The undefinable Gruvis Malt quietly released a new album, Maximum Unicorn, late last year. It seems the album is just now making its rounds or we're just that behind. Either way, you can preview "Since 1968" from the album at gruvismalt.com.
By the time you read this the tickets will probably be gone, but Gnarls Barkley (Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo) will be doing a joint together in NYC on May 22. They'll drop St. Elsewhere on May 9th, and I'll be damned if it doesn't reach the top of the charts within two weeks.
Fin Fang Foom recently added a new member who plays cello, Cynthia Main, and also just finished recording an untitled EP for the Japanese label Stiffslack. The band will be touring Japan this fall to support the release. They will also start working on a new full-length to be released next year on Lovitt. The track listing for the EP is as follows:
des_ark has been recording 5 new songs in Richmond, VA, with Jonathan Fuller (Engine Down, Denali, Bats & Mice) for their split record with Ben Davis. Davis and des_ark will actually be recording 2 songs together with a 30-piece orchestra in early May. The split, which will be 12 total songs (5 each and 2 together), will be out sometime this fall and both bands will be touring behind it.
Engine Down is slaving away on an upcoming DVD. The DVD will have their whole last show, footage from their last tour, interviews with the band, interviews with bands Engine Down toured with, and a whole lot more. Look for a late-year release.
After blowing people away opening for Wolf Parade last year, Think About Life is finally coming out with a record on May 2nd. The band is about to hit the road in support of their debut album opening for Art Brut before headlining shows in late May and early June. More dates will be announced in the coming weeks. Dates below.
Looks as if Deftones have teamed up with Korn and intend to resurrect the Family Values tour for 2006 (with $9.99 lawn tickets for amphitheatre shows). Get more details over at Live Nation or read this MTV article.
The Bronx have posted two tracks, both of which you can snag in the Downloads ("Shitty Future" is recommended listening). Said tracks will be included on their forthcoming self-titled, sophmore album.
Billy Corgan asks. Billy Corgan receives. Assuming it's not a very late April Fools joke, it appears that the Smashing Pumpkins have reformed and will be recording a new album this summer, the first since 2000.
They Might Be Giants are prolific. If you ever have a doubt about that fact you should probably go pick up their recently released Venue Songs DVD, in which the band wrote, rehearsed, and performed a new song for every venue they played on during their last tour. You can check it all out on their official site and then go see them on tour and hope that they continue their new tradition and write a song for your city / venue. In other news, the band is planning to record a new album for 2007 with The Dust Brothers behind the boards.
We told you that the new Black Heart Procession disc, The Spell, would be out on May 11th.. what we meant to say was May 9th. You can check out the album cover here and we've found a few 'unofficial' mp3's if that's your thing.
You can preview the track "Mansfield and Cyclops" from the forthcoming Espers album, II, due out May 16th. Just head over to the Downloads.
Looks as if David Pajo, now known as PAJO, will follow-up his self-titled debut with Insomnia Songs sometime this year on Drag City. Assuredly, we'll let you know more details as they come to light.
It makes perfect sense for Ladytron to release a remix disc. In fact, it makes more than perfect sense. Why hasn't this been done already? The group will release Extended Play on April 25th. The CD/DVD combo will feature three previously unreleased b-sides and five remixes from The Witching Hour. If that's not enough Ladytron news for ya also take note that the band is finishing up their North American tour...so you still have time to catch them.
In continuing support of First Impressions of Earth and giant, well-lit, stage shows, The Strokes are staying on the road. The latest batch of tour dates keeps them out and about through July.
The first set of Flaming Lips tour dates doesn't seem to hit a whole lot of North American areas, but that just gives you from now until July to get more familiar with the goodness of At War With The Mystics when the second leg of the tour is inevitably announced.
The forthcoming Peeping Tom disc is still slated for a May 30th release, but as of May 2nd, there will be a new non-album bonus track available in the iTunes Music Store to tide you over.
April 25th will see the release of Secret Machines second LP, Ten Silver Drops, and as always, with a new album comes many new dates all around the globe. The band will also be doing Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in the next couple weeks in addition to two acoustic in-store appearances in New York and LA. All the dates below.
Dios malos will be releasing an iTunes only EP, titled Album, on May 2nd. The band will then hit the road with The Starlight Mints along for the ride.
The long-awaited Greedy Baby project from Plaid and Bob Jaroc will hit stores on June 27th. The release, which was specially written for Jaroc' moving images, will be packaged as a CD/DVD combo.
