2. Monday Miscellanies are back from an extended holiday break with a collection of newbies from oldies.  New tracks from Gold Panda, These New Puritans, Surfer Blood and a great omen for the new album from the Love Language included.  Happy Mon-Wednes-day.

  3. This week’s disjointed theme is that of nostalgia.  Hear it live in Theme Park, Wire, Bell XI and more…

  4. More miscellanies…. this week featuring songs with extremely long titles.  Mostly.

  5. Under Suspicion is the latest HotSpotMixtape… plucked from the finest miscellanies of the past three months.  Enjoy!

  6. My favourites in this week’s miscellanies include a new Woodkid track (his album finally came out last week), a great one from Fear of Men and a Grimes-esque  Butterclock.

  7. A range of dark choices in this week’s miscellanies… with a surprise and welcome return from Devendra Banhart too..

  8. Today’s mondays are coming at you from the heart of Texas… but not in the way we’d intended.  A SXSW roundup coming in the next week or two… for now, here’s new tracks by Ski Lodge, the Allah-Lahs, John Grant and Surfer Blood.

  9. Orchestral pop, baroque rock, garage slop and a bit of extraterrestrial bee-bop in today’s miscellanies.  

  10. A collection of big ones this week with new tunes from Phoenix, Johnny Marr and Kurt Vile…. not to mention some great new finds in Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and EAT SKULL.  

  11. Monday’s come and go…. but here’s a few tracks that’ll stick with you…. especially Four Tet’s entrancing (and ridiculously titled) latest.

  12.
    Album: We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    Artist: Foxygen

    Foxygen’s delightfully shambolic EP last summer was one of my favourite releases from 2012.  On this, their first full record, they dial down the shambles but stick to their ethos.  Produced by the ever-excellent Richard Swift, We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic is a cool and collected release.  On tracks such as San Francisco and No Destruction you get an evolution of their playful distillation of everything 1960s/70s-based that made their record collections.  With some of the smoothening of their sound comes the loss of chaos and energetic thrill that Take The Kids Off Broadway so effortlessly possessed.  As such, it seems like a step back for the band but maybe in the long run you have to step back to move forwards.

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    Album: M B V
    Artist: My Bloody Valentine

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  14. Monday Miscellanies have been on a bit of a holiday over the last few weeks as other miscellaneous items have taken unwarranted precedence.  But it’s back and marginally worse than before better than ever!  This week we’ve got a few tracks from some of the big releases of the past few months including Ducktails, The Joy Formidable and Veronica Falls. 

  15.
    Album: Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics
    Artist: Yo La Tengo

    Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics does exactly what it promises and does so in a charmingly shambolic way.  The tracks on here, all recorded over a number of years in fundraisers for Jersey-based radio station WFMU, show YLT in a different light - a band willing to make a mess and have some fun.  The fact that they hadn’t rehearsed any of the songs on here shows (although the band clearly know some of them better than others) and this collection is for only the most ardent of fan.  But it’s clearly popular enough since they keep on going - the track playing here is I Saw The Light, not on this record but recorded for WFMU’s latest drive.

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