Aquarium Drunkard — Today’s confection: Margo Guryan’s 1968 platter of orchestral pop, Take A Picture. We’ve waxed on Guryan’s excellent 25 Demos collection here in the past, but Take A Picture further succeeds in taking the singer-songwriter and placing her com... more info

Nialler9 — Austra were so brilliant at SXSW I went to see them twice. The Toronto-based band led by Katie Stelmanis are a hugely impressive live six-piece act. Their album Feel It Break is out on May 13rd on Domino. The band play Crawdaddy, Dublin on Saturday J... more info

Abeano — As Pitchfork reported last night, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has covered a Paul Simon track for the soundtrack to a forthcoming Max Winkler comedy titled ‘Ceremony’. Performing a version of Papa Hobo he guests along some big names... more info

Guardian Music — Brian Wilson's unfinished opus is the greatest record almost made. It should be left incomplete, leaving us to imagine an album that would have made Sgt Pepper sound 'meh'Haven't we been here before? News that the the Beach Boys' Smile is to be relea... more info

Guardian Music — Alex Jacob is a wunderkind whose warped, synthy Americana nods to the Beach Boys and the Flaming Lips. And we love itHometown: Van Nuys, California.The lineup: Alex Jacob (vocals, music).The background: Here's another PC (post-chill) laptop-pop boy â... more info

All About Jazz — There's no act remotely like New York's Manhattan Transfer. The close harmony vocal quartet can do everything from Doo-Wop to Broadway schmaltz, from big band swing to fusion. In a long career, they've steered a Grammy-encrusted course between jazz c... more info

Guardian Music — The dexterous songcraft of these Oxford lads gets lost in live translation. So don't read them the riot actHometown: Oxford.The lineup: Jack Goldstein, Roo Bhasin, Michael Thompson, Christopher Dawson, Jason Warner.The background: You often hear it s... more info

Guardian Music — The Brooklyn MC has released this single before, but it was always missing a vital ingredient ... Beyoncé's little sisterBrooklyn rapper Theophilus London is currently battling it out on our world famous 2010 Buzz Graph – he's also battled with ou... more info

NME — Dev Hynes lines up four-track release for December more info

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