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The Observer notes the importance of translators to literary fiction.

Express Night Out profiles the television series Dinner with the Band, which features musicians in the kitchen.

PopMatters starts its two-week reconsideration of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album.

The Atlantic wonders if music lovers still need record stores.

Melissa Etheridge's new 12-track Fearless Love album is on sale at Amazon MP3 for $3.99.

The 50 most beautiful and brilliant books for your coffee table.

Johnny Leather lists the top 25 albums from 2010 (so far).

io9 lists the 10 weirdest songs from superhero movies.

Pitchfork interviews Caribou's Dan Snaith about his new album, Swim.

Pop Candy offers an excerpt from Molly Ringwald's new book, Getting the Pretty Back.

Philebrity lists the 10 best songs about Philadelphia.

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Acid Mother’s Temple – From 0 to Infinity

Avi Buffalo – s/t

Black Swans – Words Are Stupid

The Boy Least Likely To – A Fairytale Ending (Digital)

Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph
MP3: Frog Eyes – “Lear In Love”

Lali Puna – Our Inventions

The Lodger – Flashbacks
MP3: The Lodger – “The Back of My Mind”

Mount Carmel – s/t
MP3: Mount Carmel – “Still Listening”

The Mynabirds – What We Lose In The Fire…
MP3: The Mynabirds – “What We Gained in the Fire”

Naked on the Vague – Heaps of Nothing

Piebald – Volume 1

Small Black – EP
MP3: Small Black – “Pleasant Experience”

Trashcan Sinatras – In the Music

Unnatural Helpers – Cracked Love and Other Drugs
MP3: Unnatural Helpers – “Girl In The Window”

We Were Promised Jetpacks – Last Place You’ll Look

Emily Jane White – Victorian America

White Fence – s/t
MP3: White Fence – “The Love Between”

Wounded Lion – s/t
MP3: Wounded Lion – “Creatures In The Cave”

Vinyl/Vinyl Reissues

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round

Brilliant Colors – Never Mine

Cheap Trick – At Budokan

Chin Chin – Sound of the Westway
MP3: Chin Chin – “Dark Days”

Eric Copeland – Doo Doo Run

Frightened Rabbit – Nothing Like You

Charlotte Gainsbourg – Sunset Sound Session

Serge Gainsbourg – Box Soundtracks Vol. 2

Ron House – Blind Boy in the Backseat

Jaill – There’s No Sky (Oh My My)
MP3: Jaill – “No Mindless Love”

Juan Maclean – DJ Kicks

Make-Up – Save Yourself

Messages – s/t

People of the North – Deep Tissue
MP3: People of the North – “Tunnels”

Total Abuse – Mutt

Rob Walmart – Everybody Hurts

YACHT – Afterlife

Unnatural Helpers – “Girl In The Window” From Cracked Love & Other Drugs, out tomorrow (4/27) on Hardly Art.

The Big Pink – “Crystal Visions” (on For No One TV)

Sabbath Assembly - “Glory Hallelujah” The first several times I listened to Sabbath Assembly, I had absolutely no context for what they were doing, and so I found myself wondering what their angle could be. The record is a mish-mash of gospel and psychedelic rock, and every track is concerned with the Apocalypse and the judgment of God. Some of it is a bit ponderous and grim, but for the most part, they seem to eagerly anticipate this devastation. “Glory Hallelujah,” the most groovy number on the record, welcomes the End of Days with an alarming cheeriness, as two women sing about Armageddon with a wholesome, sweet tone typically reserved for songs about crushes on dreamy boys. I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Were they for real? Did they write this music? Is this an ironic pastiche?

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