Category: new release

Thao With the Get Down Stay Down to Release New Album

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down have announced plans to release a new album this fall. The album will be titled Know Better Learn Faster and will be released on October 13 through Kill Rock Stars. Good news for anyone who, like me, thought We Brave Bee Stings and All was one of the [...]

The Score: The Best of the Rest

B. Lance’s Rollin’ Man album (from A List of the Lost)
Bad Veins perform on WOXY
Bad Veins did a Daytrotter Session
The Buddy System live at Caledonia on 07.11.09 (from Southern Shelter)
Delta Spirit live on KEXP (from FMA)
Floating Action did a Daytrotter Session
Hola Halo live at Tasty World on 07.14.09 (from Southern Shelter)
The Ironclads live on KEXP [...]

Preview a Track From the New Mountain Goats Album

John Darnielle has officially announced, via The Mountain Goats website, that a new album, The Life of the World to Come, is forthcoming.
The album has a pretty overt biblical slant that Darnielle is already addressing (the first track has been available less than 24 hours!). All of the track titles are named after Bible verses, [...]

Justin Vernon to Score Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush

Paste Magazine is reporting that Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon refuses to stop working. In January of 2010 he and Chris Rosenau of Collections of Colonies of Bees will be performing a live score to Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.This will be interesting. Will it be as quirky and laughable as other scores to Chaplin [...]

The Score: The Best Free Downloads This Week

1. NYC Taper posted recording of a recent Tortoise performance in New York at (le) Poisson Rouge. It’s a pretty solid recording, but even the worst hiccups are worth it for what was a pretty stellar set. The set opens with “Prepare Your Coffin” from their new disc Beacons of Ancestorship, which might be my [...]

The Score: The Best of the Rest

Sam Roberts Daytrotter Session
Michael Zapruder Daytrotter Session
Curumin Daytrotter Session
The Handsome Family Daytrotter Session
Blind Pilot Daytrotter Session
Suckers Daytrotter Session (this is pretty awesome)
We Versus the Shark live at Morton Theater 06.26.09
Wavves live at Bowery Ballroom in NYC 07.15.09
Sigur Ros live in Lisbon 07.16.09
An album titled forgiven from A List of the Lost

Preview Track: Rain Machine (Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio) “Give Blood”

We here at f10 posted a little bit about the debut album from Rain Machine last week, the slightly pornographic cover and all. The band is the new side/solo-project from TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone. The album is going to be released on September 22nd through Anti-.
Yesterday, Pitchfork posted the first aural samples of [...]

New Track From Beastie Boys, and Sad News Puts the Band on Hiatus

Today the legendary hip-hop act made an announcement that they are going to be taking a brief hiatus while the band deals with the news that Adam Yauch has been diagnosed with cancer. (more here) The band have canceled all planned tour dates and won’t be doing much for a little while.
The band was planning [...]

Thom Yorke Premieres New Song at Latitude Fest

That’s right, a new track from Thom Yorke. He performed over the weekend at Suffolk’s Latitude Festival, doing a 12 song set that included tracks from The Eraser and some Radiohead tracks. The new track is titled “The Present Tense,” and Stereogum has posted an MP3 of the track. Or if you go visit Stereogum [...]

Monsters of Folk Preview a Track From Forthcoming Album

The new collaborative project from Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward, and Bright Eyes co-captain Mike Mogis has posted a free track from their forthcoming album, titled Monsters of Folk, at their website. The track is called “Say Please” and is, somewhat surprisingly, not a mess at all (like most supergroups generally are). It’s a [...]