Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Revocation/Exhumed, Khruangbin, SOB x RBE, Thrice, Ministry, Nothing/Swirlies, Reigning Sound, Saint Etienne, and more tour announcements. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Saint Etienne's 1998 album Good Humor found them setting aside their samplers and drum machines and decamping to Sweden to work with Cardigans producer Tore Johansson and crack session players. The result was a lush, loungey record unlike any th... more info

Core News — “Daniel Avery goes on an ambient late night journey beyond the dancefloor. Featuring exclusive music from his album ‘Song For Alpha’, alongside tracks from Saint Etienne, Cleric and Lanark Artefax.” Check out other Essential mixes in my archi... more info

XLR8R — French DJ David Asko has presented his latest release for A-traction Records, namely the Elevation EP—featuring four tracks of deep, dark techno. Asko's hardcore style is influenced by his participation in the '90s rave scene; he organized rav... more info

Sweeping The Nation — As explained in the A-J post last time out, by "other" we mean anything not from one of our top 50 albums of the year. The second hundred of our far too large selection runs thus... Kagoule - Monsieur AutomatonKamikaze Girls - DeathcapKatiya Falcone... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Björk's Utopia is the lone new album I can recommend this week. Vinyl reissues are the real highlight this week, including four from Saint Etienne (Finisterre, Good Humor Sound of water, Tales From Turnpike House), two from Throbbing Gristle... more info

KEXP Seattle — Influential British trio and longtime KEXP favorites Saint Etienne released a wonderful cover of Neil Young’s song “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” as their breakout debut single nearly 30 years ago, and they’re still going strong today. With... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Reading back contemporary overviews of music from the end of 1993 it's striking how US rock was grouped together as one intransigent whole, which means that Nirvana, in the year of In Utero and the recording of Unplugged In New York, are usually ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — So now we've covered the best tracks of the year so far on a month by month basis, let's move on to the longform stuff. Feel free to remind us of these come the end of the year when something else from these six months overtakes the lot. Algi... more info

Allmusic Blog — ​Singer Sarah Cracknell of the veteran indie-pop band offers her insight behind the making of the band’s warm and inviting new album, which arrives 25 years after their debut and focuses thematically on where the trio’s members grew up. more info