Stream Joy Orbison’s New EP, The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow, Which Mostly Consists of the Same Drum Beat Playing For Eight to Twelve Minutes, Before Your Neurological System Completely Shuts Down, Rendering the Rest of the EP to a Indeterminable Quality [Gorilla vs. Bear]

Stream Two Unreleased Songs From Sweden’s JJ, Neither of Which Feature Samples of Dudes Taking Hits From Bongs, Thus Fulfilling The Album Cover of n° 2, Fans Pleased With the Music, But Noticeably Not Baked [Gorilla vs. Bear]

British Pop Duo Goldfrapp Announce New Album, Head First, Which Prominently Features an Enormous Disembodied Head, Thus Making Album Title Appropriate and Well Executed [Idolator]

Pavement Set to Headline Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago; Readers of Pitchfork Think to Selves “That is So Pitchfork, Pavement is So Reminiscent of Pavement” [Consequence of Sound]

Download New Dirty Projectors 7-Inch, Acending Melody, Because No One of Any Influence Will Respect You if You Don’t [Spin]

Stream All of Spoon’s Upcoming Album, Transference (But I Can Save You a Little Bit of Time: It Sounds Like 70s Rock and Roll, and Features Heavy Amounts of Funk, With a Dude Throatily Whinin — It Sounds Like Spoon…You Get It) [NPR]

Los Angeles Glitz-Disco (Glitzco?) Band Music Go Music Announce Debut Album Expressions, Which, If Anything Like “Warm in the Shadows,” Will Define Enormous, Sweaty Periods of Your Life [NME]

Mute Set to Reissue a Bunch of Buzzcock Albums; Williamsburg Crusty Punks Psyched, But Unable to Express This Due to Years of Heroin Abuse and Hearing Loss Caused By Heavy Listening to the Buzzcocks [Pitchfork]

New M.I.A. Album This Summer. Get Psyched. [Stereogum]

compiled by Max Sebela