If you’re lucky enough to be living in the UK, you might want to hold off on downloading Tokyo Police Club’s debut full-length album Elephant Shell from the iTunes Music Store, and wait for the bonus double disc that hit stores in the UK on May 5th.

The extra disc features remixes of Elephant Shell tracks from Field Music, Tom of Los Campesinos!, Dntel, the Good Life, and Flowers Forever. Those UK-only bonus tracks, meanwhile, include a new song– appropriately titled “New New Song”– and a cover of the Rentals’ “Friends of P” (!) pitchforkmedia.

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So you say you love Weezer? Well right now you can take part in an interactive songwriting experience on YouTube and help Rivers Cuomo write a song. The project is currently on Step 4, which invites users to create an arrangement of the chord progression chosen by Cuomo. If you need to catch up and you can watch Steps 1,2,3 and 3b here.

Let’s Write A Song (Step 4)