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Trent, you've achieved every musician's dream with your self-supporting independence. Now it's time to start using it to wow us and prove the victory actually means something.

Turner, who's already released two full-lengths, an EP and a couple weird-format maxi-singles in a couple years' time with his full-time gig, The Arctic Monkeys, digs into his seemingly bottomless songbook as he unveils his latest project, The Last Shadow Puppets.

Cut away all the image-making, though, and Robyn is still little more than the sort of B.S. pop release we've been getting, and markedly ignoring, from Pink and Xtina all these years.

Bum Kon's not destined to become hardcore legends, but Drunken Sex Sucks at least gives fans of the old stuff a rare opportunity to wade into a set of songs they probably haven't heard before.

It's gotten too easy to digitally release things, and quality control's starting to suffer.

The BellRays make their Anodyne Records debut with a hard-rockin', soul-shoutin' dose of pure ear candy.