DOWNLOAD: Tilly & the Wall - Cacophony (new MP3)

Tilly and the Wall and Lightspeed Champion in the UK

Tilly and the Wall are going on a tour this summer to support their new album "O" - out June 17th on Team Love (though you can get it on June 3rd).

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for a July 29th show at Music Hall of Williamsburg and for one the next day at Bowery Ballroom.

Derek's other band Flowers Forever is touring this summer too (with Lightspeed Champion) and they are also playing Bowery Ballroom. All Tilly dates below....

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The new Mountain Goats album, Heretic Pride, is garnering critical accolades (including an 8.0 in Pitchfork today), all of them deserved. Not only is John Darnielle's songwriting stronger with every new release, but he seems more comfortable with the production and collaborating musicians (including St. Vincent's Annie Clark here). Look for an interview with Darnielle on Largehearted Boy tomorrow.

A Mountain Goats release alone would make it a great music release week for me, but there are plenty more quality discs I can recommend. Bon Iver received plenty of music blog love for the hauntingly beautiful For Emma, Forever Ago. I can also strongly recommend American Music Club's The Golden Age, Allison Moorer's Mockingbird, Flowers Forever's self-titled debut, Headlights' Some Racing, Some Stopping, Mike Doughty's Golden Delicious, Raveonettes' Lust Lust Lust, and Throw Me the Statue's Moonbeams from what I have already heard.

Yep Roc reissues a remastered edition of Nick Lowe's classic album, Jesus of Cool, this week.

Poetry and Beat generation fans will be excited to see Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen's three-disc Poetry For The Beat Generation available as a standalone purchase.

What new releases you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything worthwhile off the list?

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DOWNLOAD: Flowers Forever - Black Rosary (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Flowers Forever - Beach Bum (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Flowers Forever - Happy New Year (MP3)

Flowers Forever are from Omaha, Nebraska. They have a new self-titled album coming out on Team Love Records on February 19th, 2008. A video biography is below....

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