New Albums from Mars Volta, Gossip, and 13 More
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By Spin Staff 06.23.09 10:10 AM
Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today:
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First Listen: Wolf Parade Side-Project Sunset Rubdown
DOWNLOAD: The busiest musician in Canada, Spencer Krug, mashes pop with pomp on his band's June release. Get "Idiot Heart" here!
By Larry Fitzmaurice 04.17.09 6:45 AM
Montreal's Wolf Parade have made a career of combining the weird with the poppy, experimenting sonically while maintaining a song's whistle-ability. The band's co-songwriter, Spencer Krug, is injecting that formula with steroids for his side-project Sunset Rubdown -- check out their new song "Idiot Heart" below!
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Wolf Parade: Animal Collective of Montreal
Following up a revered debut album with a more, um, challenging one often inspires catty backlash. But the scruffy Canadian indie rockers of Wolf Parade are too busy playing in 17 other bands to worry. Is this the new careerism?
By Steve Kandell 06.23.08 8:11 PM
Montreal is only 47 minutes from New York in a plane no bigger than a school bus. But on this cloudy late April morning, each of those 47 minutes is teeth-gnashingly, stomach-churningly turbulent, making it impossible to forget that you are, in fact, not on a school bus, but rather inside a thin metal tube careening rapidly 35,000 feet above the ground in a manner antithetical to man's nature.
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