Beach House Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
There wasn’t much room for Beach House to improve on Devotion, so instead, the duo improved the room in which they made Teen Dream. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally recorded their Sub Pop debut in a converted…

It’s CD release time once again for the Helium Tapes, the local power pop quintet whose debut came out just over a year ago.

Ghost Wave, another stellar effort, will be released Sat. at the Off Broadway. On it, the band…

Local rockers John Henry & the Engine will celebrate a record release with a few shows tonight at Vintage Vinyl and Friday at Off Broadway.

The Engine is releasing a 7″ vinyl EP, I Don’t Wanna Know, on Hometone records. They…

Arctic Monkeys Humbug (Domino)
The third album from the Sheffield UK rockers finds them brimming with vim, vigor and new ideas.

Asobi Seksu Transparance (Polyvinyl)
Transparence is a limited edition four-song 10″ featuring two unreleased songs from the same Gigantic Studios sessions during which Asobi Seksu recorded…

For Teddy Presberg, a little bourbon, a lot of funk and some timely environmentalism is just the right mix.

The local funkster will roll out his sophomore album this month at various STL venues. A national tour later this year is…

Local rockers B&E will release their new album, Chords to Live By, Saturday at Deluxe in Maplewood.

The band plays old school garage and punk rock with some commercial glam mixed in. Frontman Brendan Corcoran’s voice hearkens 1970s figures like John…

Young St. Louis indie rockers Radical Sons continue their steady rise with the release of their debut EP on Secretly Canadian Records imprint, St. Ives, July 7. Catch them at Cicero’s tonight.

The EP is called Throwing Knives and the first single,…

So Many Dynamos are threatening to become Edwardsville’s biggest musical export with the release of their third full-length, The Loud Wars, out on Vagrant Records today.

The four-piece play “spazzy dance rock” in the words of singer Aaron Stovall, who loves…

Neil Young Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 (Warner Bros.)
This high-priced series of multi-disc box sets chronicling Young’s history features over 40 previously unreleased songs, versions, mixes, and rare tracks. Also includes a 238 page, hard-bound “journal” featuring childhood photos, memorabilia, clippings,…

Green Day

21st Century Breakdown (Reprise)
American Idiot ratcheted up high expectations for its successor, and Green Day consciously plays toward those expectations on Breakdown, another political rock opera that isn’t an explicit sequel but could easily be mistaken for one, especially as…