Brooklyn Vegan — Listen to new songs by Bob Mould, Jay Rock + Tee Grizzley, TOY, Rose Elinor Dougall, Rina Sawayama, Michael Chapman, TEEN, Partner, and more. Continue reading… more info

Sweeping The Nation — Amaya Laucirica - Let It HappenIt's been a big year so far for Australian acts catching on overseas and Laucirica is at the upper end with Rituals, sumptuous, quietly multi-layered and open hearted dreampop rich with yearning and learning, like a... 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

Powerpopulist — Hard to believe we began this list back in early February. Tuff stuff, though, so we do not carp but, rather, thank the superb bloggers who finessed these songs into downloadability. Toma - Going Nowhere - Fingertips Terror Watts - So Alone - Rollo... more info

Sweeping The Nation — As promised when we did 1970 on Good Friday, the other end of our forty-year spectrum and a list notably more biased than most, even if its span is only the last five years, towards what STN was writing about at the time anyway. The Big Pink were the... more info

DrownedInSound — Star-shaped indeed more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Onetime Pipette member Rose Elinor Dougall will release her second solo album, Stellular, on January 27 via her own Vermillion records. It's been six years since her solo debut, Without Why, but she's been busy, collaborating with Mark Rons... more info

DrownedInSound — The former Pipette returns with her second solo outing, a pop masterpiece that rockets in several different directions more info

Sweeping The Nation — Having expounded the virtues of always writing in detail about new songs, here's a quick whip through the best of the load of new songs that have emerged in just the last few weeks. Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures - I Wanted You Brinks is An... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Albums there are dates for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wigout At Jagbags (6th January)Broken Bells – After The Disco (13th January)East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (13th January)I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro (20th January)Mogwai - Rave Ta... more info