The Blood Brothers have announced they will return to the studio on April 23rd to begin recording the follow-up to Crimes. This time around, they've enlisted the help of Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and John Goodmanson (who helmed the boards on Crimes).
You can preview "The End" and "Shattered" from the upcoming Saves The Day album, Sound The Alarm, with this Vagrant ecard. We now have the tracklist for the album, due in stores April 11th, and dates until May 7th have been released for their current tour. As well, it looks as if Manny Carrero (Glassjaw, Stillsuit) is now holding down bass duties.
You can preview the track "Long Distance Call" from the forthcoming Phoenix album over on their MySpace page. The new disc, It's Never Been Like That is set for a May 2006 release.
If you're eager to hear the new album from The Secret Machines, Ten Silver Drops, you can head over to NME and stream the whole thing (or hit the official site and click through to "Alone, Jealous and Stoned"). The album will be in stores April 25th.
South Carolina quartet The Working Title will release their debut LP About-Face sometime in June. No exact date is set, but the Cause For Alarm-based release will follow up the band's sole other release, the EP Everyone Else Here is Wrong, and of course they'll be touring, this time with Mute Math.
Merge will release a second singles collection from Lambchop on April 11th. In keeping with the band's clever titles, the set will be called The Decline Of Country & Western Civilization Part II: The Woodwind Years. Word also has it that Lambchop's new full-length album is expected in August.
Aloha have announced tour dates from April 1st until May 18th in support of their new album, Some Echoes.
You can download the video for We Are Scientists song "It's A Hit" from their debut Love & Squalor right here. This second version of the video was directed by Akiva Shaffer of The Lonely Island.
The new record Today from Junkie XL comes out April 18 on Ultra Records. You'll find streaming audio for the title track in over in the downloads section, watch the video for it here and the complete tracklisting...
The Walkmen have added shows up until June 29th to their current tour schedule. All of this activity is in support of A Hundred Miles Off, their new album due May 23rd.
Since her latest clean-up, Courtney Love has been a busy bee. She has sold the rights (we had a preview) to part of the Nirvana catalogue. Apparently twenty-five percent of her share of Nirvana's publishing catalog has gone to Larry Mestel of Primary Wave Music Publishing, former COO/GM of Virgin Records. She is also in the works to do some music for her next solo project with Moby. Read more about it at RollingStone.com.
Giant Drag released Hearts & Unicorns some time last year but have decided that since so many people at their shows love their Chris Issak cover of "Wicked Game" that they are going to re-release it with a studio version of the song. Of course if you already bought the disc, you're kind of screwed but that's something you can take up with the band while they are on their massive North American tour.
Everyone should thank Suicide Squeeze for all the great music they put out. Everyone including themselves. The label will be releasing a 10-year anniversary double-disc compilation CD featuring exclusive tracks from Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse, 764-Hero, the Six Parts Seven, The Aislers Set and many of their current roster (which includes Goon Moon, Headphones, Minus The Bear, Crystal Skulls and many more. Look for that disc on August 22nd and then book your flight to Seattle to catch the 3-night blow-out featuring tons of Suicide Squeeze bands.
You know the new disc from Pretty Girls Make Graves is coming out April 11th but now we also know that the band is going to be headlining a fair comprehensive tour across North America in support it.
You can preview more new songs from the impending release from South, Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars, over at this site.
We've got the tracklisting for the forthcoming release from Head Automatica, Popaganda. The June 6th release will feature 14 tracks with the last being a remix by Chris Lord-Alge.
SUR Records Bellaparker have redesigned their site and made "The Last Time" available for streaming preview. So, between that, their MySpace page and the SU Records site you can hear a ton of the songs from their debut EP The Things We Say (now available in our Merch section).
We've got good news and bad news. The bad news: we'll have to wait until September 9th (Japan) for the new EP from The Life and Times (the US distro is being worked out, currently). The good news: Epley and crew have announced a bunch of new tour dates, including a decent sized East Coast run with Pelican, Mono and MGR.
"When You Wasn't Famous," the new single from The Streets, hits stores today backed with two remixes (check out the UK iTunes store and watch the video in the Downloads). To commemorate the release, Mike Skinner and crew have launched a brand new official website. Of course, this is all in preparation for April 11th and the release of The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living.
Buddyhead's newest recruits Wires On Fire are nearly finished recording their debut full-length, with help from the duo of Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider. The group currently has the song "Daisy" featured on the The Hills Have Eyes soundtrack. Catch them live on April 4th at The Troubadour in Hollywood, CA.
