No Salvation, the first release on Relapse Records by hardcore group Coliseum, finds this Louisville trio pushing the limits of their inner speedometers and combining the thunder of Motorhead with the passion of a young Ian MacKaye.

This fall, New York jam/groove outfit The Benevento/Russo Duo will continue to ride the wave of recognition their 2006 release, Play Pause Stop, has garnered by traveling the west coast. And in the middle of their tour, The Duo will also join The Yard Dogs Road Show at DeVotchKa‘s Halloween Zombie Formal in Denver, CO.

Following 2005’s Menos El Oso and a remix album released a year later, Seattle’s Minus the Bear return with their best release to date. With Planet of Ice, the indie-synth wizards push onward without keyboardist Matt Bayles and deliver a slightly progressive album of their signature sound.

With the sponsorship of shoe company PF Flyers and aid of director/animator Stefan Nadelman, three-piece pop melodicists Menomena have finished a video for “Evil Bee,” the tenth track on their second full-length album, Friend or Foe.

Dan Snaith, the man currently known as Caribou and formerly known as Manitoba, has concocted an elegant mix of whispy pop, acoustic beauty, and psychedelia for his newest record, Andorra. With elaborate, flush melodies dripping from every pore of his person, Snaith has earned himself a place in the upper echelon of modern songwriters and arrangers with its release.

O’Death, maestros of fiddle-filled folk, blistering bluegrass, and melancholy Americana, have announced two weeks worth of U.S. tour dates with semi-orchestral act Rock Plaza Central.

Successful sophomore releases are crucial events for musicians, and Eisley has stepped into a haze of tiresome songwriting.

The DuPree family rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings and one cousin, showcased great potential earlier in its career. A handful of EPs (notably Laughing City and Marvelous Things) held gentle harmonies by guitarist Sherri and keyboardist Stacy that welcomed orchestrated arrangements.

Morbid, bluesy swamp rocker Dax Riggs — formerly of Deadboy & The Elephantmen and Acid Bath — will tour with ALARM cover artists Queens of the Stone Age for twelve dates in September.

Vancouver five-piece You Say Party! We Say Die! has released a sophomore album, Lose All Time, that is a true dance-punk commotion.

The band’s two-part genre consists of a quasi-global sound. A basic concoction of synthesizers and dance-floor rhythms quickly capture listeners’ attention regardless of their country or continent or origin.

Absurdist dance artist/composer Dan Deacon is wrapping up a DVD with collaborator/visual artist Jimmy Joe Roche, and in their concoction of buzzing, ’80s-flavored psychedelia, the two have employed one serious secret weapon: Arnold Schwarzenegger.