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.

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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]

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Wolf Parade
Call It a Ritual [MP3]
     

Laura Cantrell
Love Vigilantes [MP3]
     

No Age
Eraser [MP3]
     

American Princes
Real Love [MP3]
     

The Autumns
Boys [MP3]
     

Plastic Constellations
Stay That Way [MP3]
     

Dizzee Rascal
Where Da G’s [Video]

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Tilly and the Wall
Cacophony [MP3] (from O releasing 17 June on Team Love Records)
     

Beat Control [Video]

Kassin+2
Ya Ya Ya [MP3]
     

Veda Hille
Lucklucky [MP3]
     

Kathleen Edwards
The Cheapest Key [Video]

Tickley Feather
Tonight Is the Night [MP3]
     

Tokyo Police Club
In a Cave [MP3]
     

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This week: This hospital needs new doctors, or at least someone to spell check the medical forms that patients sing. Er, sign. When helpless patients, charismatic doctors and spelling errors on procedural documents are this common, it’s easy to see why you might need a brain transplant, right?

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

—PopMatters Staff

Goldfrapp
Happiness [Video] (Releasing 14 April on 2 x CD, 7” picture disc and download in the UK)

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Tae Parade [MP3]
     

Bobby & Blumm
In Future Present [MP3]
     

Monroe Mustang
The Other Side [MP3]
     

Astrid Williamson
Hozanna (acoustic) [MP3]
     

Anna Ternheim
To Be Gone [MP3]
     

Camphor
The Sweetest Tooth [MP3]
     

—PopMatters Staff