Monday Bears: First Listen - Two new songs from LCD Soundsystem

A new batch of songs from LCD Soundsystem's upcoming May release of This is Happening have been released.

The two songs, "I Can Change," in higher quality, and "Dance Yourself Clean," in a low quality radio-rip, are slightly Knife-ish sounding six-minute-plus tracks that feel a bit more at home and personal than their collectively fun romp "Drunk Girls," that found it's way online a week or so ago.

You can download the songs songs directly from We All Want Someone to Shout For. This is Happening, James Murphy's first full-studio album since 2007's spectacular Sound of Silver, is due out in the U.S. May 18 via DFA and Virgin Records.

Monday Bears: Listen to Plastic Beach

I'm not going to lie and tell you I listen to NPR everyday, or ever, for that matter, but every once in a while they offer a gem of an album to listen to in their entirety. Earlier today, NPR gave online listeners a chance to hear Gorillaz' very, very anticipated album Plastic Beach for the first time, outside of singles "Stylo" and "Superfast Jellyfish."

Very quickly, Plastic Beach, thanks to a lot of help from other artists like Snoop Dogg and Bobby Womack, is becoming 2010's first must-listen to album. Expect to hear more from the "group" in the near future, as well as coverage of their should-be awe inspiring performance at Coachella in April.

Listen to the whole album here.

Plastic Beach is scheduled for release March 9 in the U.S. via Virgin Records.