After nearly 20 years, I can finally get one of My Favorite Albums Of All Time on vinyl without having to pay some absurdly high eBay price. For this week, Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque was reissued on 140g wax. Merry Christmas indeed!

Catbird fave and recent Flying Nun signee Unknown Mortal Orchestra has a brand new 7″ EP due out in mid-December, from England’s new The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing label. Limited to 300 copies, and priced at about $6 and change, this is a no-brainer purchase. Get it.

MP3: Air Waves – “Knockout”

The Catbird family’s own Air Waves (aka Ms. Nicole Schneit) has a new record titled Dungeon Dots out on Underwater Peoples* come 11/30, from whence this new track comes. Hey UP guys, get a pre-order link up for it already!

I’m kicking myself that I didn’t get this posted earlier, but my friend Devin is screening his new documentary feature, Firewall of Sound, at CMJ *tomorrow* (that’s Friday, 10/22). It’s at the Norwood Club, 241 W. 14th St., at 2pm, and you should definitely RSVP if you’re going to attend.

The film is an in-depth look at the independent music industry in a state of transition, with the internet acting as both a blessing and a curse to musicians and label executives. While fans eagerly await the latest leaked album from their favorite artist or the newest amateur concert footage to appear on YouTube, people in the industry are scrambling to figure out how to turn any sort of profit. It features Merge’s Mac McCaughan, musicians Julian Koster and Roberto Lange, a number of other smart people, and me.

→ Catbird Records Moving Sale

Enjoy the latest from the mysterious Unknown Mortal Orchestra– his new “Screwed” mixtape:

MP3: Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Screwed Tape #1″

UMO has several things in the pipeline right now I believe, though none have been officially announced thus far. At any rate, I imagine we can look forward to owning, at some point in the not-too-distant future, physical copies of these first few gems:

MP3: Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Ffunny Ffrends”
MP3: Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Thought Ballune”

Fulton Lights has a brand-new 3-song digital EP out, called (surprise) 3 Songs. It’s a direct descendent of sorts to last year’s Healing Waters, and continues to blaze along the path begun there. Grab the EP for $3 from iTunes, and/or click over to MBV, where we’ve got a streaming player.

To celebrate their just-kicked-off tour, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin teamed up with tourmate Telekinesis to record a cover of Chicago band Green‘s “Gotta Get A Record Out:”

MP3: SSLYBY & Telekinesis – “Gotta Get A Record Out” (Green)

And, to celebrate just a little more, we’ve got a super-rare vinyl test-pressing of Yeltsin’s new album, Let It Sway, to give away. Just enter your email address below! (U.S. only)

Contest now closed. Congratulations, Shane!

MP3: Vic Godard – “Blackpool”

Back in 2001/2002, the brilliant Vic Godard collaborated with acclaimed author Irvine Welsh on an ill-fated musical production, titled “Blackpool.” Plagued with problems, the show unfortunately came and went very quickly (only 6 performances), but the songs have proven to be longer-lasting. And thus has Vic recorded and released the new Blackpool EP– 4 songs from the “burlesque and gaudy, vaudevillian, dirty” Blackpool production. Pick it up directly from Vic via his Myspace.

And keep an eye out for the new Vic Godard full-length, We Come As Aliens, later this year.

Destroyer – “Archer on the Beach” b/w “Grief Point” 12″ is due out 11/2 from Merge.

“Archer on the Beach” is a meditation on the need to grapple with the 20th century in one’s own special way and with style, this time through singing quietly, through repetition, and through leaving lots of space between words, as well as finally learning to love crowds and nature.

“Grief Point” is the first recording Bejar made after deciding never to record again. It is a one-time exploration of the self-explanatory world, recorded in an office and on the street. Inspired by the writings of Michael Herr and the production design of Dean Tavoularis, the words occasionally obsess over the need to make certain things that don’t need to be made, while the music—written, played, and produced in its entirety by Loscil, aka Scott Morgan—tackles wholly separate issues. “Grief Point” was, at one point, the working title of a song called “Bay of Pigs.”

Pre-order the record here, and see also: Loscil’s “The Making of Grief Point,” featuring Bejar (from Loscil’s latest, Endless Falls).