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Pitchfork has been trying to step-up their electronic music game. Not sure if they're doing a very good job, but at least they're trying...

• Various Artists: Speicher 3: Pitchfork Record Review
  The latest collection of recent Speicher singles-- digitally mixed by Kompakt's Michael Mayer and Jörg Burger-- features tracks by German techno heavy-hitters such as Superpitcher, Jürgen Paape, and Mayer himself.
  
  
• Pitchfork Feature: Guest List: Matthew Dear
  Known by various monikers, and responsible for this year's excellent Asa Breed, Matthew Dear gives us his favorite Adult Swim show about cephalopods, tells us the best place to buy sweatshop-free tees (you guessed it!), and reveals his obsession with Town...
  
  
• Status Ain't Hood: Is Disco the New Noise-Rock?
  The one time I saw Glass Candy, I didn't really see them...
  
  
• QOTSA - ERA VULGARIS
  ILM Thread
  
  
• Queens Of The Stone Age: Era Vulgaris (2007): Reviews
  Metacritic entry
  
  
• Justice - † Pretentious symbol = french dance?
  ILM thread
  
  
• Justice - † - Review - Stylus Magazine
  The debut full-length from Ed Banger's greatest export…
  
  
• Various Artists: Kitsuné Maison 4: Pitchfork Record Review
  The latest compilation from Paris-based label Kitsuné is another solid collection of previously 12"-only releases that stretch across the indie-dance axis, including tracks performed or remixed by Feist, Thieves Like Us, Crystal Castles, Dragonette, Boys Noize...
  
  
• Pitchfork: Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Release New EP of Old Songs
  their best songs finally get released...
  
  
• The Month In Techno
  Eight years and four continents into its run, the MUTEK Festival enjoyed one of its most successful episodes yet, as DJs resumed their place at the center of the proceedings and techno ceded some of its ground to dubstep.