The Wave Pictures have a new album In Her Kitchen scheduled for release on August 22nd via Moshi Moshi Records. They’ll be performing a few dates leading up to the release.
08/17: New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
08/18: Brooklyn, NY @ Public Assembly
08/19: Philadelphia, PA @ Northstar Bar
08/20: Montauk, NY @ Sole East Hotel
The White Stripes called it quits as of today. What will Jack do now? It’s not like he has any other music projects to occupy him…
See the letter posted on the website above. The official website has been overrun and will not load.
Now, not to make any assumptions because he already claimed his Jay-Z collaboration Watch the Throne was due in a week in early January, but still. He did it in CAPS LOCK and everything.
So,
In 1 week the video to next single “All of the Lights”
In two months (3/1) the Jay-Z collaboration Watch the Throne
And by summer, new solo album?
This could be the busiest release schedule of all time. OF ALL TIME.
In the long waiting period between her last English language album, 2007′s Placelessness, Alina Simone decided to release an album of demos and outtakes on Bandcamp today.
Titled Raw Demos (2002-2008), it includes material from her first band, Disfarmer as well as demo versions of songs that appear on each of her albums (including a few in Russian), and one from the forthcoming Make Your Own Danger due in June.
Tracklist Below:
1 Copter
2 Miner
3 Going to the Sea Again
4 Straight Edge
5 Chinese Takeout
6 Dreaming of a Blackout
7 Pretty Songs
8 Wish I Had a Motorcycle
9 Every Fresh Start You Make
10 Velvet Painting
11 I Liked Your Lies
12 Hannah
13 For a Rainy Day
14 I Can See Nothing
15 100 Year Rain
16 Just Here to Watch the Show
In other Alina Simone news, she has a book of essays due in June to coincide with her newest album release called You Must Go and Win. And a baby on the way. Plus she’s taking up capoeira and bread making. Most of that is true.
Tonight Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for David Fincher’s The Social Network. Trent may have summed it up best:
Reznor, Ross, and Fincher will also be working together to score the American adaptation of Steig Larsson’s <em>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo</em>, which is due out in December of this year.
