Glancing Into 2008's Release Calendar

Here's what we can expect:

January 8
Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks

January 15
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion

January 22
Cat Power - Jukebox

January 29
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers

February 5
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
Nada Surf - Lucky

February 12:
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

February 19
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust

February 26
The B-52's - Funplex
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

MP3s: Nada Surf - See These Bones & The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me

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2007 Is Shaping Up Quite Nicely...

Wouldn't you agree?

Upcoming release dates for some highly-anticipated releases:

1/23: Mum - The Peel Session
1/23: Animal Collective - People EP
1/23: Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer
1/23: The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
1/30: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
1/30: Lily Allen - Alright Still
2/6: Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
2/6: Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
2/20: Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
3/6: !!! - Myth Takes
3/6: Air - Pocket Symphony
3/20: Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
3/20: I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
3/20: LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
3/20: Low - Drums & Guns
3/20: The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out

(*FYI: That's Mum photographed)

Sneak-Peak MP3: LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (removed by request)

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'06 Ain't Done Yet.

I know we're all eagerly awaiting the new Shins, Bloc Party and Sondre Lerche records, all out in '07, but here's some fantastic stuff that will see the light of day before New Year's:

11/7 - Pavement - Wowee Zowee
11/7 - PJ Harvey - Peel Sessions
11/7 - Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan
11/14 - Trail Of Dead - So Divided
11/14 - Damien Rice - 9
11/14 - Mum - Peel Sessions
11/21 - Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas
11/28 - The Knife - Like A Pen EP
12/19 - Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before...

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'06 Ain't Done Yet.

I know we're all eagerly awaiting the new Shins, Bloc Party and Sondre Lerche records, all out in '07, but here's some fantastic stuff that will see the light of day before New Year's:

11/7 - Pavement - Wowee Zowee
11/7 - PJ Harvey - Peel Sessions
11/7 - Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan
11/14 - Trail Of Dead - So Divided
11/14 - Damien Rice - 9
11/14 - Mum - Peel Sessions
11/21 - Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas
11/28 - The Knife - Like A Pen EP
12/19 - Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before...

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Bloc Party's 'WEEKEND' Out In February

Yay!

Straight from Billboard: U.K. rock act Bloc Party will return Feb. 6 with its sophomore Vice/Atlantic album, "A Weekend in the City." First single "The Prayer" will arrive Jan. 29 internationally. The 11-track set is the follow-up to 2005's "Silent Alarm," which debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart.

"One thing that we've learnt from touring over the last two years is that there are other ways to be powerful whilst making music, rather than being completely full on, 100 miles per hour," frontman Kele Okereke told Billboard.com in April. "This next record is hopefully going to be a lot more intricate and layered. We learnt so much about the power of arrangements. I know it sound cheesy, but I guess it is going to be a more grown up Bloc Party."

Two new songs have already been played live: "Waiting for the 7:18," which Okereke wrote after watching his post-college friends lose more and more of their lives to work, and "Hunting for Witches," which was influenced by last summer's terrorists attacks on London's transportation system.

Here is the track list for "A Weeekend in the City":

"Song for Clay (Disappear Here)"
"Hunting for Witches"
"Waiting for the 7:18"
"The Prayer"
"Uniform"
"On"
"Where Is Home?"
"Kreuzberg"
"I Still Remember"
"Sunday"
"SRX"

MP3: Bloc Party - American Kids

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Bloc Party's 'WEEKEND' Out In February

Yay!

Straight from Billboard: U.K. rock act Bloc Party will return Feb. 6 with its sophomore Vice/Atlantic album, "A Weekend in the City." First single "The Prayer" will arrive Jan. 29 internationally. The 11-track set is the follow-up to 2005's "Silent Alarm," which debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart.

"One thing that we've learnt from touring over the last two years is that there are other ways to be powerful whilst making music, rather than being completely full on, 100 miles per hour," frontman Kele Okereke told Billboard.com in April. "This next record is hopefully going to be a lot more intricate and layered. We learnt so much about the power of arrangements. I know it sound cheesy, but I guess it is going to be a more grown up Bloc Party."

Two new songs have already been played live: "Waiting for the 7:18," which Okereke wrote after watching his post-college friends lose more and more of their lives to work, and "Hunting for Witches," which was influenced by last summer's terrorists attacks on London's transportation system.

Here is the track list for "A Weeekend in the City":

"Song for Clay (Disappear Here)"
"Hunting for Witches"
"Waiting for the 7:18"
"The Prayer"
"Uniform"
"On"
"Where Is Home?"
"Kreuzberg"
"I Still Remember"
"Sunday"
"SRX"

MP3: Bloc Party - American Kids

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Because You've Been So Patient...

Some tracks from new releases out on Tuesday.

The Killers - My List
Beck - Movie Theme
The Decemberists - O Valencia

All these full lengths are fantastic!

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Because You've Been So Patient...

Some tracks from new releases out on Tuesday.

The Killers - My List
Beck - Movie Theme
The Decemberists - O Valencia

All these full lengths are fantastic!

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