Conor Oberst's Team Love will release Out Into the Snow, the twelfth record from lo-fi legend Simon Joyner, on September 15th. Read more about the making of the album, download two MP3s and a 9-track Joyner retrospective on the Team Love website. [team-love.com]
Slayer will release World Painted Blood, the band's 10th studio album, on November 3rd. Find more details on Slayer's website. [www.slayer.net]
White Mice will release their fourth full-length, Ganjohovahdose, on October 20th via Buck Spin. It's reportedly their "heaviest, noisiest, ugliest, most beautiful sound" yet. [www.tinymixtapes.com]
Ben Lee has resurrected Noise Addict, formed by Lee in 1992. The group, featuring Lou Barlow and Lara Meyerratken, posted a new album, It Was Never About The Audience, on Bandcamp for download. Keeping true to the band's origins, "everything [was] recorded quickly, in [Lee's] bedroom, with lots of stupid arbitrary rules like no mic-stands." [noiseaddict.net]
The Horrors are the latest collaborators added to the forthcoming Gorillaz album, due in 2010. Bassist Rhys Webb told BBC that Albarn contacted the band after hearing the new Horrors album Primary Colors. Read more about the meeting on BBC. [www.bbc.co.uk]
Maynard James Keenan is taking Puscifer on the road this fall. The trek kicks off October 29th in Las Vegas, NV. The group released "V" Is for Vagina last year and may debut new songs on said tour. [www.spin.com]
Jon Spencer's rockabilly group, Heavy Trash, will release Midnight Soul Serenade through Big Legal Mess on October 13th. Check out the band and tour dates on MySpace. [www.spinner.com]
Avant-garde, electronic madman Matthew Herbert will descend on Robert-Johnson in Frankfurt, Germany later this month. Microphones will be placed all over the club for two hours and guests are invited to make noises. The recordings will then be turned into a full-length, titled One Club. Herbert is also working on a "low-key collection of songs" called One One and a record about the life of a pig, aptly titled One Pig. More details can be found at Herbert's website. [www.residentadvisor.net]
Them Crooked Vultures have announced a fall US tour, beginning on October 1st in Austin (at the festival's pre-party). The power trio will tape an episode of Austin City Limits on September 30th. [blogs.myspace.com]
Manu Chao recorded his latest album, Viva La Colifata!, with patients at Jose Borda, a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires. Download the album for free and make a donation at vivalacolifata.org. [www.guardian.co.uk]
J. Tillman, better known as the Fleet Foxes drummer, will release a solo full-length, Year In The Kingdom, on September 22nd via Western Vinyl. Download "Though I Have Wronged You" on Stereogum and stream three other songs on MySpace. [stereogum.com]
According to Exclaim, Thom Yorke will release a limited-edition 12" vinyl record with the unreleased tracks "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" and "The Hollow Earth" on September 22nd via TBD. This follows the news of Yorke prepping a 7" release of his Mark Mulcahy cover “All for the Best.” You can watch a 2005 performance of "Horses" on YouTube. [exclaim.ca]
The legendary Nirvana set at the 1992 Reading Festival is getting a proper CD/DVD release on November 3rd via Universal. [pitchfork.com]
Dirty Projectors will tour the US, beginning October 20th in Baltimore, in support of their new album, Bitte Orca. [www.tinymixtapes.com]
DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) was found dead in his New York City apartment on Friday evening. According to a press release, "the circumstances surrounding his death are unclear," but the N.Y.P.D. Deputy Commissioner reported there is "no apparent evidence of foul play." [www.mtv.com]
From the "how did it take this long" department: Noel Gallagher has reportedly quit Oasis, according to BBC. Noel "simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer." Noel quit the band a couple times before, but changed his tune shortly afterward. [news.bbc.co.uk]
Singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim will release a new album, Be Set Free, through Kemado on September 29th. Listen to album track, "I Love You, But Goodbye," on MySpace. [www.myspace.com]
It's time for a victory lap: the Foo Fighters will a release 15-year retrospective greatest hits album, aptly titled Foo Fighters Greatest Hits, on November 3rd via RCA. Notably, the compilation will feature two new tracks, "Wheels" and "Word Forward," recorded with producer Butch Vig. [foofighters.com]
Back in November, Beck reportedly began work on a new album for French actress and singer-songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg. Now, it appears that album, IRM, will be released in January 2010 through Because. According to Pitcfork, Hansen wrote "all of the record's music, he co-wrote the lyrics, produced, and mixed the thing." [pitchfork.com]
Peaches will hit the States in late October to support I Feel Cream. MEN and Amanda Blank will support on separate legs. [www.chartattack.com]
