It's the year of the reunion: fIREHOSE have announced a string of reunion tour dates in April. The trek kicks off on April 5th in Sacramento, CA and includes two performances at Coachella 2012. [www.verbicidemagazine.com]
Damien DeRose will release his third Peasant full-length, Bound for Glory, on April 17th through Schnitzel Records. Check out the upbeat track "The Flask" from said album on SoundCloud. [iampeasant.bandcamp.com]
Australia's Children Collide have released the new single "Sword to a Gunfight" (watch the video on YouTube). The band's new album, Monument, in due in April. The record merges post-punk, Kraut rock and dance-rock. [www.childrencollide.com.au]
Megafaun will tour Europe and the States from February through April in continued support of their self-titled album, released in 2011 on Hometapes. Check out "Hope You Know" on the Moog Sound Lab. [megafaun.com]
According to a couple of tweets, Shiner is in the planning stages of a reunion tour around a vinyl re-release of 2001's The Egg. Allen Epley (The Life and Times) mentioned the reunion to a fan, which was later confirmed by Josh Newton (Every Time I Die, From Autumn To Ashes). Currently, it appears the plan is four shows: Kansas City, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. [twitter.com]
Nick Zammuto (The Books) formed a new band last year, aptly named Zammuto. The group recently released the Idiom Wind EP, which is available to stream and buy on Bandcamp via Make Mine. They'll release their debut full-length on April 3rd through Temporary Residence. Check out "A Day with Nick Zammuto" on Vimeo. [www.zammutosound.com]
Clark will release his sixth full-length, Iradelphic, on April 3rd through Warp Records. The album was recorded in "Australia, Berlin, Wales, Brussels, Cornwall, Norway and London using a diverse range of tools ranging from the vintage to the cutting edge modern" (£8k Cold War microphones to Dictaphones). Check out "Com Touch" on YouTube. [warp.net]
Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles) will release his debut solo effort, the Silent Hour / Golden Mile EP, on March 20th through Warp Records. Rossen nearly recorded the whole EP "himself in rehearsal rooms and small spaces across New York City". Preview the EP track "Saint Nothing" on YouTube. [warp.net]
Brooklyn's The Big Sleep will return with their third full-length, Nature Experiments, on January 31st through Frenchkiss Records. Check out the video for "Ace" on Rolling Stone. Their last effort, Sleep Forever, was released back in 2008. [www.rollingstone.com]
Steve Ellison tweeted earlier today that he will unveil his fourth Flying Lotus full-length at Coachella 2012. If you didn't get Coachella tickets, you are out of luck. The actual release is expected in the spring. Cosmogramma was released in 2010. [twitter.com]
London's Breton will release their debut full-length, Other People's Problems, on April 3rd through FatCat Records. The former film-making collective have crafted a "atmospheric and darkly exhilarating" sound. Check out "Edward The Confessor" on YouTube. [breton.bandcamp.com]
Two Gallants recently checked in on Facebook with a bunch of European dates for 2012. Luckily, those in San Francisco can catch the duo at Noise Pop 2012 in February. The guys reactivated in 2011 and have been touring. Check out a recent feature on Noisey. A new EP or full-length (or both) seems to be coming in 2012, we can only hope. [www.facebook.com]
Tiny Victories will release their debut EP, Those Of Us Still Alive, on February 28th. The group creates "brainy pop" and have a "uncommonly organic, improvisational feel for electronic music". Stream "Lost Weekend" on Bandcamp. [tinyvictories.bandcamp.com]
Chicago's post-metal quartet Pelican will release a new EP, Ataraxia/Taraxis, through Southern Lord on April 10th. The EP represents a "new chapter in the band's evolution". Check out the artwork on Facebook. What We All Come To Need was released in 2009. [thequietus.com]
Santigold recently told V Magazine that her sophomore album is titled Master of My Make-Believe and about "creating your own reality". It was speculated that last year's single "Go" (SoundCloud) would make the record, but White only mentions "The Keepers" in said interview. [www.vmagazine.com]
Rolling Stone has a stream of the title track from the forthcoming Justin Townes Earle album Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now. The album is due out March 27th on Bloodshot Records and was inspired by "Memphis-soul". [www.rollingstone.com]
Barsuk Records will release Strange Land, the new full-length from New York's Yellow Ostrich, on March 6th. The group produced the album themselves, but recorded with engineer Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse). As well, the group has expanded from being Alex Schaaf's bedroom project to "full-fledged power trio". Explore mylegsaresore.com for some cryptic sneak peeks at the new record. [www.mylegsaresore.com]
As promised, Xiu Xiu will release a new full-length, Always, through Polyvinyl on March 6th. Stream "Hi" from said album on SoundCloud. The album was produced by Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and mixed by John Congleton (Antony and the Johnsons, The Roots). [www.polyvinylrecords.com]
Islands will return on February 14th with A Sleep & A Forgetting through ANTI- Records. Thorburn's trademark "adventuresome and infectious state of the art pop music" is mixed with some "personal introspection". Stream "This Is Not A Song" on YouTube. [anti.com]
North Carolina's Lost In The Trees will release a new album, A Church That Fits Our Needs, through ANTI- Records on March 20th. NPR has an exclusive stream of the new song "Red". Check out the group's Tiny Desk Concert from September 2010, while you're on NPR. [www.npr.org]
