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Q presents this month's essential album tracks, downloads and audio/video streams. May's highlights include brand-new anthems from
R.E.M, The Raconteurs, Madonna
and more. Get clicking...
Carolina Drama
THE RACONTEURS
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Riff-packed epic from Messrs White and Benson
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Spanish Lessons
MADONNA
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Neptunes add sparky electronics to new Madge track
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There There
RADIOHEAD
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Hail To The Thief highlight
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Making Up The Numbers
THE PIGEON DETECTIVES
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Lager-powered tale of good times and girl trouble
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Cold Shoulder
ADELE
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Second single from acclaimed '19' album
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Living Well Is The Best Revenge (Acoustic)
R.E.M
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Impromptu live track recorded in the back of a car
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Sensual Seduction
HOT CHIP
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Putney's finest tackle Snoop Dogg
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Sitting On Fire
SPIRITUALIZED
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Jason Pierce returns from the brink of death
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Hallowed Be Thy Name
IRON MAIDEN
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Classic metal from recent Maiden best of
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I Will Posses Your Heart
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
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None-more-indie Americans go "epic"
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We Started Nothing
THE TING TINGS
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Whip-smart electro pop
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We Are The Music Makers
APHEX TWIN
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Willy Wonka-sampling techno from Richard D. James
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The Beginnng Of The Twist
THE FUTUREHEADS
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Formerly dropped, The Futureheads come back fighting
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Highly Evolved
THE VINES
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Australia's answer to The Strokes
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You'll Find A Way
SANTOGOLD
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Bjork and Mark Ronson-approved MC
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Do Nothing
THE SPECIALS
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Classic single from 2-Tone's finest's recent best of
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Inner City Pressure
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
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Cult Kiwi duo's Pet Shop Boys piss-take
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Evil Urges
MY MORNING JACKET
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Free download from Kentucky rockers' latest album
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The Dark End Of The Street
CAT POWER
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Gorgeous live cover taken from a recent radio session
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Alligator
GRIZZLY BEAR
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Highlight of cult New Yorkers' recent live session
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I Wish I Were
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
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Rufus's sister break for the big time
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The Raven
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN
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Former Screaming Trees' Lanegan re-unites with ex-Belle & Sebastian vocalist Campell
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Mis-Takes
THE CHARLATANS
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Northwhich survivors summon the spirit of New Order
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Crimewave
CRYSTAL CASTLES
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Ridiculously fashionable electro-pop
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Girl's On Fire
DELAYS
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Thrilling collision between choirboy vocals and stadium-sized indie rock
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Brown Trout Blues
JOHNNY FLYNN
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Low-key folk, inspired by indigenous trout species
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Valentine
MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD
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Former Massive Attack collaborator enlists the help of Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton
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Control Me
BOOKA SHADE
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Frankfurt-based dance duo
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Regeneration
DUELS
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Ambitious Leeds indie quartet's laudably widescreen mantra
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Dance In New York
THEA GILMORE
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Ever so sad singer-songwriter goes collaboration crazy
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This World Is Crazy
LONELY DRIFTER KAREN
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Jolly, caberet-inflected pop
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Sleep A Million Years
VETIVER
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Nu-school folkie's recent collaboration with Vashti Bunyon
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No UFO's (Remix)
MODEL 500
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Pioneering Detroit House from the late '80s
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Marathon Runner
AURAL EXCITERS
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Deranged disco-pop from a pre-Kid Creole August Darnell
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A House Is Not A Motel
LOVE
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One of many high-points from Arthur Lee's '60s classic
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Johnny Come Lately
THE POGUES
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Steve Earl collaboration from 1988
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Sacred Attention
SEBADOH
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Lou Barlow circa 1993
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Hello Walls
WILLIE NELSON
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Pig-tailed, dope-smoking country veteran's first hit
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I've Been Loving You Too Long
OTIS REDDING
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Heartbreaking track from the late soulman's breakthrough album
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Beating Heart
SECTION 25
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Gothic rock from Blackpool's Joy Division
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Mr Skin
SPIRIT
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Psychedelic rock from '70s LA
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Anywhere I Lay My Head
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
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Surprisingly listenable Tom Waits cover
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Kiss & Make Up
WHISKEYTOWN
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Pedal steel driven alt-country from Ryan Adams' former band
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To Cure A Weakling Child/ Boy Girl Song
ADEM
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Folk-styled Aphex Twin cover
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Elphine
ELLEN ALLIEN
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Cavernous techno from Thom Yorke's favourite German DJ
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Blister In The Sun
VIOLENT FEMMES
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Indie-disco staple, currently flogging Australian larger
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Love Vigilantes
LAURA CANTRELL
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Country-singer tackles New Order track
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I'm A Man
THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP
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Hammond organ-powered blues from Steve Winwood-fronted '60s group
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Unfinished Business
WHITE LIES
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'80s-indebted trio. Think Julian Cope fronting Interpol
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Creature Fear
BON IVER
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Mesmerising folk written in a log cabin
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