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In just over one week, 23-year old Claire Boucher, aka Grimes , will be releasing her brand new LP Visions, and since giving away two tracks, "Oblivion" and "Genesis," wasn't nice enough, the Vancouver turned Montreal artist has made her entire album available to stream via NPR . With a mesmerizing blend of electro and psychedelic influences, and an often dark and brooding direction, there is no doubt that Visions will be one of the most interesting and inventive albums of the year. Give the album a listen below. Visions [...]

Napalm Death has been on a decade-plus streak of strong if not spectacular albums: Enemy of the Music Business , Smear Campaign and Time Waits For No Slave among them. That doesn't mean there weren't jitters before they started writing their 14th studio album, Utilitarian . "You always wonder if this is going to be the one where I'm going to get writer's block and not be able to do anything," vocalist Barney Greenway said from England recently. Napalm started recording Utilitarian – named after the John Stuart Mill philosophy [...]

Since the announcement of their fourth studio album A Sleep & A Forgetting last October, Montreal indie rock outfit Islands have been slowly trickling out new samples to tease fans. Nick Thorburn and co. gave us " This Is Not A Song " in December, and last month they let loose " Hallways ." Now, the band has made the entirety of A Sleep & A Forgetting available to stream via the ANTI- SoundCloud . Give the album a listen below.

Just yesterday, Brian Lindgren, better known by his stage name Mux Mool , released his highly anticipate sophomore album Planet High School , a ten-song album that employs the artist's hip hop instrumentation to the highest degree. The album sees Mux Mool deploying hip hop drum beats with overtones of excellent looping, synthesized goodness, and chopped up and disparate vocals. Courtesy of The Fader , the entire album is available to stream in its entirety below. Planet High School is available now digitally, with a physical release date set for March 6th.

On February 14th, Australian turn New York City group Young Magic will be releasing their debut studio album Melt , and in anticipation of the upcoming release the group has premiered a stream of the album on The Hype Machine. Below, you can listen to the entirety of the group's genre bending debut. Melt is out on February 14th vai Carpark.

Skeptic Goodbye is the first recording project from Massachusetts band You Won't . The band's clever songs touch on universal themes like time, movement, and pop culture- making references to Back To The Future, 802s fashion, and the idea of the "American Dream" to tie their listeners to the songs and give them replay value. More than that, though, the songs are statements about today's ideals; set to music through melody, drumline percussion, clapping, and acoustic guitar. "It's just an illusion babe" sings vocalist Josh Arndouse (who's voice draws references to both Bob Dylan [...]

. . . Cannibal Corpse were writing songs for their twelfth album last spring when guitarist Pat O'Brien got the call of a lifetime: come play for Slayer. O'Brien had written several songs for the upcoming album Torture , but his bandmates weren't about to hold him back. "It happened right in the middle of writing," drummer and founding member Paul Mazurkiewicz said recently. "The first two songs were Pat's songs. He has four songs on the record and got the call [from Slayer] in April. We were in the thick of writing, but we [...]

The new Tennis Bafra album "Abulia jubilee" , now streaming in full via SoundCloud.

Next month, Brooklyn rock trio Mr. Dream will be releasing a brand new EP titled Fatherland , the follow up to the band's debut album Trash Hit , which was released in March of last year. Premiering on Stereogum were two of the EPs seven tracks, titled "What A Mess" and "The Room," both of which are available to stream below. Following the release of the EP, the trio will be touring across North America alongside Cloud Nothings, with a final show at this year's SXSW. You can take a [...]

Next week, A Place To Bury Strangers will be releasing a brand new EP titled Onwards to the Wall , their first release in over three years. The five-track EP has been made available to stream in its entirety courtesy of The Hype Machine , so give it a listen below. Onwards to the Wall is out on February 7th via Secretly Canadian.

The Careful Ones are a relatively new indie/folk band from Lakeland Florida that has been attracting attention with their soulful melodies and ambient tones. The music is driven by acoustic guitars, heavy vocal harmonies, and light percussion (guitar slapping, stomping, heavy strumming, occasional bass hits). The lyrics are introspective and presented in a voice that's somewhere between Bahamas and Sleeping At Last . Their debut Moths, Flames, Etc. is a lonesome collection of well written songs, with each instrument focusing on what's best for the music rather than how [...]

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photo by Sam Holden In the time that's elapsed since his last solo record, Mark Lanegan has been busy. He's collaborated with Isobel Campbell , joined Greg Dulli in The Gutter Twins , guested on albums by Queens of the Stone Age , Twilight Singers and UNKLE , and sang most of the tracks on the last two Soulsavers LPs. In fact, he's never stopped since he began in his first band, seminal Northwest "grunge" rockers Screaming Trees (though if you were a fan, [...]

Down Title s TBC Roadrunner Records ETA Summer 2012 What They're Saying Well, it's a bit of a cheat to call this an "album preview" - as what Down have got slated for release in 2012 isn't an album, but the first in a series of four EPs. The band have set [...]

To celebrate the release of their debut studio album Be Strong , The 2 Bears , consisting of Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and U.K. DJ Raf Daddy, have made the entirety of the LP available to stream via Soundcloud . As well, the duo have made the St. Etienne remix of their lead single "Work," which is included on the deluxe edition of Be Strong , available to stream and download. Be Strong is out today, and is available to purchase on both iTunes and Amazon . [...]

Marilyn Manson Born Villain Hell, etc Records ETA June 2012 What They're Saying Other than announcing the album with a silly little video , Manson and co have actually kept rather quiet over the last few months ( who knows - maybe he took our advice? ), but Manson was characteristically verbose in describing [...]

Coheed and Cambria TBC Roadrunner Records ETA Summer 2012 What they're saying: Things have been looking on the topsy side of turvy in the Coheed and Cambria camp recently - and it's not just because Claudio Sanchez's hair is still beyond ridiculous. 2011 saw the band lose two members - bassist, Michael [...]

When making an album, recording live is the musical equivalent of doing your crossword puzzle in pen. It's risky. If one member of the band falters or delivers a performance that's less than stellar- it shows through in the playback and you pretty much have to record the whole song over. There are very few opportunities to "punch in" where you left off in this kind of recording environment. Because of that, engineers often steer bands away from live recording. When it's done right, though, it's gold. The Album becomes a testament to a moment, an honest feel for the bands [...]

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Tool Title TBC Volcano Entertainment ETA May 2012 What they're saying: It's been six long years since Tool released the Grammy Award-winning 10,000 Days , which means proggers, grungers and metallers all around the world are currently dribbling over the prospect of a new record approaching from the famously-reclusive quartet. Which is why there was plenty of surprise back in May 2011 when a bizarre message appeared on Tool's website , that happened to contain at [...]

of Montreal is back with a brand new LP titled Paralytic Stalks , which is set to drop on February 7th via Polyvinyl. Their eleventh studio album is now available to stream in its entirety above, courtesy of SPIN.com . As well, after the jump, you can take a look at the tracklisting for Paralytic Stalks along with the band's upcoming 2012 tour dates .

One Minute Silence Live In The Studio Self-Released via PledgeMusic ETA Spring 2012 What They're Saying: When word leaked out back in 2010 that One Minute Silence had reformed ( albeit minus original drummer Eddie Stratton, who's coeliac disease and subsequent medical-marijuana related legal issues ruled out ), we weren't sure what to think. For the young 'uns among you, One Minute Silence were something of A Big Deal back around the turn of the millenium. They were big enough [...]