There’s been a fair bit of blog buzz from LA about Jail Weddings, and not just because it’s a shit-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that GREAT name for a band. More out of curiosity than anything, I got hold of their Inconvenient Dreams mini-album (out 30th Nov over here), but I’ve had it on – loudly – at least once a day ever since.

A good spread hits the tables today, with platters served up by Beans On Toast and Sparrow & The Workshop, as well as a fair load of other stuff to expand that oversized room full of vinyl you just can’t help adding to.

Yeah, yeah, the album’s been out for ever, and no, there’s nothing new on here that’s not on the LP. Doesn’t mean this won’t stroll home with Single Of The Week, though.

There’s a lot of looking backwards this week, with Slow Club covering songs from the 1960s, Twin Atlantic sounding like Hundred Reasons from the early noughties, Sennen sounding a bit like a shoegaze band from the early nineties and Elizabeth Frazer sounding nothing like one (despite being in one at the time) and Johnny Flynn doing his medieval troubadour thing. Mcfly? McFly? Hello?

There’s been a fair few ‘major’ videos out there this week – tons from Children In Need, Paramore, Major Lazer etc – but not so much on the fringes – however, new visuals from Simian Mobile Disco and tUnE-yArDs as well as a bit of art from some of Japanther (pictured) goes some way to making up for the quiet stretch.

Bloody hellfire, that was sharpish. SXSW have released a big list of over 200 bands now confirmed for next March’s antics. Thirty of those are Brits, which is nice, including Frightened Rabbit (pictured), Fanfarlo, Broken Records and Chris T-T, all of whom are favourites (and who have all played in recent years, many of them last year, I think). The full lists are below, and I’ll start digging into each of the UK bands over the coming few days. Hoo-rah.

Jonas Stein – while he and Be Your Own Pet were all still employed – used to keep Turbo Fruits as a side-project, and occasionally roped in BYOP members for band duties. Their first self-titled outing, back in 2007, was a scrappy little terrier of an album, a gleefully messy affair; this time out, as a full-time gig, they’ve managed to keep the charm, but they’ve ramped the tunes well up to eleven and beyond.

Although I’m a bit giddy for Turbo Fruits this week, there’s also some other ear-catching releases this week on the racks of your local independent record store, including cuts from Acrylics, The Millipedes, and Head Of Light Entertainment, who’s sitting over there in the picture with such excellent posture.

Cor, these don’t along very often. What a blimming little cracker this is, all lo-fi Wall Of Noise and stuff. Fucking fantastic.

As well as Spectrals’ single of the week, there’s the usual rash of aural novelties out there on the shelves this week, with new jingles from the likes of Kurran & The Wolfnotes, Fool’s Gold, Peggy Sue, the Jon-Fratelli-featuring Codeine Velvet Club, Jamie T, and the snappily-named An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump – that’s them glaring at you over there on the left.

Nosing around Youtube this last week there’s been a few new videos of note popping up – in particular, Eels’ latest, ‘Little Bird’. Taken from the new LP End Times (due in Jan, following hot on the heels of this year’s El Hombre Loco), it’s a glorious track of quiet and desparate sadness. The video’s a one-shot affair of E sitting on his porch – I have never wanted a porch so badly in my entire life.

I was at Graham Coxon’s Queen’s Hall show last Thursday and I’ve been trying to work out how to write about it ever since. Because – if I’m honest – it just wasn’t a very good show. The music was (mainly) great, but the show itself sucked everything else into a soggy bucket of limpness and humdrum.

Fresh from sxsw’s shiny twitter stream, the first bands have been announced for the 2010 shindig that we may or may not have mentioned before. From the UK, there’s the Domino-signed Archie Bronson Outfit (pictured) and CHEW LiPS, both from London, as well as the drop-dead awesome Japandroids (Vancouver, Canada), Giulla y los Tellarini (Barcelona, Spain), The Hong Kong Blood Opera (from Hermosillo, Mexico, obviously) and fashionable down-underists The Temper Trap (Melbourne, Australia). More on those bands after the jump, but in the meantime all other bands will get the magic letter of joy (or not) by Jan 29, 2010.