that was satire. People would try and argue that it was this militant message, but just how militant can you really be when you’re saying, 'The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner’? My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words. A good comic will deliver a line deadpan – they let the audience laugh.”

WXPN's World Cafe interviews former Husker Du member Grant Hart.

Vue Weekly profiles YACHT.

"The indie-rock concert experience is very ritualistic and also very secretive; it's all very codified and we see that esthetically as being the same thing as being a marginalized or offshoot religious group," Evans explains. "To some extent we're trying to play with that relationship, to treat music culture and art culture with the same sort of reverence that people treat spiritual ideas and culture and as a result build a kind of community that's a little bit more thoughtful and intimate than the regular rock-band/rock-fan relationship that's largely based on idol worship, which is something we don't want."

The Washington City Paper's Arts Desk interviews Brian Case of the psych band Disappears.

WCP: But that tag, psychedelic, it’s really ambiguous. It can refer to a lot of different music. In what sense would you say your band is psychedelic?

Case: It’s hard to say. Psychedelic can mean so many things. Some people would consider a band like Free Design psychedelic and some people would consider Hawkwind psychedelic, but those two sound nothing alike. Um…I don’t know what our contribution to psych lexicon is. Probably all the acid we do.

An academic paper: "The Indie Rock Movement as Utopian."

Domino is releasing the new album by The Fall, titled Your Future Our Clutter, on May 4th

Shearwater – “Hidden Lakes”

Fight Like Apes @ Mercury Lounge, 2/17/2010
Something Global / Digifucker / Lend Me Your Face / I’m Beginning To Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 90210 To Me / Do You Karate? / Jake Summers / Tie Me Up In Jackets / Knucklehead / Lightsaber Cock Sucking Blues / Battlestations

Fight Like Apes rock out. They’re funny. They chat with the audience, and make sure that everyone in the room participates. They do goofy theatrical stunts in concert. Every song is super catchy. Basically, they are ridiculously entertaining. They should not be playing to small crowds in America. This is a band that should have a rabid cult following. There should be hundreds of teens and college kids totally losing their shit at their shows. Yeah, they play with irony and come out of indie, but they should be playing to emo and mall punk kids. The people who might really appreciate them. Can we get them to tour with Paramore or something? Can I convince anyone in NYC to go see them play Union Hall tonight? Who knows.

Fight Like Apes - “Something Global” So yes, Fight Like Apes are fun and goofy, and they indulge in some ironic humor, but what makes them so appealing is how earnest they can be. May Kay may sing some nonsense, but the emotional content of these songs always rings out loud and clear. “Something Global” is especially straight forward: They feel out of step with music culture, but they love it and hate it and love it and hate it. It’s a statement of intent — they want to get people excited and they’re not afraid to be pop. It’s a bit “take us or leave us,” but it’s mostly “you’d be a fool not to love us.”

Buy it from Amazon. The price for the mp3 download is very low!

Certainly there will tons of announcements from artists and labels all over about upcoming Record Store Day (4/17) vinyl exclusives; for now, here’s a list of what Sub Pop has lined up:

Happy Birthday – “Shampoo” b/w “Alien”

Dum Dum Girls/Male Bonding (split) – “Pay For Me” b/w “Before It’s Gone”

Beach House -” Zebra”/”The Arrangement” b/w” Baby”/”10 Mile Stereo (Cough Syrup Remix)”

The Album Leaf – “There Is A Wind (Acoustic)”/”Landing In Snow” b/w” Resonations”/”Falling From The Sun (Jamuel Saxon Sunburnt Remix)”