Halasan Bazar - "Go Out In Joy"

Suddenly very pumped for something I knew nothing about five minutes ago. From Halasan Bazar's upcoming November album.

Awwwwwwww Yeah: Not the 1s - "Silverstein Status"

Cool, nostalgic, and unapologetic--just the way I like my rap. Not the 1s spit game and come out swinging to a catchy sample that keeps the song flowing without taking over. Everything works in harmony with each other.

News: Guided By Voices Announce New Album, R.E.M. Finally Break Up

Two somewhat shocking announcements today. One you may care about, one you may not. The one I think is most important is that Guided by Voices have announced a new album in their classic lineup. Let's Go Eat the Factory comes out January 1st, 2012. I had an inkling that this would happen, just based on how damn prolific Robert Pollard is. It's fitting that this album will be released on a day that I'm sure to have a massive hangover. I mean, that's how Pollard would want it. It's worth noting that with 21 songs, they may have gone back to doing songs of extremely short length. This is what made Guided by Voices so great in the first place, so we'll have to see whether this lineup can still bring the magic. They never did make a bad album, but Pollard's stuff afterwards has always been of suspect quality. The second is rather huge, and also quite unimportant to most people. R.E.M. broke up. Yeah, it should have happened 15 years ago, but hey, better late than never. Now if only we could get The Simpsons off the air, we'd finally be able to leave those 90's relics alone. Oh wait, Guided By Voices did just announce a new album, huh?

Beautiful: James Blake - "Not Long Now"

This day is gloomy. James Blake is gloomy. What a coincidence that on this day a new song from Blake's forthcoming EP Enough Thunder hits. "Not Long Now" is your pretty standard James Blake fare, in that it's fucking amazing. Lounge singer-esque vocals and electronic beats cascading out of darkness--signature stuff here. Also, pretty sure that I hear GLADOS in there. Cool collab, guys. Maybe we can get G-Man on the next record. 

  Enough Thunder hits October 10th.

Listen: Real Estate - "Easy"

Real Estate's new album is almost upon us. After hearing the first single, "It's Real," my excitement for this album went through the roof. So it was a nice bed time surprise to get the pleasant opening track "Easy" right before heading off to sleep. Gonna dream good dreams tonight. Hit the jump for "Easy," and also to get a refresher of "It's Real."

Days comes out October 18th.