All Things Considered recently got Chris Walla and producer/musician J. Robbins together for Project Song. The two were thrown into a performance studio and asked to create a song in two days. Watch the creative process and listen to the result, "Mercury," on NPR. [www.npr.org]
Tom Waits will release Glitter and Doom Live on November 24th. The live album is a two-disc collection of the best tracks from Waits' last tour. Snag a preview of the album on Waits' website. [www.tomwaits.com]
Norah Jones is streaming "Chasing Pirates," the first single from The Fall, on her website. Said album will drop on November 17th. [norahjones.com]
London's Imogen Heap will tour the US in support of her new album, Ellipse, during November and December. Heap recently performed "Last Train Home" on the Late Show with David Letterman. [www.livedaily.com]
Avey Tare of Animal Collective recently provided a rundown of the band's plans for the remainder of 2009. The "Brothersport" single will drop on November 9th, followed by the Fall Be Kind EP in December (digital could drop in November, as well). Pitchfork has a full interview with Tare. [pitchfork.com]
To celebrate tomorrow's release of Embryonic from The Flaming Lips, a pop-up store will setup shop at the Nike / Ricardo Montalban Theater located at 1615 Vine St. in Hollywood, CA on October 15th from noon to midnight. Fans will be able to purchase "unique artifacts available on this day and location only" and be treated to a MySpace Secret Show. Tickets are first-come first-serve at the location.
According to the LA Times, Brian Wilson will finish "at least two" unfinished George Gershwin songs, after receiving authorization from the composers' estate. Gershwin left behind "several dozen song fragments" when he died in 1937. Wilson plans to include the songs on a tribute album in 2010. [www.latimes.com]
Etienne Jaumet will release his first solo full-length, Night Music, on November 3rd. The French electro artist has previously performed with the Moldy Peaches, Daniel Johnston, Flop and Zombie Zombie. [www.myspace.com]
Domino will release Heartland, the new album from Final Fantasy, on January 12th, 2010. Owen Pallett describes the effort as an "orchestral record forming a narrative about a young farmer named Lewis." [www.dominorecordco.us]
According to Billboard, Jawbox will reunite on December 8th for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. This will be first performance from the band in 12 years. As previously reported, the band will reissue 1994's For Your Own Special Sweetheart on November 24th through DeSoto. [www.billboard.com]
The Rentals will release The Future, their third and final EP in the Songs About Time series, on October 20th. The band is giving away Fujifilm FinePix Z33WP cameras to promote the EP. [twitter.com]
Regina Spektor will appear on Saturday Night Live this Saturday, October 10th. She'll perform her second single, "Eet," from Far. In other news, Spektor will soon collaborate on Beauty, a Broadway musical, and recently completed a duet with violinist Joshua Bell (preview the track on Music Mix). Not to mention, she's on tour for the rest of the year. [www.myspace.com]
The Morning Benders recently completed their sophomore album, Big Echo, produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor. It won't surface until March 2010, but the band will play upcoming shows with Grizzly Bear and Girls. [www.myspace.com]
White Rabbits have announced a fall tour in continued support of It’s Frightening. The group will head into Canada for the first time. [www.tinymixtapes.com]
Experimentalist Tim Fite will continue his seasonal trend of giving away new music, with a third Halloween EP. The release will be available on October 31st through his website for one day only. [www.aversion.com]
Zero 7 will hit the States in November and December for a US tour in support of their latest album, Yeah Ghost. [www.livedaily.com]
Following in the footsteps of 1995's No Protection, a dub remix of Protection from Massive Attack by Mad Professor, Daddy G revealed to Clash Magazine that Burial may remix many of the tracks from the forthcoming Massive Attack album, due in February. There's no schedule for the remix project, but that it may happen is enough to be excited about. [www.clashmusic.com]
As previously reported, ANTI- signed Dr. Dog this summer. The band have announced their sixth album, Shame, Shame, will be released in spring 2010 and will sound "more modern." [drdog.co.uk]
FILMguerrero/Barsuk will release A Lackthereof Retrospective 1998-2008, or I was a Christian Emo Twentysomething on October 13th. The Lackthereof retrospective chronicles Danny Seim's musical experiments pre-Menomena. [www.barsuk.com]
Chapel Hill's The Love Language have signed to Merge Records. The group released its self-titled debut in March of this year on Bladen County Records. Singer/songwriter Stuart McLamb is currently working on songs for a sophomore record, due in 2010. [www.mergerecords.com]
