Short roundup, but some big titles today! Let’s not waste any time, because today, we have… The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Belong – FINALLY. FINALLY. FINALLY. FINALLY.

Hey all! A clutch of new releases — including brand-new Duran Duran, eccentric French art-poppers GaBLe, killer Benin funk, and more — below the jump. Join us!

Got some good stuff today so I’m just going to jump right in! (Also check out the records Jayson called out yesterday) The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar — Our own Kevin O’Donnell says: If Courtney Love went to etiquette class and got guitar lessons from My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, her resulting band would [...]

Hey all…it’s a lightish week, but here are a handful of things International subscribers might be interested in checking out. The Dodos, No Color – The hyperactive folk-rock boys of The Dodos trimmed their delightfully short fuses at the wick with their last record, which resulted in the somewhat mannered and overly polite record Time [...]

Get it here It’s almost spring. Or rather, it is the first fake-out day of the long, grueling duck-and-feint that NYC does with spring. The first day this happens, “Spring music” pipes hopefully out of office speakers, like you could call it in quicker by playing its soundtrack. And, well, there is simply no better [...]

Get it here Cruel Sister, a half-hour instrumental suite by Bang On A Can co-founder Julia Wolfe, is a cheery little number about jealousy, sororicide, and harps made from human bone. The grim story behind the music comes from an ancient English ballad of the same name: two sisters — one “bright as the sun” [...]

OK, first things first. We know there’s a bunch of stuff that’s supposed to have shown up today that hasn’t. We are looking into it as we speak, and hopefully we’ll have that remedied soon. In the meantime, we’ve still got a host of new releases to keep you occupied. I break them down after [...]

Whoa!  Alright.  First off, Hi, my name is Ilya.  You might’ve seen me commenting around these parts frequently and infrequently. Today eMusic receives a good chunk of Jackie Wilson’s stellar discography from the seminal Brunswick label.  If you’re new to Jackie’s passionate wailing and heart-wrenching performances it’s always best to start with this collection. Otherwise, [...]

It’s been a minute since our last round of Selects (with the amazing Strand of Oaks and Family Band), and I’m insanely excited to announce the latest addition to our roster: Brooklyn-by-way-of-Tel Aviv’s Pink Noise. I first saw this band play in Brooklyn a little more than a year ago and they blew me away. [...]

Not a whole lot today! (But I can promise that next week’s new arrivals post will be enormous.) Here we go!

Apologies for this not being as epic as Joe’s New Arrivals post last week! This week is a bit slow, but we’ve still got some really exciting records that hit the site today, so let’s get started.

Hey! New records rundown time! If it seems like I haven’t had a chance to hear a lot of these yet, it’s because…yeah, I actually haven’t had a chance to hear a lot of these yet! I’ve been out of commission for a bit, and am just now feeling as if I have catching back [...]

Andreya Triana is unenthused by your Heineken Some nice new stuff this week! Live Mogwai, promising new neo-soul, and oh yeah, NEW SUFJAN!!!!***AIRHORN**** Let’s get started with… Mogwai, Special Moves – The legendary post-rockers release the first document of their much-ballyhooed, powerful live show. Here’s Ian Gittins: With their intricate, nuance-heavy instrumentation, powerhouse riffs and [...]

Hello all! This week is light on big names, but there are a few great things we should talk about. Starting off with: Skream, Outside the Box – One of dubstep’s leading lights pushes the genre forward in about ten zillion new directions! Andy Battaglia writes: Outside the Box takes bits of Skream’s past activity [...]

Happy Suburbs Day, everyone! I don’t really need to tell you about the today’s biggest release, right? No? Good, because Joe has plenty to say about it: It says something that a band who ended their last record looking for “a place where no cars go” have arrived at the exact opposite. There’s even a [...]

Hold still, dammit Today’s New Arrivals herald the arrivals of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings catalog in the UK and the EU. Joe already ran down these records when they hit the site in the US, but I would feel personally remiss if I didn’t pitch in my own enthusiastic/under-informed two cents. From the still-underrated, [...]

Every Tuesday, the mix is fairly predictable: a number of long-anticipated new arrivals and a smattering of cool surprises. Today, however, we’ve got the reverse: there are a smattering of known quantities, and a whole barrage of under-the-radar stuff that sounds extremely promising. We’ll do the big stuff up here, the small stuff after the [...]

Big new titles today in the UK and EU! The most divisive MIA record ever, School of Seven Bells, the return of Martina Topley-Bird, mother-and-daughter folk from Eliza Carthy and her mom Norma Waterston, and tons more. Let’s start with: MIA, /\/\ /\ Y /\ – MIA is the kind of pop figure who doesn’t [...]

It’s a light week for new records in the UK.. But even on a light week, there are surprises. In the absence of marquee names, we get some promising up-and-comers. Here’s a look: Mystery Jets, Serotonin – South Londoners return sounding more confident. Craig McLean writes: Serotonin, true to its name, delivers a straight rush [...]

Hey guys! Welcome to the new week in music. Here’s a rundown of some of the most exciting and interesting things that hit the UK site today. Various Artists, Soundway Presents: The World Ends – Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria – Incredible. Seriously, just incredible. Soundways have long been one of our favorite [...]