Guardian Music — The Walkmen, Mona, On tourMona are a Nashville band that ask you to imagine what the Kings Of Leon might be like if they dropped all their wilful strangeness and actually tried to make it. Not that Mona are ashamed of this. Looking like a mix of Clas... more info

Guardian Music — (DFA/Parlophone)London Sessions is not a live album, exactly, but a live set recorded as though John Peel were still around to enthuse gruffly at its end. Without the distraction of an audience baying at the allotted intervals, LCD are free to pulsat... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Gumshoe said... Mourn with Gumshoe on the many untimely deaths of 2010, Leslie Nielson, Jimmy Dean, Captain Beefheart, J.D. Salinger and many others among them. LISTEN. Learn. http://gumshoegrove.com Walker said... Bjork- Unplugged (1994) @ 320 Than... more info

XLR8R — DFA seems to have a lot going on while it finishes out the year. Yesterday, the massive NYC music hub sent over the brand-new video for The Crystal Ark's "The City Never Sleeps" single, and today we got word of a few goings on with James Murphy ... more info

Impose Magazine — Continuing the day's meme of just throwing a bunch of successful artists into a Ronco Chop-O-Matic (New & Improved!) to produce a hot single, we give you The Hood Internet's "Just Wanna Dance Yrself Clean." Lest we ever forget Hov & Pharrell's decade... more info

Guardian Music — (Family Edition)If you could pay the greatest compliment to Brooklyn duo Tanlines it might be that their arty, tropical disco could fit perfectly into the bit in Talking Heads's Stop Making Sense between David Bryne leaving the stage to get his "big ... more info

411 Mania — As James Murphy prepares to call time on his most loved incarnation, tonight's sold out stint at Alexandra Palace has the distinct feeling of a victory lap. more info

KEXP Seattle — After originally stating that This Is Happening would be LCD Soundsystem’s last album, James Murphy has lately been making it seem like the band’s status going into the future is more up in the air than he originally led people to believe. I gues... more info

Guardian Music — Songs set at dawn – they'd be full of sun-dappled reawakenings and hope for a new day, right? Wrong – it's mostly just a load of drunk people who haven't been to bed yetWhen coming up with this week's theme, I had it in my head that a trawl throu... more info

XLR8R — Next week, on November 9, James Murphy and the cast of his LCD Soundsystem band will release a "John Peel session style" album for digital download, called The London Sessions. The nine-song, live-in-the-studio record features renditions of a handful... more info