Leading up to Valentine's Day, love was certainly on tap this past week: Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore got engaged, the Mobius Band gave away a sonic love letter to their fans, and Trail of Dead showed some love to SPIN's new offices with a private performance. Meanwhile, the domestic abuse allegations against Chris Brown have us asking, "Where's the love?"

You've read SPIN.com's live review -- but now you can finally sample the awesomeness that is the Thermals' new album for yourself!

"Now we're going to bore you with our new songs," frontman Hutch Harris said Saturday night at Brooklyn's Bell House, where the Thermals played a one-off U.S. show before embarking on a European tour. He couldn't have been more wrong: The seven songs the Portland, OR, trio performed off their upcoming album, Now We Can See (April 7), are among their best yet.

"I was here all year… you never called," joked Thermals guitarist/vocalist Hutch Harris to the sold-out crowd at Portland OR's Doug Fir Lounge Friday night. It was a homecoming of sorts for the Thermals, who hadn't played a Portland gig in almost a year -- and it was clear that the audience missed their hometown heroes.

While in Vegas last year for the VMAs, Gym Class Heroes bassist Eric Roberts discovered a new favorite band -- the Thermals -- via a music video channel playing in his hotel room at the Palms. "They're just young kids bouncing around the room playing awesome punk rock music," says Roberts of the Thermals' video for "Pillar of Salt."