Indie Rock
Panda Bear Announces Album Release Date
Animal Collective founding member Panda Bear has announced that the release date for Tomboy, his highly anticipated followup to 2007’s Person Pitch, will be April 19th. The album will contain all the previous singles that had been released on vinyl in 2010 and unreleased material.
Grizzly Bear Contribute Soundtrack to Blue Valentine
Grizzly Bear contributed the soundtrack to the new movie Blue Valentine. According to The Playlist, the band intended their soundtrack to include original music, but when the film’s release date was pushed up, the band chose to instead include instrumentals of existing Grizzly Bear songs. Bummer.
The Blue Valentine soundtrack will be available on February 1 via Lakeshore Records. The digital album will be out January 25 on iTunes. Check out the tracklisting below.
Blue Valentine Tracklisting:
01 Grizzly Bear: “Granny Diner”
02 Department of Eagles: “In Ear Park”
03 Grizzly Bear: “Easier (Instrumental)”
04 Grizzly Bear: “Lullabye (Instrumental)”
05 Grizzly Bear: “I Live With You (Instrumental)”
06 Grizzly Bear: “Foreground (Instrumental)”
07 Grizzly Bear: “Dory (Instrumental)”
08 Ryan Gosling: “You Always Hurt the Ones You Love”
09 Penny & the Quarters: “You and Me”
10 Grizzly Bear: “Shift (Alternate Version)”
11 Grizzly Bear: “Alligator [ft. Zach Condon, Dave Longstreth & Amber Coffman] (Choir Version)”
12 Grizzly Bear: “Easier”
13 Grizzly Bear: “Lullaby”
14 Grizzly Bear: “I Live With You”
15 Grizzly Bear: “Foreground”
New Member of the Gorillaz
A new member has been added to the Gorillaz, based on a fan-submitted design from the character competition contest. The new character is called “The Evangelist” and has been redrawn by Gorillaz co-creator/animator Jamie Hewlett.
According to the Gorillaz website, “‘The Evangelist’ is the opposite of ‘The Boogieman;’ the light to his awful shade…’The Evangelist’ is a similar entity, but the flip-side of ‘The Boogieman.’ He/she may even be revealed as ‘The Boogieman’s’ avenger. His/her outer appearance is yet to be defined.”
You can see the images and find more information here.
Scotty and Rivers Collab
Scotty Murphy of Allister and Rivers Cuomo of Weezer are recording an album together, which will be “sung mostly in Japanese.” Check out a message from Scotty below.
“Lately I’ve been working on a side project with Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of the band Weezer. We’ve been recording an album’s worth of songs over the past couple months, trading off lead vocal duties. It’s been a lot of fun, and the songs are turning out awesome! They’ll be sung mostly in Japanese, and the CD will be out sometime this year!”
Drake Works With The xx and Florence and the Machine
According to NME, Drake is working with The xx‘s Jamie Smith and Florence and the Machine‘s Florence Welch. Smith says that he has been working with Drake on the rapper’s upcoming album Take Care. Drake has also announced that he may appear on the new Florence and the Machine record.
As of now, no release dates have been anounced. To tide you over, you can watch a fan video of Florence performing “Fireworks” with Drake in London below.
Two Door Cinema Club Music Video
Check out the new music video for Two Door Cinema Club‘s “What You Know” below.
Madina Lake Announce New Album
The new Madina Lake album will be entitled World War III and can be expected for a Summer 2011 release. Check out a message from the band below.
“The Dresden Codex EP has officially sold out! On behalf of Madina Lake, PledgeMusic and Keep-A-Breast, we can’t thank you all enough for your support/donations! The remaining auction items will be available until this Friday (Jan. 14th) at which point we will bring to a close this chapter and focus all of our energies on making the best record of our career… “World War III” .. which we hope to have out by Summer of 20111! Let’s all have an amazing year.. yeah? yep. xoxo
Madina
ps.
For those who have yet to receive your packages, apologize for the delay. Due to the intimacy of these auctions, it’s been a round-the-clock endeavor to assemble and ship each package. However, we expect all remaining shipments to go out by the end of this week!”
Chris Martin Discusses New Coldplay
Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay, has revealed in an interview with NME that the new album will be inspired by “love, addiction and OCD”. Check out the interview for more on the band’s upcoming album.
Free Native EP
Sargent House is currently giving away Native‘s 2008 We Delete; Erase EP for free. You can download the EP here.
Anberlin Is Writing
Via this Twitter post, Anberlin have stated that even though they are writing and recording new material, but are not moving on to a new record yet.
“So you know, we’re always writing, thinking of new ideas, recording them. We’re not moving on to another record. This one just came out! -NY”
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