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Slick-pop aficionados the Apples in Stereo will release a collection of B-sides and rarities called Electronic Projects for Musicians on April 1 via Simian/Yep Roc/Elephant 6. Technically the follow-up to last year's New Magnetic Wonder, the compilation's curatorial spirit makes it more of a sequel to 1996's Science Faire.

Among Projects' treasures is "Stephen Stephen", the tune Apples frontman Robert Schneider performed for Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report" amid that Decemberists challenge hysteria a couple winters back.

The live landscape is fairly bare for the Apples, but their one scheduled date is a good one. It happens to be a just-announced July 20 appearance at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival.

Electronic Projects for Musicians:

01 Shine (In Your Mind)
02 Thank You Very Much
03 Onto Something
04 Man You Gotta Get Up
05 The Golden Flower
06 Avril En Mai
07 Hold On to This Day
08 The Oasis
09 On Your Own
10 Other
11 So Far Away
12 The Apples in Stereo Theme
13 Stephen Stephen
14 Dreams