Bear Suit - OH:IO CD $11.50
Excepter - Debt Dept CD $14.25
Elf Power - In A Cave CD $15.00
Under Byen - Siamesisk CD $9.50
The Julie Mittens - Self-Titled CD $14.25
13 Ghosts - Strangest Colored Lights CD $15.00
Voyager One - Afterhours In the Afterlife CD $11.50
Thee Silver Mt Zion Orch - 13 Blues For 13 Moons CD $15.25

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DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti) CD $14.75
Listen: Along the Way • Transliterator
Denver act DeVotchKa’s latest masterpiece is full of worldly and otherworldly folk-rock majesties, cinematic serenades informed by gypsy campfires, somber mariachi and high-lonesome spaghetti westerns. Think Calexico meets Nicolai Dunger meets Antony & The Johnsons meets Gogol Bordello. [more detail]

Paper - An Object (Novoton) CD $13.00
Listen: Out Of It, Into It • To Her
Jim's Pick: New, debut album from Swedish motorik-punk troika featuring members of Bear Quartet, Paddington DC and Audionom. Think early Wire meets Neu! meets Joy Division: dark, skeletal, propulsive. Fans of The BQ’s recent electronic efforts, Audionom’s hypnotic avant-punk, and PDC’s zoom-pop will be spellbound. [more detail] Check out more great Nordic Rock...

She & Him – Volume One CD $13.25
Juniper Tar – To the Trees CD $10.00
F::ck Buttons – Street Horrrsing CD $14.25
Destroyer – Trouble In Dreams CD $13.25
Retribution Gospel Choir - Self-Titled CD $11.50
Big Dipper – Supercluster: Anthology 3CD $15.00
Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls &... [re-issue] DCD $15.50

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Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time - Runout Groove
(Bogus Frontage) CD $16.25 Listen: Driving Somewhere
Highly recommended new import-only album from esteemed UK songsmith Stephen Duffy and his Lilac Time, featuring brother Nic, pedal steel genius Melvin Duffy, British folk legend Danny Thompson and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Claire Worrall. Fans of John Cunningham and The Beatles’ solo albums will be chuffed. [more detail]

Black Cab - Surrender EP (Interstate 40) CD5 $7.50
Listen: Surrender 2007
New 7-track remix/live EP from Aussie electro-psych-rock duo, featuring 2 songs from Jesus East in manifold remix variations, along with epic live versions of "Surrender" and "Hearts On Fire". Black Cab's CDs, Altamont Diary and Jesus East are available at a great price.

Madrugada - Self-Titled (Malabar/EMI Norway)
CD $30.00 On Sale: $25.00 Listen: Look Away Lucifer
Madrugada’s impassioned blues-rock is even more charged and heartbreaking than ever after the untimely death of Madrugada guitarist (and My Midnight Creeps frontman) Robert Burås last year. Taking the songs that Robert had completed, and recruiting guitarists like Kid Congo Powers (Bad Seeds, Gun Club) and Emil Nicolaisen (Serena Maneesh) to flesh things out, Madrugada offer this album as testament to their lost brother. [more detail] Check out more great Nordic Rock...

Why? – Alopecia CD $15.25
Panther – 14 kt God CD $13.00
Evangelista – Hello, Voyager CD $14.25
The LK – The LK vs. The Snow CD $11.00
Auburn Lull – Begin Civil Twilight CD $12.25
Howlin’ Rain – Magnificent Friend CD $12.25
Matthew Dear – Asa Breed: Black Edition CD $10.25

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Brent Cash - How Will I Know If I'm Awake (Marina)
CD $16.25 Listen: Digging the Fault Line
Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the 60s the sweeping, the multi-dimensional orch-pop-exotica that inhabits Athens, Georgia songsmith Brent Cash’s debut album immediately brings to mind a few familiar names…like June & The Exit Wounds, Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror, and Allen Clapp’s Orange Peels. [more detail]

Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP (Sub Pop) CD $5.00
Listen: Drops In the River
Chorale-baroque-pop with loads of cathedral harmony and folksy strumming, gets a little retro-shaggy when they start rockin’ out but mostly a serene gorgeousness reigns supreme. Think CSN&Y rehearsing in an missle silo; from the Band of Horses/My Morning Jacket school of uncommonly good reverb hymnals. [more detail]

Ladyhawk – Shots CD $11.50
Valet – Naked Acid CD $11.25
Bauhaus – Go Away White CD $15.00
Gutter Twins – Saturnalia CD $12.50
Earth – Bees Made Honey In the Lion’s Skull CD $14.00
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash CD $13.50

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Common Loon - Dinosaur vs. Early Man (Ideal Utopia)
45 $4.50 Listen: Dinosaur vs. Early Man
Local heroes: Blending classic West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush lushness and an otherworldly hi-fi-ness, local dream-rock duo Common Loon explodes pink-noise-pop for Sebadoh, Space Needle, Spiritualized, and Spacemen 3 fans. Comes with a digital download ticket, so you can have it both ways.

The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice) CD $14.00
Listen: Hallucinations
Harkening back to the sensually Spectorian, Psychocandy-esque glam-garage-sleaziness of their first two albums, Copenhagen’s finest have resurrected "that great love sound", and delivered what is easily the best front-to-back album (and best album cover) of their career; as AMG said: "nastier, prettier and better than ever". [more detail]

Beach House – Devotion CD $14.25
Orwell – Le Génie Humain CD $14.00
Goldfrappe – Seventh Tree CD $16.00
The Bridal Shop – From Seas CD $11.00
American Music Club – The Golden Age CD $14.00
Apples In Stereo – Fun Trick Noisemaker [re-issue] CD $14.25

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Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping (Polyvinyl)
CD $12.00 Listen: Cherry Tulips
Local heroes: Headlights' second album will appear on a lot of Best Of lists this year, promise! Based around acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation, this record combines the pop sensibilities of previous efforts with a more restrained approach to songcraft that results in a clearer, concise musical vision. [more detail]

Growing– Lateral CD5 $7.50
Mountain Goats– Heretic Pride CD $13.25
Bob Mould- District Line CD $15.50
Bon Iver– For Emma, Forever Ago CD $11.50
Raveonettes– Lust Lust Lust CD $14.00
Throw Me The Statue - Moonbeams CD $11.50

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Big Fresh - BFF: Big Fresh Forever (Garden Gate)
CD $12.00 Listen: WLUV • Losing Friends to War
Championed by Elephant 6 founder and Apples In Stereo frontman Robert Schneider (who also mastered the album) veteran Lexington KY avant-pop combo Big Fresh are preternaturally fun! Features members of The Apples, Ulysses, Joybombs and Deek Hoi. Cheer-inducing indie-guitar odes, dancefloor-friendly pop ditties and effervescing ambient interludes; an orch-pop marvel 7 years in the making! [more detail]

Carrots – Anthology CD $13.50
Antietam – Opus Mixtum DCD $12.00
Metric - Live at Metropolis DVD $14.50
Robert Pollard – Superman Was a Rocker CD $10.00
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? CD $15.25
Wild Swans - Bringing Home the Ashes [re-issue] CD $16.75

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Dead Meadow - Old Growth (Matador) CD $13.25
Listen: I'm Gone • What Needs Must Be
From sleestak-stoner rock to Lovecraft-ian space-folk Dead Meadow’s latest eschews the knob-that-goes-to-11 gigantism of their earlier output in favor of meandering, melodic but still intrisincally heavy songs. Tripsy, worldly psych-rock and frondy folkloric pop. [more detail]

Bonnie Prince Billy - Wilding in the West (P-Vine/Spunk)
CD $16.25
New live album from Thee Bonnie Prince, recorded in Cali in 2007 and featuring Billy's band, his bro Paul and Dawn McCarthy. The album was recorded by Paul and features three new songs co-written with Neil Michael Hagerty. Please note: We will be interchanging the Australian and Japanese versions of this release to fill your orders. [more detail]

Nada Surf – Lucky CD $13.00
Bob Mould – District Line CD $15.50
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark CD $15.25
Sons & Daughters – This Gift CD $13.00
Kelly Stoltz – Circular Sounds CD $13.00
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Jesse James OST CD $15.25

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Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars) CD $13.00
Listen: I Do What I Want, When I Want
The latest encapsulation of Xiu Xiu’s prescription-only art-pop alternately strains, soothes and stimulates vulnerable nerve clusters (ear, throat, heart, groin, etc). Women As Lovers is to be taken aurally. Depending on your dosage this therapy may evoke euphoria, arousal, and heartache. Serious side-effects can include fugue, consternation, and rending of clothing. Your results may vary. [more detail]

Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop) CD $12.00
Listen: Keep Your Eyes Ahead • Lately
Sweet, supple, otherworldly pop from Portland duo Brandon and Benjamin. This time out it’s a bit more folksy, but not straying to far from their trademark gushing guitar geysers and saturated synths, martial rhythms and alternately looming and zooming grooves. Beyond earnest vocals really set the tone. [more detail]

Biirdie - Catherine Avenue (Love Minus Zero) CD $11.00
Listen: L.A. Is Mars • Him • Estelle
Lovable Los Angelino trio do right by their climate, playing to their strengths of "sunny" and "warm" and "blue skies" like nobody's business. Well, except for the Elephant 6 Collective, who Biirdie gets compared to alot. There's also a loamy, leafy 1970s Laurel Canyon reverberation, when their indie-pop-metro goes all cosmic-country-retro; a melancholy trip. [more detail]

Cameron McGill & What Army - Hold On Beauty (Post-Important)
CD $10.00 Listen: She's A Killer • Stranger's Art
Local hero and current Chicagoan Cameron McGill’s third album finds his trademark folksy songcraft gone all orchestral and impressionistic, soulful guitar-pop and rock songs fleshed out with a full band and laced with paisley psychedelia. Comparisons include Bowie and two generations of Buckleys, Wilco and Ed Harcourt. His band What Army features Noah Harris of Elanors and a former member of The 1900s, among others. [more detail]