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So far, we everything we’ve heard from OMNI, the forthcoming album from Minus the Bear is just great. Before the end of 2009, we got our hands on “Broken China” (download it below), and got a listen to “Into The Mirror.” Now, if you go to the band’s album site, you can download “My Time.” You can also play a game called Omni Says, in which you will need to use your keyboard and your very best tone matching skills. OMNI drops May 4th on Dangerbird.
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New material from Neon Indian is most welcome, even though it’s only been 5 months since the release of NI’s debut, Psychic Chasms. Still, it seems like Alan Palomo (the man behind the Indian as well as Vega) is making next week’s drop of “Sleep Paralyst” kind of a big deal. Maybe it is. Or maybe it’s just a new track. We’ll hear on March 10th. In the video below, Palomo discusses how he was inspired by Chromeo and Holy Ghost! to preview the sonic evolution that awaits us on the sophomore Neon album.
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This video for Walter Schreifels‘ “Arthur Lee’s Lullaby” owns for several reasons. One, he comes close to flashing us in that bathrobe but thankfully does not. Two, we see him playing a real Wurlitzer. Three, there is confetti. Yeah! Confetti!! Taken from Schreifels’ forthcoming solo debut, An Open Letter To The Scene, the former hardcore dude is definitely more alty-folky here, but the sound still has a sort of punk tension about it. The album is said to contain a track called “The Ballad of Lil’ Kim.” We. Can’t. Wait.
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Keane will release a new collection of material this spring. Night Train will be an eight track “album” of songs the band wrote while on tour for their previous release, Perfect Symmetry. The collection includes live fave “My Shadow” as well as two collabos with K’naan – “Stop for a Minute” and “Looking Back” – making this release a 25% K’naan guest drop. While it’s to be accompanied by a North American tour, the length is a little curious. Granted, previous Keane LPs have maxxed out at 11 tracks, but when has 8 been enough for an entire album? We should consider the success of their US labelmate Lady Gaga, whose eight-song-long release The Fame Monster (mostly sold packaged with her full-length debut) has not only been a big seller, but a way to keep the artist in the spot without having to wait for even more material. In this sense, Gaga and Keane are exploring the newly revived territory between EP and LP lengths – possibly the future of recorded music and a bit of salvation for the record industry. Night Train drops May 11. Tour dates tba!
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Somehow, Metric has found their 2009 album, Fantasies, on the Billboard 200 album charts. After the recent success of the album’s third single, “Gold Guns Girls,” the album has entered the Top 200 at 162. Kind of remarkable given that this is the band’s third album and the band isn’t even on tour. They will be shortly (dates below). The band has also provided the Mike Shinoda remix of “Gold” for Music for Relief’s Haiti compilation album. Shinoda’s band, Linkin Park, is prominent on the collection. The benefit, however, is a little dubious… through MfR’s “download to donate” plan, fans can download tracks and then chose to contribute to Haitian relief. We’re not sure why they don’t reverse the order of this plan to guarantee a donation, but the cause is certainly worthy.
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If you haven’t heard the illicit leak of Robyn and Diplo’s “No Hassle,” we’re sorry for you. It has now been scoured from the interwebs (supposedly), only to return at some future date on a Robyn LP. It’s a lovely little dancehall ditty that makes us believe Diplo is the clean-nosed half of Major Lazer (Switch? He’s straight dutty, yo). Meanwhile, Diplo announced via twitter this week that the Lazer will drop a new EP this April. It will feature collabs with M.I.A., Buraka Som Sistema, and “Thom York?” [sic]. If you can’t wait until then, we’re sure it will also prematurely leak. For a live fix, Lazers Never Die tour dates below.
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