November 10, 2011 – Right now, the guys in hardscrabble New York garage rock crew the So So Glos are putting finishing touches to their third full-length, a yet-to-be-named offering that will most likely arrive in the spring 2012. We hope. Below, you'll find "Lost Weekend," a slice of power-pop so effortless and effervescent and well-executed, it doesn't feel too crazy to suggest that it might have brothers and sisters just as irresistible. DOWNLOAD

November 10, 2011 – Just last week, Renaissance Man dropped The Renaissance Man Project, the Finnish electro outfit's debut LP and an effort that includes the elemental beatscapes of "Stalker Humanoid." Check out the sylvan, self-directed clip for that cut, paying particularly close attention to the choreography that unfolds at the 1:06 and 2:57 marks. Renaissance Man are set to celebrate their album release with a performance at XOYO London on November 19. Scalable, non-watermarked brightcove.createExperiences();

November 10, 2011 – Early last year, Revocation found themselves in very distinguished company, namely on our list of Artists to Watch in 2010. Those were heady times. Below, you can check out a cheeky clip of the Boston-based metalmakers vamping and plowing and rumbling through "In You Funeral" as shot in by SCION A/V. Look at them go — sometimes we know what we're talking about!

November 10, 2011 – As we mentioned earlier this week, G-Side are just one day away from the digital release of iSLAND, a new full-length the Alabama hip-hip alchemists are preparing to support with a full-fledged trek through the U.S. Today, you can listen to "24 Eight," a mood piece heard only as part of NPR's recent "Hip-Hop You Won't Hear On The Radio" mixtape. Feel free to let us know what you think in the comments.

November 10, 2011 – On November 17, Dashboard Confessional leader Chris Carrabba will release Covered in the Flood, his first record under his own name and one comprised solely of covers of songs by bands including Big Star, the Replacements, and Archers of Loaf. SPIN is debuting his sumptuous, slow-talking, sometimes spectral take on R.E.M.'s 1987 landmark single "It's the End Of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." But note that this is not the first time that Carrabba has taken a crack at the R.E.M. songbook — way back in the 2004, you may remember the Floridian singer-songwriter's contribution to MTV2s short-lived "Album Covers" series, in which he Dashboard-i-fied a slew of songs from Automatic for the People in front of a television audience at Arlene's Grocery in New York.

November 10, 2011 – "Beacon" is a bull-rushing, shape-shifting cut from No Kings, the second "all-crew" release from Doomtree, a Minneapolis hip-hop collective that shares ties with Upper Midwest yacht-rock family Gayngs. They're releasing the album themselves on their own self-titled label November 22, a move as organic and democratic as what you'll hear here.

November 9, 2011 – This Friday, Brooklyn electro (some ding-dongs would say "chillwave") smoothies Small Black will drop Moon Killer, their first official mixtape. It's a release set to include "Love's Not Enough", the "Your Love"-sampling synth odyssey available for you to hear and hold below. Best use of a Nicki Minaj chorus since Nicki Minaj! (And the Nicki song sampled Annie Lennox's "No More I Love You's"! Meta!) DOWNLOAD

November 9, 2011 – Next week, Xtra Mile will release Polymers Are Forever, a new EP from wily Welsh indie rock outfit Future of the Left, the current songwriting vehicle for former Mclusky frontman Andy Falkous. It's six songs in 20 minutes, every single one of which is as acerbic and ill-tempered as you could ever hope. (Surprisingly, even his mother found something to love.) To those of you meeting Mr. Falkous for the first time, we envy you: The ride is bumpy, but glorious.

November 9, 2011 – On November 15, Brooklyn art-rock brohams Pterodactyl will uncage Spills Out, their finest and most deliciously schizophrenic full-length to date. Check out the album in its pinballing entirety while reading choice words from guitarist/vocalist Joe Kremer on a few of his favorite songs on the disc: "The Break""This one is very, very directly about leaving my job and embracing this, like, surf song thing with open arms. It's the song that fits in that sort of history, just because surfing is what I imagine when I think of being totally free. I was a physics teacher for a long-ass time. I was good at my job and I worked really hard at it. You can always do more to make it better and music works the same way, but basically, looking to my job to validate myself was a source of constant stress, where with surfing I know I'm not very good at it.

November 9, 2011 – Mayer Hawthorne has an ear for throwbacks. The Ann Arbor-bred soul man (government name Andrew Mayer Cohen) has made a name for himself over the past few years by churning out Motown-inflected bedroom pop, the emphasis leaning heavily on "bed." That said, his gift for evoking golden eras has also landed him some cherry remixing jobs (Snoop Dogg counts himself a happy customer). His latest is this take on "Dig a Little Deeper," an especially jouncy number from Peter Bjorn and John's most recent full-length, Gimme Some: