Third, Portishead’s first new music in more than ten years, is being released on April 28, 2008. If you’re industrious, you can preview an advance copy that’s floating around. Portishead cornucopia: Homepage, MySpace, Wikipedia, iTunes, Amazon MP3.

Snap up some classic albums by indie artists for only $7.99 each. My picks of the litter:

• In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel,
• If You’re Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
• Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
• III - Sebadoh
• Pause - Four Tet
• Autoditacker - Mouse on Mars
• 94 Diskont - Oval
• Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada
• Dummy - Portishead
• Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives - Prefuse 73
• What Would the Community Think - Cat Power
• Either/Or - Elliott Smith
• Quiet is the New Loud - Kings of Convenience
• Chinatown - The Be Good Tanyas