When Raconteurs co-frontman Brendan Benson isn't onstage rocking out with Jack White, the Detroit native is busy with another one of his fave pastimes -- gardening!

Singer/songwriter, radio DJ, and SPIN Breaking Out alum Anya Marina just dropped her sophomore album, Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II. You may have heard its first single, "Move You," on an episode of Grey's Anatomy -- but below you can watch Marina perform the song exclusively for SPIN.com!

Say Anything's Max Bemis and Saves the Day's Chris Conley have combined their songwriting powers as Two Tongues. Their self-titled debut album just dropped via Vagrant -- and you can hear one its best tracks, "If I Could Make You Do Things," right here on SPIN.com!

New Pornographers leader A.C. Newman released his second solo album, Get Guilty, last week. One its best tracks is "Submarines of Stockholm" (below), a power-pop number about a disorenting trip to Sweden. He explains:

Witty and blithe, Stephen Malkmus' jester-of-the-MTV-age lyricism has been as vital to Pavement's music as the lo-fi guitars and catchy alt-pop structures. And nowhere have these assets been as freeform as on "Stereo," the opening track off their reissued 1997 album Brighten the Corners.

Changing Horses, Ben Kweller's country-leaning new album, arrives Feb. 3 via ATO Records. One of its best songs is "Sawdust Man," a slow groove with slide banjo and saloon-like piano, which Kweller describes to SPIN.com as having a "'70s, Leon Russell cocaine vibe."