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Monday, June 15
News in Brief: Soulsavers, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, the Howling Bells, Teenbeat Takeover
-- On August 17 in the UK, V2/Cooperative will release Broken, the third album from the depressive British production crew Soulsavers. The album features a ton of guest appearances from elegantly debauched underground rock royalty. Mark Lanegan, Mike Patton, Richard Hawley, Spiritualized frontman Jason Pierce, and lead Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes all stop by. (It's due for a September release in the U.S. on Columbia.)
-- Matthew Sweet and the Bangles' Susanna Hoffs love the 70s. The power-pop mercenary and the Bangles frontwoman will soon release Under the Covers, Vol. 2, their second collection of covers. The album is due July 21 from Shout! Factory. Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, Yes's Steve Howe, and George Harrison scion Dhani Harrison all make guest appearances.
-- On July 28, Australian narco-rockers the Howling Bells will release sophomore album Radio Wars on Nettwerk. They'll open for Coldplay on tour this summer.
-- A whole mob of Nuggets-era mainstays will converge on Montreal August 6-8 for the Teenbeat Takeover Wooly Weekend! festival. ? and the Mysterians, the Electric Prunes, Love (minus Arthur Lee, of course), and Seeds frontman Sky Saxon will all take part. Fun fact: Despite the festival's name, it's been a while since any of these dudes were teens.
Posted by Tom Breihan on June 15, 2009 at 9:40 a.m.
Tags: Album, Festival, Matthew Sweet, Soulsavers, Susanna Hoffs, Teenbeat Takeover, The Howling Bells
Friday, June 12
New Release: BLK JKS: After Robots
Artist: BLK JKS
Album: After Robots
Release Date: September 8
Label: Secretly Canadian
New Release: Felix Da Housecat: He Was King
Artist: Felix Da Housecat
Album: He Was King
Release Date: August 25
Label: Nettwerk
Thursday, June 11
Sally Shapiro Announces Second Album
The disco enigma returns with My Guilty Pleasure.
After charming blog boys (and girls?) with her icy-hot brand of dance-pop on 2006's Disco Romance, nonplussed Swedish disco princess Sally Shapiro is readying her official follow-up, My Guilty Pleasure, for release August 25 via Paper Bag.
Produced by Shapiro's right hand man Johan Agebjörn, Guilty Pleasure also includes contributions from Cloetta Paris and Tensnake. The single "Miracle hits North American stores June 16, backed by a remix by Bogdan Irkük. The song is currently streaming on this very website.
In a press release, the notoriously shy chanteuse said the new album will "hopefully make you fall in love with the person sitting next to you on the bus." Creepy, Reader's Digest-reading old guy in the back, this is your lucky day.
Tracklist is below:
New Release: Brendan Benson: My Old, Familiar Friend
Artist: Brendan Benson
Album: My Old, Familiar Friend
Release Date: August 18
Label: ATO
Tuesday, June 9
Drive-By Truckers Rarities Comp, DVD Due
When the Drive-By Truckers put out a rarities album, they don't half-ass it. The forthcoming The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008), due September 1 from New West, includes a whole mess of unfinished songs that the Southern rockers recently dug from their vaults. But rather than releasing the unfinished songs as is, the way most bands would've done, the Truckers actually went ahead and finished those tracks.
The band originally recorded more than half of the songs around the time they made 2004's The Dirty South, arguably their best album. The album features a few covers, including takes on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and Tom Petty's "Rebels". That's the cover art for The Fine Print above, and the tracklist is below.
Also forthcoming is a DVD of the band's set on the PBS series "Austin City Limits". New West will release the DVD, entitled Live From Austin, TX, on July 7. That tracklist is also below.
New Release: Dillanthology 2: Dilla's Remixes for Various Artists
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Dillanthology 2: Dilla's Remixes for Various Artists
Release Date: June 23
Label: Rapster
New Release: Robert Pollard: Elephant Jokes
Artist: Robert Pollard
Album: Elephant Jokes
Release Date: August 11
Label: Guided By Voices, Inc.
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