I Guess I'm Floating — While the debate rages onward on which album you think should've been 2009's number one, HMV have released their 9th annual "Poll of Polls" year-end list surveying 34 different publications/websites. Although their survey tends to (obviously) favor ... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Guardian – Top 50 Albums of 2009 01 The xx – xx 02. Fever Ray – Fever Ray 03. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 04. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 05. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion 06. Florence and the Machine – Lungs ... more info

Guardian Music — This French DJ and producer is being hailed as a bona fide eclectic warrior, capable of flitting wildly between stylesHometown: London.The lineup: Julian Brambilla.The background: They've been great, haven't they, this year's Guardian Albums of 2009?... more info

Guardian Music — At first it seemed like a mere internet prank – now it's in with a real shot. The Facebook campaign to get Rage Against the Machine to Christmas No 1 has been gripping guardian.co.uk/music readers all week. By Wednesday, RATM were ahead by a g... more info

Guardian Music — Karin Dreijer Andersson's debut solo effort was scary and disorientating. But it also found a strange sense of beauty in the mundaneThe stage name, the costumes, the masks, the voice distortion – all these things contributed to the mystery and... more info

Stereogum — Each year when Pitchfork posts their annual Top 100 Songs Of XXXX you can be sure to find a number of hip-hop and popular radio tracks filtered into the electronic and indie stuff. Makes sense: Those genres and/or sensibilities can result in great... more info

Shark Party, CA — 14. Discovery - LP A left field side-project from Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij & Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles eschews guitars in favor of ragged synths & shifting time scales. Like most experiments, it's not entirely successful (the "I... more info

Music is Art — Rolling Stone is proud to premiere the video for Thom Yorke’s cover of “All For the Best” from the upcoming tribute disc Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy. Directed by Melinda Tupling, the video is a David Lynch-like ... more info

Big Stereo — We Are The World – “Clay Stones” Woah, We Are The World’s debut video for “Claystones” is a bit chilling, totally fascinating. So many layers to this… kinda feels like a hybrid of Fever Ray and Planningtorock — except We Are the World... more info

Music is Art — Today Portishead released a brand new track called “Chase the Tear” and signed to Amnesty International. It is available as an exclusive download single from 7 digital and all earnings are going towards Amnesty’s human rights work and the... more info