Saturday Music Blogging

Have you heard the leaked track from the new Interpol album? No? Well, now you have. Pretty great, eh? Our Love to Admire drops on July 10, the same day as other hipster icon Spoon's new disk, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Don't let the name trouble you, though. I've heard it, and the music is much better than the title--actually their best in years, I'd say.

Addendum: I completely forgot to mention this a few weeks ago, but the new Feist album, The Reminder, is sweet and coy and smart and altogether lovely--pretty much everything a boy could want, I'd say. It's a flirt of an album--equal parts frivolous and secretly melancholy. Pitchfork agrees, although if anything, they underrate it. You'll want to watch the video for single, too; it's not the album's best track (that would be "Sea Lion Woman"), but wow--take look at the choreography in this. I'm (musically) smitten.



Addendum, Again: Holy mid-90s guitar-geekery! The new Smashing Pumpkins song leaked! And man, it's a big fat timewarp to freshman year in high school. Oh lord, this is serious: I have a bizarre urge to drink Surge, watch MTV, and listen to Green Day. Fun fact! Billy Corgan used as many as 24 separate guitar tracks on some songs on Siamese Dream. That's what oh-so-many years of reading friends' subscriptions to Guitar World will get you.

Addendum, More!: Speaking of exuberant choreography and big fat timewarps (via Unfogged):