The Faint‘s Wet From Birth comes out next week. 2 tracks:

From Elliott Smith‘s new one:

Both Wolf Parade EPs are currently in stock over at Cheap Thrills now.

Also, you can download 5 (count ‘em – 5!) mp3s from Dan Wolf Parade’s previous band, Atlas Strategic, right here.

SCTAS talks to Scat Records about that awesomely cool upcoming Bee Thousand Director’s Cut.

This might be old news, but I just noticed it for the first time on Insound’s main page today: The Shins‘ Fighting In A Sack single is out, and features a cover of T.Rex’s “Baby Boomerang”, as well as a live version of “New Slang” ft. Sam Beam.

Is it just me, or were both instances of the Shins in “Garden State” quite forced and/or awkward?

NME is reporting that the first single from Interpol‘s Antics will be “Slow Hands”. The flipside is to be “Slow Hands” re-worked by Dan the Automator and Britt Daniel.

The Natural History have filled their vacant drummer slot, and added another guitarist. They’ll be touring all through September and October. Also, unless I’m mistaken, I believe they’ve split, amicably, from Startime.

Oranges Band fans, take note: Morphius Records has smashed their 2 early EPs together onto one disc, and is now offering it for a mere 10 dollars and forty-nine pees.

And, man, it’s been a really good week from Said the Gramophone; 2 Arcade Fire tracks, another Wolf Parade track, and the new-to-me-and-very-very-good track by White Hassle.

I’m astonished at the coincidences I’ve just noticed with Parker Paul and Nad Navillus: They both have repeating initials (PP and NN), they’ve each released 2 great records on Jagjaguwar, and they both have excellent new records completed, that are sadly without homes at the moment. Also, they share the same drummer, Keith, and Keith has decided to do everyone a big favor and post some tracks from both new albums. What’s more, Keith has graciously given me the go-ahead to direct link the songs too!

I first heard Paul’s new one, Food Service, some time ago, and it’s crazy messed-up. In a good way. Paul’s prior albums have focused on his fractured, stream-of-consciousness, pie-anna ditties, to great effect, but on Food Service, there’s almost no piano present at all. Paul’s off-kilter crooning and songwriting sensibility remains, but it’s all mashed up with some kind of combination of nintendo, roller-rink organ, and 80′s synth. Crazy messed-up. In a good way. I think “Flytown” sounds like the theme song to an F’d-up Japanese cartoon.

I just heard Nad Navillus’ new record, All That They Know, for the first time today, and I’ve been listening to “Blood In Water Blooms” on repeat all morning. Dan used to be a player in Songs:Ohia, and that sound is the closest approximation I can think of as comparision, albeit Dan’s (Nad’s) stuff to me sounds a bit more layered, and, quite frankly, less “samey”. Check it:

Please feel free to redistribute these tracks at will. In an ideal world, someone with label connections somewhere will eventually hear ‘em, and both of these very deserving records can find ‘emselves a home.

Seems like Merge has not-quite-yet posted the Arcade Fire mp3s listed on their site, but the mp3blogs have come to the rescue. Gramophone has “Tunnels (Neighborhood #1)”, and “7 Kettles (Neighborhood #4)”, whilst TTIKTDA has “Crown Of Love”, and “Laika (Neighborhood #2). As always, get ‘em while you can.

Also, the new mix is up. Kean did the incredibly awesome banner this month.