Big Stereo — Spain’s Cut Your Hair has arrived. Their new single “Utah in Pictures” is absolutely brilliant and adorable, indie pop at its finest. Just signed to Delorean’s ‘Mushroom Pillow’ label these cute and bouncy Catalan boys are bound to go pla... more info

Impose Magazine — There was a time when oh so many a college bands sounded like haphazard and pubescent aspirations of fusing Pavement, The Dismemberment Plan and maybe The Decemberists, or some other relevant timely influence of the early Aughts (how about The Shins?... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Garage rockers Damn Vandals have released a new EP. The Beautiful Mind is filled with four raw borderline glam rock songs. The London band is still quite fond of old school echo, giving their songs a Seventies swagger that never gets old. Stand-... more info

Stereogum — On 8/12/90, Pavement played their second show of all time at the Hoboken, New Jersey club Maxwell’s. And through the magic of the internet, a tape recording of that show has now appeared on our computers. The 36-minute audio clip features early ver... more info

Guardian Music — The runt of Blur's litter turns out to be a sturdy beast when you look more closely – Shed Seven could never have done itYou can see why Country House winds people up. Thanks to the 1995 chart battle with Oasis's lumpen Roll With It, it was release... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Canadian brothers Benedikt and Tobias MacIsaac are Rooftop Runners. Currently living in Berlin their new EP We Are Here is a soft-spoken journey through dark pop with a dose of trip-hop. The brother's voice blend seamlessly, taking off the edge ... more info

DrownedInSound — The four brothers Staszkiewicz draw upon an A-Z of '90s alterna-rock and grunge-pop, taking in everyone from fallen teenage nearlymen Symposium, Noise Addict and Radish, to the big hitters like Weezer, Redd Kross and Pavement along the way. On one ha... more info

Impose Magazine — The 7-inch about to be released by Stockholm's Hhappiness on French label Almost Musique is in a printed sleeve slathered with a Pucci-eque pattern, a traditional marker of extreme psychedelia. But the band's sound is not the '60s Seeds-e... more info

Powerpopulist — Here's one from the primo L.A. poppers' forthcoming 16-song live album, Beach Town Confidential, due out on 7 February on Alive Records. We're especially enjoying the persistent guitar's happy hook diddling our left ear. You? Click that down arrow to... more info

Stereogum — An important thing to remember about the Guided By Voices reunion: They were the weird old guys in the club the first time around, too. Back in the day, the music press had an easy time lumping them in with the then-ascendant wave of lo-fi indie rock... more info