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Our email accounts are back with a vengeance, the news is poring in, and I still have so very much to do. Some of these things might get their very own posts, if they grow on one of our writers enough (that Quiet Americans track was especially tantalizing).

Action Bronson and Party Supplies are currently teaming up on the full-length Blue Chips. While you wait for that, chew on a sample-laden track form that album, “Contemporary Man.” [link]

Andrew Jackson Jihad released a new song supporting Occupy Wall Street entitled “This Is Not A War.” [link]

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, creators and stars of the sketch comedy show Portlandia, recently collaborated with Thao & Mirah and Michael Benjamin Lerner (Telekinesis) on a cover of Salt-n-Pepa’s “Push It” during their Portlandia-promoting tour. Portlandia debuted on Friday, for those poor saps that missed it. I might have been one of those poor saps. [link]

Universally acclaimed producer Clams Casino released a remastered version of his mixtape instruementals. Just download it. Like Tom Haverford and Donna Meagle: “Treat yourself.” [link]

It seems Grime’s prolific ways will continue, as a new album entitled Visions has been announced. It will be released by 4AD on March 12. If that doesn’t excite you enough, the track “Genesis” is available. If you haven’t already, you are now free to go freak out on various message boards about how “I NEED IT NAO.” [link]

Grinderman have announced Grinderman RMX, a “collection of remixes, reinterpretations & collaborations based on the songs from Grinderman 2. Collaborators include, Robert Fripp, Nick Zinner, Joshua Homme, Cat’s Eyes, Silver Alert, and Matt Berninger. With the end of Grinderman upon us, this may be one of the last times we’ll get new material from them. Well, assuming they don’t do what every other band does. [link]

fun. have released a video for their single “We Are Young” on MTV. I may be in the minority, but my biggest take away is that I want those two rumored Janelle Monae albums so badly that my eye has developed a tic and their is a pain in my hear. [link]

James Blake snuck in yet another release, the 3-track EP Love What Happened Here. You can find the three tracks easily enough on Soundcloud, especially when they’re listed in such an orderly fashion by Brooklyn Vegan: “Love What Happened Here” [link], “At Birth” [link], Curbside [link]. I probably won’t listen to this for a while, just because I need to keep up the tradition of owning new James Blake releases for a month before finally listening to them and wondering why I would do such a thing to myself. Anyway, get it at eMusic. [link]

Matador and True Panther will be releasing Intended Play on January 14th, a cherry-red vinyl only sampler that will include music new, old, and unreleased from eleven bands that I either love, like, or respect. Even a miser like me can’t say no when I see “$1.98” and “Fucked Up, Ceremony, Esben & the Witch, Kurt Vile, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.” [link]

Memoryhouse recently released a cover The Zombies’ “This Will Be Our Year” [link]. And it’s free! [link] Their next album, The Slideshow Effect, will be out February 28th on Sub Pop.

The Quiet Americans - who are quite the opposite of the adjective in their name, but we still love them - recently released their EP Medicine and got featured on Filter. The EP is available as a cassette or free download on their Bandcamp. [link]

Sleigh Bells’ Reign of Terror has been delayed a week, with the release date now set at February 21st. My sources tell me that it will still melt face. [link]

We Have Band are set to release their debut, Termion, on February 28th. To celebrate, they will be releasing a free EP on January 10th. The EP will include second single “Watertight” [link], an acoustic version of iTunes Deluxe Edition track “What’s Mine, What’s Yours,” and an alternative version of “Where Are You People?” (original: [link]). It will be available on the band’s brand new website. [link]

Wilco have released their video for the title track of The Whole Love. Wait, that was boring. Let me try again: Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer directed the latest video for Wilco, which the younger Tweedy son Sammy and best friend Joey. Slightly more interesting? Excellent. [link]

- Tyler Hanan