The writers have been pretty busy lately and over the past day we’ve managed to get three new reviews up for you to enjoy. Here’s a quick list with links to the reviews as well as some MP3s for you to check out while you read the reviews. Tracks from all three of these artists will be featured on this week’s podcast. Do the right-click save as dance to download the MP3s.

1986 - Nihilism Is Nothing to Worry About

• Laughing
• Better When You’re Stoned

Ho-Ag - The Word from Pluto

• Into the River

Page France - Hello, Dear Wind

• Junkyard

Remember way back in the day when we had non-review content on the site? Like horoscopes, dispatches from South-Central, or an advice column? Well we don’t have any horoscopes or advice at the moment, but we do have some great writing from Erik Stinson. Erik recently returned from Europe and shares his views of European Radio with this feature article.

I’m still working out the kinks with the feature listing to the right, but I’ll be sure to post updates as we add new features. Be on the look out for the return of old content features as well.

As writer Anthony Caragiulo was quick to point out in his review of The Long Winters’ Putting the Days to Bed, we’ve been enjoying the album for quite some time now. Lucky for you folks that won’t be able to get the album until it’s official release date of July 25th, Mammoth Press has an exclusive stream of the entire album. That’s right, you can listen to the entire album before it’s released. For those of you that prefer your album previews in the download variety, Barsuk has made an MP3 of “Pushover” available (right-click “save as”). And for folks that like to hear their album previews in a super awesome podcast, “Pushover” was included as the closing track of The PhiLL(er)’s 50th Music Show.

Well at least the main news page…

Those of you that have visited the podcast page should probably be yawning right now. This design template has been present there for quite a while now, but finally it is being implemented on the main news page. With it comes a change to the backend content management system which I could start getting geeky about, but I will spare you.

Mainly, it’s just nice to have something fresh to look at. The new design hasn’t been implemented on the review or feature pages yet, but that will be coming soon. Please leave a comment if you notice anything funky (which is highly likely) or if you have any suggestions.