It's Monday morning, which means NPR is streaming its usual spread of not-yet-released albums, and this week it's a particularly nice offering: Sigur Rós, Valtari; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Here; The Walkmen, Heaven; Regina Spektor, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats; and Saint Etienne, Words and Music by Saint Etienne.

Plus Kelly Clarkson debuted a new single, "Dark Side," at the Billboard Music Awards last night; Hot Chip has a new, Peter Serafinowicz-directed music video; and Kreayshawn is still doing things, somehow — she has a new single, "Breakfast," that'll apparently be accompanied by a video later today. [...]

A nice way to ease into the day: The Tallest Man on Earth, a.k.a. the 28-year-old Swedish musician Kristian Matsson, releases the first single off his upcoming album, There's No Leaving Now (out June 12), and gives it away as a free MP3. Fans of this might also enjoy his very enjoyable album The Wild Hunt, or maybe just this line from his Wikipedia entry: "Matsson is married to fellow Swedish singer-songwriter Amanda Bergman, who performs under the moniker Idiot Wind." Bob Dylan everywhere.

Elsewhere, just for kicks: "British Birds Made of Lego."

Shoulder shake. Here's a snaky leaked single off excellent rising hip-hop/pop star Rye Rye's highly anticipated debut album Go! Pop! Bang! — due out May 15! Pop! Bang! — and one of four that feature M.I.A. (The album's being produced on M.I.A.'s label.) Go! Pop! Bang! is also available for preorder on iTunes, where you can see that it includes a remix of her fantastic Robyn collaboration called the "R3hab Remix Edit," and for a second I thought it said Edith and that I had helped them.

If nothing else, a reminder to wear gigantic hoops from time to time. And the song is a jam, no?

(The single — available on iTunes — is the first off Nelly's The Spirit Indestructible album, due out June 19.)

A little new music for the weekend, in case you missed it: another track from Diplo's upcoming Express Yourself album, which is due out June 12. Barbeque playlist? Pre-barbeque preparation playlist? Post-barbeque hangover/cleanup playlist?

Previously, and forever: Diplo and Nicky Da B's "Express Yourself."

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Did anyone else spend last weekend falling so deeply in love with tUnE-yArDs that they stared out the window for what felt like hours doing nothing other than imagining how smart and cool Merrill Garbus must be in real life? "So smart and cool. Probably even smarter and cooler than that." I thought I knew, but I had no idea. Good albums: w h o k i l l and Bird-Brains. You heard it here seventy trillionth.

Hey, it's a new Four Tet song. Four Tet is the brilliant British electronic musician Kieran Hebden, who is responsible for, among many other things, the wonderful 2010 album There Is Love in You. (An unsolicited recommendation.) Music blogs also have a radio rip of another new Four Tet song, "Ocaras." Enjoy.

Gossip performed at Cannes yesterday and thank goodness some French TV people were there to make a pretty video because they murdered it. Love everything Beth does here, but then fall out of your chair, dead from an overfilled heart, at 4:09.

NPR has a stream of Kimbra's US debut album, Vows, in case you missed it in New Zealand or Australia, or on the internet. She's that ridiculously young, talented, and beautiful one from "Somebody That I Used to Know," and some other music videos.

Chicago-based DJ duo The Hood Internet's sixth hip-hop/pop/indie mashup mixtape is now available as a free download, if you're into that sort of thing. (I'm on my third listen.) Plus head thisaway for where and when catch them live.