'Transference' will be released on January 25

Good news: new Spoon album! The band's typically terrific LP, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, came out two years ago, which is a long time to wait for typically terrific LPs. Britt stopped the gap with the Got Nuffin EP and live debuts of new material with dramatic titles like "Is Love Forever?" If you were into those turns, you'll likely be into Transference: ...

SCORE! 20 Years Of Merge Records: THE REMIXES! features Caribou, Four Tet, Xiu Xiu, Mark Robinson, the Blow, and others tackling classic and current Mergers. It's out 11/17 as a CD/download and is currently streaming for a limited time at Merge.

Brooklyn quartet the Bloodsugars reference the last sentence of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable via the title of I Can't Go On, I'll Go On, their followup to last year's BQEP. You get a sense of their attention to words in "Light At The End Of The Tunnel." The track, which taps into a kind of locked new wave Spoon zone, features some Spaghetti We...

Portland's Panther seems to be a project destined to constantly evolve. Just two years ago referring to Panther was the same as referring to Charlie Salas-Humara, advertised as a "one man sonic wrecking crew" and was pretty much just that, all pointed and punchy, lewd and lo-fi with his electro dance concoctions. Last year Panther became a duo w...