Each year, Mexican Joy Division club, “CM Interzone” picks their favorite Joy Division track for the upcoming year. It is their belief that Joy Division’s catalogue contains enough source material to accurately predict the mood of the world over the coming 12 months. This year’s selection, Ice Age is forboding and ominous, but not any more then past years’ picks. Club Musical Interzone is the Old Farmer’s Alamanc of Mexican Gothic music societies, so we recommend stocking up on essentials, gold, and weapons for the year to come.

Ice Age mp3

Wolf Parade just released their debut Sub Pop album, available in fine stores everywhere. Or just listen to a free mp3:

Shine a Light mp3

Blood on the Wall have a new record out and it’s winning rave reviews, not least of all from our contributor from Tokyo, Kei Watanabe, who says they’ll remind you of the Pixies.

Bloody Susan mp3

Pulp fan club from Slovenia, “Pulpr Zbor” has had a contentious meeting in their basement HQ in a shady neighborhood in Ljubljana last night, resulting in an abortive coup and, at last, a decision on the greatest Pulp song in history.

While one faction pushed for “Common People,” on the grounds that it was the song which pretty much introduced Pulp to Slovenia, others went a more purist direction and ultimately won out with their selection of “Do You Remember the First Time”. We’ve kindly provided links to both songs below for your perusal.

Common People mp3

Do You Remember the First Time

The wiley Metric, of Toronto, Canadia, are back on the scene with a new album critics from Barcelona to Brooklyn love to call ‘taut’ and a tour of North America. Metric’s sound hasn’t changed, still plenty of guitars and a great frontwoman. They put on a great show so check the tour dates below.

Here are 2 mp3s from the new record:

Monster Hospital mp3

Poster of a Girl mp3

And here are the Tour Dates:
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Tarantula A.D.’s track “Who Took Berlin part 1) is our featured Rock Opus of the month. It’s not every day that you get a track that starts with a guitar solo, segues into movie-soundtrack territory and drum pounding explosions, and then fades out with such beauty and longing that you can’t remember where the journey began. The word on the street is that these guys are some sort of high-level rock theorists writing a thesis on all things epic.

Download:
Who Took Berlin Part 1 mp3