Rollo & Grady — Hanoi Janes Recommended New Releases – March 30th, 2010 Angus & Julia Stone - Down The Way Label: Nettwerk Angus & Julia Stone – On The Road Black Francis – Nonstoperotik Label: Cooking Vinyl Black Francis – When I Go Down On You Black Ta... more info

KEXP Seattle — How scuzzy do you like your rock? A lot? Good, ’cause you’re in luck. Fans of fuzz, drone, grit, and lo-fi will find plenty to choose from on this week’s list of new releases. Perhaps the newest in the pack is Dum Dum Girls, the all-female proj... more info

Guardian Music — All the news that's fit to linkFan loses patience, writes open letter to "the dick formerly known as Prince" (Via The Musictionary )Ne-Yo in Miami. On a Segway. (Via Celebuzz)Bone Thugs-n-Harmony rapper arrested 12 years after charges relating to a f... more info

DrownedInSound — What is most apparent about I Will Be and the Dum Dum Girls ethos in general is their obvious debt to UK bands of the mid-1980s, namely the likes of The Primitives, The Vaselines, The Shop Assistants and Talulah Gosh... Read the full story on D... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 03-30 Columbus, OH - Cafe Bourbon Street $03-31 Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox $04-01 Poughkeepsie, NY - Vassar College04-03 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg %04-04 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge $04-06 Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe %04-07 Tor... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The music of the Dum Dum Girls has always seemed built for black and white. The music of the Dum Dum Girls has always seemed built for black and white. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The music of the Dum Dum Girls has always seemed built for black and white. Guitars are laced with a vinyl hiss, and vocals go down with an-on-the-rocks stiffness. The band's first single, "Jail La La," has been around a... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — L.A. garage rockers Dum Dum Girls' full-length debut, I Will Be, comes out tomorrow, and we've got the video for I Will Be's "Jail La La" below. In the clip, bandleader Dee Dee gets printed, cuffed, and booked, all of which is interspliced with perfo... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Of all the albums released this week that I have already heard, I Will Be by the Dum Dum Girls is easily my favorite (and also one of the year's standout releases yet). The Living Sisters' Love to Live... more info

Stereogum — There are a number of dusky Shangri-Las and Phil Spector-nodding bands circulating under the “indie rock” banner these days — Dum Dum Girls are the best of the lot. Dee Dee & Co’s excellent Sub Pop debut I Will Be establishes a powerfully ass... more info