Stereogum — In the ’80s and ’90s, Linda Smith released solo music on cassette, making bedroom pop before the genre even existed. Today, the musician announced that she’s reissuing her albums Nothing Else Matters and I So Liked Spring, which have never b... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — This week: Baxter Dury's B.E.D. project with Etienne De Crecy; Buzzcocks vinyl reissues; Ty Segall's covers album; Italian band Qlowski; Swiss Duo Klaus Johann Grobe go full disco; and Young Marble Giants singer Alison Statton reunites with... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 1980 has gone down as the year of unusual numbers of rock deaths - Lennon, John Bonham, Ian Curtis, Bon Scott, Malcolm Owen of the Ruts, Tim Hardin - which tends to overshadow that the improbable pace of development and diversification around these y... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Outsider artist and improvisational musician Lonnie Holley, just played London's Meltdown Fest on Monday (8/24) which was a collaborative performance with Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor. (This year's Meltdown, which also featured Young Marble Giants, wasÂ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis UK duo Prinzhorn Dance School are back with a new mini-LP, titled Home Economics, that's out this week via DFA. The band's taught, minimal sound -- somewhere between Young Marble Giants and Gang of Four -- is... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Serafina Steer's 2010 album Change is Good, Change is Good was one of that year's more underrated records, spare and spooky, recalling '60s British folk, Young Marble Giants or Electrelane's more delicate moments. If you haven't heard.... more info

Guardian Music — (I Am Fortified)You can hear echoes of Radiohead in Ultraísta's debut, which is unsurprising given that head honcho Nigel Godrich is the band's producer. Drummer Joey Waronker plays alongside him in Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace project, yet the ba... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Hundred in the Hands (sometimes abbreviated as THITH) is an American electropop duo formed in 2008 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The band consists of Eleanore Everdell (vocals, keyboards) and Jason Friedman (guitar, programming). The ban... more info

Guardian Music — From Gorky's to Goldie Lookin Chain, feast on this selection of Welsh rare beatsLast week, to mark St David's Day, we asked for your favourite songs by Welsh musicians.And cometh the hour (or week), cometh the man. Or in this case, cometh Man, possib... more info

Altsounds — 16th January 2012 marks the release of the eponymous debut album by Brighton four piece Foxes!, released on new label Big Salad Records. 'Foxes!' is a charming mixture of C86, post punk, folk, casiotone and twee. Foxes! sound is very much their own,... more info