New issues of Jazz Times, Rolling Stone (Double summer issue with John’s secret crush, Lady Gaga, on the cover), The New York Times Review Of Books and Decibel (with DANZIG on the cover!!) are all here. Get on it!

Maps & Atlases – Perch Patchwork
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“Maps & Atlases full-length debut, “Perch Patchwork” (Barsuk), opens in heartbreak and closes with a moment of hard-won contentment, with band founder and frontman Dave Davison singing, “With the race over, we’ll take what we can get.” – Full Review

Scissor Sisters – Night Work
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“Equal parts “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Bad Romance,” the new record is dramatic, danceable and definitively cool. The title track is a sonic frappe of electro-dance pop and covert sexual innuendo — “Night Work” being a subtle euphemism for male prostitution — set to quickly paced, expertly executed distorted guitar riffs.” – Full Review

Alejandro Escovedo – Street Songs of Love
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Working again with glam-rock producer Tony Visconti, Escovedo proudly wears his musical influences – the Stooges, New York Dolls, all manner of punk – on his sleeve. Filtered through his scuffling yet tender-hearted persona, the result, yet again, is ageless rock-and-roll – Full Review

Wolf Parade – Expo 86
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“Members of Wolf Parade have done a bit of explaining about the band’s third album EXPO 86. We were told the main criteria Spencer Krug had for the songs was “whether or not [he] would dance to them.” He continued: “You know in Archie comics when there’s a school dance and you see little cartoon music notes floating out of the PA speakers? I like to think this new record sounds like those notes.” – Full Review

Stars, the side project band featuring members of Broken Social Scene, has released their new album The Five Ghosts. Stars’ music has been described as “beautiful, eloquent indie pop”, characterized by lush instrumentation, nimble production and mixing, narrative lyrics, and soft but nuanced vocals.

The Five Ghosts is available at the shop now; check out the video for “Fixed” and get a free download of “We Don’t Want Your Body”.

Official Site: youarestars.com

Stop in to enjoy the air conditioning and pick up the new issues of Juxtapoz, Mental Floss, Dance and Fangoria!

Various Artists – Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
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The collection features some of the best young singers in America, as they tackle some of Prine’s finest works: Josh Ritter performs “Mexican Home,” Conor Oberst sings “Wedding Day in Funeralville,” The Avett Brothers’ members tackle “Spanish Pipedream” and so on. – Full Review

The Roots – How I Got Over
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“As deans of the college touring circuit and the house band for Jimmy Fallon, the Roots probably spend more time around indie rockers than rappers these days. It shows on “How I Got Over,” the artiest in a string of moody, noncommercial albums that the Philadelphia hip-hop institution has squeezed out through the otherwise conservative Def Jam Recordings in recent years.” – Full Review

Fol Chen – Part II: The New December
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“Part II: The New December is, naturally, a concept album with a narrative thread that has something to do with a virus destroying language, but thankfully, the songs work in isolation. The music is jittery and glitchy, leaning heavily on electronics to drive them along, like a less frantic version of the Mae Shi.” – Full Review

Eminem – Recovery
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“This is Eminem explicitly working through his myriad issues, from his drug addiction, to the 2006 death of his best friend Proof, to his perceived flop of last year’s “Relapse” album.” – Full Review

Stars – The Five Ghosts
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“For those who enjoy The Postal Service songs that include a female singer, but were always left wishing they were a little less electronically enhanced, Stars’ new release “The Five Ghosts” is the album you’ve been waiting for.” – Full Review

Robert Randolph & The Family Band – We Walk This Road
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“For those familiar with Robert Randolph this album will reveal a major evolution in the band’s sound. Those who are new to Robert and his music will discover a fresh and authentic blues album, steeped in the “sacred steel” tradition but relevant for the current moment.” – Full Review

Ozzy Osbourne – Scream
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“The album has it’s moments with tracks like the first single “Let Me Hear You Scream” destined to become arena anthems, and the heavy riffage of “Diggin’ Me Down” recalling a pinch of the departed Zakk Wylde with harmonic squeals and sludgey groove.” – Full Review

Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth
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“I’ve gotta say it feels like coming home again – that is, if your home is a cobweb-lined catacombs resonating with the sounds of black magic rituals and the flapping of bat wings.” – Full Review

180 South – Original Soundtrack
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“As if James Mercer, frontman of indie standby The Shins and one half of new hip kid obsession Broken Bells, wasn’t already busy enough, now he’s contributing music to the soundtrack of the new documentary, 180° SOUTH. Along with Modest Mouse leader Isaac Brock (under the name of his side project, Ugly Casanova), the two fill out nearly all of the soundtrack’s fourteen songs.” – Full Details

Derek Trucks Band – Roadsongs
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“Roadsongs is a 14-track, two-disc extravaganza with some of the DTB’s most inspired playing, pre-hiatus, or otherwise. Recorded at a two-night stand at Chicago’s Park West, the band methodically burns through their catalogue with an emphasis on several of the tracks from 2009’s Almost Free, superb covers, and other original material.” – Full Review

Robert Randolph’s new album We Walk This Road will be in stores Tuesday – you can check out the new single “If I Had My Way” now at robertrandolph.net

Get Psyched! New issues of Wire, Fader, Maximum Rock’n'roll, Utne, Spin & Rolling Stone are here!

The band’s 2008 debut, Antidotes, delivered on the early promise of their cool-yet-frenetic style. But the widescreen production from TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek hinted at the limitations of their approach – something, you felt, would have to give for Foals to step things up a notch.

Their answer on Total Life Forever is to relax the binary plotting of their punk-funk jams and punch up the pop factor. If this all sounds distressingly unlike the future, that’s because it is. But we needn’t fret: the trick here is to locate a beating heart, the missing Z to their rigorous X and Y axes, without losing sight of what made them so exciting in the first place.

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Sarah McLachlan – Laws of Illusion
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“If you like Sarah’s catalog, ‘Laws of Illusions’ is a must-own. It continues her eclectic balance of piano-driven singer-songwriter and electronica queen. And she takes it to the next logical step”

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Mojo
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“Every rehearsal for years started with blues. It’s how we sound after hours. I thought, ‘we should stay where we naturally play.’ I’m more excited than I’ve been in a long time.”

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The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
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“The Gaslight Anthem return with their third album, ‘American Slang’ and to an extent picks up where ‘The ’59 Sound’ left off, as the bands working class punk rock continues to be blended with an old-school rock ‘n’ roll lyricism.”

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Foals – Total Life Forever
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“Their answer on Total Life Forever is to relax the binary plotting of their punk-funk jams and punch up the pop factor. If this all sounds distressingly unlike the future, that’s because it is.”

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Devo – Something for Everybody
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“What strikes me about Something For Everybody is that I get ten seconds into the first track, and it’s immediately recognizable as being DEVO.”

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The Steve Miller Band – Bingo!
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“Recorded at Skywalker Ranch (yes, that Skywalker Ranch), one of the premiere audio production facilities on the planet, Bingo! resides on a level of excellence that you don’t normally get from rockers in their Sixties.”

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