Sorry guys, I think this cover is the most interesting thing about the National

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

This week, Radio-Active Records' assistant manager Paul Poletz fills in admirably while Ramirez explores the wild expanses of New York City and learns that Terminal 5 is both where JetBlue docks at JFK International Airport and an enormous music venue in Manhattan. Weird, huh?

Below, we find out that a lot of local folks find the National more fascinating than, say, this guy, and probably one of the best live review that the Dead Weather could ever hope to get.

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Flying Lotus: Possibly as bangin' as Sleigh Bells' new album, and actually available in brick and mortar stores

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

For the uninitiated, Flying Lotus is a California-based electronic music producer whose great-aunt is experimental jazz artist Alice Coltrane. Aside from the fact that the guy constructs dizzying beats that show an equal penchant for synthesized and analog instruments,  Cosmogramma features vocals by Radiohead's Thom Yorke on "...And the World Laughs With You." Another observation is that a guy named Thundercat plays bass on almost every track, including one called "Zodiac Shit." Why you don't own this already is beyond us too.

Below, get some real talk from Ramirez regarding the week's top releases, and a (spoiler alert) New Pornographers video.

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No confirmation if Caribou's album title is a nod to Surfer Blood

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

Hole is officially back. And, er, so is Caribou. Sure, it has been 12 years since the release of Hole's hit album Celebrity Skin, but in that time, Courtney Love has managed to become just as famous for her typo-filled rants on MySpace as any music she ever created. History will be the judge, and we'll be there at the Fillmore in July to watch whatever the hell she decides to do. Caribou, on the other hand, released the Polaris-winning Andorra in 2007. Three years was long enough to wait for more from the electro-pop artist born Dan Snaith, who basically lets his catchy melodies do the talking. Swim stays on the path to sweetness.

Read Ramirez's punctuation-heavy musings on this week's releases after the jump.

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Axe and the Oak's Record Store Day 2010 release was created with love (and gold foil)

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to business as usual here at Moving Units, an awesome-looking Record Store Day release extends this column's fetish for "eBay Eve" for another week. We are particularly excited when local artists crack the week's top 5, so here's to Miami's gothic country trio Axe and the Oak!

More details of this past week in music retail, and Mike Ramirez has a few choice words for Courtney Love after the jump.

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Quoting Christopher R. Weingarten: Record Store Day AKA "eBay Eve"

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

Based upon the amount of this column devoted to teasing Record Store Day last week, it should come as little surprise to our regular readers that five exclusive releases that hit shelves on Saturday, April 17, topped the sales at Radio-Active. A lot of gushing and happiness for independent retail in the area. Personally, as a purchaser of the R.E.M. Chronic Town reissue (exclusive blue vinyl!), my life is enriched.

Ramirez has plenty of happy things to say, and we find out what other exclusives gutted our wallets after the jump.

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Madlib squeezes a mere 43 tracks onto the 3 LP version

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

As foretold, hip-hop producer Madlib notched some serious sales of his latest Beat Konducta installment this week. Some of the other records Ramirez mentioned last week also moved, but you won't see any comments from our Radio-Active relating to how or why -- there's just too much Record Store Day stuff going on!

Before we give the entire week's column away to blatant shilling for the limited edition stuff for purchase at Radio-Active Records this Saturday (April 17), I'll add a few thoughts of my own about this week's hot releases.

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Google "Big Black" if this isn't hilarious to you

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

Two was the magic number last week, and things have only changed moderately since then with Norwegian shoegaze specialists Serena Maneesh and the cutesy alt-folk combo featuring M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, She & Him, still getting mad scans. Ramirez says Radio-Active primarily moved secondhand records, along with some new Southern Lord releases (Black Breath's Heavy Breathing,  as well as Goatsnake's Flower of Disease reissue and Lair of the Minatour's Evil Power perhaps?).

Get the full retail breakdown and Ramirez's picks for next week after the jump.

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Should we just rename the column "Two-ving Units" already?

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

Quoting Ramirez: "What's up with the number 2 this week?!?!" We agree 200 percent about that. Apparently record buyers like sequels to their favorite albums just as much as they do with films. Find out which records duked it out to become the New Moon of Radio-Active's box office after the jump.

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Bells are made to be Broken

​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.

This week, the collaboration between Shins' lead singer James Mercer and Gnarls Barkley producer Danger Mouse, Broken Bells, leads the pack. A few Hendrix junkies just woke up and finally picked up their copy of Valleys of Neptune, and we share in our Goldfrapp curiosity for the week to come. More after the jump.

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Musician/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is a top seller this week at Sweat Records.

​Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores.

1. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
2. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
3. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
4. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
5. Yeasayer - Odd Blood