Riot girrrls Sleater-Kinney will drop a new album on unsuspecting ears this fall. Bassist Carrie Brownstein claims the new material is longer and more epic in quality than previous releases. As fans know most SK songs don't exceed four minutes.

Wilco's long-delayed Yankee Foxtrot Hotel finally sees light of day on April 23. The band's latest album was delayed due to lack of a label and was released by the band in its enterity, online, via MP3 files. The album will now be officially released, but wait---didn't everybody already burn a copy?!

Belle & Sebastian's score for the new Todd Solondz film "Storytelling" is released in June. Most of the band's music was omitted from the film, but they decided to release it anyway as a stand-alone album. Ex-member Stuart David and his band Looper will release their second album Snare on June 4.

Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie launched his own label ISO Records through Columbia to release his records. Bowie was formerly signed to Virgin. His new album Heathen is due out June 11.

Kim Deal and The Breeders are making a comeback, their new album Title TK will be out on May 21. Title TK is their third album and their first since 1993's Last Splash. The first off the new album will be "Huffer" and will be released on April 29.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead: Source Tags & Codes

Sometimes an album comes along that you don't know what to expect from and it blows you away. But sometimes it takes awhile. That is the case with Trail Of The Dead's new album. On first listen it's decent, the second time it's really great and by the third, you love it so much you would trade your family for it. On Source Tags & Codes ...Trail Of The Dead take us back to Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth. But somehow it never manages to seem like empty nostalgia. The band still seems to retain their own style regardless of comparison. To be fair, to limit the album's sound to Sonic Youth posing would be cutting its greatness short. While Sonic Youth in tone, all the tracks are much poppier than anything Thurston has composed. The first track sounds like Kurt Cobain filling in for Billy Corgan on Gish--while "Relative Ways" reminds one that Yo La Tengo could have been the perfect indie band if only they had added some rocking to their sound. The album's ultimate earphoria is without a doubt "How Near How Far", as it adds strings to the emotional sonic assault and lines like "These eyes have always left me dry/How near, how far, how lost they are". Trail Of The Dead show all those great no-wave and indie bands that one day someone might come along and one-up them. And they have.

Bad Religion: The Process of Belief

Bad Religion, the ultimate pop-punk band. They were there before Green Day was even an idea and are still around as Green Day is fading out. They have their original guitarist back too. The question now remains have they withstood the test of time? If you want them to come back with a sound that is fresh and revolutionizes pop-punk again, forget it. But if you want to pop in Suffer pt.2, well you've got it. Suffer, released in 1988 is arguably their best album. The Process of Belief still retains their old 3-chord pop thrash and no song exceeds 3 minutes. The worst songs on the album sound like bad experiments: "Koyoto Now!", "Epiphany", while the best sound like they are reliving punk's heyday,"Can't Stop It", "Broken", and "Supersonic". "Sorrow" adds a reggae-type riff to the verses and "Evangeline" sound like the greatest Weezer song that band never wrote. The album's best song, "You don't belong", reads like a euglogy to the fallen punks of the 80s with the great line "Milo went to college/but you knew about that", referring to 80s punk band The Descendents album Milo Goes To College. Bad Religion may not be pushing the envelope but they prove that they still have ups on their pop-punk contemporaries.

Clinic: Walking With Thee

In 2000 an obscure English band with surgical masks refreshed the idie scene with their album Internal Wrangler. Now that same band releases their 2nd album, but unfortunately, doesn't refresh anything. I really liked Clinic but when I heard this, it was like " Oh god, someone got lazy here". The whole album basically sounds the same. 2000's Internal Wrangler sounded like a garage-band playing 60s pop cheese mixed with 80s electrobeats and sitar freak-outs. Their greatest song on that album was "Distortions". Now I know all of you out there were saying "wouldn't it be great if they made a whole album that sounded like that". Yeah well now you got it and we are none the better for it. Gone are the quirky lyrics and samples, now we have about 40 minutes of "White Light/White Heat" guitar drone and a couple of blokes in surgical masks trying to sing. Happy now? --Terence Nuzum