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The New Monarchs

The New Monarchs are a duo from Minnesota that will fill the void until Postal Service make a new album and the best part is that they’re a little harder in terms of their beats. Think of them as being on steroids and voila! Their new album , Blueprints, is set to be released Oct. 28th via Soup Bowl Records and they will take off on a short Midwest tour.

The New Monarchs-Across Your Hands [mp3]


NOVEMBER MIDWEST TOUR:
11/7 – Duluth, MN – Beaner’s Central
11/9 – Chicago, IL – Ronny’s Bar
11/10 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
11/11 – Lincoln, NE – Box Awesome
11/12 – Omaha, NE – PS Collective
11/13 – Vermillion, SD – Raziel’s
11/15 – Minneapolis, MN – Kitty Cat Klub (CD Release Show!) w/Ghost in the Water, Laarks, & I, Colossus

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Depeche Mode

My sister was never exactly known for her selection in music, but for a couple of years in Jr. High , she listened to music that would forever change my life. The Cure, The Church, Guns N Roses, and lastly, Depeche Mode. I can’t tell you how many nights I would listen to 101 thinking how amazing it would have been at the Rose Bowl that night.

Depeche Mode-Stripped [mp3]
Depeche Mode-Shake the Disease (Tiga Remix) [mp3]

DEPECHE MODE SIGN WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE DEAL WITH EMI MUSIC – TO INCLUDE THE U.S. FOR THE FIRST TIME

AGREEMENT EXPANDS EMI LABEL MUTE’S DECADES-LONG RELATIONSHIP WITH MULTI-PLATINUM ELECTRONIC MUSIC VANGUARDS

DEPECHE MODE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM IN APRIL 2009, FOLLOWED BY FIRST-EVER STADIUM TOUR IN MAY

LONDON, 7 OCTOBER 2009 — EMI Music is thrilled to announce that it has signed an exclusive worldwide deal with multi-platinum recording artists Depeche Mode. EMI Music’s Mute label has been the best-selling British trio’s international home since 1981 when the label released the group’s debut single “Dreaming of Me” in the U.K. The new deal means that EMI Music will now release Depeche Mode’s music in the U.S. for the first time, as well as in the rest of the world.

Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode said: “We are so pleased to be continuing our relationship with Mute, and we feel very positive about the new team and set-up at EMI. This is going to be an exciting new chapter.”

Nick Gatfield, EMI Music’s president – A&R Labels, North America, the UK and Ireland, said: “We are delighted to be extending our relationship with Depeche Mode, and to be supporting them in the US for the first time. They are one of the world’s most innovative and successful bands who continuously push boundaries and excite fans with their recording and live work.”

Daniel Miller, chairman, Mute, said: “I am really happy to be continuing to work with the band. They have been reaching new creative heights in the studio and they have one of the most devoted fanbases of any band in the world today. I believe that the Mute and EMI teams are extremely well positioned to help Depeche Mode build on their success.”

The first release under Depeche Mode’s worldwide agreement with EMI Music is a new studio album, the band’s twelfth, due outside the U.S. on April 20th, 2009, and in the U.S. on April 21st. Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher are currently in New York working on the album, which will be the follow-up to Depeche Mode’s 2005 release Playing the Angel, which reached No. 1 in 18 countries.

In addition, Depeche Mode has announced dates for the European leg of its “Tour of the Universe 2009” — the group’s first-ever stadium tour in which they will perform in 28 cities across 21 countries. The tour, which kicks off in Israel on May 10th, is the band’s first since 2005’s “Touring the Angel” trek, which smashed European sales records with 1.8 million tickets sold across 87 shows.

Formed in Basildon, England, in 1980, Depeche are considered the founding fathers of the ’80s synthpop movement and have become one of the most influential pop groups of the last 25 years by inspiring generations of new artists with their sublime, superlative electronica. The group has racked up multiple hit singles, including “Just Can’t Get Enough,” “Everything Counts,” “Enjoy the Silence,” “People Are People,” “Master and Servant,” “Personal Jesus,” “Policy of Truth” and “Precious”. Their 11 studio albums — 1981’s Speak & Spell, 1982’s A Broken Frame, 1983’s Construction Time Again, 1984’s Some Great Reward, 1986’s Black Celebration, 1987’s Music for the Masses, 1990’s Violator, 1993’s Songs of Faith and Devotion, 1997’s Ultra, 2001’s Exciter, and 2005’s Playing the Angel — have collectively sold more than 75 million copies worldwide.

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Depeche Mode

My sister was never exactly known for her selection in music, but for a couple of years in Jr. High , she listened to music that would forever change my life. The Cure, The Church, Guns N Roses, and lastly, Depeche Mode. I can’t tell you how many nights I would listen to 101 thinking how amazing it would have been at the Rose Bowl that night.

Depeche Mode-Stripped [mp3]
Depeche Mode-Shake the Disease (Tiga Remix) [mp3]

DEPECHE MODE SIGN WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE DEAL WITH EMI MUSIC – TO INCLUDE THE U.S. FOR THE FIRST TIME

AGREEMENT EXPANDS EMI LABEL MUTE’S DECADES-LONG RELATIONSHIP WITH MULTI-PLATINUM ELECTRONIC MUSIC VANGUARDS

DEPECHE MODE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM IN APRIL 2009, FOLLOWED BY FIRST-EVER STADIUM TOUR IN MAY

LONDON, 7 OCTOBER 2009 — EMI Music is thrilled to announce that it has signed an exclusive worldwide deal with multi-platinum recording artists Depeche Mode. EMI Music’s Mute label has been the best-selling British trio’s international home since 1981 when the label released the group’s debut single “Dreaming of Me” in the U.K. The new deal means that EMI Music will now release Depeche Mode’s music in the U.S. for the first time, as well as in the rest of the world.

Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode said: “We are so pleased to be continuing our relationship with Mute, and we feel very positive about the new team and set-up at EMI. This is going to be an exciting new chapter.”

Nick Gatfield, EMI Music’s president – A&R Labels, North America, the UK and Ireland, said: “We are delighted to be extending our relationship with Depeche Mode, and to be supporting them in the US for the first time. They are one of the world’s most innovative and successful bands who continuously push boundaries and excite fans with their recording and live work.”

Daniel Miller, chairman, Mute, said: “I am really happy to be continuing to work with the band. They have been reaching new creative heights in the studio and they have one of the most devoted fanbases of any band in the world today. I believe that the Mute and EMI teams are extremely well positioned to help Depeche Mode build on their success.”

The first release under Depeche Mode’s worldwide agreement with EMI Music is a new studio album, the band’s twelfth, due outside the U.S. on April 20th, 2009, and in the U.S. on April 21st. Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher are currently in New York working on the album, which will be the follow-up to Depeche Mode’s 2005 release Playing the Angel, which reached No. 1 in 18 countries.

In addition, Depeche Mode has announced dates for the European leg of its “Tour of the Universe 2009” — the group’s first-ever stadium tour in which they will perform in 28 cities across 21 countries. The tour, which kicks off in Israel on May 10th, is the band’s first since 2005’s “Touring the Angel” trek, which smashed European sales records with 1.8 million tickets sold across 87 shows.

Formed in Basildon, England, in 1980, Depeche are considered the founding fathers of the ’80s synthpop movement and have become one of the most influential pop groups of the last 25 years by inspiring generations of new artists with their sublime, superlative electronica. The group has racked up multiple hit singles, including “Just Can’t Get Enough,” “Everything Counts,” “Enjoy the Silence,” “People Are People,” “Master and Servant,” “Personal Jesus,” “Policy of Truth” and “Precious”. Their 11 studio albums — 1981’s Speak & Spell, 1982’s A Broken Frame, 1983’s Construction Time Again, 1984’s Some Great Reward, 1986’s Black Celebration, 1987’s Music for the Masses, 1990’s Violator, 1993’s Songs of Faith and Devotion, 1997’s Ultra, 2001’s Exciter, and 2005’s Playing the Angel — have collectively sold more than 75 million copies worldwide.

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Paul McCartney

I had never heard of the Firemen, ever. Maybe some of you have, but this could either end up being amazingly good or bad. This press release has piqued my interest….

Paul McCartney and Wings-Live and Let Die [mp3]
Paul McCartney and Wings-Silly Love Songs [mp3]

ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS, THE FIRST ALBUM
IN 10 YEARS FROM THE FIREMAN, SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER U.S. RELEASE

The Fireman returns after a 10-year break with Electric Arguments, scheduled for U.S. release on November 18th via MPL/ATO Records. The follow-up to 1998’s Rushes, Electric Arguments is the duo’s third studio album – and its first to feature vocals.

With the release of its 1993 debut, Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, the identities of the musicians behind The Fireman were initially unknown. But soon the press revealed them as none other than Paul McCartney and Youth. “Paul McCartney has discovered dance music – the results are staggeringly brilliant,” said Melody Maker. “They take a melody and, with dexterous genre-hopping through ambient, trance and house, evolve a number of breathtaking variations.”

Last year, McCartney and Youth went into the studio with no master plan, no record company restraints and no set release date to work to. Thus Electric Arguments emerged organically: 13 eclectic tracks, each written and recorded in the space of one day. 
The record opens with a stylistically diverse trifecta: the classic rock attention-grabber “Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight,” the acoustic driven “Two Magpies” and, in another hairpin turn, the euphoric, melodic “Sing The Changes.” Electric Arguments continues in this fashion, each track exhibiting an entirely different personality yet all meshing perfectly. “Lifelong Passion” – a track The Fireman donated earlier this year to the charity Adopt-A-Minefield – showcases a traditional, song-based sound with vocals, completely unlike anything on the duo’s previous two albums. Other standouts include “Light From Your Lighthouse,” “Sun Is Shining” and “Dance ‘Til We’re High,” all demonstrating McCartney’s unending interest in pure musical possibilities.

The track listing for The Fireman’s Electric Arguments is as follows:

1. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight

2. Two Magpies

3. Sing The Changes

4. Traveling Light

5. Highway

6. Light From Your Lighthouse

7. Sun Is Shining

8. Dance ‘Til We’re High

9. Lifelong Passion

10. Is This Love?

11. Lovers In A Dream

12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now

13. Don’t Stop Running

Produced By Paul McCartney & Youth

All tracks written by Paul McCartney

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Paul McCartney

I had never heard of the Firemen, ever. Maybe some of you have, but this could either end up being amazingly good or bad. This press release has piqued my interest….

Paul McCartney and Wings-Live and Let Die [mp3]
Paul McCartney and Wings-Silly Love Songs [mp3]

ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS, THE FIRST ALBUM
IN 10 YEARS FROM THE FIREMAN, SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER U.S. RELEASE

The Fireman returns after a 10-year break with Electric Arguments, scheduled for U.S. release on November 18th via MPL/ATO Records. The follow-up to 1998’s Rushes, Electric Arguments is the duo’s third studio album – and its first to feature vocals.

With the release of its 1993 debut, Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, the identities of the musicians behind The Fireman were initially unknown. But soon the press revealed them as none other than Paul McCartney and Youth. “Paul McCartney has discovered dance music – the results are staggeringly brilliant,” said Melody Maker. “They take a melody and, with dexterous genre-hopping through ambient, trance and house, evolve a number of breathtaking variations.”

Last year, McCartney and Youth went into the studio with no master plan, no record company restraints and no set release date to work to. Thus Electric Arguments emerged organically: 13 eclectic tracks, each written and recorded in the space of one day. 
The record opens with a stylistically diverse trifecta: the classic rock attention-grabber “Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight,” the acoustic driven “Two Magpies” and, in another hairpin turn, the euphoric, melodic “Sing The Changes.” Electric Arguments continues in this fashion, each track exhibiting an entirely different personality yet all meshing perfectly. “Lifelong Passion” – a track The Fireman donated earlier this year to the charity Adopt-A-Minefield – showcases a traditional, song-based sound with vocals, completely unlike anything on the duo’s previous two albums. Other standouts include “Light From Your Lighthouse,” “Sun Is Shining” and “Dance ‘Til We’re High,” all demonstrating McCartney’s unending interest in pure musical possibilities.

The track listing for The Fireman’s Electric Arguments is as follows:

1. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight

2. Two Magpies

3. Sing The Changes

4. Traveling Light

5. Highway

6. Light From Your Lighthouse

7. Sun Is Shining

8. Dance ‘Til We’re High

9. Lifelong Passion

10. Is This Love?

11. Lovers In A Dream

12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now

13. Don’t Stop Running

Produced By Paul McCartney & Youth

All tracks written by Paul McCartney

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Women

Women have been receiving tons of blog love and they just signed to JagJaguwar, which is pretty huge! They have a new album coming out ….ahhh, hell, just read this:

Women-Black Rice [mp3]

JAGJAGUWAR SIGNS WOMEN, ANNOUNCES OCTOBER 7th RELEASE DATE FOR THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT.

July 25, 2008—Jagjaguwar has just announced the signing of Women, and will release the band’s self-titled debut full length on October 7th, 2008 throughout the world (January, 2009 release in the UK, and Canadian label Flemish Eye is releasing the record in Canada.) The band will tour the U.S., Canada and Europe in support of the album throughout 2008, and tour dates will be announced soon.

The band’s debut was recorded by Sub Pop and Flemish Eye artist Chad VanGaalen over 4 months on ghettoblasters and old tape machines in his basement, an outdoor culvert and a crawlspace. Sometimes light and spacious, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, Women hint at the Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat; a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.

Friends since childhood – two of them brothers – the band has an intuitive rapport that seems to transcend speech from years of playing together. The members of Women have collectively toured North America and Europe in various projects. Members have played and toured as part of Chad VanGaalen’s band, and two members moonlight with Absolutely Kosher artists Azeda Booth.

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Women

Women have been receiving tons of blog love and they just signed to JagJaguwar, which is pretty huge! They have a new album coming out ….ahhh, hell, just read this:

Women-Black Rice [mp3]

JAGJAGUWAR SIGNS WOMEN, ANNOUNCES OCTOBER 7th RELEASE DATE FOR THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT.

July 25, 2008—Jagjaguwar has just announced the signing of Women, and will release the band’s self-titled debut full length on October 7th, 2008 throughout the world (January, 2009 release in the UK, and Canadian label Flemish Eye is releasing the record in Canada.) The band will tour the U.S., Canada and Europe in support of the album throughout 2008, and tour dates will be announced soon.

The band’s debut was recorded by Sub Pop and Flemish Eye artist Chad VanGaalen over 4 months on ghettoblasters and old tape machines in his basement, an outdoor culvert and a crawlspace. Sometimes light and spacious, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, Women hint at the Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat; a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.

Friends since childhood – two of them brothers – the band has an intuitive rapport that seems to transcend speech from years of playing together. The members of Women have collectively toured North America and Europe in various projects. Members have played and toured as part of Chad VanGaalen’s band, and two members moonlight with Absolutely Kosher artists Azeda Booth.

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FOO FIGHTERS & SUPERGRASS

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

*** MONDAY & TUESDAY’S FOO FIGHTERS SHOWS POSTPONED TO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th & TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9th – DUE TO ILLNESS***

ALL TICKETS FROM MONDAY JULY 14, 2008 SHOW WILL BE HONORED FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2008 SHOW OR REFUNDS AVAILABLE AT POINT OF PURCHASE UNTIL RESCHEDULE SHOW DATES

ALL TICKETS FROM TUESDAY JULY 15, 2008 SHOW WILL BE HONORED FOR TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2008 SHOW OR REFUNDS AVAILABLE AT POINT OF PURCHASE UNTIL RESCHEDULE SHOW DATES

In keeping with Dave Grohl’s doctor’s orders, Foo Fighters have rescheduled their two sold out shows at Morrison CO’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Originally scheduled for July 14 & 15, the concerts have been rescheduled for September 8 & 9. Tickets for the July 14th show will be honored for the September 8th date, and tickets for the July 15th show will be honored for September 9th. Show times will remain the same. Refunds for each show will be available at the original point of purchase until the new respective dates.


Grohl said, “As much as it kills us to postpone shows, I’m in no shape to deliver the kind of balls-out performances that you guys deserve. We’re already looking forward to September when we can make it up to everyone ten
times over. It’s gonna be great.”


Foo Fighters’ U.S. tour will resume July 17th in Oklahoma City.