Yoko Ono - Give Me Something (Morel’s I Gave You My Heart Dub Mix) - download here

Yoko Ono: At 77, still cooler than all of us! Following recent club mixes of her 1980 song “Give Me Something,” the avant-garde high priestess is now sorting a collection of dubs. Richard Morel’s is the kind of sweeping disco-house you’d imagine emanating from a Miami convertible–maybe a weird place to be hearing Yoko Ono, but also a situation we wouldn’t be averse to experiencing.

Nada Surf - Electrocution - download here

Tickets released Friday 11th June 9 am for

• Athelete
  
• Hurts
  
• Paul Heaton
  
• Darwin Deez
  
• Lissie
  
• Pulled Apart By Horses
  

Buy your tickets here

Third album from Springsteen-influenced former punks

New Jersey quartet The Gaslight Anthem would be the first to admit that they share more than a home state with Bruce Springsteen. However, there’s nothing wrong with being heavily influenced by another artist so long as you still have something of your own to bring to the table, and on 2008’s superb breakthrough The ’59 Sound, The Gaslight Anthem did indeed bring something. While frontman Brian Fallon’s rugged but sensitive vocals and wordy blue-collar lyricism may have seemed familiar, the fact is that these guys were punks, something that Springsteen never, ever was. Sure, the music was anthemic, but the mix was rattling, rough, raw and thrilling.

Mark Kulmala is a Canadian and in the same program as Tokyo and Lauren - see review here. Like Dr Who he keeps regenerating - firstly from Heavy Metal to Chili Peppers and then to his current incarnation as an Indie acoustic folk singer. His stuff is pretty good (particularly the harmonies with Lauren) so catch them on his MySpace page before he's reborn regurgitating Nursery Rhymes.

The Dead Weather  announce that their performance will be part of the Bonnaroo webcast this weekend, exclusively on YouTube HERE. Their performance will be streamed live starting at 6:00 pm CST (that will be Midnight UK time) on Saturday, June 12th so be sure to tune in if you aren’t able to make it to the festival.

Deluka - Cascade (The Rapture Remix) - download here

Brooklyn-by-way-of-Birmingham electro-punksters Deluka have enjoyed a teeming grassroots following since the release of their self-titled EP last summer. Video game deals and big-name accolades soon followed, and a year later, their glittery dance hit “Cascade” has gotten a lustrous refit by fellow ear-benders The Rapture. It’s still a monster, just now bathed in waves of gentle disco light.

Dawes - When My Time Comes (Live) - download here

Surfer Blood will be riding a wave of popularity

If people still do as Blue Peter used to and plant time capsules in their garden in order to give future generations a glimpse of what life was like in ye good olde days, then Surfer Blood’s debut record is a strong candidate to represent US indie-rock right now. Not because it’s a mind-expanding example of new music, or indeed the best thing we’ve heard this year. But simply because Astro Coast sounds so very like a synthesis of all that’s prevalent in today’s all-conquering US indie-rock invasion.

A boat-rocking work with plenty of merit in places

After 2007’s New Wave did everything from upset to alienate a portion of their fanbase – depending which message boards you read and, more tellingly, which ones you believe – Against Me! have navigated those stormy, puritanical waters to bring us White Crosses. And while there’s been no attempt to steer a course back to the blistering folk punk of their earlier releases, it’s hard to argue that they’re not still rocking the boat.

You may have read the excellent review here. Now listen to the album in full.

Villagers - Becoming A Jackal by musicmusicmusic

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Crystal Castles - Celestica (Thurston Moore Remix) - download here

If Crystal Castles’ “Celestica” already sounded slightly the wrong side of addled euphoria, here Sonic Youth hero Thurston Moore takes the track on ‘til the morning after, revelling in skittering, comedown rhythms and headache fuzz.

Connan Mockasin - Unicornan (Micachu And The Shapes’ m.a.t.h.e.s. Remix) - download here

This is a record full of space and intimacy

Since 2000, Hollywood-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia has been making astonishing albums that have cut listeners to the quick, leaving their bones exposed, dragging their hearts away. She has swept up some high-profile fans in the process: six sessions were recorded for John Peel, and legendary producer Steve Albini has worked with her closely throughout the last decade, calling her first album, Dogs, “one of my favourites… of the couple of thousand records I’ve been involved with”. Still largely unknown outside alternative circles, Nastasia’s bruised, balmy songs deserve a much wider audience.

Free Gigs W/C 7th June

Rough Trade East In-store - details

ALLO DARLIN' - Monday 7th June, 7.00 pm
JOHNNY FLYNN - Tuesday 8th June, 7.00 pm
CONNAN MOCKASIN - Friday 11th June, 7.00 pm
LONELY DRIFTER KAREN - Tuesday 15th June, 1.00 pm
ROBYN - Tuesday 15th June, 7.00 pm
PETE MOLINARI - Tuesday 15th June, 6.00 pm
WE ARE SCIENTISTS - Wednesday 16th June, 7.00 pm
KELE - Tuesday 21st June, 7.00 pm
FACTORY FLOOR - Tuesday 22nd June, 7.00 pm
PULLED APART BY HORSES - Wednesday 23rd June, 7.00 pm

The Chemical Brothers show no signs of fatigue

The Chemical Brothers were always a step ahead, a step Further (ho ho) if you will. While their contemporaries crashed, burned, and then possibly reformed, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have kept their material fresh for six – five of which have been chart-toppers – studio albums of high-quality shape-throwing, and there’s no reason given here why they should throw in their rave towels now.