home metal alt/ indie punk rock hip-hop pop other   login staff reviews charts new releases music news lists message boards Best New Music Animal Collective Fall Be Kind This is Animal Collective at their finest folks, inviting everyone in to see them at their peak and loving the freedom that comes with being on top of the world... John Mayer Battle Studies or, John Mayer’s Eleven Reflections On The Theme Of Love, Performed In The Key Of Starry Eye'd Hunkness... pg.lost In Never Out In Never Out is maddeningly safe, never really pushing the volume past Eight when pg.lost are so, so good at Eleven... Gaza He Is Never Coming Back One of the better heavy albums of the year so far... Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland A more than worthy follow-up to their meisterwerk... Say Anything Say Anything On Mara And Me, Max Bemis asserts that he can't define [himself] through irony and self-deprecation. Watch him try... Do Make Say Think Other Truths So then they that are in the flesh cannot please DMST. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of DMST dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of DMST, he is none of his... The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine Twice as heavy, twice as fast, and more musically demanding than ever, The Red Chord's fourth album should solidify the band as a truly formidable force in American death metal... Orphans of Cush White Noize UK hip-hop just ARRIVED, son... Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue Alice in Chains hasn't lost a step.. Brand New Daisy Brand New have completely evolved from the heartbroken adolescents that brought you Your Favourite Weapon, obliterating that memory with each distorted riff and every coarse scream found within Daisy... Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II The Pyrex is bubbling, the stove is broke; fuck it, use the flame from the oven - the famous dozen about to hit the streets, they buzzing..... Yo La Tengo Popular Songs band doesn't know how to suck.. Polvo In Prism 'In Prism' does not reach the heights of previous Polvo records, but it does present us with a new take on the Polvo sound... Mew No More Stories Mew releases one of the year's most endearing records to date... As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You As Tall As Lions hit their stride with a collection of soulful and impassioned alt-rock that finds them putting subtlety before extravagance... Behemoth Evangelion Behemoth do their best impersonation ov themselves... Rx Bandits Mandala Hornless and open to explore, Mandala is everything Rx Bandits have worked for and more.. Florence and the Machine Lungs The most confident debut and best pop album of 2009 so far...