New Music Monday!

New Music Monday doesn't get much bigger than this - check out the bounty below and get excited for the upcoming music release season!

The sun-drenched Barcelona tunesmiths are back, with Subiza coming out in the US on June 8 (the damn Europeans are already grooving to it). Lead single and first track "Stay Close" exhibits everything I loved about last summer's Ayrton Senna EP and standout track "Seasun" - just sit back and let it wash you away.

Delorean - Stay Close

The official first single from upcoming release Together (due out May 4), "Crash Years" is catchy, Neko Case-powered pop in their usual tradition. It's not on par with first leaked track "Your Hands (Together)" (get it here), which reeks of pop virtuoso A.C. Newman, but few songs are.

The New Pornographers - Crash Years

Canadian indie star collective Broken Social Scene (home to Feist, Metric, Stars and more) is putting out their third studio album, Forgiveness Rock Record, on May 4. First leaked track "World Sick" (here) was long, epic and slow, but "All to All" and "Forced to Love" show their true fractured pop sensibility nicely.

Broken Social Scene - All to All

Broken Social Scene - Forced to Love

Dubstep bass behemoth Joker (previously discussed here) has dropped a couple of more tracks on us recently, prepping for (though he says they won't be included on) his first full-length studio album. Keep your fingers crossed that it hits record store shelves in 2010, as currently projected.

Joker - Tron

Joker - City Hopper

The Dead Weather are one of Jack White's side projects, debuting with a 2009 album and prepping another for 2010 release. In the meantime, check out this re-do of "Treat Me Like Your Mother" featuring vocals from borderline emo, socially conscious hip hop emcee Slug (from Atmosphere).

The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother (Z-Trip Remix f/Slug of Atmosphere)

Electro-poppers Zero 7 are remixed by DJ Danger Mouse (of The Grey Album and Gnarls Barkley fame) with added vocals from masked mad rapper MF Doom. As indie rock re-worked by a DJ featuring new vocals from a hip hop emcee remixes go, this one beats out "Treat Me Like Your Mother" (above) by a decent margin.

Zero 7 - Somersault (Danger Mouse remix f/MF Doom) 

First single from blues-rock throwbacks The Black Keys' upcoming release, Brothers (due out May 18). Their raw, rootsy sound is what it always is, so if you dig it, you'll feel right at home on this one.

The Black Keys - Tighten Up

Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek are back together as Reflection Eternal for the upcoming Revolutions Per Minute album (due out May 11, if it's not pushed back again). "In This World" nicely previews Talib's classic vocal stylings and Hi-Tek's distinctly backpacker beats.

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek - In This World

The Hold Steady, for those who haven't met them, worship at the altar of Bruce Springsteen, with literate bar-band spoken/yelled vocals and riff-tastic songs galore. For those who do know them, they've repeatedly promised that new album Heaven is Whenever will be a change of direction away from the big, anthemic sound they've been hammering away at for years. Lead single "Hurricane J" belies that statement badly, as big, catchy and rough sounding as anything they've produced to date.

The Hold Steady - Hurricane J

Brooklynites The National have garnered significant critical acclaim for the thoughtful, noisy records they've put out over most of the decade. Upcoming album High Violet promises more indie-prog goodness, as lead single "Blood Buzz Ohio" pulls no punches from their signature impressionistic, Dylanesque lyrics and rough-edged yet precise composition.

The National - Blood Buzz Ohio