New albums from Boston electro-pop sensation Passion Pit, Brooklyn indie trio Au Revoir Simone (buy it and get their previous three albums for free!), Nevada City folk singer Alela Diane's new band Headless Heroes, and much more! Get some.

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Today we're thrilled to bring you an exclusive release of Davy, the new album from Coconut Records (Jason Schwartzman), as well as new releases from Kreator, the unstoppable Bang Camaro, Mia Riddle, and more!

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"The album is likely to find favor with clubbers looking for downtempo tunes to soundtrack their comedown. But [DJ /rupture's] knack for unearthing wildly disparate compositions, and seamlessly melding them together, will likely induce a few smiles in the blissed-out warmth of the post-club hours."

[7/10]

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These United States are definitely the hardest working young band we know, releasing Crimes just a few months after their fantastic debut. Get it now for $5, and find the new albums from Mogwai, Thievery Corporation, and Brightblack Morning Light in this week's featured six!

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Four years after his first release on Stones Throw, Canadian downtempo hip-hop artist Koushik has released Out My Window, his official debut. Check out our review after the break!

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Like the second coming of Beck, James Pants combines fuzzy electro, irreverent rap and weirdly addictive R&B. Check out Welcome and the rest of our featured albums after the jump!

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Creatively inspired by drawing words from a bag at random, recorded in Willie Nelson's Texas studio, and based in part on the 1979 film Bye Bye Brasil, Buy MP3 Album certainly has an interesting back-story. In fact, it almost never came to light.

For the three years preceding its release, Two Loons For Tea stopped recording entirely after a strange near-tragedy befell guitarist Jonathan Kochmer. As he tells it, "I almost amputated my left index finger in a bizarre accident involving a butter knife and a buffalo burger."

But the truly interesting story lies behind the band itself.

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One man who's gained respect from Canada to the US and now all over the world is Ghislain Poirier. His big-name remixes, Montréal "Bounce Le Gros" parties, performance at the 2006 Pitchfork Music Festival, and recently-founded record label have solidified his reputation as a DJ and producer. URB calls him "a post-millenial artist seeking to explode musical conventions... [Poirier's] sound is a true polyglot, just like his bastardized French."

Spinning, producing, sampling, and remixing everything from mainstream rap to glitch-dance music, Ghislain Poirier is a welcome addition to the Amie Street catalog. I spoke with him briefly via e-mail this past week about hip-hop rivalry, his future ambitions, and the Internet; check the interview after the break!

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If you haven't already heard from our recent announcement, Thievery Corporation is bringing their eclectic lounge music to Amie Street. This D.C. based duo incorporates music and languages from around the world into what's generally referred to as down-tempo electronic. The group's use of dub, acid jazz, Indian classical, and bossa nova as well as lyrics in English, Spanish, French, Persian, Portuguese and Hindi prove that they are beyond categorization.

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