The Thermals have headed out for a set of shows with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down. In March, they'll head out to Australia and China before coming back for more shows in the U.S.
The Dead Weather are hitting the road for a self-styled 13 gig tour of the U.S. this April, starting with Coachella and ending up at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Frog Eyes are ready with a new album that's been perk-perk-percolating over last three years and will be released on April 27th. Find out more and download a track from the new album.
Jonsi of Sigur Ros has just announced the North American tour schedule in support of his upcoming album Go. Find out more and listen to a track from the new album.
He wanted to loosen up the sound to be more freewheeling, while making it a thicker, more immersive soundscape. He also worked with Andrew Bird. Find out more and check out a track from the new album.
Dan Snaith might have created the Magnum Opus for this phase of Caribou with a new album titled Swim. Find out more and check out a track from the new album.
The Mogwai Burning Live DVD and album release is finally going to see the light of day this Spring. Check out a preview of the movie and download a MP3 from the live album.
January 25:New music this week on Spacelab Radio: Why?, Love Is All, Mogwai Live, Mi Ami, Dosh, Retribution Gospel Choir, Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore, Happy Birthday, Fool's Gold, High Places, Inlets, The Joy Formidable, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Neon Indian, Parenthetical Girls, Prairie Cat, Tahiti Boy and the Palmtree family and more! Listen
Recent Polyvinyl signees Love Is All have announced the details behind the album release of Two Thousand and Ten Injuries, tour dates, and an infectious new track. Check it out here.
Fans of glitch-prone errortronica and electronic music that stops and starts in fits will be happy to know that Autechre is set to return with a new album and tour.
Spoon have announced a big set of tour dates for this Spring, and they're bringing Deerhunter with them. This could be one of the best tour combinations of the year!
It's for the release of Live at Hollywood High, the second installment in the Costello Show series. There's of course a requisite tour involved for the Spring, and he'll be playing dates around The U.S. in April and May.
The album brings another transition in her sound, evolving to a newly defined one of minimal electronic pop, saturated with her sweet voice, which covers the deep bass and baroque grooves. Check out a track from the album.
Jack White is looking forward to a busy 2010. He's got new material coming out from The Dead Weather, and Third Man Records projects like The Black Belles and Wanda Jackson. He might even do a Jack White solo album.
The Knife were commissioned to create an opera. Not just any opera, mind you, but an opera on Charles Darwin's book The Origin of the Species. Sounds interesting right? But there's something interesting afoot here -- neither members of The Knife knew much about opera at all, let alone how to write one.
What do you get when get Yoko Ono, Cornelius, Yuka Honda and Sean Lennon together and lock them in a room? The Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. They've just been added to San Francisco's Noise Pop Music Festival, along with a host of other bands.
A Xiu Xiu world tour (they're such global jet-setters) begins on February 20th, aptly timed with the album release. Check out an advance track from the new album.
We can expect a large-scale tour in 2010, although the band is revamping their patented approach to the live show spectacle that they've become known for. They want to move forward with some new elements, while keeping some of the staples of the old.
I get that they're being ironic - a satire of the horribly misguided 80's glam-rock movement. But seriously, there is no excuse for an album cover this tacky and tawdry.
Invoking comparisons to Robert Fripp, the Byrds, and Thin Lizzy, Citay sounds like all of those guys trans-morphed through a Xanadu-haze and brought into the modern world. Check out new music from the band.
Kill Rock Stars is set to rerelease the Elliott Smith albums Roman Candle and From a Basement on the Hill. To celebrate, Kill Rock Stars is offering an unreleased track as a free download.
After a long bout of touring, Scott Hutchison camped out in the town of Crail on the Scotland coast to unwind, find his center again and write new music.
If you're not already using things like the iPhone to stream music in your car and give you relief from the desperate sameness of FM radio, or the bulk of the CD binder, you're in luck in the near future.
Fresh off of his DJ residency at Plastic People in London, Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) is free to roam about the cabin. The seatbelt sign is off and he's got a new album on the way.
There may have been a big launch party for the online music video site Vevo last week, but now the champagne has worn off, the party is over, and we're stuck with Vevo.
Creatively titled Number Two, fans are allowed to have their say in the user experience of the EP, designing their own cover and having it screened on the EP for them by Thrill Jockey Records.
The split between Tricky and Massive Attack is practically legendary. Although he was a full member in the albums Blue Lines and Protection, he didn't work with the band after that. Now the band is asking him to rejoin their effort in some way.
It looks like there's new music on the horizon for the pop edged, deep-sea sonar drone, guitar driven and anxiety-ridden sound of Liars. Good times. Check out new music from the upcoming album.
Perhaps the coolest of all festivals on the planet
(and one of the oldest), Roskilde Music Festival has the credibility, history, and coolness that literally
no other festival in the world has.
How will Apple use LaLa? Are they going to integrate it into iTunes, and allow an iTunes library to be available on the web? Or do they just want to get a look under the hood of LaLa's technology?
Remember when Trent Reznor called for the whole Nine Inch Nails vehicle to go on hiatus? He's followed through on that by getting rid of a lot of NIN touring gear.
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