Photo via the These New Puritans' MySpce Page Artist: These New Puritans Album:Beat Pyramid Label:Domino Records Release Date: 03/18/2008 (Tomorrow) These New Puritans are an energetic four-piece from Southend UK - they played SXSW last night and they're playing tonight at the Roxy in advance of tomorrow's release of their full-length recording, Beat Pyramid. I'm not sure what you think of the somewhat creepy video for "Elvis" above, but it's a great song from......

Artist: Cass McCombs Album: Dropping the Writ Label: Domino Records Release Date: 10/23/07 Listen to "That's That": Frequent tourer Cass McCombs came through LA this last fall but if you missed him you will have a chance to see him again in '08 as his tour schedule is posted and expanding. Dropping the Writ is inspired by a short stretch of time that McCombs spent living in Los Angeles from '05-'06 and it was recorded......

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss Album: Goodbye Label: Domino Release Date: Summer 2007 I had first heard tracks from Ulrich Schnauss' Far Away Trains Passing By on a bizarre compilation someone handed me back in 2002. Again I heard a couple songs from Schnauss' second release, A Strangely Isolated Place (2004), on yet another compilation. The songs were epic and transformative meanderings through ambient yet driving spaces. Schnauss' current release, Goodbye, takes us down these paths again,......

Artist: Animal Collective Album: Strawberry Jam Label: Domino Recording Company Release Date: September 10, 2007 - Today I know there are some folks who hate my reviews so maybe this is the band for you. When I first put this CD on in my car I was pissed because I had thought I'd blown my speakers out - imagine my relief in discovering that my speakers were fine and that it was simply this......