Don’t miss the Post Grad Soundtrack out now!  THE KOOKS have a track on the album alongside Gym Class Heroes, Lily Allen, Joshua Radin, the Matches and more.  And check out the film!

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Internationally revered French electronic pop duo AIR, Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, will release their fifth studio album Love 2 on October 6th, the follow-up to 2007’s acclaimed Pocket Symphony, and the first production to spring to life from their very own state-of-the-art recording facility Atlas Studio.

Nestled in the leafy backstreets of northern Paris , Atlas provided a creative haven for the band to produce these twelve new songs, recording and producing for the first time entirely by themselves. These recording sessions again saw the band handling all vocal duties and cemented their association with LA-based  drummer/percussionist Joey Waronker, who had previously joined them for their intimate, three-man “Close up” tour of south-east Asia in the Fall of 2008. Stéphane “Alf” Briat, a long-time fixture of the Paris   music scene, whose work with AIR dates back to some of their earliest  material, came on board for the final mixdown at Atlas. 

A viral single “Do The Joy” will be made available digitally on July 7th, followed by a formal single release for the summery pop anthem “Sing Sang Sung” on August 25th.

AIR’s 1998 debut album Moon Safari struck a unanimously harmonious chord with music lovers around the globe and has since become an electronic pop classic. Since then AIR have enjoyed many career-defining moments and accolades, both at home and abroad, and have written, produced and collaborated on a breathtaking array of music projects. 

With 5.5 million worldwide album sales to their credit, the band has become de facto ambassadors of modern French pop, whose fans are drawn back to each new musical adventure by their inventive arrangements, and a playful yet unpredictable palette of sounds and songcraft. 

AIR will set out on a European tour in early 2010 starting at the legendary Casino de Paris in their hometown and will then embark on North American dates during the Spring.

Love 2 tracklisting:
01. Do The Joy
02. Love
03. So Light Is Her Footfall
04. Be A Bee
05. Missing The Light Of The Day
06. Tropical Disease
07. Heaven's Light
08. Night Hunter
09. Sing Sang Sung
10. Eat My Beat
11. You Can Tell It To Everybody
12. African Velvet

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The critically acclaimed British trio Doves return with their first album in four years, Kingdom of Rust , delivering their most sonically adventurous, intimate, cerebral, propulsive album to date.

Get the digital single bundle OUT NOW including exclusive acoustic version of "Kingdom of Rust" as well as sneak peek at two album tracks "Spellbound" and "The Greatest Denier".

 

 

 

IGGY POP’S "PRÉLIMINAIRES" SET FOR RELEASE JUNE 2 ON ASTRALWERKS.

 ALBUM IS SCORE MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE LIFE & NOVEL OF FRENCH AUTHOR.

 Iggy Pop, the Godfather of Punk, takes on the language of romance and gets “dangerously near jazz” on his new album, Préliminaires, to be released in the U.S. on Astralwerks on June 2. Produced by Hal Cragin, Préliminaires, which means “foreplay” in French, is score music inspired by Michel Houellebecq’s 2005 novel 'The Possibility of an Island'.

The book “is about death, sex, the end of the human race, and some other pretty funny stuff,” says Iggy in a video statement explaining his motivations that’s posted on www.iggypoppreliminaires.com. “I read the book with intense pleasure when it came out and, in my mind, I created music that would have been the music that I would hear in my soul when I read it.”

 Later on Iggy was approached to write several songs for a film documentary about Houellebecq’s life and his attempt to direct a film of his own book. “The project grew and grew and I found the emotions from my reading transforming themselves into music,” Iggy explains. “I wrote less and less for the movie and started writing an alternative score to the novel.”

 On Préliminaires, which eventually took on a life of its own beyond the film project, Iggy sings the standard “Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves),” originally covered by the likes of Yves Montand and Edith Piaf, while the New Orleans-influenced “King of the Dogs”—with a jazz arrangement featuring trumpet, trombone and clarinet—tells the story of a dog named Fox who explains “how cool it is to be a dog, and how much it beats human life.” There’s also a version of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova standard “How Insensitive (Insensatez).”

“At one point, I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music. I’ve started listening to a lot of New Orleans-era, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz. And I’ve always loved quieter ballads as well,” says Iggy. “There are some guitars on the album. Only one song is vaguely raucous; three have jazz-like instrumentation.”

The album was recorded in Woodstock and in Miami, where Iggy first sketched out the songs in his small cabin on the river on his old wooden guitar.

 “Like Daniel, the book’s protagonist, I too have grown weary of a career as an entertainer and I wish for a new life,” he says. “I, too, have spent desolate hours in the future world of the Spanish Coast. The concluding chapters about Daniel and his small faithful dog wandering doomed through a ruined earth to the desiccated sea were the most empathetic and believable predictions of the future that I’ve encountered.”

The visuals for the album package are being created by French/Iranian graphic novelist and award-winning film director Marjane Satrapi, who first met Iggy when she asked him to do the voice for one of the characters in her Oscar-nominated animated feature Persepolis in 2007.

The track listing for Préliminaires is as follows:

1. Les Feuilles Mortes
2. I Want To Go To The Beach
3. King Of The Dogs
4. Je Sais Que Tu Sais
5. Spanish Coast
6. Nice To Be Dead
7. How Insensitive
8. Party Time
9. He's Dead/She's Alive
10. A Machine For Loving
11. She's A Business
12. Les Feuilles Mortes (Marc's Theme)

Peter Doherty releases his debut solo album entitled ‘Grace/Wastelands’ on March 24th. The first single released from the album is entitled, ‘Last of The English Roses’ and is available now at iTunes and digital stores.

Listen to the whole album now at Peter's MySpace page: www.myspace.com/gracewastelands

The album was recorded at Olympic Studios in London last autumn and is produced by legendary producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur) and features a number of special guests. Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, plays on all tracks except the track, ‘Broken Love Song’ and singer Dot Allison performs co-vocals on the track, ‘Sheepskin Tearaway’. Peter’s Babyshambles band mates, Mik Whitnall, Adam Ficek and Drew McConnell also play on the album.

Tracklisting for ‘Grace/Wastelands’ is as follows:

Arcardie
Last Of The English Roses
1939 Returning
A Little Death Around The Eyes
Salome
Through The Looking Glass
Sweet By and By
Palace Of Bone
Sheepskin Tearaway
Broken Love Song
New Love Grows on Trees
Lady, Don’t Fall Backwards

The Kooks will be appearing in the second episode of Rockville, CA on March 17 on TheWB.com.  The complete performances of “Always Where I Need to Be” and “Do You Wanna” will be available on www.rockvilleca.com <http://www.rockvilleca.com/>  on March 17 as well.   Fans will also be able to embed the performances on their social media sites and blogs.  Executive produced by Schwartz and acclaimed motion picture and television music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas (feature film “Twilight,” TV series “Gossip Girl,” “The O.C.,” “Grey’s Anatomy”), “Rockville, CA” is a contemporary romantic comedy which takes place entirely in a fictional music club called Rockville and was filmed completely on location at famed Los Angeles indie music venue The Echo. The show takes viewers into the lives of a group of twenty-somethings from diverse backgrounds who gather regularly at the club to hear their favorite up-and-coming bands as well as blow off steam. Rockville the club has a life of its own, which is conveyed through the cast of regulars and the musical artists that appear in each of the 20 original webisodes

PET SHOP BOYS RELEASE THEIR TENTH STUDIO ALBUM “YES” APRIL 21 ON ASTRALWERKS

One of the most iconic and influential pop acts in the world, Pet Shop Boys return with their tenth album and first for Astralwerks on April 21, 2009. In a career spanning over 2 decades, the duo of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have created some of the most beloved and recognizable hits in the world (‘West End girls’, ‘It’s a sin’, ‘New York City boy’, etc.), and sold over 30 million records. They’ve worked with artists like Dusty Springfield, David Bowie, Liza Minnelli, Robbie Williams, Electronic, The Killers and Madonna. In the USA, Pet Shop Boys are the fourth most successful artist in the history of the Billboard dance charts (behind Madonna, Donna Summer and Janet Jackson).

Filled with sparkling state of the art pop songs, 'Yes' is an affirmation of the duo’s knack for mixing innovative artistry with exuberant commercial appeal. Produced by the acclaimed Xenomania (Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Saint Etienne), the album features guitar work by ex-Smith Johnny Marr and orchestral arrangements by Owen Pallett (Last Shadow Puppets, Final Fantasy).
Never far from the public eye, Pet Shop Boys have been very busy lately: producing a #1 UK dance hit for Sam Taylor-Wood (released on the ultra-hip Kompakt label), remixing a track for Lady GaGa and co-writing the hit UK single ‘The Loving Kind’ for Girls Aloud. They are also working on a ballet, and were honored with the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the Brit Awards this month. You can check out their performance here: http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=9OAlTWrNN6o

“We can’t seem to remember how we came up with the title Yes,” says Neil. “Our official story is that we may have taken it from the famous Yoko Ono exhibition in 1967 where you had to climb up a step ladder – as John Lennon famously did - pick up a magnifying glass, look at a tiny word written on the ceiling, and the word was ‘yes’. I think it partly came from that.” (Chris adds: “We thought No was a bit negative.”)

Tracklisting:

Love etc*
All over the world
Beautiful people
Did you see me coming?
Vulnerable
More than a dream*
Building a wall
King of Rome
Pandemonium
The way it used to be*
Legacy

* written by Tennant/Lowe/Xenomania

The release of 'Yes' will be preceded by the single “Love etc”. Pet Shop Boys describe the song as "a post-lifestyle anthem which sounds like nothing we’ve done before." See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=InBiaRBUjUs

There will also be a limited edition version of the album featuring a bonus disc with 'This used to be the future' an exclusive track featuring Phil Oakey (Human League) and 6 dub mixes produced by Xenomania ('More than a dream', Pandemonium', 'The way it used to be', 'All over the world', 'Vulnerable', 'Love etc.').