{{{Sunset}}} - Bright Blue Dreams (AutoBus) CD $9.75
Listen: Man's Heart Complaint • Gulf of Mexico
Made of awesome: All hail ex-Sound Team/Austin music scene dude Bill Baird’s new, lo-fi haunting. {{{Sunset}}}’s stupendously sweet, gothic-ghost-folk, echoing daydream bong-pop and ambient, quaalude serenity is laced with lullaby chanting and high-lonesome drones. Bright Blue Dreams offers knowing, nodding nods to Warm Jets-era Eno, Syd’s dayglo Pink Floyd, The Beta Band's kitchen-sink psych-mantras and the Kranky Records roster circa 1997. Yum. [more detail]

Ken Stringfellow - The Sellout Cover Sesssions Vol. 1
(Sellout Music-Norway) CD5 $7.50 Listen: Crayon Angels
New this week: An all new five-song EP of covers from Posies founder, esteemed solo artist and Twin Princess kingpin, REM sideman and Big Star reunioneer Ken Stringfellow, recorded at his home outside of Paris. He offers inviting interpretations of songs by or made famous by Judee Sills, Dusty Springfield, The Long Winters, Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn, and Bill Fay. Awesome liner notes by Ken. [more detail]

No Age – Nouns CD $12.50
Lykke Li – Little Bit CDEP $4.00
18th Dye – Amorine Queen CD $16.25
Matmos – Supreme Balloons CD $13.25
Animal Collective – Water Curses CD5 $7.00
16 Horsepower – Live March 2001 DCD $17.00
Kayo Dot – Blue Lambency Downward CD $13.00

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Boris - Smile (Southern Lord) CD $14.00
Listen: Statement
Pink's metallurgical pop is smelted into queasy shoegaze pop and monolithic drone, but fear not noise-devotees: Smile's alien landscape is shadowed with towering thunderheads of gargantuan guitar, elemental electronics, and the siren's wail of surprise vocals, mantric and tantric. From cave-dweller amp-worship to hyperspatial psychedelia, this cosmos wobbles majestically on its starry axis, epic like eternity. [more detail]

Sophia - Technology Won't Save Us (The Flower Shop)
DCD $20.00 Listen: Pace • Bastards (acoustic)
This highly recommended "new" album (originally release in late 2006 in Europe, now finally making it’s way Stateside) finds former God Machine main-man Robin Proper-Sheppard’s Sophia project sailing in trademark orchestral-lushness. Shadowy rock, traumatic pop, darkling folk, mini-symphonies, and then some. Bonus disc is a collection of acoustic versions of six songs from the Sophia canon. [more detail]

Langhorne Slim – Self-Titled CD $15.75
Cloudland Canyon – Lie In Light CD $12.25
Night Marchers – See You In Magic CD $13.75
Constantines – Kensington Heights CD $15.00
Eric Matthews – The Imagine Stage CD $12.75
Frightened Rabbit – Midnight Organ Fight CD $13.25

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Tapes 'N Tapes - Walk It Off (XL) CD $13.25
Listen: Le Ruse • Conquest
Saturday Shift: The latest from Minny trio Tapes 'N Tapes. Yes, there’s a whiff of Modest Mouse and The Pixies, and producer David Fridmann’s deft hand may have overpolished their sound a bit, but damn this is compelling. I am thrilled to find that within these songs resides the elemental and somewhat malevolent spirits of bands like Echo & The Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes. [more detail]

Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
(Rune Grammofon) CD $16.50 On Sale: $15.00
Excerpts: Little Lucid Moments • She Left On the Sun Ship
Jim's Pick: Rock album of the year. Norwegian psych-rock juggernaut Motorpsycho’s 13th album is their most hypnotic and heroic work to date. Four immense tracks in which the lads seed their proto-stoner, prog-supernova jams with guitar odysseys, riff-bombast and seismic traktorbass™. An hour of quality guitar-mesmer, recorded roughshod in late 2007, this is Motorpsycho in epic, zoomrock mode. [more detail] Explore this and other essential Scandinavian rock & pop here.

Thalia Zedek – Liars & Prayers CD $13.75
Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell CD $12.50
Sonic Youth – J'Accuse Ted Hughes 12” $9.50
Flight of the Conchords – Self-Titled CD $14.00
Love – Forever Changes [collector’s edition] DCD $26.00
El Perro del Mar – From the Valley to the Stars CD $13.00
Spectrum meets Captain Memphis – Indian Giver CD $15.25
The Replacements – Let It Be [expanded re-issue] DCD $17.75

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Gazelle - Sunblown (A Hidden Agenda Record)
CD $10.00 On Sale: $9.00 Listen: The First Rays • Jets
New from Parasol Label Group: Gazelle’s debut album is a full dose of electro-rock sensuality from local music scene statesmen: studio wizard Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload) and vocalist Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Ten tracks of overcast, melodic postrock, serenely psychedelic, that recall The Notwist, among others. Features a guest spot by Adam's sister Erin Fein, singer for Headlights. Check out the Sunblown release page for a free mp3.

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea...
(Almost Gold) CD $13.00 Listen: We Are Rockstars
NME calls it "an intergalactic dogfight between primal rock and highly-evolved dance", and that sums up this UK act's incomprehensibly appealing electro-rock-rave-party jams. Think Klaxons, CDOASS, New Young Pony Club, Prodigy, Daft Punk, !!!, and Justice. [more detail]

M83 – Saturdays=Youth CD $14.00
Frank Black – Sv N F Ng Rs CD $10.50
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours CD $11.00
The Photon Band – Back Down to Earth CD $12.50
Sally Shapiro – Remix Romance Vol. One CD $14.00
Constantines & Feist – Islands In the Stream 45 $6.50
The Autumns – Fake Noise from a Box of Toys CD $15.25
Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground CD $14.00

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The Incredible Vickers Brothers - Gallimaufry
(The Bus Stop Label) CD $11.00
Listen: Blues for Frankie Valli • English Rose • Tomorrow
Eccentric debut album from Northern California outfit, features members of Cerebral Corp and The Orange Peels. With lead Peel and producer Allen Clapp, they have concocted a gumbo of ’60s-inspired Brit-rock, Americana and ’80s pop, with a dash of 1920s Vaudeville lunacy. Think Brothers Davies, Everly and Marx. [more detail]

Richard Swift – Richard Swift as Onassis DCD $11.50
For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side CD $12.25
Shout Out Louds – Impossible CD5 $4.75
Tapes N Tapes – Walk It Off CD $13.25
Peter Moren – Last Tycoon CD $12.75
Colin Meloy – Sings Live! CD $12.50
Spoon – Don’t You Evah CD5 $6.25
Foals – Antidote CD $12.50
Clinic – Do It! CD $12.50

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On March 6th, 2008, longtime friend and Hidden Agenda recording artist Tony Carbone of Bikeride passed away from cancer. Tony's unbridled enthusiasm, musically and personally, will be remembered fondly by anyone who came in contact with him. In other words, the dude was made of awesome and will truly be missed. On the Tony Carbone myspace memorial page, friends and family request that donations be made in Tony's honor to The American Melanoma Foundation, details online at the Foundation's website.

Boy Omega - Hope On the Horizon (Acuarela) CD $13.50
Listen: A Quest For Fire • Suffocation Street
Things get a little more ornate and orchestrated when Boy Omega Man Martin Henrik Gustafsson trades in the electronic backing for strings, horns and pianos. While his desperate vocals still recall Conor Oberst and Elliot Smith, this time out the songs are awash in a rootsy Sufjan Stevens-esque grandeur unheard on previous efforts... [more detail]

The Quarter After - Changes Near
(Committee to Keep Music Evil) CD $12.00
Listen: She Revolves • Early Morning Rider
Second album from Neo Paisley Underground kingpins, a timeless collection of effusive West Coast psychedelic pop and rock from the Campanella brothers, Dominic and Rob (a member of The Brian Jonestown Massacre), and featuring guest appearances from Velvet Crush’s Ric Menck, Matthew Sweet and many others. [more detail]

Sun Kil Moon – April CD $14.50
Borko – Celebrating Life CD $15.00
Black Keys – Attack & Release CD $15.25
The Sword – Gods of the Earth CD $13.75
Robyn Hitchcock – Shadow Cat CD $17.75
Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster CD $15.25
Maquiladora – St. Cecilia's Drowning… Revisited DCD $16.00
Apples In Stereo – Electronic Projects for Musicians CD $13.75

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The Second Band - The Definite Form (Orange Grammofon)
CD $14.00 Listen: The Piano Machine • Funeral At Sea
With a sound that has matured from adorable to drop-dead gorgeous in the space of time between releases, their new album is more epic, more rapturous and more assured than ever. The Örebro, Sweden combo’s soulful brass-driven ecstasy is still evident, but this time out, older and wiser, shadowed with a feeling of heartbreak and melancholy that is undeniably Scandinavian. [more detail]

Montys Loco - Farewell Mr. Happy (NONS) CD $15.00
Listen: Heavy • Farewell Mr. Happy
Jim's Pick: An other beautiful and bizarre collection of uncompromising looped and sampled dark-dreamery from this acclaimed Swedish duo. The new songs are deliciously serrated and sprinkled with oldchool industrial flourishes, but of course it's their woozy and winsome vocal aerobatics that stir the spirits and tug at the heartstrings. [more detail]

Doleful Lions - 7 (Parasol) CD $10.00 On Sale: $9.00
Listen: Magic Without Tears • White Lotus Day
New from Parasol Label Group: Doleful Lions return with their seventh album, a new line-up, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen, classic pop sensibilities with an adventurous new sound, sleeker with synths and electronics; exploring further sonic horizons. Check out the 7 release page for more songs & a free mp3.