Iron & Wine (aka. Sam Beam) released his second full-length recording on March 23rd. The album titled Our Endless Numbered Days is a follow up to the critically acclaimed The Creek Drank the Cradle. Unfortunately, ironandwine.com does not provide free audio samples, but it does detail Sam Beam's upcoming West Coast tour.
If you're enjoying Squarepusher's new album, Ultravisitor, you might enjoy listening to the Squarepusher Radio 1 Breezeblock live session and interview from March 15th. You just might, that's all...
The ever-suave The Divine Comedy has a new album coming out this month in the UK. Absent Friends does not yet have a release date for the US, but you can stream it in its entirety on their website.
George Clinton & the P-Funk Allstars are hooking up with some of the younger crew for a new album due out in October. H.L.D.Y.H.T.B.B.Y.A. (How Late Do You Have to Be Before You're Absent) will feature the likes of OutKast, Busta Rhymes, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Scarface, Too Short, Tommy Lee and Anthony Kiedis and Flea from the Chili Peppers.
Remember when we told you about the upcoming My Chemcial Romance album? Well the band have decided on a tentative release date of June 8th for the highly enticipated follow up to I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love entitled, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.
Bad Religion recently performed three songs from their upcoming album on German Radio and did have them available for download on Their offical site. Since then the songs had been asked to be removed but will make their way back online in the future. The new songs were titled, "Sinister Rouge", "Los Angeles Is Burning", and "Let Them Eat War". Sorry to get your hopes up!
Well since the re-release is all the rage these days we don't want to let one slip by you unnoticed. Reggie and the Full Effect will be re-releasing Greatest Hits '84-87' with seven bonus tracks including "The Lord of The Bling Trilogy." A release date of April 20th (4/20) has been set.
Sufjan Stevens is taking his newly released Seven Swans on the road with a string of tour dates throughout April. If you haven't heard this album yet, or want some tour dates, check it out via the newly renovated www.sufjan.com
Robed rockers (?) The Polyphonic Spree will release their sophomore album, Together We're Heavy, on July 13th and will release a DVD & CD package, The Adventure Of Listening, featuring video footage & live CD. Also, the super-sized group is heading out on the road with David Bowie on March 29.
Are you ready for this? There is a contest out there where the Grand Prize is to have your wedding ceremony performed by Courtney Love. Honestly, I don't quite know what to say...
The video for "Float On", the first single from the forthcoming Modest Mouse record Good News For People Who Love Bad News, is now online for your viewing pleasure. Check the more for the media specific links.
The forthcoming Autolux album, Future Perfect, has a tracklisting now. Unfortunately, the closest thing we have to a release date is late March, early April.
In celebration of the release of their new album, Winning Days, The Vines are having a week-long contest with daily winners. There are three days left in the contest but you can still win a Ben Sherman Vines jacket, an XBox, or a Vines Snowboard. Enter at thevines.com/winningdays.
Liverpudlians Clinic will be hitting US soil for a short tour of major cities this spring. They start in Chicago at the end of April and wrap up in San Diego at the end of May. The tour is in support of their new album Winchester Cathedral, set for release in April.
A Mosrite Gospel Mark IV guitar once owned by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain will be up for an Icons of 20th Century Music auction beginning April 17th. Other musical items of note will also be offered, including Roger McGuinn's (The Byrds) custom-built Rickenbacher 12-string guitar and one of Elton John's pianos.
Of Montreal will launch what looks like an exhausting tour in support of their 8th album, Satanic Panic In The Attic, due for release April 6th. The Athens-based indie rockers will be playing almost every night during the months of April and May hitting every place imaginable. That's freakin dedication!
Sleater Kinney are about to embark on a short tour before their begin recording their followup to One Beat. During the April shows, look for The Thermals to open. Opening the May shows will be the Janet Weiss / Sam Coomes duo Quasi.
As if the re-released Moon & Antartica and the forthcoming Good News For People That Like Bad News (April 6th) weren't enough, Modest Mouse are set to release Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again exclusively through their website and at shows (see the more for that). Apparently Epic is sweetening the deal even more by giving fans the chance to pre-order both new discs together and receive a free Modest Mouse poster for only 20 bucks.
Still no official word on the boxset we told you about but My Bloody Valentine is set to release a compilation disc of their hard-to-find EP's and a second disc of rarities. The Remastered EPs will be released sometime in April, though exactly when hasn't been stated (13th? 20th?), and compiles You Made Me Realise, Feed Me With Your Kiss, Glider and Tremolo.
4AD will release exclusively digital downloads for the Pixies, Rachel Goswell and Blonde Redhead in the near future. They are also be releasing a few of their artist's upcoming albums as digital downloads.
