Two exclusive pre-releases for you folks today! The long-awaited LP from Discovery (Vampire Weekend + Ra Ra Riot), and the debut from Brooklyn "shwag-rockers" Motel Motel.

Plus, an insanely good new release from Welsh (post-/meta-) punk band Future of the Left, a mixtape from Chicago rapper Naledge (1/2 of Kidz in the Hall), and more!

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Scary Fragile, the most recent release from this Down Under singer, is only her second record, but shows just how far Butterfly Boucher has come from her debut in the early 2000s. Bearing all the grit and gusto of notorious femmes fatale like Pink and the cheeky chic that only girl-rockers like Gwen Stefani can emit, this is a delicately computed but hard-driving record.

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New music from God Help The Girl (a girl group put together by Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch), a cool covers album from The Lemonheads, the new single from Swedish shoegazers The Radio Dept., and more!

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The Baltimore foursome that makes up The Seldon Plan balances on the cusp of a collegian's slowly developing taste in the indie-rock world and the sophisticated post-grad's easy listening preference. The very timely Lost and Found and Lost emerges at a time when both groups -- those hanging on to their youthful love of post-rock pop and those attempting to devote their ear to more meaningful, inspired lyrics -- are looking to the airwaves to find some meaning in today's world.

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Sometimes you just want to put on your giant cushy headphones, switch to the saddest Bon Iver track you can find, and cry your eyes out. We all do it (maybe). Other times, when you actually need to perk up, you need that good old four-piece funk fix. Look no further. Amidst the high-powered indie-pop that's been released recently, with its proclivity for tangled sentimentality and drawn-out catharsis, Dublin's Hoarsebox reaffirms that popular music is, and should be, entertaining as hell.

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Today we've got a new J Dilla collection that Rolling Stone calls "possibly the best posthumous rap record since the final releases of 2Pac and Biggie," along with new music from Baltimore's The Seldon Plan, Dave Allen from Gang of Four's new band Faux Hoax, a free track and $5 album from Butterfly Boucher, and more!

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