1. Just a week after a number of high-profile indie labels left eMusic in a dispute over the download site’s compensation and pricing scheme, Amazonmp3 is making a splash with some very high-profile discounts on related indie rock titles, including a limited-time $1.99 full-length download price for ARCADE FIRE’s Suburbs. But rest assured eMusic fans, we now have the entire LIMP BIZKIT collection available on the service, so you know… all is good again.

2. Here’s a hooky bit of guitar/keyboard heavy power pop that’s been stuck in my head all day…

What You Want/What You Need by You Animals

3. A sentence from the inbox: “JOURNAL is an ultra-technical, Nintendo influenced, Indie-Noisecore band residing in Sacramento, CA.” For a writer whose Nintendo repertoire in the late 80s consisted mainly of Blades of Steel, Duck Hunt, and Ms. Pacman (one tough lady, I might add), I’m just not seeing it. The band isn’t half bad though…

4. Punknews.org is probably having a high traffic day.

5. DARKO are a melodic hardcore band from the UK that’s probably got a few A WILHELM SCREAM, STRUNG OUT, and PROPAGANDHI releases in their collection. You can stream their six song EP via Bandcamp.