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)

It's Tuesday! Normally each week, there are more unheard of groups than ones most people would know. This week is a fine exception due to a large amount of groups who have been out and back, or perhaps just out, but never heard of.

This week, Del The Funky Homosapien makes his appearance after 8 years of living behind the scenes with the release of Eleventh Hour. Its always awkward when artists put out a 'Best Of' album, then come back and screw things up - not in Del's case. Another 'out and back' artist is Presidents of The United States of America, who haven't been around since their 2004 release Love Everybody. To be honest, I wasn't aware they were still on the radar after "Lump" back in 1995.

Other groups to look out for this week are the electro-pop Junior Boys with Body Language Six, the folksy group WHY? with their release of Alopecia, the well-anticipated release of the pop-punk bandits, Saosin with their latest release Come Close. We also recommend taking a gander at Cassettes Won't Listen and our 'the band' for the week, The Diggs with ctrl-alt-del.

MP3: The Diggs - Recovery Forever (buy)
MP3: The Diggs - Careen (buy)
MP3: Why? - The Hollows (buy)
MP3: Cassettes Won't Listen - Paper Float (buy)
MP3: Junior Boys - Neon Rider (buy)
MP3: Saosin - Stream the album here (buy)

Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit Redux (10 Year Anniversary Release) (buy)
Big D and the Kids Table - Strictly Mixed and Mashed (Wiki) (MySpace)

Black Hollies - Casting Shadows (buy)
Burial Hex - Initiations
Cassettes Won't Listen - Small-Time Machine EP (buy)
Crash Romeo - Gave Me the Clap (MySpace)
Death House of Chaplin - Of Asthma
Del The Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour (MySpace) (YouTube) (buy)
Dr. Manhattan - Dr. Manhattan (buy)
Dragged By Horses - Deep in the Woods (MySpace) (buy)
Fat Joe - Elephant in the Room (buy)
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin' (MySpace) (buy)
Junior Boys - Body Language Six (YouTube) (IMEEM)
Justice of the Unicorns - Angels With Uzis (MySpace) (buy)
Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge (MySpace) (YouTube) (buy)
Mike Patton - A Perfect Place (MySpace)
Nick Jaina - Wool (MySpace)
Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Presidents of the United States of America - These are the Good Times People (buy)
Saosin - Come Close (MySpace) (YouTube) (buy)
Sarah Slean - The Baroness (MySpace) (YouTube)
Saving Abel - Saving Abel (MySpace) (iLike) (buy)
Silje Nes - Ames Room (last.fm)
Simon & Garfunkel - Live 1969
The Diggs - ctrl-alt-del (MySpace) (last.fm) (YouTube) (buy)
The O.C. Supertones - The Ultimate Collection (buy)
Two Shots of Rye - Hooks on Tape (MySpace) (purevolume) (buy)
WHY? - Alopecia (buy)