This week’s new albums include discs from LCD Soundsystem, Exodus, the Black Keys, Janelle Monae, and Nas. Read our quick cuts.

This week’s new albums include platters from the Dead Weather, UNKLE, hipster darlings Sleigh Bells, As I Lay Dying, and… Meat Loaf?

After featuring so many beach, sunset and balearic flavoured bands in this column in the past, I really tried hard to avoid coming up with anything to do with the aforementioned…

Cults is the just recently formed lovechild of 21-year-old NYC film students and couple Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion. As opposed to many so-called ‘internet hype bands’ which seem to follow a ‘marketing plan’ and utilize the whole ‘mystery’ thi…

It’s a fairly light week for new records, which could be considered a good thing if you’re as exhausted as I am, but there are still a few worthy discs that could use your attention. Let’s check them out. The White Stripes – Under Great White Northern…

Information on the Toronto based house production duo Azari & III seems to be sparse around the web. And that’s after two very successful club track single releases (‘Hungry For The Power’ and ‘Reckless (With Your Love)’), countless mentions in ‘Best…

Welcome to another week of music, old friends – and this one promises to be a doozy. A few bands we’ve spotlighted on the site are dropping discs this week, and if you’ve got any wax in your ears, you’d better clean it out. Let’s pump up the jams. Bla…

Although their Myspace profile has just been created a few months ago and they have only played a handful of live shows so far, Yuck are ‘all the rage’ over in their hometown London right now and all of their songs currently circulating on the web…

Penguin Prison is singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Glover, residing in NYC and making electro pop in the true sense of the term. Reminiscent of the quirky Hot Chip but with a much more soulful vocal delivery and songwriting recalling…

It is a huge week for records, my friend – if you listened to everything coming out this week back to back, you might be done in time for Lost. You would probably also go completely insane…