Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art grabber, performance improvements, and loads o' little tweaks. The killer new feature is a single menu option, u...

Last night I caught this "tweet" from Zadi Diaz, the amazing vlogger behind Epic Fu. I remember my first album (embarrassingly, it was Menudo), but not my first download. Do you? It made me think about how the web and digital music has both opened up music discovery, and yet how we may have lost som...

We told you the punk-ass name of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third album at the end of last month: It's Blitz! now has cover art to call its own. Beyond the packaging, the collection was produced by past collaborators Dave Sitek and Nick Launay and Nick Zinner showed up to the party with a pile of vintage ...

We were told the new Sonic Youth album, their 16th, was going to include black metal-inspired lyrics and "heavy ass weirdo hooks" but nobody let us know about the John Fahey album art: The brilliant finger-picking guitarist and writer's (check out How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life) red, white, a...

Next month hardworking Bergen, Norway prog-punk humorists Ungdomskulen are releasing their sophomore full-length Bisexual. Even if you've only seen and heard Cry-Baby's "Modern Drummer," you'd do well to check out the instantly catchy, psychedelic, cowbell friendly "Idunno," which is streaming at My...

There's more info about the band's forthcoming third album Art Brut Vs. Satan. For instance, as lead talker Eddie Argos posts, the album art was drawn by comic artist Jeff Lemire. Argos also had this to say about the collection at Cooking Vinyl's site: We recorded the album in a punk-as-fuck two wee...

Our announcement yesterday that Green Day's eighth album is forthcoming this spring was met by derision ("green day is a bunch of twats"), responses to said derision ("you AMERICAN IDOTS are just jealous of their awesome talent!"), analysis (too long to quote), nostalgia (ditto), and plain old excit...

From the Kompakt.fm blog. Brazilian electronic artist Gui Boratto has released the track listing and album release date to Take My Breath Away, the follow up to the super underrated Chromophobia. Electronic music fans, rejoice! And don't let this album slip by unnoticed. Take My Breath Away and it's...

When posting about the the Golden Filter's remix of "Lay It Down," I surmised that through that song's "shut the fuck up boy" and "Nothing To Worry About"'s warped take on Justice kids choruses, it felt like Peter Bjorn & John were looking for Living Thing to push them past the sunniness of "Young F...

A.C. Newman is about to release his second solo album Get Guilty , which means it's just about time for fellow multi-tasking New Pornographer Neko Case to (try to) show (him) up with her own extracurricular record. Middle Cyclone is her first collection of new material in three years (following 2006...