By Stephen DeFilippo on June 21, 2010
Michael Cera’s up to it again, with another big-screen comic book adaptation for which he’s enlisted the help of Beck, Broken Social Scene, and a couple acts called Crash and the Boys and SEX BOB-OMB. Wait, who?
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Beachwood Sparks, Beck, Black Lips, Broken Social Scene, Crash and the Boys, Frank Black, Michael Cera, SEX BOB-OMB, T. Rex, The Rolling Stones
By Jennifer Marston on June 20, 2010
The smooth sounds of Wilco’s John Stirratt and Pat Sansone are coming our way soon…
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged The Autumn Defense, Wilco
By Karli McAllister on June 8, 2010
Releasing music is a tricky business these days. A task even more demanding is keeping track of the abundance of albums, compilations, singles, and EPs that drop each month, not to mention digital-versus-physical release times, overseas dates, and the occasional artist name change.
Because we know you’re busy, each Monday we throw the coffee on and pack the new week’s most anticipated releases into one easily digestible list.
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By Karli McAllister on June 7, 2010
School of Seven Bells announced pre-order details this week on their forthcoming sophomore album, Disconnect From Desire, out July 13 on Vagrant/Ghostly International.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged School of Seven Bells, The Secret Machines
By William Cody Humston on June 7, 2010
You Are Not Alone features new music written for Mavis by Tweedy, plus interpretations of songs penned by Pops Staples, Randy Newman, Allen Toussaint, John Fogerty, Rev. Gary Davis and Little Milton.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Wilco
By William Cody Humston on June 4, 2010
Floored by Four made their stage debut in August 2009, at Central Park’s SummerStage, but the super-group—led by Minutemen bassist and occasional Stooge Mike Watt—took a tad longer to bring us an actual release. The wait, it seems, is finally over, and the avant-garde dream-team will release their self-titled debut album this fall.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Mike Watt, Nels Cline
By William Cody Humston on May 26, 2010
Nick Cave and a handful of Band Seeds are set to crank out Grinderman 2 this September.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Grinderman, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
By Jennifer Marston on May 25, 2010
The über-prolific Kurt Vile takes a quick break from touring and recording to drop this seven-track free EP.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Kurt Vile, Matador
By Jennifer Marston on May 24, 2010
Exactly one year after Jay Bennett passed away, family and friends of the songwriter and former Wilco multi-instrumentalist have created The Jay Bennett Foundation and will be giving away a free download of Bennett’s new record, Kicking at the Perfumed Air.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Jay Bennett
By Jennifer Marston on May 20, 2010
A pressing question weighing heavily on all our minds these days: What’s up with vampires and indie rock? The Twilight saga has yet another crop of top-shelf indie artists contributing to its soundtrack, and now HBO’s True Blood series has unveiled the rather, um, killer soundtrack to its third season.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams, News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Beck, Bob Dylan, Buddy & Julie Miller, Chuck Prophet, Eels, Elvis Costello, Jace Everett & CC Adcock, Jr. Walker and The All Stars, King Britt & Sister Gertrude Morgan, Lucinda Williams, M. Ward, Robbie Robertson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The 13th Floor Elevators, Thievery Corporation, true blood, twilight, vampires
