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New Matt Costa Due October 2

Matt Costa returns October 2 with Unfamiliar Faces, his follow-up to 2006’s Songs We Sing. Just 25, the intense Costa locked himself his his bedroom to write the new record, and in the spring of 2007, teamed up with Songs We Sing’s producer, No Doubt’s Tom Dumont, to begin recording the newie.
“Being around Tom, it [...]

2 Aug 2007 | 9 comments | More
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Working For a Nuclear Free City Debut out October 16th on Deaf Dumb + Blind

Love Manchester and the thought of mixing the sounds of “psychedelia, krautrock and electronic”? Look no further than the US debut from Working for Nuclear Free City, (already popular in the UK for remixes of The Rakes, Polytechnic, Shitdisco, Archie Bronson Outfit, The Whip and Starsailor) Businessmen & Ghosts, due October 16th on Deaf Dumb [...]

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Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - “What is Free to a Good Home?” : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

The achingly lush, gorgeous gift that emanates from Metric frontwoman Emily Haines’ lips makes me want to build a ladder to the sky and waltz on windswept clouds. I feel her voice up and down my back; it equally touches and unnerves me, but yet I want more. Thankfully she sensed her fans were killing [...]

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Five O ’Clock Heroes Debut due September 18

Bend to the Brakes due out on Glaze, 9/18
Considered a ‘New York band’ even though they aren’t based here, the Five O’Clock Heroes will come to rescue us all on September 18 with the release of Bend to the Brakes, an album The Guardian considers, “rumbustious power pop by a New York / London band [...]

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Beasties Announce Additional Dates

The Beastie Boys have announced additional tour dates and gala events in support of their recent instrumentals album, The Mix-Up. Always the charitable fellows, $1 from each ticket will go to an EcoFund via ARIA that supports Reverb, “the outreach program to educate and engage musicians and their fans to promote environmental sustainability and fund local [...]

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Metric Taking to the Road to Preview New Material

 
Metric will begin its first US tour in a year in Washington DC on September 19th to preview new material off of the band’s upcoming fourth album, to be recorded this autumn. ”We’ve missed our fans,” says frontwoman Emily Haines. “We haven’t toured in North America for about 18 months and it felt like time to return. We’ve [...]

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New Coheed and Cambria Album Set for October 23 Release

New York prog rockers Coheed and Cambria will release No World for Tomorrow on October 23 through Columbia, the highly-anticipated follow-up to the #7 on Billboard-charting Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. According to the press release, “the new record does complete the story of the [...]

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The Wombats are coming! The Wombats are coming!

We called ‘em “…infectiously impulsive indie pop,” lurved their recent show at the Borderline in London, and now New York will get its chance to hang with The Wombats on August 15 at the Annex, ahead of the September release of the lads’ self-titled EP including the jams “Backfire at the Disco,” “Kill the Director,” and “Moving [...]

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Scarlett and TV (On The Radio) Sittin’ in a Tree…

As it she couldn’t get any sexier, details of Scarlett Johansson’s debut album are leaking out. According to NME and Pitchfork, Ms. Johansson has been recording in Louisiana, Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio is producing, and members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Celebration are also involved. No clear word yet if this is also [...]

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