Cursive Mama I'm Swollen CD (Saddle Creek) "While history repeats, the present won't repent" sings Tim Kasher on "In The Now," the opening track off Cursive's seventh full-length Mama I'm Swollen. So true. Here is history repeating itself with Kasher's cringe-worthy, emotive, confused, written-on-th...

Neko Case Middle Cyclone CD (Anti-) Headline: Sword-wielding Redhead Disrupts Traffic, Idle Drivers Everywhere Fall in Love Harmonic 313 When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence CD/LP (WARP) Headline: Record Industry Alarmed By Results That Robots Could Make Better Music Than Humans The Monks Early Y...

This week is one hand-packed snowball to the chest compared to the avalanche of releases that plowed us over last week. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand CD (Vice) These Atlanta psychedelic garage punks have played their guitars with their dicks, pissed in each others mouths, and puked on Kelly O. R...

Giddy up, New Music Wranglers. Here's a quick round-up of the highlights being released today, Tuesday, February 17. Beirut - March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland Double EP/2x12" (Ba Da Bing/Pompeii) Beirut's Zach Condon went to Eastern Europe for the Gulag Orkestar and the French countryside...

For the week of Valentine's Day, there are quite a few singles being released. Coincidence? Fever Ray - "If I Had A Heart" 7" single (Mute) Fever Ray is the solo project of The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson. "If I Had A Heart" is the first single from her forthcoming self-titled full-length, set t...

Today, I have a stack of CDs I haven't listened to prior to right now. I might love it, I might hate it. First impressions can be very interesting. Here are some of the new releases for Tuesday, February 3, 2009. P.O.S. - Never Better CD (Rhymesayers) An intricately packaged album that draws attenti...

Last year, I read a fantastic book called The Natural History of the Senses, written by Diane Ackerman. If you haven't read it, you haven't heard, seen, tasted, touched, and smelled. This book radically changed how I perceived everything around me, making me feel fortunate to have all my senses and ...

It's another week teeming with releases. Falling between the cracks this week is the Vampyros Lesbos LP reissue, Cotton Jones, and Dalek's Gutter Tactics. Elsewhere DJ Rupture and The Ex's Andy Moor release Patches, Kylie Minogue gets remixed, and Omar Rodriquez-Lopez tries besting Bob Pollard by pu...

New President. New Records. You will remember this day, politically and artistically, for a very long time. Here are some of the new releases for Tuesday: January 20.* Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light CD/LP (Secretly Canadian) In 2008, you couldn't escape the androgynous, operatic voice of A...

Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel CD/LP (Astralwerks) Late of the Pier is a young, Nottinghamshire, UK-based four-piece, who have been garnering favorable praise over the last year for their amorphous sound conventions that fall somewhere in between Klaxons and Gary Numan's first records with...