In addition to today's featured releases from The Dandy Warhols, Black Meteoric Star, and Quantic, we've got a special offer from our friends at Thrillist:

Sign up for their newsletter, a daily email of food, fashion, and nightlife recommendations for your city, and they'll pick one lucky person to give $100 of Amie Street credit!

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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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Looking to slip on the shades, pour a few frozen margaritas and listen to some laid-back beach tunes to pull yourself out of the "there's still 3.5 months of this wet cold winter weather to come" blues? Perhaps some Beach Boys California coast beats or Jack Johnson's Hawaiian hammock-time strums? All good choices, but if you really want to shake the flakes (snow, that is) then check out The Beautiful Girls -- and I don't mean the ones walking the shores of whatever exotic destination you're imagining.

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DC's These United States are now on tour throughout the US midwest/northeast; find their November dates after the break!

"[Crimes is] a phenomenal record... this is almost as much of a supergroup as The New Pornographers or Broken Social Scene. And even though they might not have a fraction of those bands' fame, to judge solely on Saturday's performance, they've already started playing with a level of energy that suggests that nobody bothered to tell them." - You Ain't No Picasso

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The newest album from DC's prolific country-rockers These United States has the grace of a measured classic, yet never loses the band's fun-loving, freewheeling spirit. Read our full review after the jump!

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Echoing through the streets of Seattle, Washington, come The Cave Singers, an eclectic trio of punk rockers-turned-folk aficionados. Check out Invitation Songs after the break!

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Bloomington, IL's Backyard Tire Fire have just released their new album, The Places We Lived. The album is American roots rock through-and-through, echoing the Allman Brothers at times and Tom Petty others -- check it out after the break!

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It's too easy to listen to a great record because someone tells you to, even to enjoy it, and never dig deeper into an artist's catalog. Especially in the case of The National, to assume they only got good when all the bloggers started to say so would be a colossally regrettable oversight.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is syndicated from Joe Koch's blog, Of Figs and Mint.

was just released on Tuesday and I can already tell that it will be one of my favorites of the year. Imagine Hem teaming up with The National and letting Jón Þór Birgisson [of Sigur Rós] lead the artistic direction. The result is ambient and minimal without losing a distinctive, personal Southern flavor. I haven't listened to anything else for the last 24 hours and I continually hear new things in the intricately subtle layers that line the album's faint corners.

After the break: Jefferson Airplane, Blitzen Trapper, The National, and North Mississippi Allstars!

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