Kevin Miao
Arcade Fire Working On A New Album
A few days after winning album of the year for the Grammy Awards, Arcade Fire have won the International Band and International Album categories at the BRIT Awards. Today, they have announced that they are working on a new album.
“We’re going to write for about a month, a month and a half and then we’re going to play – we’ll be back in Europe in the summer,” frontman Win Butler told XFM.
Radiohead Gives their Valentine’s Day Love with an Eighth Album
There have been rumors circulating recently about Radiohead‘s new album, but these have finally been cleared. The new album, The King of Limbs, has been announced to be released in 5 days, on February 19. You can pre-order and view the details of the album here.
Interview: Ace Enders
We had the chance to talk with Ace Enders (The Early November, Ace Enders and a Million Different People, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business) about his Kickstarter project. We also discussed his future goals, his new album, touring possibilities, and thoughts on the music industry. He was clearly very passionate about his new projects and his goals. You can support his Kickstarter project here.
Ace: I guess just the separation between the supporters and musicians. I remember starting at a young age sort of seeing how the community was and what not, how the music scene has sort of changed. I think it’s the idea that came from all that, and making it more of a community-type thing. Now with the Kickstarter funding, it’s going to be our new thing that we’re pushing and I’m really excited about the whole new program that we’re about to start, that we’re going to unveil this week. It’s going to be pretty interesting, I think.
LitS: So you’ve already reached $20,000. Did you expect this project to be this successful?
Ace: No, I certainly did not. I thought we were going to come right down to the end trying to reach our goal, but I definitely didn’t expect it. I’m really, really just blown away. Every time I see it my breath is taken away a little bit. I’m like wow; I can’t believe we’re actually going to have a good shot at making this work. (more…)
The White Stripes Break Up
After 13 years together, Meg and Jack White have officially announced the break up of their band, The White Stripes.
Read more to find out the reasons behind the break up.
Support Ace Enders
Ace Enders of I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business is starting a new project on Kickstarter to help him and hundreds of other independent bands. You can donate here.
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The Strokes Confirm Release Date
The Strokes‘ bassist Nikolai Fraiture confirmed that the official release date for the new, untitled album is March 22. The bassist previously said in an interview, “Sonically, I feel it’s the album which should have been made between Room on Fire and First Impressions of Earth.”
UPDATE: They have officially announced that the name of the new album will be Angles. The lead single is “Undercover of Darkness”.
Foo Fighters Done Recording New Album
Foo Fighters have announced that they have finished recording their new album via Twitter. They also released 10 seconds of one of the new songs, which you can listen to here.
Interview: Otenki
I recently got to speak with the Houston based rock band, Otenki. Otenki’s new EP titled Kinetic is scheduled for release on May 3, 2011. Their single, “Ghosts”, will be released on February 7, 2011. We had to opportunity to talk to Otenki about their experience working in and out of the studio for Kinetic.
Otenki is Japanese for the word weather. We picked the name because it allowed us to always have the freedom to change virtually everything about our look and sound.
Why did you guys choose “Ghosts” to be the first single?
“Ghosts” was chosen as the first single because when we were in the demoing process and sending songs to James, that song stuck out the most. James immediately took a shine to it and said that it was the song that is going to set the standard for all of our other songs. All the songs are amazing but there’s something about “Ghosts” that really shines through.
What were the main sources of inspiration for Kinetic?
In reference to the song “Kinetic”, the inspiration came from all the years we have been a band. After so many years into being an unsigned band you struggle to find a reason to keep going because you’re not always making money, people dismiss you because you don’t have a label, labels dismiss you because you don’t have agents…it can wear you down. The music business can seem like a battlefield, there’s no mercy to be shown…However, the one thing that’s kept this going is our families, friends and fans. They’ve traveled hundreds of miles to see us, given us places to stay, fed us, inspired us to do great things. We do what we do for them. The song and the record are dedicated to those who matter the most to us. (more…)
Update on New Death Cab for Cutie Album
Stereogum has an update on Death Cab For Cutie‘s new seventh studio album, Codes and Keys, coming out in spring. Read the update here.
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