Music Under Fire

With Keane, Copeland, I'm From Barcelona and a whole slew of other talented artists releasing this week, leave no doubts that October has a heavy music head to carry already.

Following up their highly sought after Under the Iron Sea, Keane returns with another ever enlivening sound with Perfect Symmetry. In line as one of best of the year, it's .

Most likely to reach the masses but least likely to be found in a mainstream commercials are the men of Copeland (above). Their earnest composition lacks nothing yet beckons to be played multiple times. You Are My Sunshine should continue the group's luring of fans to their instantly groovy tunes.

It would be a sin to speak of anything funky this week and not mention I'm From Barcelona's Who Killed Harry Houdini? The masses of this group sing with a real cajoling manner that can't help but earn a chuckle and the eventual addition to your musical library.

In the indie pop front, Houston Calls are back for the first time since their A Collection of Short Stories from 2005 while Hearts of Palm UK will be dishing out their first taste of their girly grit pop.

MP3: I'm From Barcelona - Music Killed Me (buy)
MP3: The Foreign Exchange - Daykeeper (buy)
MP3: Ingrid Michaelson - The Chain (demo)
MP3: Keane - We Might As Well Be Strangers (DJ Shadow Remix)

AC/DC - Black Ice (Official) (MySpace)
Benoit Pioulard - Temper (Official) (MySpace)
Bill Madden - Child of the Same God (Official) (MySpace)
Boo and Boo Too - No Tempo (Official) (MySpace)
Bosque Brown - Baby (Official) (MySpace)
Buttless Chaps - Cartography (Official) (MySpace)
Chandeliers - The Thrush (Official) (MySpace)
Cool Hand Luke - The Sleeping House (Official) (MySpace)
Copeland - You are My Sunshine (Official) (MySpace)
Curumin - JapanPopShow (Official) (MySpace)
Cut off Your Hands - You and I (Official) (MySpace)
Davernport Cabinet - Nostalgia in Stereo (Official) (MySpace)
David Bowie - iSelect: Bowie (Official) (MySpace)
Dead C - Secret Earth (Official) (MySpace)
Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series - Voume 1 (Official) (MySpace)
Dillinger 4 - Civil War (Official) (MySpace)
Dragonette - Galor (Official) (MySpace)
Early Man - Beware The Circling Fin (Official) (MySpace)
Facing New York - Get Hot (Official) (MySpace)
Frances - All the While (Official) (MySpace)
Golden Hands Before God - Here (Official) (MySpace)
Haste the Day - Dreamer (Official) (MySpace)
Hearts of Palm UK - For Life (Official) (MySpace)
Houston Calls - The End of an Error (Official) (MySpace)
I'm from Barcelona - Who Killed Harry Houdini? (Official) (MySpace)
Ingrid Michaelson - Be OK (Official) (MySpace)
Keane - Perfect Symmetry (Official) (MySpace)
Kinetic Stereokids - Have A Nice Day EP (Official) (MySpace)
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning EP (Official) (MySpace)
Los Lonely Boys - Christmas Is Here (Official) (MySpace)
Lotus - Hammerstrike (Official) (MySpace)
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey (Official) (MySpace)
Manchester Orchestra - Let My Pride Be What's Left Behind EP (Official) (MySpace)
Menahan Street Band - Make the Road By Walking (Official) (MySpace)
Mindhook - Flinch (MySpace)
Minus 5 - Indies Only (Official) (MySpace)
Nikka Costa - Pebble To A Pearl (Official) (MySpace)
Quietdrive - Deliverance (Official) (MySpace)
Religious Knives - The Door (Official) (MySpace)
Rio En Medio - Frontier (MySpace)
Run On Sentence - Oh When the Wind Comes Down (Official) (MySpace)
Santana - Multi-Dimensional Warrior (Official) (MySpace)
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard EP (Official) (MySpace)
Sister Sin - Switchblade Serenades (Official) (MySpace)
Telepathe - Chrome's On It EP (MySpace)
The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind (Official) (MySpace)
The Friday Night Boys - That's What She Said EP (Official) (MySpace)
The Mighty Underdogs - Droppin' Science Fiction (MySpace)
The Organ - Thieves EP (MySpace)
The Qemists - Join the Q (Official) (MySpace)
The Secret Machines - Secret Machines (Official) (MySpace)
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends (Official)
Unearth - The March (Official) (MySpace)
Various Artists - Johnny Cash Remixed
Why? - Almost Live from Eli's Live Room (Official) (MySpace)
Windy & Carl - Songs for the Broken Hearted (Official) (MySpace)