May Music Review Line-up

Here's my dance card for Suite 101 Indie Music reviews for the merry month of May:

• The Grates, The Ouch. The Touch.
• Erasure, Nightbird
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones
• Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• Morningwood, Morningwood
• The Flaming Lips, At War with the Mystics

I accidentally left Mads in there at the bottom - whoops. I might write a review of Confessions on a Dance Floor at my own blog instead of at Suite 101, as it doesn't fall under the Indie Music category.

Now, you might notice there are six CDs to be reviewed, not the established one-per-week of April. That's due to a slight miscalculation on my part: I had placed an order with Amazon, noting that all CDs were ready to ship within 24 hours.

For some reason, this did not happen; Amazon took a while dispatching the CDs. When I visited my shopping cart for updates on the progress of my order, the estimated arrival date was May 9th!

I started to panic mildly. I needed to start listening to a CD in order to deliver my review promptly to Suite 101. Then I realized I had an Erasure CD from 2005, Nightbird, that I could write about while waiting for my Amazon delivery. Whew! Go back down from yellow alert to white status.

By the way, for anyone waiting for their Amazon CDs or any other delivery with a postal tracking number, Bloglines have a package tracking option that's very handy. Within your Bloglines window, just click Add as you would for any RSS feed, and then click on Package Tracking. Paste your tracking number from your Amazon shopping cart in the window and hey presto, you've got an RSS feed to your package.

Thoughts on the May line-up are appreciated—you can leave feedback in the comments below. If you're wondering, my selections for review are partially influenced by SXSW, as well as my own research (print media & online) and personal tastes.

Note: Links updated to point to where reviews are now housed.