The Love Language announce Merge debut LP, Libraries, reveal that the true language of love is, in fact, Turkish.
By E. Nagurney on Apr 15 2010
Chapel Hill’s The Love Language was born of a “tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration” for band leader Stuart McLamb, as Merge’s press release describes. What, then, would be the most appropriate title possible for a record born from sadness, drinking, and imprisonment? I’ll stop you there; the answer is Libraries. And, thus, that is the title of The Love Language’s debut record for Merge, which comes out July 13. Unlike McLamb’s self-recorded, self-titled 2009 debut as The Love Language, Libraries was recorded with the help of producer/engineer BJ Burton. McLamb will be taking the songs of Libraries on the road this month, playing places that are most certainly not libraries.
Libraries tracklist:
01. Pedals
02. Brittany’s Back
03. This Blood Is Our Own
04. Summer Dust
05. Blue Angel
06. Heart to Tell
07. Anthophobia
08. Horophones
09. Wilmont
10. This Room
The Love Language dates:
04.15.10 - Raleigh, NC - The Pour House
04.22.10 - Greensboro, NC - Earth Day Celebration at Center City Park
04.24.10 - Washington, DC - Sweetlife Festival
04.28.10 - Chapel Hill, NC - Memorial Hall *
09.11.10 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival &
* St. Vincent
& Public Enemy
• The Love Language: http://myspace.com/thelovelanguage
• Merge: http://www.mergerecords.com
[Photo: Stacy Peterson]
Thee Oh Sees drop another full-length, Warm Slime, but seriously, who didn’t see this coming
By Harold Shueberg on Apr 15 2010
So Thee Oh Sees have officially warped my mind. Last year alone, John Dwyer and the crew grimed out literally 10 releases on a whole slew of labels; this year, they’ve already dropped the Quadrospazzed ‘09 12-inch. So, as the gods would have it, just when I didn’t think they could squeeze out another psych/folk/garage gem, they up and slime me. Yep, just like in Family Double Dare.
On May 11, the Bay Area spazzers will be dropping Warm Slime through label In The Red. According to the band, the album is a return to the punk-garage sound they developed to near-perfection on Help, and the A-side is one 14-minute long jammer probably akin to their recent live EP. If this year is anything like the last for Thee Oh Sees, you can probably expect another full-length in June and July.
Warm Slime
01. Warm Slime
02. I Was Denied
03. Everything Went Black
04. Castiatic Tackle
05. Flash Bats
06. Mega-feast
07. MT Work
• Thee Oh Sees: http://www.myspace.com/ohsees
• In The Red: http://www.intheredrecords.com
The Futureheads (no, not Maximo Park) announce first US tour in four years
By Annapocalypse on Apr 15 2010
It’s hard to keep all those mid-2000s British post-punk bands straight, but The Futureheads (not Maximo Park, Kaiser Chiefs, or British Sea Power) will be touring this summer for the first time in four years. The occasion? Why, to celebrate their new album, Chaos, which is due June 1 on Dovecote Records.
06.01.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
06.02.10 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
06.03.10 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
06.04.10 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
06.05.10 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwells
06.07.10 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
06.08.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
06.10.10 - Toronto, ONT - Mod Club
06.11.10 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
06.12.10 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
• The Futureheads: http://www.thefutureheads.com
• Dovecote: http://www.dovecoterecords.com
Eminem enters the road to Recovery and further elaborates on his pill-popping past, as if we hadn’t heard enough.
By Kid Midnight on Apr 15 2010
As he is wont to do, Eminem has taken to Twitter to announce that “There is no Relapse 2,” and, as news of the album’s demise spread shock waves across the collective music community, it turns out Marshall Mathers was just beginning to tell us the news. Later in the day, in the afternoon or thereabouts, Eminem consoled our aching hearts and once again infused the world with hope, as he announced that he will still be releasing a new album, this one titled Recovery.
As reported earlier, Relapse 2 was originally scheduled for a 2009 release. Eminem explained the change in title, and subject matter, in a prepared statement: “I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year but as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.”
Recovery features collaborations with Just Blaze, DJ Khalil, Jim Jonsin, and Boi-1da. Details about a release date, first single, or whether or not the tracks produced by Dr. Dre (originally scheduled for Relapse 2) will be included have not been revealed. But what we can mostly likely expect is an album where we learn of Eminem’s struggles with drugs, his relationship with his daughter, the challenges of fame, and how a young artist handles the demands of creativity. Sounds like a fresh new product born of Eminem’s bouts with addiction!
• Eminem: http://www.eminem.com
Wavves announce third LP for summer release, promise more vowels to go with those consonants
By E. Nagurney on Apr 15 2010
For the last year, there’s been plenty of news about Wavves. But how much of it is music-related and not meltdown- or Jared Swilley-related? Not too much. No longer, though! On his blog, Wavves main man Nathan Williams made the following statement:
WE ALSO FINISHED RECORDING A RECORD IN OXFORD MISSISSIPPI AND ARE CURRENTLY MIXING IT. SOUNDS CARAAAZAAAAAAYYY AND WILL BE OUT THIS SUMMER. SEEEEEE YA!
Not a whole lot of details aside from a vague summer release date, but look at all those extra vowels! And here I thought he was only about unnecessary consonants.
• Wavves: http://ghostramp.blogspot.com
