Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet, releasing 20 May on Nettwerk Records [Streaming]
Video [Strange]

Flight of the Conchords
Ladies of the World [MP3]
     

Amy LaVere
That Beat (Sun Studio Sessions series) [Video]

Jef Stott
Lamaset (Miami Mix) [MP3]
     
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Sleepercar
Stumble In [MP3]
     

Thalia Zedek Band
Lower Allston [MP3]
     

Eric Avery
All Remote and No Control [MP3]
     

—PopMatters Staff

Les Savy Fav
Disco Drive (live) [MP3]
     
In These Woods [MP3]
     
Precision Auto (live) [MP3]
     
Reprobates Resume [MP3]
     

Manu Chao
Politik Kills(feat LKJ, remix by Dennis Bovell) [MP3]
     

El Perro del Mar
Glory to the World [MP3]
     

Constantines
Hard Feelings [Video]

Beach House
Gila [Video]

South
Better Things [MP3]
     

Awesome Color
Eyes of Light [MP3]
     

Dan Deacon
Okie Dokie [Video]

—PopMatters Staff

Kate Walsh
Documentary [Video]
A short documentary of Kate talking about her songwriting and the album Tim’s House, over a two-week tour of the US.

Architecture in Helsinki
Like It or Not (El Guincho Remix) [MP3]
     
Like It or Not [Video]

Okay
My [MP3] (from Huggable Dust releasing 20 May)
     
Compass [MP3]
     

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Think I Wanna Die [Video]
Video for the first single “Think I Wanna Die” off of the new SSLYBY album Pershing, released 8 April on Polyvinyl.

Big Boi feat. Andre 3000 and Raekwon
Royal Flush [Streaming]

The CoCo B’s
Give Up The Money (1982) [MP3]

The Futureheads
Radio Heart [Video]

—PopMatters Staff

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
Scheduled release date: May 9

Oh, if only the saying were true.

But you know what really should have stayed in Vegas? Cameron Diaz’s and Ashton Kutcher’s performances in this hammy, showy, circus-freak-act of a flick, that’s what.

What Happens in Vegas is a cautionary tale about two people who wake up to a helluva hangover when they realize they got hitched during a night of wild partying.

How very Britney Spears of them.

Then, just as the unhappily hitched couple is talking annulment, one of them wins a huge jackpot with - wait for it, wait for it - the other’s quarter.

So now they need a high-powered divorce attorney, marital counseling or, because this is a stupid comedy, both.

Queen Latifah and Dennis Miller show up to mug for the camera; Diaz turns on her weird, shrieky, herky-jerky schtick; Kutcher acts dumb and makes us all question Demi Moore’s judgment, and for every second I continue to watch this trailer, I die just a little bit inside.

Rating: Zero dancing popcorn guys (out of 4)

—PopMatters Staff

This week: Just blew your paycheck on a shiny new toy? What did dad always tell you? No, the other thing. Always read the instructions! Whether you’re building a desk or activating an interstellar planetary defense interface unit, spend a few moments reading the manual or else all is lost.

PopMatters offers exclusive early looks at new episodes of Backpack Picnic, an online sketch comedy show from ON Networks.

—PopMatters Staff

Constantines
Hard Feelings [MP3]
     

Clipse
What’s Up [MP3]
     

The Gossip
Yr Mangled Heart (Live) [MP3]

Kelley Stoltz
Birmingham Eccentric [MP3]
     

The Dodos
Ashley [MP3]
     

Alejandro Escovedo with Bruce Springsteen
Always a Friend [Video] (song from Escovedo’s new record, Real Animal, releasing 24 June)

Colin Meloy
We Both Go Down Together [Video]

—PopMatters Staff