It's a blockbuster week for new albums and the singles from those albums. Anticipated record releases from The Raveonettes, The xx, St. Vincent & David Byrne are some of the highlights of this week's new releases. There are also new albums by Thee Oh Sees, Turbo Fruits, Seapony, Calexico, Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter (Universal) O que um carpinteiro faz (além aparecer em várias histórias)? Ele pega a rusticidade da madeira e talha, esculpe, modela, e com um toque de verniz, arredonda as pontas, retira as farpas e faz da madeira um produto final, domado. Nesse caso, o carpinteiro dos irmãos Avett é definitivamente o produtor lendário Rick Rubin , que fez de The Carpenter o álbum mais suave, confortável e acessível do grupo de "indie-bluegrass". Mas essa aparência domada não é um ponto negativo em si, [...]
You guys, there are just...a million awesome releases today. Seriously, there are a million - so many that we really had to edit this baby down to just our favorites. Let's just jump right in, so you can start your listening. She Owns the Streets - The Raveonettes // Buy Observations - The Raveonettes // Buy I first started listening to The Raveonettes (@theraveonettes) with their 2007 LP, Lust [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including new stuff from The Raveonettes , Seapony , The Vaccines , David Byrne and St. Vincent , and the highly anticipated sophomore effort from The xx . As always, be sure to visit Largehearted Boy [...]

It's a mind-blowing list of new releases on perhaps the biggest release date of the year, so let's get started. You're going to need all the time you can get to pick these up. First up, the long-awaited second album by The xx is potentially KEXP listeners' album of the year. While it's but one of a number of hotly anticipated this year - others come from Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Grizzly Bear - The xx strip down their sound to a sultry murmur, like a whisper in your ear. Oliver Sims and Romy Madley-Croft never sounded [...]

The xx - Coexist The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant The Raveonettes - Observator WWTB This is the week of releases I’ve been waiting on for a while. The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter ( buy the CD / buy the MP3s ) David Byrne & St Vincent - [...]
Here are a few MP3s of songs from some of the better albums released this week: David Byrne & St. Vincent – “Who” from Love This Giant Neil Halstead – “Digging Shelters” from Palindrome Hunches The Helio Sequence – “October”...
You know summer is well and truly over when the humidity recedes, the days start getting shorter and the big album releases start coming thick and fast. Yep, it's almost time for the September rush, and this year the crop is particularly good — so much so, in fact, that we've expanded our usual round-up of 10 albums you need to hear in the month to come to a bumper list of 15. As ever, we've also rounded up the rest of the month's notable releases: the good, the bad, and the ugly. So tell us: what are you looking [...]
You know summer is well and truly over when the humidity recedes, the days start getting shorter and the big album releases start coming thick and fast. Yep, it's almost time for the September rush, and this year the crop is particularly good — so much so, in fact, that we've expanded our usual round-up of 10 albums you need to hear in the month to come to a bumper list of 15. As ever, we've also rounded up the rest of the month's notable releases: the good, the bad, and the ugly. So tell us: what are you looking [...]
Love This Giant is the new collaborative LP from David Byrne & St. Vincent, due out September 11 on 4AD/Todo Mundo. Following the release, the duo is kicking off a 24-date tour across North America ... The Raveonettes are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year by releasing a new album, Observator, on September 11 via [...]