out this week...

The Good, The Bad & The Queen: The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Damon Albarn’s is back with his best release since 1997’s Blur.

Northern Whale
The Good, The Bad & The Queen [wicked-cool song]

buy The Good, The Bad & The Queen here


Dustin Kensrue: Please Come Home
A surprisingly great solo record by Thrice’s frontman.

Pistol [wicked-cool song]
Blood & Wine [wicked-cool song]

buy Please Come Home here


The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
Just what everyone would expect from The Shins... Wincing the Night Away is another fine indie pop record.

Phantom Limb [wicked-cool song]
Split Needles

buy Wincing the Night Away here


Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Weirdly poppy and enjoyable.

Suffer for Fashion [wicked-cool song]

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a very clever and original concept for a music video

Current TV and The Shins teamed up and created the first-ever fan-generated rockumentary, "All Eyes On The Shins". Watch part I The Performance Of "Phantom Limb" below.

a short story: wincing the night away

The Shins are back with a new single, "Phantom Limb". Oh, how I missed The Shins! This sparkling new song is definitely a great preview for Wincing the Night Away, their first album in four long years, which comes out on January 23, 2007!!!

Phantom Limb [wicked-cool song]

Phantom Limb Single is out this Tuesday, you can preorder it here.

Now, let me tell you all a little story entitled Wincing the Night Away:
Sometimes when I can’t fall asleep, I wished there were "Sleeping Lessons" I could take in school. Then I think, maybe those lessons exist in "Australia", and they’d be taught by a lovely lady named "Pam Berry". I could totally travel to Australia from Toronto by water if I had "Sea Legs". I would bring all nine of my "Red Rabbits" with me; however, with the unpredictable sea environments, they might "Turn On Me" and eat me alive! So I decided to walk across the ocean alone. I encountered a gigantically ugly "Black Wave", it hit me like "Spilt Needles"... whatever those are. Luckily, a "Girl Sailor" saved me as "A Comet Appears" in the beautiful ocean sky.

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