Guardian Music — (Warp)After impressing many with their 2007 debut, Mirrored, Brooklyn math rock experimentalists Battles were dealt a potentially mortal blow when keyboardist and vocalist Tyondai Braxton left while they were making a second album. However, they r... more info

Totally Fuzzy — No cage can hold Ceremony, despite the name of the forward-thinking California punk thrashers' thrilling new album. Like Fucked Up, No Age, Iceage, Pissed Jeans, and other impressively vital bands in recent years, the men behind 2010 evolutionar... more info

XLR8R — As we mentioned last week, Kazu Makino, frontwoman of indie-rock group Blonde Redhead, has assembled a compilation to benefit her native country of Japan, which continues to recover from a devastating tsunami and earthquake while battling the ongoing... more info

Stereogum — Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino is the figurehead of the forthcoming compilation We Are the Works In Progress, an LP that benefits the tsunami relief efforts headed up by Japan Society and Architecture For Humanity Japan. The comp features tracks by D... more info

Impose Magazine — Ghostly International recording artist and dark-pop maestro Matthew Dear guides us further into the unknown with the Headcage EP. Functioning as a lead-up to his full-length Beams, Dear's new appendage in the evolution of his black orchestrations... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG My final day at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 ran the gamut from 90s-indie-worshippers Lemuria to the poppy-hardcore of Kid Dynamite, the Prince-clad hardcore of Ceremony to the glitchy dance of Flying Lotus, and the operatic/enigmatic Austra to... more info

Chorus.fm — Today I was browsing AP.net's Self Promotion Forum (http://www.absolutepunk.net/forumdisplay.php?f=5) and found *Ume (http://www.facebook.com/umemusic)*, a dreampop/progressive indie rock band from Texas. Any fans of Mew, Asobi Seksu, Blonde Redhead,... more info

Stereogum — It’s been a while since we checked in with Christopher O’Riley, the pianist known for his majestic renditions of Radiohead and Elliott Smith songs. But now, O’Riley returns with cellist collaborator Matt Haimovitz for Shuffle.Play.Listen, an tw... more info

NME — Gayngs, Salem and Becoming Real all contribute mixes more info

DrownedInSound — It's not every day that a band gives away a remix EP for free, is it? Today, however, is just one of those days where a band does give away a remix EP for free, and that band is Blonde Redhead. They're allowing you to download the six-track release w... more info