LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: All Smiles: free and legal The Comparison Blouse EP (click "free demos") [mp3] other All Smiles posts at Largehearted Boy Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "Death to Everyone" [mp3] from Funtown Comedown (out December 15th)... more info

Guardian Music — I have often tried to work out whether Will Oldham reminds me more of white breath on a cold day or the sound of crickets on a hot nightThere are some songs that are barely songs at all, that are barely more than cuckoo-spit. It's not about their len... more info

Guardian Music — A series of oblique angles on the past musical decade, beginning with how an entire generation of hipsters wore their musical preferences on their facesStanding on a subway platform waiting for the L train, I saw a group of young men with that slight... more info

Guardian Music — (Fat Possum)Louisiana boy Auguste Arthur Bondy served his rock'n'roll dues in 1990s alt-rock nearly-weres Verbena, before turning to a more sedate, rural sound for his solo work, arriving at this second album after a recuperative move to the wilds of... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I've not been feeling well this week - not one bit. Everyone around me has been getting sick (just that time of the year?) and my immune system has been working in overdrive - so here's to hoping I avoid that pesky swine sickness ravaging the popula... more info

Culture Bully — Music video for "How About Thank You" by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy from the Chijimi 10". more info

Hypeful — Having already released one of Hypeful's favorite albums from the first half of '09, London-based Fanfarlo have managed to keep themselves busy recording a series of covers in one of the band member's living rooms. For the first of their self-dubbed ... more info

All About Jazz — By: Ron Hart Tortoise It's been five years since Chicago's intrepid instrumentalists Tortoise released new material, but that hasn't slowed fan appreciation or band reflection. Following 2004's It's All Around You, Tortoise released The Brave and ... more info

Stereogum — In the Mike Aho-directed video for "How About Thank You," the opening song from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Chijimi 10", we follow two young boys in split screen preparing for a stand-off: One plays a guitar, one a Rubik's Cube. They both fiddle. Afte... more info

JamBase — Why? To Release New Album Eskimo Snow Why? A year and a half after releasing the acclaimed LP Alopecia, Why? returns with their fourth album, Eskimo Snow (out September 22). The two records are each other's perfect foil: while last year's rel... more info