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Hot off the Pitchfork presses comes some kickin' news!

Franz Ferdinand is getting ready to release a cover of AIR's "Sexy Boy." That's a favorite of mine -- I can't wait.

Also, The White Stripes are planning to drop a new EP just in time for the holidays, and guess what the first single is? "Walking With the Ghost" from Tegan & Sara! I know! How cool is that?

If you just can't wait and must buy some good indie music right this very moment -- which is truly possible in this age of the immediate gratification-granting Internet, then here's another news nugget.

Insound.com is offering 25 percent off all albums -- yes, I still call them albums -- that Pitchfork Media has named the best of 2005 so far. Here are some of the albums marked down:

1. Vashti Bunyan - "Lookaftering"
2. Animal Collective - "Feels"
3. The Clientele - "Strange Geometry"
4. Silver Jews - "Tanglewood Numbers"
5. The Joggers - "With a Cape and a Cane"
6. Cage - "Hell's Winter"
7. The Rosebuds - "Birds Make Good Neighbors"
8. Johann Johannsson - "Dis"
9. Jason Forrest - "Shamelessly Exciting"
10. Blood on the Wall - "Awesomer"
11. Sigur Ros - "Takk"
12. Bloc Party - "Silent Alarm Remixed"
13. Isolee - "We Are Monster"
14. Art Brut - "Bang Bang Rock & Roll"
15. Common - "Be"
16. Sleater-Kinney - "The Woods"
17. Stephen Malkmus - "Face The Truth"
18. The Hold Steady - "Seperation Sunday"
19. Architecture in Helsinki - "In Case We Die"
20. The Boy Least Likely To - "The Best Party Ever"
21. Caribou - "The Milk of Human Kindness"
22. Edan - "Beauty and the Beat"
23. The Decemberists - "Picaresque"
24. M.I.A. - "Arular"
25. Shining - "In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster"
26. Iron & Wine - "Women King EP"
27. Bloc Party - "Silent Alarm"
28. Various Artist - "Run The Road"
29. Antony and the Johnsons - "I Am a Bird Now"
30. Six Organs of Admittance - "School of the Flower"
31. LCD Soundsystem - "LCD Soundsystem"
32. Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney - "Superwolf"
33. M83 - "Before the Dawn Heals Us"
34. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morining"
35. Black Mountain - "Black Mountain"
36. The Fiery Furnaces - "EP"

Check out the bands listed above at pitchforkmedia.com/best/