The new Conor Oberst album, billed with his “Mystic Valley Band,” hits stores today. If you didn’t get a chance to hear the album streaming on NPR Music last week, you can sample it below -- and it will be featured as our Song of the Day podcast tomorrow, so stay tuned. And while you’re picking that up, be sure to grab the latest from the excellent Portland electro-pop group Starfucker, plus other worthwhile releases from a wildly diverse group this week: Akron/Family, NOMO, Fischerspooner, The Horrors, St. Vincent, Magik Markers, Pink Mountaintops, New York Dolls, Ben Harper, Peaches, and a soundtrack by British Sea Power. Sub Pop is reissuing Enter the Vaselines just in time for The Vaselines‘ Seattle appearance next week at Neumos! Take a copy of Largehearted Boy’s list along with and visit your friendly neighborhood record shop.
Cinco de Mayo bonus: write in before 2PM tomorrow (5/6) for your chance to win a free vinyl copy of Coming From Reality, the latest reissue of Rodriguez from Seattle’s own Light in the Attic. (Fun fact: Rodriquez was born and bred in Detroit, but his parents immigrated from Mexico in the 1920′s.)
from On The Town, On The Vine EP on Prairie Queen Records
British Sea Power - Come Wander With Me (MP3)
from Man of Aran (soundtrack) on Rough Trade
Buckwheat Zydeco - Ninth Place (MP3)
from Lay Your Burden Down on Alligator Records
The Coast - Tightrope (MP3)
from Expatriate on Afternoon Records
Double Dagger - The Lie, The Truth (MP3)
from More on Thrill Jockey
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas (MP3)
from Elephant Stone on Elephants On Parade
Foma - Seraphim Succubi (MP3)
from Inverness (self-relesed)
Naomi Greenwald - Lonesome (MP3)
from Naomi Greenwald (self-released)
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
from White Lies For Dark Times on Virgin Records
Jon Hopkins - Light Through The Veins
from Insides on Domino
The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea
from Primary Colours on XL
Ice Palace - Thoughts/Facts (MP3)
from Wonder Subtly Crushing Us on Earthology
Isis - 20 Minutes/40 Years (MP3)
from Wavering Radiant on Ipecac Recordings
Lot 49 - Exponents (MP3)
from Lonely Planet (self-released)
Magik Markers - Don’t Talk in Your Sleep (MP3)
from Balf Quarry on Drag City
Middle Class Rut - Busy Bein’ Born (MP3)
from 25 Years on Bright Antenna
Mika Miko - I Got A Lot (New New New) (MP3)
from We Be Xuxa on Post Present Medium
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Nikorette (MP3)
from Outer South on Merge
Tara Jane O’Neil - Drowning (MP3)
from A Ways Away on K Records
Other Girls - Hey Fella! You Fell (MP3)
from Perfect Cities on Audio Eagle Records
Our Brother the Native - All Grown (MP3)
from Sacred Psalms on Fat Cat Records
Peaches - Talk to Me (MP3)
from I Feel Cream on XL
Alasdair Roberts - Hazel Forks (MP3)
from Spoils on Drag City
Shout Out Out Out Out - How Do I Maintain Pt. 2 (MP3)
from Reintegration Time on Normals Welcome Records
St. Vincent - The Strangers (MP3)
from Actor on 4AD
Starfucker - Medicine (MP3)
from Jupiter on Badman Recording Co
Christopher Tignor - Cathedral, Pt. 2 (MP3)
from Core Memory Unwound on Western Vinyl
The Vaselines - Son of a Gun (MP3)
from Enter the Vaselines (remastered) on Sub Pop
Patrick Watson & the Wooden Arms - Man Like You (MP3)
from Wooden Arms on Secret City Records
The Western States - Time to Lose (MP3)
from Bye and Bye on Dollartone Records
Yoshida Brothers - Seven (MP3)
from Prism on Domo Records
