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The new Dungen album has leaked and is available here. My first impressions are very good, though none of the individual tracks have immediately jumped out at me (the lyrics being in Swedish contribute to that). It's not a huge departure from Ta Det Lugnt, with plenty of fuzzed out, psychedelic guitar rock mixed in with more cinematic feeling organ and string songs. I'm still not aware of anyone making music like this today. Some individual tracks can be found at Obscure Sound.

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Blonde Redhead have a new song and a new album: "23" is the excellent title track from their album that's coming out April 10th.

Blonde Redhead / "23"

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Wow, so much great music of late. Been listening to a lot of Europop, British rock, and remixes of late (primarily of Europop and British rock). Much of this stuff I found on Good Weather for Airstrikes, which has become my favorite music blog over the past several months.

The Maccabees / "X-Ray (Filthy Dukes Society Remix)"
The Maccabees / "X-Ray"
The Maccabees are British and don't even have an LP yet, but they make the sort of angular, slashing British rock that got me hooked on Bloc Party (think "Helicopter") two years ago. There's definitely a clear sense of Clash and Gang of Four influence, and this remix is currently my favorite thing to blare in the car. Here's their first video "First Love."

Klaxons / "Atlantis to Interzone (Crystal Castles Remix)"
Goodbooks / "Leni (Crystal Castles Remix)"
I'm actually not totally on board with Klaxons, who seem to have become a buzz band somehow. Crystal Castles can do little wrong with remixes, though. I haven't even looked into Goodbooks but I like how the female vocals are cut up and angled against each other (EDIT: just listened to the original and Goodbooks' lead singer is a guy, but on both of these tracks they play with the vocal track to make it sound like a woman's). Both tracks feature the signature Crystal Castles old school Nintendo vibe.

Mika / "Relax, Take It Easy"
I'm not even going to link to Mika's website because this song is a musical one-night stand. It's kitschy, laden with BeeGee audition vocals, and oh yeah, its melody was jacked from "I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight." By Cutting Crew.

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Here's the promising and uncensored trailer for the new Judd Apatow flick "Knocked Up." It stars the hilarious and scrubby Seth Rogan (the guy who wasn't Steve Carell or Paul Rudd from 40 Year Old Virgin) and Katherine Heigl (from the massively overrated Grey's Anatomy). It also has Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig, and Jonah Hill among others.

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Andy Barker, PI has both Andy Richter and AD's Tony Hale, but the clip on the website isn't all that promising.

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Here's the trailer for the new Adam Sandler/Don Cheadle flick Reign Over Me, which will either be very good or absolutely awful.