JamBase — ISLANDS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM - VAPOURS ANTI- TO RELEASE MONTREAL BAND'S THIRD STUDIO ALBUM ON SEPTEMBER 22 Islands After the polymorphous pop band, Islands emerged from the thriving Montreal music scene with their 2006 debut Return to the Sea... more info

Rock Sellout — Behind the Music Well, firstly, apparently Spencer Krug is the busiest man in the biz, but then again so was Dave Grohl back in the day and who really care’s who’s been a bizzy, bizzy bee with so many admittedly fascinating collectives ... more info

Said the Gramophone — Drake ft. R. Kelly - "Best I Ever Had (Skeemix)". Ralph heard the song in the car. Clouds were skating across the blue sky and he was switching between stations, search, search, and as he went into a left turn -- this. "You the fucking best. You the ... more info

Quick Before It Melts — This past week, my 9 month old nephew, Spencer (you may remeber him from such posts as this one), finally learned to crawl.  It came with no tears, lots of baby grunting, and a certain aversion to actually mastering that fundamental formula of mot... more info

JamBase — By: Brian Gearing Handsome Furs are a duo - husband Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and wife Alexei Perry - so physics would dictate that they create music in recorded bits and discovered pieces, making Face Control (released March 10 on Sub Pop), tec... more info

Stereogum — When discussing a new Sunset Rubdown album it's become pretty cliché to list everything Spencer Krug's recently accomplished, but his output remains as prolific as each release is monumental, so it does remains an important piece of the story. Sin... more info

Radio Exile — And we’re back with our weekly roundup of underheard music that deserves some love from the many hype machines out there. This week we have some power-pop, no-fi pop, a song from Staten Island, a Dan Aykroyd pun, and a Wolf Parade cover. Yup. On ... more info

Radio Exile — I’m just going to rip the band aid off and get this out of the way so I can focus on the actual task at hand: Wolf Parade. Wolf Parade, Wolf Parade, Wolf Parade. Spencer Krug, Dan Boeckner, Wolf Parade. Black Hat Brigade sound like Wolf Para... more info

Music Mule — What? Sunset Rubdown Sunset Rubdown are the side project of the mercurial Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade fame. With two albums already in the bag there’s no shortage of quality material. Their songs are all built around the imagery conjured up by Spen... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — It's true, the best things in life are free. Well, some of them. In this case you can count Experimental Dental School's brand new Forest Field LP among the coolest free shit you'll get all year. And for those smartasses out there who are thinking... more info