Here Comes The Flood — R. Sell, the Miami DIY musician operating as The Atlantic Manor, has done it again. His new album The World Beneath This World Is Brightening has some traces of optimism when compared to his 2009 album Slow Drugs and Other Sorrows. After kicking wi... more info

MTV.com News — Here's a little of what you can expect from the latest offering from Damon Albarn and crew.By James Montgomery Gorillaz Photo: EMI Music / Jamie Hewlett Much like Lazarus, Superman and, uh, Sayid from "Lost," Gorillaz are back from the dea... more info

Destination Out — SIDE TWO The Revolutionary Ensemble Manhattan Cycles India Navigation : 1973 Leroy Jenkins, violin, viola; Sirone, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums, percussion, flute, bugle, metal hoops, tape recorder. “Feel the wrath of my bombast!” said Mark E. Smit... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I'm conciosus that more people have discovered TVV over the past 12 months or so than ever before, and it's a very fair bet that not many go back too far in the archives, especially as the mp3s attached to the writing have long been made unavailable... more info

Rollo & Grady — The new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, is set for a March 9th release. Guests include Lou Reed, Mark E. Smith, Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, Gruff Rhys, and Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of the Clash. You can stream the new single “Stylo” featuring Mos D... more info

Stereogum — New Yorker Alec Feld gives us some more of this chilled-psych bedroom thing, but adds a nice bit of post-punk grit to "Living Scene" via repetitious vocal taunts that escalate toward the end. Kinda like Mark E. Smith busting in on a Washed Out sessio... more info

Idolator — The latest merchandising screw-up worth a giggle comes from the UK, where a pressing of the new album by Britain's Got Talent winner Faryl Smith—a 13-year-old opera singer who even Simon Cowell likes (I can already hear the "you're only 13!" echoes... more info

The Music Fix — News: Infamous 60s garage outfit [b]The Monks[/b] ready two CDs-worth of material in advance of the 13 April release. "There are very few records I go back to constantly, CAN's Monster Movie and the Monks' Black Monk Time." - Mark E. Smith, The Fall... more info