http://www.thespacelab.tv Indie rock, alternative, electronic and experimental music http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-49-DirtyProjectors.htm Wed 01 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT It's a double disc set with a live show, b-sides and premium packaging. Premium packaging! ALSO: download an advance track from the album. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-50-CaribouVE.htm Wed 01 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT A year ago at the All Tomorrow's Partis show in New York, Dan Snaith brought together a bunch of big names to play as an entity called Caribou Vibration Ensemble. Now they're releasing a copy of that show! http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-40-Starfucker.htm Wed 01 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT Indie pop and electro act Starfucker are definitely having a good Summer. They're about to go on tour with Austin's The Octopus Project, they just released a b-sides EP, and have signed on with Polyvinyl Records. Find out more and listen to a new song. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-41-Hauschka.htm Wed 01 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT In the past, Hauschka deconstructed the sonic quality of his music by changing the piano, i.e. modifying to his liking. He worked in the spirit of John Cage or Henry Cowell to deconstruct the music on a wholistic level in order to create something entirely new sounding. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-48-ArminVanBuren.htm Wed 01 Sep 2010 06:00:00 GMT He worked with a wide ranging cast of characters, including BT, Sophie, Winter Kills and Nadia Ali, to name a few. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-47-CMJMarathon.htm Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT College Music Journal has announced its initial lineup for this year's CMJ Marathon, and they include Four Tet, Helmet, Dean and Britta, The Drums, DeVotchka and more. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-44-AppleEvent.htm Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT How deep will the Apple music rabbit hole go? There's a lot of theories ... ALSO: take our poll on what Apple will do! http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-42-Bjork.htm Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT They each received 1 million kronor (135,000 dollars) at a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on August 30. The award was presented by Swedish King Carl Gustaf. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-45-Cornershop.htm Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Cornershop have announced a set of U.S. shows in November, hitting big cities on both coasts. Although the tour is in support of Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, Cornershop have also recently released a Naked Ape reworking of their classic "Brimful of Asha," as well as an upcoming single with Matsuki Ayumu. ALSO: Check out the new Cornershop video. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-43-YouTubeStore.htm Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Google is currently working on a deal with major movie studios to offer pay-per-view video through its YouTube Store, which quietly launched earlier this year. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-46-TheWarOnDrugs.htm Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The War on Drugs have laid out a new, long EP for release in October titled Future Weather. Find out more and listen to an advance MP3 from the album. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/theevolutionary/2010/08/930-club-plans-to-launch-music-label.html Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT It's a new model: night club and recording label. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-arcade-fire-we-used-to-wait.html Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Arcade Fire have released a new interactive film for the song “We Used To Wait,” off of the latest album The Suburbs. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-sage-francis-love-the-lie.html Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Sage Francis' video for "Love The Lie," off of his album Li(f)e. The song was co-written with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/spacelabcollective/2010/08/the-chemical-brothers-not-surprised-that-electronic-music-didnt-break-big-in-america.html Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers speaks about electronic music and the tepid mainstream response over the past decade. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/happenings/2010/08/deer-tick-tour-dates.html Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Deer Tick will be on the road this Fall in support of their latest effort The Black Dirt Sessions. ALSO: check out music from the band. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/happenings/2010/08/cotton-jones-tour-dates.html Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Cotton Jones will be playing shows for their new album Tall Hours In the Glowstream. ALSO: check out music from the band. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/happenings/2010/08/cotton-jones-tour-dates.html Tue 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Cotton Jones will be playing shows for their new album Tall Hours In the Glowstream. ALSO: check out music from the band. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-38-LCDSoundsystem.htm Mon 30 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT With LCD Soundsystem winding over the next year while touring, the future of LCD seems limited. But there's no slowing down for front man James Murphy, who's doing an LCD "break" so that he can do other things in music. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-39-Liars.htm Mon 30 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT New music from Liars that includes unreleased b-sides, a Thom Yorke remix, and a live track! http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-37-SmallBlack.htm Mon 30 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Get your modern indie pop on in the most innovative way with Small Black. ALSO: listen to new music from their upcoming album on Jagjaguwar. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-wavves-post-acid.html Fri 27 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT With Summer slowly fading away, it seems kind of fitting that the latest Wavves video is one last chance to grasp on to a Summer song. It's called "Post-Acid." http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-36-NoAge.htm Fri 27 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT No Age have just announced a fresh set of Fall tour dates in support of their upcoming release of Everything In Between on September 28th. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-35-LimeWire.htm Fri 27 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The Federal Trade Commision (FTC) has dropped its investigation in P2P service LimeWire. The investigation centered around ID theft and the inadvertent sharing of sensitive files in the LimeWire network. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-34-VevoIphone.htm Fri 27 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT YouTube's Vevo app for iPhone was launched a little over a week ago, and has already had over a million downloads. It gives both iPhone and iPod touch people a chance to view all of the Vevo content from its site. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-33-OfMontreal.htm Wed 25 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT It was recorded during the same sessions as the forthcoming False Priest album. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/Review-01-ArielPink.htm Wed 25 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Ariel Pink is our first postmodern rock star. The self-revered Godfather of the chillwave genre has made an impressionable mark on the Los Angeles music scene despite a reclusive and hermitic lifestyle. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-32-ChikitaViolenta.htm Wed 25 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT North American and British alt college lo-fi rock. From Mexico. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-mgmt-congratulations.html Wed 25 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The new MGMT video for "Congratulations" off of the album of the same name. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-serengeti-perculators.html Wed 25 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The new Serengeti video for the song "Perculators." http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-the-extraordinary-ordinary-life-of-josé-gonzález.html Wed 25 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT There's a new film coming out titled The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González. It was shot over a three year period in his studio, at home and on tour. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-tokyo-police-club-american-girl-live.html Wed 25 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Tokyo Police Club perform Tom Petty's "American Girl" live in an in-studio performance at Seattle's KEXP. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-27-BrianEno.htm Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Brian Eno is set to release Small Craft On A Milk Sea in November. It's a limited edition box set that includes collaborations with producer Jon Hopkins and guitarist Leo Abrahams http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-31-Destroyer.htm Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Destroyer and Tim Hecker collaborate on new EP! http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-30-EbsenAndTheWitch.htm Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT I'm already going to go ahead and vote for this song as Halloween track of the year. Find out more and watch a video. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-28-FlyingLotus.htm Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Check out a song from the upcoming EP Pattern+Grid with the track "Camera World" http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-29-PolarBear.htm Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Polar Bear peeps and people who like experimental jazz ... check this out. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-belle-and-sebastian-i-want-the-world-to-stop.html Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Belle and Sebastian are releasing their album Write About Love. Check out the video for the song "I Want the World to Stop." http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/stream-phil-selway-radiohead-four-songs.html Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Radiohead's Phil Selway has released three new tracks off of his upcoming album Familial. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/mp3-blonde-redhead-not-getting-there.html Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Blonde Redhead are returning from the collective unconscious with their new album Penny Sparkle on September 14. The track "Not Getting There" is from that album. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/spacelabcollective/2010/08/hardly-art-signs-kickball-katy-vivian-girls-and-fergus-geronimo.html Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Hardly Art gets more arty with two new signings. Check out some music. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/spacelabcollective/2010/08/the-concretes-return-this-fall-mp3-available.html Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Fans of the micro-genre of Swedish indie pop can rejoice with the new track "Good Evening." http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/happenings/2010/08/minus-the-bear-fall-tour-dates.html Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Minus the Bear is a band on a mission. They've spent most of this year touring in support of their album Omni. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/happenings/2010/08/black-ryder-tour-dates-mp3.html Tue 24 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Black Ryder are coming up from Australia to play a smattering of shows in the U.S. Slow and droney, their music is dark and delicious. Check out the track 'Let It Go.' http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-23-TheThermals.htm Mon 23 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The Thermals are on their way to a great Fall with their new video for "I Don't Believe You," off of their new album Double Negative. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-24-Stereolab.htm Mon 23 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Not Music a raiding of the vault for Stereolab, a release of songs that were recorded in the studio while the band was creating the album Chemical Cords. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-25-Soundgarden.htm Mon 23 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT New details have emerged for Soundgarden's release of Telephantasm – A Retrospective, including a track list for both CD versions and the DVD. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-26-NetNeutrality.htm Mon 23 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The RIAA has jumped into the Net Neutrality discussion, by sending an open letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-arcade-fire-ready-to-start.html Sat 21 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The new video for Arcade Fire's "Ready to Start" was filmed at Hackney Empire in London on July 7th. It's off of their new album The Suburbs. Have you heard? Arcade Fire are taking over the world. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-of-montreal-coquet-coquette.html Sat 21 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Of Montreal as you've never seen them before (which is a lot, if you've seen Of Montreal before). The video is for the song "Coquet Coquette," of the upcoming album False Priest. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-22-ElvisCostello.htm Tue 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT All tracks were written by Mr Costello, with T-Bone Burnett, Leon Russell and Jim Lauderdale joining in on some of the music ... http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/spacelabcollective/2010/08/sam-prekop-to-release-new-album-tour-in-september.html Tue 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Sam Prekop is set to release a new album titled Old Punch Card in September, along with a tour. Find out more and hear advance music from the album. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/videomp3-yeasayer-madder-red.html Tue 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The new Yeasayer video for "Madder Red", featuring Kristen Bell. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-tricky-murder-weapon.html Tue 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT We see some of the smoothness that Tricky has to offer, with multiple vocalists, the intertwining of various musical styles from an almost Caribbean pop sound to vampy guitar riffs to the endless build up of intensity throughout the song. The video's pretty good, too. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/video-the-vaselines-sex-with-an-x.html Tue 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The album is titled Sex with an X, and will arrive in September. They've released the video "Sex With an X," just to prove that the new Vaselines are every bit as good as the old one. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/mediaplayer/2010/08/streammp3-woven-bones.html Tue 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Two new streams from Woven Bones from their upcoming 7" single on Hardly Art Records. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/spacelabcollective/2010/08/sun-araw-gets-funky-with-new-ep-in-october.html Tue 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Listen to a sample as noise gives way to an experimental-psychedelic-groove sound. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-20-Coachella.htm Mon 16 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT It's that time! Time to start thinking about what list ahead in 2011 for festivals, and we now know that Coachella 2011 has set its dates for ... http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-17-ArcadeFire.htm Mon 16 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Check out the new tour dates for the Fall and watch video of last week's Madison Square Garden Show. http://spacelabmagazine.typepad.com/theevolutionary/2010/08/sub-pop-records-leading-the-music-revolution-again.html Mon 16 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Way back in the early 2000's Sub Pop did a revolutionary thing, and encouraged people on the web to post MP3's of their bands. This sounds normal now, but it was new to a music industry that jealously gaurded every recording as a copyrighted work that was not to be given away for free. Now Sub Pop is toying with the idea of giving it all away for free. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-21-Glastonbury.htm Mon 16 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Glastonbury 2011 will have an American act as its Sunday night headlining band. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-19-MySpaceRedesign.htm Mon 16 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT MySpace has been taking design lessons from the clean look of Facebook, as they've previewing the new look and feel in the run up to their August 19th relaunch. ALSO: take our poll on whether MySpace will survive. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-18-LimeWire.htm Mon 16 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT LimeWire has requested a jury trial for their upcoming case against music publishers represented by the National Music Publishers Association. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-16-Helmet.htm Thu 12 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Tired of compressed, cold-feeling music that comes from hacking up tracks digitally and spitting them out in a copy and paste approach? Helmet front man Page Hamilton hears you. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-14-YouTube.htm Thu 12 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Viacom and their overlord boss Sumner Redstone were most unhappy with the ruling in YouTube's favor. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-15-Deerhunter.htm Thu 12 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Deerhunter will release a new album titled Halcyon Digest on September 28th, via 4AD . They'll set out next week on the start of a tour to support the new album. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-12-Mogwai.htm Wed 11 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT In addition to all of the craziness surrounding the U.S. launch of Mogwai's film Burning, they also plan to release a new as-of-yet untitled album. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-11-NetNeutrality.htm Wed 11 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Google and Verizon are suggesting that companies with cash get better service, and the bootstrappers of the world get the shaft (albeit a neutral shaft). They're proposing the Internet Neutral-Ghetto. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-13-Soundgarden.htm Wed 11 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Shortly after Soundgarden wrapped up their set at Lollapalooza, they launched carefully laid plans for the rest of 2010. They offered up a stream of their new song "Black Rain," a track from their forthcoming album Telephantasm – A Retrospective. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-10-OctopusProject.htm Tue 03 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Wrap the tentacles of your headphones around this: The Octopus Project will release a new album titled Hexadecagon, based on the crazy surround sound (based on 8-way sound) show they did at SXSW last year. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-06-FrankieRose.htm Tue 03 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Frankie's moved on from her lo-fi past with Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls, and is exploring a bigger, more dynamic sound. Call it Frankie hi-fi. Check out the sound with and advance track. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-09-Grinderman.htm Tue 03 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Get your grind on at the live shows in November ... and preview new music from the upcoming album right now. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-08-WolfPeople.htm Tue 03 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Until recently, I'd become disgruntled with the state of blues-rock. I'd convinced myself – as well as many of my other musically like-minded confidants – that the only quality modern day blues was found in Jack White’s work in the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, and then of course in the Black Keys. Enter Wolf People. ALSO: new music and a video. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-05-IggyPop.htm Tue 03 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Iggy talks on the progess of new songs for the new Stooges album. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-07-Vaselines.htm Tue 03 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee use wit as a weapon. Try not to get clocked. ALSO: Preview new music from the upcoming album Sex With an X. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-01-AveyTare.htm Mon 02 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Is Animal Collective in break up mode? Multiple side projects by band members is either a sign of moving on after a band has stopped existing, or an opportunity for the members to flex their creative muscle on other projects while the central band takes a *collective* break. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-04-Wavves.htm Mon 02 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT The garage band trio are venturing out from their comfortable California surroundings and venturing out into the beautiful United States for a gigantic two and half month tour in support of their second record, the wonderful King of the Beach. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-03-Spotify.htm Mon 02 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT Spotify's U.S. launch is indeed on track for this year, despite last week's rumor that licensing talks between Spotify and the labels had derailed. http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2010/08August/MusicNews-02-LCDSoundsystem.htm Mon 02 Aug 2010 06:00:00 GMT LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip have announced an earth-shattering tour that will combine both acts into one travelling party scene this Fall.