Mario’s got a new album coming out June 8. You can sample a track at MySpace. (Looks like a few dates are planned around the release, including a stop at DC’s Red & Black.)

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Get Better, from Re-Arrange Us. (For Pat D.)

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New Ladytron track Black Cat available at MySpace. Coming to a town near you this summer. Coming to a town near me in June, on the heels of the release of Velocifero. (via Big Stereo, where an mp3 of the new track awaits your downloading.)

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Brooklyn by way of Boston trio Appomattox is releasing its debut full-length, AO, on Triple Down Records, but prior to a physical release the band is offering a free download that expires on March 3. We reviewed their self-released EP back in the fall of 2006, but, for the lazy, the band plays a [...]

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I already possess the Pink Floyd albums I care to own, but this advert for the Box Set makes the collection quite enticing, to say the least.

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A: Your tin roof; rusted.

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Small-Time Machine, the eagerly anticipated album from Cassettes Won’t Listen will be released March 11th. Below is a teaser track from the forthcoming record. Will the album live up to the hype? Tough to say. It’s definitely not for everyone.
Paper Float

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Murder by Death’s debut for Vagrant records, Red of Tooth and Claw, is due out March 4. Preceding the full-length is a digital EP entitled Fuego!, which is available February 12. Signing to a (mostly) pop-punk label worked for The Hold Steady, as far as propelling the band into the limelight is concerned. [...]

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Parlophone isn’t just going to sit back and watch Radiohead rake in all the money now that the band has jettisoned the mothership. The ousted label already has plans for a box set, comprised of all six of Radiohead’s studio albums, which will be available on December 10 via the band’s website. The set will also [...]

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Via House of Tomorrow comes word that the new Magnetic Fields release, entitled Distortion, will drop on January 15th, 2008. No details regarding a potential Volvo tie-in were mentioned.
New single “I’m in a lonely way” is available now on iTunes.

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My loathing of The Killers knows no bounds, but I can at least understand why Hot Fuss was a hit. If it’s dancey in a safe “alternative” cushion kind of way and it sounds even a whiff like vintage Duran Duran, people will buy it. I get it. Sam’s Town, however, is another story. [...]

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The words Nine Inch Nails and hip rarely share the same paragraph, much less the same sentence, but with the announcement that Interscope’s last chance to make any money off Trent Reznor is a remix album, a few credible names have popped up. Evidently, the likes of Fennesz, The Faint, Ladytron, and New Order [...]

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To serve as a preview of its forthcoming The Black & White Album, The Hives have just released a six-song pack at iTunes today, which includes one bonus track not featured on the regular album (and written for the Cartoon Network’s fall season). 
Tracklist:
Tick Tick BoomTry It AgainYou Got It All..WrongWon’t Be LongWell All Right ! [...]

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Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session from November of 1993 is finally coming out on DVD November 20 via Universal Music. It’s so annoying how record companies hold back on goods just to milk the market every few years, but, sadly, this horse is primed for an unending flogging, since Kurt Cobain has been unwittingly appointed the [...]

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With the pitch-shifting, futuristic melodies and the oddball techno stomp of its debut, Mirrored, Battles has pushed itself to the forefront of the experimental elite. The first single, “Atlas” showcased the band’s bag of complex wizardry with an unforeseen vocal melody over top a danceable backbeat, squawking, processed guitar jabs and rigid keyboard noodlings. [...]

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The Depeche Mode frontman’s second solo record is due out October 23 on Virgin. It’s nearly impossible for Gahan to shake the Depeche Mode footprint, especially when his solo work mines similar electronic terrain to the mothership. His commanding baritone has always been his bread and butter, but his songwriting is improving by leaps and [...]

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Gina Gershon, who we all remember from that lesbian bondage flick, Bound, with Jennifer Tilly, wrote an entire album about the search and recovery of her beloved cat, Cleo. No lie. She’s doing a residency at The Box in NYC two days a week the month of October. Check out this insane cover art:

Stream the crazy-ass video for “Pretty [...]

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I’m as big a Joy Division fan as the next guy. Ok, maybe more than the next guy. All right, all right, a whole lot more than the next guy. But even I am going to be pretty effing hard-pressed to shell out $200 for a boxed set containing three measly records that I already own. Granted, [...]

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On October 23, Lost Highway will release a seven-song EP by Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, entitled Follow the Lights, which follows closely on the heels of his latest full-length Easy Tiger. Two new songs are interspersed with some older ones, all of which were recorded live in the studio this summer. The two new [...]

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Mournful acoustic plucker Jose Gonzalez is gearing up to release his latest record, In Our Nature, on September 25 via Mute by kicking off three nights in New York City. While he’s there, he’s planning on taping a spot on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His tour dates are spotty, but he’s hitting both coasts and some [...]

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