AEREOGRAMME

Glasgow-based epic rockers AEREOGRAMME are set to release their newest album 'My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go' on January 29th. If the first single 'Barriers' is any indication, this is one album to watch this year. A gorgeous song, swirling with melody and emotion, 'Barriers' slowly grows on you. Before you know it, you're hooked.

BONDE DO ROLE - Gasolina EP

BONDE DO ROLE are the other Brazilian act (re; CSS) to make global waves last year via Diplo's Mad Decent label. And now they have a brand new EP hitting I-Tunes, etc. on January 22. The title song, 'Gasolina' is the best BONDE DO ROLE track yet. A straight-up mash-up jam that brings the party to your headphones. Lead singer Marina's shout out to Afrika Bambaataa is a fun tribute to the Godfather of samples and beats.

GUSGUS - new single 'Moss'

For those who love Icelandic electro darlings GUSGUS, the long wait for a new album is finally coming to an end. After teasing us for two years with a string of singles from Pineapple Records, GUSGUS will at long last drop their 5th studio album, appropriately titled 'Forever', at the end of February.

LISTEN to the first single 'Moss' by clicking above on the title of this post.

Other songs rumored to make up the album's tracklist are:

1-Degeneration
2-You’ll Never Change
3-Hold You
4-Need In Me
5-Lust
6-If You Don’t Jump (You’re English)
7-Forever
8-Sweet Smoke
9-Porn
10-Demo 54
11-Moss (featuring Daniel Agust, formerly of GusGus)
12-Mallflowers

www.gusgus.com

AU REVOIR SIMONE

Who wouldn't love an all-girl indie pop band named after the infamous dinosaur scene in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE? AU REVOIR SIMONE make dreamy music using keyboards and vintage drum machines - the kind of sounds that can perfectly lull you to sleep.

My first taste of these girls came from THE TEENAGERS remix of the forthcoming single 'Fallen Snow'. The original track will be featured on AU REVOIR SIMONE's second album to be released this spring on the Moshi Moshi label.

In the meantime, you can enjoy this seemingly homemade live video of the band walking the streets of Brooklyn, performing the track 'Stay Golden'.



AU REVOIR SIMONE on MySpace
OFFICIAL SITE

KLAXONS - Myths of the Near Future

UK sensation KLAXONS finally have a full-length album coming to America. "Myths of the Near Future" will be released on January 29 and will contain all the previous singles as well as some new songs. The new single, 'Golden Skans' is already available on I-Tunes.

Track listing

"Two Receivers"
"Atlantis To Interzone"
"Golden Skans"
"Totem On The Timeline"
"As Above So Below"
"Isle Of Her"
"Gravity's Rainbow"
"Forgotten Words"
"Magick"
"It's Not Over"
"Four Horsemen Of 2012"

Check out the KLAXONS positively insane website:

http://www.klaxons.net/

New Music 2007 - !!!

"Myth Takes", the third full-length album from Brooklyn-based dancepunk outfit !!! (Chk-Chk-Chk), will see its release on March 4th, 2007. Anyone who's ever seen !!! play live knows that these boys know how to put on a non-stop, sticky, sweaty dance party.

The band suffered a tragic event back in December 2005, when their original drummer was struck and killed by a car. Though he was no longer a member of the band, it will be interesting to see what effect the tragedy has had on !!!'s sound.

The tracklist for 'Myth Takes' is here:

Myth Takes
All My Heroes Are Weirdos
Must Be The Moon
A New Name
Heart Of Hearts
Sweet Life
Yadnus
Bend Over Beethoven
Break In Case Of Anything
Infinifold

New Music 2007 - BRIGHT EYES

Conor Oberst, aka BRIGHT EYES, is set to release his latest album, entitled 'Cassadaga' on April 9th. The last time we heard from old BRIGHT EYES was 2005's one-two punch of the brilliant 'I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning' and the more experimental 'Digital Ash in a Digital Urn', both released on the same day.

The first single from the album will be 'Four Winds', preceding the album by a week on April 2, but in the meantime you can sample the free download track 'Endless Entertainment' at thisisbrighteyes.com

Janet Weiss of SLEATER-KINNEY, M. Ward and Gillian Welch are among the guests on 'Cassadaga'.

New Music 2007 - INTERPOL

The following message is posted on INTERPOL's official website, promising good things to come from the NY band in the next year:

"Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are now recording album 3. The studio is in NYC, and we're enjoying being local.
The atmosphere and the environs of a recording facility affect the sound and feel of an album in the subtlest ways.
And we are affected. And it is subtle.
Sounds great so far. But we'll be here for a while yet.
Upward and outward. Begin, begin.
Big kisses all around.
Interpol"

INTERPOL are one of the greatest bands of the last decade and I'm really looking forward to the third album. I wonder if they'll change it up, or stick with the defining sound on their first two LP's.

New Music 2007 - COURTNEY LOVE

"How Dirty Girls Get Clean", the second solo effort from Madame Love, will be released in early 2007. And I for one, cannot fucking wait. All music pretentions aside, am I the only one who has ever listened to Courtney's catalogue into the wee hours of night with a 40 and a pipe, loving every fucking second of her unabashed, wailing soul? And with that I include her 2003 solo debut, "America's Sweetheart". Sure, sometimes she sounds like a maimed mule, worn down by the everlong trips up the side of the Grand Canyon, but she's never fake. Never false. Never unashamed.

Courtney, like Cher, will never go away. So get used to her. She is one of the few cockroaches in pop culture that demands to be seen, heard and spoke of. In a sense, dear Courtney is immortal.

Word is, Love has collaborated with BILLY CORGAN, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS and THE DEAD 60s on the new record.

New Music 2007 - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

James Murphy and his New York electro outfit LCD SOUNDSYTEM are prepping their second proper full-length studio album, 'Sound of Silver' for release on March 20. I still lose sleep some nights wondering how I have continuously missed out on LCD's live show extravaganza. Particularly, I regret not catching their tour with M.I.A back in 2005. What was I thinking!? I vow not to miss them when they tour the new record. YAY! I can't wait!

New Music 2007 - AIR

Pitchfork reports today that 'Pocket Symphony', the forthcoming album from French electro duo AIR will be released by Astralwerks on March 6, 2007. Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck) produces.

I will never forget their sunset performance at Coachella 2005 - simply breathtaking.

SHIRLEY MANSON SOLO DEBUT IN 2007

According to themodernage.com and AOL Music, Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, has been working with Jack White (The White Stripes) and Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) on her first solo album. The CD is expected to be released sometime in 2007 (if CD's still exist by then anyway).

I was saddened by the announcement that Garbage were calling it quits, but maybe Shirley's solo career will be even better. Let's just hope she doesn't follow the same path recently set by Gwen Stefani. Not that I don't love Gwen, but I want some rock'n'roll dammit!