We love Animal Collective more than our first born child here at hecklerspray.

Well - we don't actually have a first born child, to be honest. But if we did, we can guarantee you two things. Number one - that we'd name it Animal Collective in honour of the band. And number two - that we'd take great pains

Right, we're scared. Not because the new Reverend & The Makers single He Said He Loved Me has a video containing a pair of disembodied legs dancing around with a flapping fish on top of them while a woman angrily whips them.

Oh no. The

There aren't that many white rappers from northern England who copy their look from Uncle Albert out of Only Fools And Horses, but at least Kid Acne's doing all he can to remedy that.

We literally don't know the first bloody thing about Kid Acne - honestly, we don't know who he is or what

Maximo Park's newest album, Our Earthly Pleasures, was half made of fizzing, life-affirming songs and half of rubbish songs that may as well be titled Will Fellate For Mainstream American Radio Success.

Fortunately Maximo Park's newest single, Girls Who Play Guitars, is taken straight from the former batch. Synths buzz, Paul Smith yelps and the whole shebang is tighter

You always know where you are with King Creosote, don't you? Lovely folky goodness in great big fat dollops and nothing more. That's what we thought, too, until we heard his new single You've No Clue Do You.

We interviewed King Creosote on the basis that he

Now we'll be the first to admit that we haven't got the foggiest about Cat The Dog, but someone sent us the video to their new single I'm A Romantic and we'll be darned if it isn't a slice of full-tilt rock and roll the likes of which we haven't heard

This is why the internet kicks so much arse - a week after Lindsay Lohan gets arrested for getting all Bullitt on another car with a pocket full of cocaine and a blood system full of booze and comedian Smooth-E has already written, performed and made a video laying into her.

It's probably not a good idea to watch this video for Down Boy by Yeah Yeah Yeahs unless you've got a shower nearby - because the song is filthy, the video is weirdly erotic and you'll probably want to clean yourself quite thoroughly when it's over.

Taken from their forthcoming Is Is EP,