Hello! Well the sun is finally out so we have got some really hot releases below, and a great King Biscuit Time competition. You can also stock up on Tshirts and other Wippit gear!
New in this week
 
Absentee - Schmotime
 The debut album from Absentee blends the morose with tunes to die for. Their blackly hilarious stories of rubbish sex, infidelity and lust are offset by some of the sweetest indie-pop to have emerged from the UK in the last 10 years and the result is a serious contender for Debut of the Year..		 Field Music - Write Your Own History Field Music are set to be the biggest noise to have come out of Sunderland since The Futureheads. Blending angular guitars with a pastoral sensibility, Field Music are a breath of fresh air amongst the smog of mediocrity.
Dada Life - Big Time  Colossal dance monster just like they used to make – huge basslines, skittering bleeps and massive rhythms ensure that this track from Stockholm’s Dada Life lives up to its name. Utterly essential! Spank Rock - Rick Rubin  Recorded in a Baltimore basement and dedicated to the legendary hip-hop/metal knob twiddler, Spank Rock reinvigorate hip-hop with a collection of bedroom beats, sleazy rhymes that are at once defiantly old skool and resolutely futuristic.
Competition Time!

Luck shone on Neil who is now the owner of the Football Crazy CD.
Following the dissolution of the legendary Beta Band, frontman Steve Mason returns with King Biscuit Time, another superb collision of musical styles as psychedelia, house, dancehall, electronica and hip-hop meet to create genuinely 21st century music. We have five limited editions of their debut album Black Gold and to stand a chance of winning, just answer this simple question:

Which video system lost out to VHS? Was it

a) Betamax?
b) Alphamax?
c) Deltamax?

Send your answer to us by emailing here no later than 5pm, Tuesday 16th May 2006! Good luck!

The popularity of the joint Wippit/Profile Heaven Find A Model competition has been so overwhelming that we’ve extended the closing date until the end of May.

Here’s how it works: if you buy a Wippit t-shirt and model it on the UK’s premier social networking site, Profile Heaven, we’ll give you a full refund for the cost of the t-shirt. Each week between now and the end of May, the Wippit Subscribers’ Newsletter will be featuring our favourite ‘models’. Hey – even if you don’t fancy being a supermodel for a day, you may well get to see a few!

The latest competition winner is Elizabeth from Sweden and you can check out her profile here: http://www.profileheaven.com/babyRockin

So head on over to our merchandising store, do your do and the next time it could be your photo that wins!

 Baby Rockin
The Go Betweens FEATURED ARTISTS: THE GO BETWEENS

There was sad news of the passing of Grant McLennan at the weekend. With Robert Forster, McLennan formed one half of The Go Betweens’ song writing core. Having released their debut album Send Me A Lullaby, the pair were rightly dubbed '…the Australian Lennon & McCartney' before relocating to London from Brisbane in 1982 with drummer Lindy Morrison. Though commercial success eluded them, the band released a series of critically acclaimed and highly influential albums during the 80s that culminated with the superb 16 Lovers Lane. Though musically estranged throughout the 90s, McLennan and Forster re-united for 2000’s The Friends of Rachel Worth and in the process inspired a whole new generation of bands. Last year’s achingly gorgeous Oceans Apart album finally saw the band gain the commercial standing that matched their critical success.