Topix — Up from the indie minors, Florida's Surfer Blood fill their second full-length with insistent jangle, Anglophile emoting and hangdog melodies that suggest collegiate mope rock might never go away. more info

Consequence of Sound — Long-awaited sophomore effort trades musicianship for gloss. more info

KEXP Seattle — “I looked in the mirror today, then I got scared away.” Surfer Blood‘s debut record, Astro Coast, could be described as “fun”. The jangling, joyous hooks of “Floating Vibes” and “Take It Easy”, talk of learning to surf and bright no... more info

Topix — Atlas Genius, Bad Things and Surfer Blood are among the Warner Bros. Records acts that will be featured in the label's third annual Summer Sessions concert series. more info

KEXP Seattle — There are some shows where a three or four paragraph description just doesn’t cut it, and if you know anything about Oxford indie rock band Foals, then you know this is one of those shows. That being said, I’m not even going to try - the pictures... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian compares noir fiction's effects on the publishing to that of punk rock's on the music industry. Maybe the time has come to jettison the whole literary fiction cadre and seek another way. In 1976 punk did its best... more info

Chorus.fm — You can now stream *Surfer Blood* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/surferblood)'s new album, Pythons, on NPR (http://www.npr.org/2013/06/02/187278374/first-listen-surfer-blood-pythons). Submitted by starsinhand more info

KEXP Seattle — Did you know about the current infestation of pythons that Florida is facing? Yeah! They’re eating all the small animals and slowly squeezing the biodiversity out of the region - but there is a different python at work in Surfer Blood’s new album... more info

Consequence of Sound — West Palm Beach rockers' sophomore LP arrives one week early. more info

Chorus.fm — You can stream a new *Surfer Blood* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/surferblood) track entitled, "Gravity" in the replies. more info