According to their website it appears to that 12 Rods will be playing their last show on August 14th at First Avenue in Minneapolis. While the band is breaking up they have big plans to post every song and demo they've ever recorded for $0.99, along with a load of other goods. Expect new projects from each band member in the coming months.
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead have tenatively scheduled September 21st as the release of their next album. Unfortunately coupled with this great news is a report that bassist Neil Busch has left the band due to severe health problems and has been replaced by Danny Wood from The Rise. It is uncertain if this replacement is temporary or not. More details as they arise...
Vice Records will release the Death From Above debut You're A Woman, I'm A Machine in October. If you haven't checked out the bands website, do so now.
If you live in California or in random various other parts of the world, you may soon have your chance to catch PJ Harvey. If not, you'll have to wait until later in the fall for her US tour.
The soundtrack to the film Wicker Park (due August 24th) will feature unreleased and rare tracks from the likes of The Postal Service, The Shins, and The Stills. Check the site for more details.
Look for a 7" from Clientele to be coming out in the next few months on Unpopular Records. It will feature a version of "Lacewings" and "Policemen Getting Lost" that were recorded live. There will only be 500 copies available, so you gotta be quick.
Pinback are set to release a new full-length on October 12th. Titled Summer in Abaddon, it has already started finding it's way into file-sharing groups. Click the [more] for tracklisting.....
According to MTV.com, Futures, Jimmy Eat World's next release, is due October 19. The band will debut some of the material August 27 at San Diego's Street Scene festival and September 3 at Milwaukee's Summerfest.
Oh my...hey friends, want to hear William Shatner and Joe Jackson's cover of Pulp's "Common People"? Well, here it is in quicktime and windows media. Shatner's Has Been will be in stores Oct. 5th.
The Irish group Ash release their new single "Starcrossed" today, and you can check out the video with this ecard. There's a chance to win an XBox in there too.
The debut solo release from Travis Morrison will be released on Barsuk Records on September 28th. In the meantime, he still has several songs for download on his site and will be playing The Galaxy Hut on August 22nd in Arlington, VA.
Soulwax will release their follow up to Much Against Everyones Advice on August 23rd. The new album, and single, is entitled Any Minute Now and features more of the rock sound that Soulwax fans may be used to, as opposed to the insane DJ collection that The Dewaele Brothers unleashed on the world a few years ago. The new album was predominatly produced by Flood (NiN, PJ Harvey) and mixed with Alan Moulder.
The Eagles of Death Metal have just released a 7" single featured two Queens of the Stone Age songs ("Go With The Flow", "Gonna Leave You"). The vinyl sells for $15.00 and is available now on their site.
The final Elliott Smith album From a Basement on the Hill is now scheduled for an October 19th release on Anti-Records. While not the double album that it was originally thought, we can expect to hear 15 new tracks. The remaining 19 tracks that were recorded have been speculated to be slated for a b-side CD from Dreamworks / Interscope, though there are no solid plans for them.
If you still haven't managed to download random bootlegs of Team Sleep, the much delayed side project from Deftone Chino Moreno, now you can sample some legit versions of their work on their MySpace page (or just use the standalone player). Strange but true.
A whole slew of new tour dates have been released for this summer's Sonic Youth tour. Also, the pioneering alternative band have been working on a new song entitled "Kim's Chords" that will only be available for download on iTunes. See the [more] for complete tour dates.
The historic 1985 concert for famine relief in Africa will be available on DVD on November 10th. Featuring performances by the biggest acts in the world and punctuated by an incredible show from Queen, Live Aid raised over $70 million. Extras on the DVD will include a documentary and other Live Aid related performances from around the world.
The forthcoming Bjork album that we told you about, Medulla, now has a August 31st release date from Atlantic Records. The first single is scheduled to be "Oceania", which she will perform at the Olympics in Athens.
Wyclef Jean, Fountains of Wayne, the Walkmen, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Dead Kennedys are among the artists lending tracks to the upcoming soundtrack to The Manchurian Candidate.
The Lostprophets' single "Last Summer" will be available as an import on August 23rd, touting B-side cover versions of the Strokes' "Reptilia" and Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight."
