Mogwai are back. And Mogwai are good! The Sun Smells Too Loud can be heard over at The Listening Post: Guitar magic for the summer’s sunrises.

Slow, stark and bassy dub-step album preview over at Gorilla Vs Bear from the streets of London: digital bleeps and laser noise reverberates and echoes: it’s hardly comforting, but it’s ripe for still and hot nights.

The Crimea used a few blogs (including this one), to distribute exclusive b-sides after being dropped from their label, and giving their album away for free. It doesn’t seem to have done them any harm as they head out on a 10-date US tour, Brooklyn Vegan tell us.

I was recently in Brooklyn and was privileged enough to attend a Palms Out Sounds rooftop party. The finest purveyor of remixes, P.O.S is one of the best mp3 blogs out there, and they are all awesome people, who also have a label. Because that’s what mp3 blogs do: let music fans release records, and let people who had never done it before (Mr Palms Out) go around the world DJing. They share a lot of UK music, so if you want to dance: check them out.

Posting has been a little bit light as I spent a long time last weekend/ week putting together the mp3 digest for The Morning News: Go and see what I had to say about recent releases by Beck, Bodies of Water, Paavoharju, a Flemish Abba cover, and the fantastic Micah P. Hinson. MP3s of all the tracks are available.

Photo credit: Fortphoto

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