The Weekly Sweep

4 Or 5 Magicians - Change The Record [Myspace]

British Sea Power - No Lucifer [YouTube]

Broken Records - If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It [Myspace]

Clinic - The Witch [YouTube]

dEUS - Slow [YouTube]

Elbow - Mirrorball

Foals - Two Steps Twice [mp3 from The Finest Kiss]

Future Of The Left - Manchasm [YouTube]

The Futureheads - The Beginning Of The Twist [YouTube]

Gindrinker - Work It Out [Myspace]

The Indelicates - America [YouTube]

Johnny Foreigner - Our Bipolar Friends [Myspace]

The Mystery Jets - Young Love [YouTube]

Portishead - Machine Gun [YouTube]

The Rosie Taylor Project - A Good Café On George Street [Myspace] (Not to take anything away from a fine song, but is this the most unrepossessing song title we've ever featured?)

The Shortwave Set - No Social [Myspace]

Wake The President - You Can't Change That Boy [Myspace]

White Williams - New Violence [Myspace]

Why? - Song Of The Sad Assassin (Sorry for not telling you earlier, but Alopecia came out last week and is already creeping up our metaphorical list of favourites for the year so far. Briefly, then, it's pretty unclassifiable, as it goes, main man Yoni Wolf a leading member of the Anticon collective that started off on an avant-garde hip-hop footing but seems to change style constantly - folk, North American indie, electronica, soul, poetry rap - while always remaining of a piece)

Young Knives - Turn Tail [Myspace]