Silent Uproar — Bill Callahan will release Dream River on September 17th through Drag City. The label calls the eight-song album "easily the most sensual and soulful of Callahan's career." Stream the experimental track "Expanding Dub" on SoundCloud. [dragcity.com] more info

Consequence of Sound — Plus, see the artwork for Dream River. more info

Consequence of Sound — The follow-up to his excellent 2011 album Apocalypse. more info

Consequence of Sound — Where he'll likely debut new material. more info

The Bay Bridged — The new record from Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, We the Common, comes out on February 5th, 2013 via Ribbon Music, recorded at Tiny Telephone and produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky). Since the ... more info

Guardian Music — (4AD)The boundary-blurring Danes' fourth album filters the graceful, accessible pop of 2010's Magic Chairs through a dark veil of mechanised melancholia. "Help, I'm falling," sings Casper Clausen in opener Hollow Mountain, his tumbling timbre capturi... more info

78s — Auf Schweizer Bühnen ist Bill Callahan ein seltener Gast. Nun bekommt ihn das hiesige Publikum wenigstens auf Leinwand zu sehen. Wir verlosen Tickets für ziemlich exklusive Vorstellungen von “Apocalypse – A Bill Callahan Tour Film”. Wenn scho... more info

Guardian Music — The Midas touch was on display with this week's topicLast week, with a nod to the London 2012 Olympics, we asked you to nominate your favourite songs about gold, with the glittering prize of inclusion in this playlist enough to get the RR faithful su... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Cold Specks is Canadian singer-songwriter Al Spx, who now lives in London. The band's name is taken from a line in James Joyce's Ulysses: "Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil, lights shining in the darkness." Describ... more info

Guardian Music — Be among the first to hear Cold Specks's debut album, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, and tell us what you think in the commentsClick here to read more about Cold SpecksCold Specks is Canadian singer-songwriter Al Spx, who now lives in London. The ba... more info