Sonny and the Sunsets’ new album, Longtime Companion, will be released via Polyvinyl Record Company on June 26th. The lead single Pretend You Love Me can be streamed above. It takes me back to long car rides as a kid. Does that mean it sounds like Simply Red?

After the Sex Pistols said some naughty words on the Tedd Grundy show punk spread like the plague. Here four young Yugoslavians show the early symptoms of the contagion.

Allen Ginsberg has come back from the grave to present this commercial for White Fence and Ty Segall’s collaboration, Hair.

It’s gonna get hot

There’s a comic and coffee shop opening in Hackney called Egg Milk Butter. Mazes are playing their first show of the year in the way of an inauguration for it. Be there at The Shacklewell Arms on Saturday. Support comes from Paws.

Earl Scruggs 1924-2012

French Kissing are back with double A-sided 7″, Wild Women/ Love Is For. To celebrate the release, which is on Frenchy label Croque Macadem, the band are throwing a launch party at The Waiting Room this Thursday with support from Jerry Tropicano and The Black Tambourines. Stream the tracks below.

Here’s Black Manila’s cover of I Can’t Stand It, recorded somewhere in France. It’s incredible. They’ve launched a new website with a teaser for their next single too. Check it out at www.blackmanila.com.

FUCKING ELVIS!

These hand-held digicam videos for Cass McCombs’ songs are too much! This one’s sort of hard to work out. I can’t get enough of it though. Enjoy…

the band in Heaven – High Low from the band in Heaven on Vimeo.

Check out the video for High Low by Band in Heaven. The band interviewed themselves for us a month back, read it here. Fuckin’ weirdos…