Just about the only non-music content you’re going to get on AtomicNed.com comes in the way of discussion about LOST. The new season starts this week and, if you’re like me, you might need just a quick refresher before season 4 kicks off.

This recap, produced by ABC, covers the first 3 seasons in rapid fire succession in 8 minutes and 15 seconds (815 … get it?)

While season 3 started off slowly – yes, I’ll admit that I thought maybe it had jumped the shark – the last half of the season was some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. If you remember, the last episode (“Through the Looking Glass”) introduced the concept of flash-forward and it totally caught people off guard.

It seems like the writer’s have thought long and hard about how season 3 was slow out of the gate and they’ll be picking up where that season dropped off which should make for a pretty intense first episode of season 4, titled “The Beginning of the End”.

Here’s a sneak preview of what’s in store for this season (at least for the first 8 episodes that were filmed before the writer’s strike).

There are, of course, a million fan sites out there dealing with LOST. If you’re a fan of the show, you’ve probably already found one or a few that you visit often and trust. My favorite is Lostcasts.com which hosts a weekly podcast recapping the previous week’s episode and offers some insight into what might be going on and also reveals some spoilers. If you’ve got time before the first episode, I’d recommend checking out Lostcasts most recent podcast, episode 59, “Theory Cast”. It’s a little more than an hour long.

DOWNLOAD: LOSTCasts 59: Theory Cast

And while you’re at it, if you missed Matthew Fox’s interview in Entertainment Weekly a few weeks ago, it’s post on the EW.com site. There may be some things that could be construed as “spoilers” but Fox doesn’t give too much away.

The Gutter Twins – “Idle Hands” (Dulli + Lanegan = Amazing)
Black Mountain – “Tyrants”  (Pink Rebel Sabbath Club)
Grand Archives – “Torn Blue Foam Couch” (ex-Band of Horses!!!!!)
Monade – “Regard” (featuring Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab)
The Helio Sequence – “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” (great song but not even the best on their new CD)
Say Hi – “Northwestern Girls”, “Toil and Trouble” (MySpace top 8 includes Nada Surf, Plus/Minus, Bishop Allen among others and for obvious reasons)
No Kids – “The Beaches Are All Closed” (Dancey indie-pop)
The Autumns – “Boys” (LA band = J.Buckley meets Brit shoegazer pop)
Kelley Stoltz – “Your Reverie” (’60s-style pop ala The Beatles, The Monkees)
The Heavy Circles – “Henri” (Edie Brickell + Harper Simon, son of her husband, Paul)
Why? – “Close to Me”(Cure cover), “The Hollows” (Any friend of Hood is a friend of mine)
Miguel Miggs – “Fire” (featuring Junior Reid (Faze Action Afrotronic Re-Rub))  
Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast – “Oceanic” (folkie, J.Buckley-ish)
Faunts – “Memories of Places We’ve Never Been” , “M4 (Partt.1)” (synth-gazer)
Castaneda – “Pixels” (DCFC with balls)
The Ruby Suns – “Tane Mahuta” (Disney soundtrack meets Vampire Weekend-covering Paul Simon)
Excepter – “Kill People” (don’t worry, I don’t get it either)
The Epochs – “Opposite Sides” (sample-filled indie (trip)-pop with falsetto vocals)