Incoming: Blackbird Blackbird, Wet Paint, Antlers..

It's been one of those weeks where everytime we've attempted to alert you to an exciting new release, another one gets announced. So before, I don't know, The Wrens reveal they're finally releasing a new album, here a round-up of what's been announced this week:

Prolific Californian Mikey Sanders AKA Blackbird Blackbird this morning uploaded a new 17-song 'pay what you want' collection called Halo. Confusingly his bandcamp site puts the release date down as Nov 2, 2010, but as Sanders only gave away the title track as a free download last week, you can be sure it's all brand new.

Londoners Wet Paint are also back, presumably to remind us that it was they who started the UK lo-fi revevial with their 2009 debut It Rots, long before Yuck perfected that particular art. The ex-Absentee members release album number two Woe through Records Records records on May 2 and it is preceeded by a split Record Store Day single with Bloc Party's Matt Tong on, you guessed it, April 16.

The Antlers, whose debut Hospice got a rough enough ride round these parts a couple of years ago but still managed to sneak into our top 50 albums of that year (go figure), have signed to Transgressive Records and will release their new album Burst Apart on June 13. They'll also be over in the UK a month earlier to play London's Heaven (May 12), Manchester's Academy (May 13) and Brighton's Great Escape Festival (May 14).

On top of all these, Beastie Boys finally put a release date on their eighth album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. It's May 2. Fucked Up announced that they'll release a new album, entitled David Comes To Life, on June 7. And finally Woods will keep up their album-a-year schedule when they release Sun & Shade on June 14. 

Phew...