Annuals – Sweet Sister

Black Francis – Nonstoperotik

Black Tambourine – s/t
MP3: Black Tambourine – “For Ex-Lovers Only”
STREAM: Black Tambourine – s/t via Listen@MBV

Catherine Wheel – Ferment (Reissue)

Nick Cave – Reissues

Dignan Porch – Tendrils

Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
MP3: Dum Dum Girls – “Jail La La”

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Rush To Relax (Digital Single)

Galaxie 500 – Reissues

Hanoi Janes – Year of Panic
MP3: Hanoi Janes – “Beach Kids”

Jawbreaker – Unfun (Reissue)

JSBX – Dirty Shirt Rock N’ Roll: The First Ten Years

Lali Puna – Our Inventions (Digital)

White Stripes – Under Great White Northern Lights Box Set

Wooden Shjips – Vol. 2

Vinyl / Vinyl Reissues

The Babies – Meet Me In The City
MP3: The Babies – “Meet Me In The City”

Grass Widow – s/t

Adam Green – Minor Love
MP3: Adam Green – “What Makes Him Act So Bad?”

Herman Dune – Next Year in Zion

Serena-Maneesh – No. 2: Abyss In B-Minor
MP3: Serena-Maneesh – “Ayisha Abyss”

Strange Boys – Be Brave
MP3: Strange Boys – “Laugh At Sex, Not At Her”

The Twilight Sad – The Room

Unnatural Helpers – Sunshine/Pretty Girls
MP3: Unnatural Helpers – “Sunshine/Pretty Girls”

Velvet Davenport – Get Out
MP3: Velvet Davenport – “Get Out”

Frog Eyes – “Lear In Love” From Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph, out 4/27 on Dead Oceans.

MGMT – “Flash Delirium”

Small Black – “Despicable Dogs”
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Ever NalensThis isn’t quite an introduction as I first said hello to A Sunny Day In Glasgow back in December 2006, but considering they’re far from the same band they were at the time of their first EP, I think we can let it slide. When I first took notice of the Philadelphia outfit, they were a family unit – Ben Daniels on songwriting and instrumentation with twin sisters Robin and Lauren on vocals – with some clear genetic predilection for blending wispy melodies with fuzzy, clattering programming and cut-and-paste production, the net result sounding like a proud standard-bearer for electro-twee-gaze, if such a genre ever existed.

And while that sounds like the sort of thing that would be target-marketed to my musical sensibilities, I found their 2007 debut Scribble Mural Comic Journal a little too much of a head trip to really fall in love with. The melodies, while present, were buried under reverb and white noise and the song structures deliberately bent into disorienting shapes. The follow-up, last year’s Ashes Grammar, continued along the path forged by the debut but with enough added clarity and growth to make it a far superior effort, at least by my standards.

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MP3: A Sunny Day In Glasgow – “Sigh Inhibitionist”
MP3: A Sunny Day In Glasgow – “Ashes Grammar/Ashes Math”

NOW and The Boston Herald have feature pieces on Beach House.

Faster Louder talks to Neil Halstead about the legacy of Slowdive. A legacy which is being anthologized (again) in a new collection entitled Shining Breeze, out April 26 in the UK. There are details on the collection over here – looks like it’s a mix of album and single/EP tracks, but nothing that wasn’t made available via the reissues in 2005 or the presumably out of print 2004 best-of Catch The Breeze.

California Chronicle interviews The Big Pink.

Field Music talks to eye.

The Pipettes have released a new video from their forthcoming record Earth vs Pipettes, due out on June 28.

Video: The Pipettes – “Stop The Music”

BBC6 and Clash talk to Laura Marling about her new record I Speak Because I Can, out in North American on April 6. There’s a couple videos of the song “Rambling Man” now available – the official video and a Black Cab Session recorded at last year’s SxSW festival.

Video: Laura Marling – “Rambling Man”