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Tuesday, June 30

New Release: The Apples in Stereo: #1 Hits Explosion!

New Release: The Apples in Stereo: <i>#1 Hits Explosion!</i>

Artist: The Apples in Stereo
Album: #1 Hits Explosion!
Release Date: September 1
Label: Yep Roc

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New Release: Slaraffenland: We're on Your Side

New Release: Slaraffenland: <i>We're on Your Side</i>

Artist: Slaraffenland
Album: We're on Your Side
Release Date: September 15
Label: Hometapes

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Monday, June 29

New Release: Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: Between My Head and the Sky

New Release: Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: <i>Between My Head and the Sky</i>

Artist: Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Album: Between My Head and the Sky
Release Date: September 22
Label: Chimera Music

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New Release: Megafaun: Gather, Form & Fly

New Release: Megafaun: <i>Gather, Form & Fly</i>

Artist: Megafaun
Album: Gather, Form & Fly
Release Date: July 21
Label: Hometapes

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Friday, June 26

Stars' Amy Millan Preps Second Solo LP

Features Feist guest appearance, Death Cab cover Stars' Amy Millan Preps Second Solo LP

Back in 2006, Stars singer Amy Millan released Honey From the Tombs, an album of statuesque Emmylou Harris-like alt-country that felt a million miles removed from the epic new wave of her other band.

On September 8, Arts & Crafts will release Masters of the Burial, Millan's second solo album. Millan recorded the album in rural Ontario with Broken Social Scene producer/sound engineer Martin Davis Kinack and features guest appearances from Feist, Evan Cranley of Stars, and others.

The tracklist contains a cover of Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark". Millan previously covered "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" on a 2007 KCRW EP; however, it has been re-recorded for the album.

We've got the tracklist and album cover below.

On July 25, Millan will play a free show at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, and she'll tour this fall.

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Blur Reunion Live Album on the Way

The Blur reunion tour is set to bring all the hits to London's Hyde Park July 2 and 3. And now you'll have a little more than some YouTube video to remember those shows.

The band is set to professionally record both gigs and sell the results via limited edition double CD and MP3. (Everyone who orders the CD will also get the download.) So if you scream really loudly during, say, "Tender", you could be immortalized in Blur history for eternity. The CDs will also come with photos from the show.

The release will only be available online, and you can pre-order it now.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on June 26, 2009 at 2:15 p.m.

Tags: Album, Blur

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New Release: The Postmarks: Memoirs at the End of the World

New Release: The Postmarks: <i>Memoirs at the End of the World</i>

Artist: The Postmarks
Album: Memoirs at the End of the World
Release Date: August 25
Label: Unfiltered

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Thursday, June 25

New Release: Joe Pernice: It Feels So Good When I Stop

Artist: Joe Pernice
Album: It Feels So Good When I Stop
Release Date: August 4
Label: Ashmont

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Thom Yorke, Michael Stipe on Mark Mulcahy Tribute Album

The National, Dinosaur Jr., Frank Black also cover Mulcahy songs Thom Yorke, Michael Stipe on Mark Mulcahy Tribute Album

Musical visionary types take care of their own. Mark Mulcahy was the frontman for the 1980s Connecticut-based alt-rock band Miracle Legion, who released a few hard-to-find albums of R.E.M.-esque college rock jangle before breaking up in the mid-90s. He also led Polaris, the band who did the music for the beloved Nickelodeon kids' show "The Adventures of Pete & Pete". Since then, he's released three solo albums.

Late last year, Mulcahy's wife Melissa died unexpectedly, leaving him to take care of his three-year-old twin daughters. If Mulcahy is going to keep making music, he'll need help. And fortunately, he's getting it.

On September 29, Shout! Factory will release Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, a tribute album to Mulcahy that will also serve as a benefit for him. An amazingly stacked lineup of indie rock greats have contributed their versions of Mulcahy songs. Thom Yorke takes on "All for the Best", Michael Stipe turns in his version of "Everything's Coming Undone", and the National handle "Ashamed of the Story I Told". Dinosaur Jr., Mercury Rev, and Frank Black also contribute songs.

Tracklist below.

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News in Brief: Musicfest NW, Jaguar Love, Lord Cut-Glass, Chad VanGaalen

-- Musicfest NW welcomes bands including the reformed Sunny Day Real Estate, Explosions in the Sky, Beach House, Girl Talk, Bad Brains, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Frightened Rabbit, the Twilight Sad, and others to venues around Portland when it touches down September 16-19.

-- After releasing their last album on Matador, jittery rockers Jaguar Love are now recording their sophomore LP for Fat Possum. They're also on tour with Patrick Wolf right about now. Jaguar Love is also now a two-piece consisting of ex-Blood Brothers Cody Votolato and Johnny Whitney.

-- Former Delgados singer-guitarist Alun Woodward is now going by the name of Lord Cut-Glass. The Lord's self-titled debut album-- featuring drumming from fellow ex-Delgado Paul Savage and a slew of Glasgow classical musicians-- is out now via Chemikal Underground.

-- Black Mold-- singer-songwriter Chad VanGaalen's electro-freak moniker-- is readying its debut LP, Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz, for an August 11 release via Flemish Eye. Here's hoping it's an album-length tribute to the movie Antz.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on June 25, 2009 at 11:20 a.m.

Tags: Album, Black Mold, Chad VanGaalen, Festival, Jaguar Love, lord cut-glass, Musicfest NW, Signing, The Delgados

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