Albums in 2006

[kosmo vinyl]

All I have to say is the Rancouters album had better be good as I just preordered a pile of cds and vinyl...

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
 Been listening to Graceland lately and WOW is that a great record vastly better than most of chart topping crude being released these days.
 

that's probably a desert island disc for me ... thank god for digital media, you can take thousands of songs to a desert island now!

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 It sounds like the last Steely Dan album.  All the songs are rather unrecognizable from one another...just one endless jazzy bebop.

[ggw]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  All I have to say is the Rancouters album had better be good as I just preordered a pile of cds and vinyl...

It's good.
 
 I've had it since last week.  I gave it one spin then and was a bit underwhelmed.  It stayed in the glove compartment until my commute today.  
 
 It's a slow grower.  Steady as She Goes is by far the catchiest track.  There is a lot of downtempo stuff; shades of 70's power rock; some balladry; a smidge of late-60's psychedelia.  Some of it sounds like outtakes from Get Behind Me Satan reworked for a full band.  
 
 I'll give it 7.9 Z's off the bat, but reserve the right to revise that score.

[bearman🐻]

New song from Peaches: http://www.perezhilton.com/topics/listen_to_this/you_must_listen_to_this_peaches_goes_pee_pee_on_fergie_20060417.php#comments

[brennser]

anyone listened to the new Ministry album yet?

[Guiny]

Originally posted by brennser:
  anyone listened to the new Ministry album yet?

Has it even come out yet?  I thought it was May 2nd.  I did get the new RevCo CD and am very happy with it so far.  A couple of songs I could do without, but mostly catching one's.
 
 My opinion of course.

[brennser]

its available as an advance download from emusic
 
 

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  anyone listened to the new Ministry album yet?

Has it even come out yet?  I thought it was May 2nd.  I did get the new RevCo CD and am very happy with it so far.  A couple of songs I could do without, but mostly catching one's.
 
 My opinion of course. [/b]

[Guiny]

Originally posted by brennser:
  its available as an advance download from emusic

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 Guess I'll have to wait til May 2nd then, my downloading knowledge usually consists of me getting many forms of viruses, so I just gave up.

[Jaguar]

I really can't wait for Air Formation's new CD! Heard that it's a bit different and all in a good way but haven't heard anything as of yet. If it's anything like their last EP with the song For The Hours, then I know I'll be fully delighted. For The Hours was the Best Song of 2005 on The Trans-Atlantic Underground. It's such an incredible song.
 
 Also, the Never Lose That Feeling: Volume Two release has been postphoned until maybe September so as not to conflict with other AC30 releases. This is going to be just as good if not better than Volume One. I've been given the Hammock MP3 of Black Metallic, which is on this new one and it is just as good, if not better, than Catherine Wheel's original version.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  New shearwater album out in May
 
 

2 tracks -
 
 http://misrarecords.com/shearwater/downloads/Shearwater_Seventy-four_Seventy-five.mp3
 http://misrarecords.com/shearwater/downloads/Shearwater_White_Waves.mp3
 
 good stuff

[brennser]

Listen to the new Neil Young album

[brennser]

Holy shit its good! Neil's one angry Canadian mofo right now - more power to him!
 
 

Originally posted by brennser:
  Listen to the new Neil Young album

[Darth Ed]

From: "The Dears" <information@thedears.org>
 
 Sometime a little while ago, we completed our third full length album. We are really proud and are very much looking forward to everyone playing the crap out it. As clichÃ? as this may sound, it's by far the 'best work we've ever done.' But seriously, it doesn't sound like anything else and it's pretty relentless. As (I think) we've mentioned before, it is somewhat of a stripped down, raw affair. There is french horn in 2 songs and and saxophone in another. Though there is some mellotron-ny stuff, there are no real violins, violas or cellos. I guess that means that we're no longer "orchestral". Send complaints to gfy@thedears.org. Anyway, we recorded it in the splendour of our Parc X Manor (MTL) over the winter, mixed it in Greenpoint (Brooklyn, NYC) in March, and the final cut of the master arrived last week from Masterdisk (Manhattan, NYC). We've sent it around to our record companies and they tell us that they like it. Phew. Now they are going to do whatever it is they do !
  to get the album into your hands. We are just putting the final touches on the artwork and then that's it.
 
 The album is called GANG OF LOSERS. Here are the song titles, in order:
 
 01. SINTHTRO
 02. TICKET TO IMMORTALITY
 03. DEATH OR LIFE WE WANT YOU
 04. HATE THEN LOVE
 05. THERE GOES MY OUTFIT
 06. BANDWAGONEERS
 07. FEAR MADE THE WORLD GO 'ROUND
 08. YOU AND I ARE A GANG OF LOSERS
 09. WHITES ONLY PARTY
 10. BALLAD OF HUMANKINDNESS
 11. I FELL DEEP
 12. FIND OUR WAY TO FREEDOM
 
 The album's title comes from a running joke that Benvie started a couple of years ago while we were on tour. Then after thinking about the phrase a lot more, it got all serious and became a bit of metaphor for this whole...thing. Anyway, thanks Benvie. The album clocks in at 48 minutes and you can drop a laser on that s**t as of the end of August 2006. Expect a single by June-ish. Maybe even a video for it. I think.
 
 For now, you can hear "Fear Made The World Go 'Round" at http://www.myspace.com/thedears until Monday.
 
 We've been trying out the new stuff in rehearsal and  though the first couple of times were pretty brutal, we are finally starting to sound like a band again. We've got a few new pieces of gear to go with the new songs. Nat and Val are sporting a pair of pretty wicked slick Roland X6 keybards. I'm using a Korean Epiphone Casino  for the most part (I've retired my '66 Jazzmaster) and I picked up a new analogue delay pedal from Moog. I also picked up a Roland AX7 'gui-board' or 'key-tar' which I play with our old SH-32 synth brain. Somehow, that thing is still with us; she's seen a thousand gigs and will likely see a thousand more. Astounding. French has a really loud Ampeg bass amp. I mean, it's loud. George ran out of drums to hit so he added a floor tom. As for Krief and his Stratocaster; from his cold dead hands...
 
 We're doing a little warm-up gig at a small club around town tonight before we head down to Coachella this weekend. New songs + new gear x haven't played a gig in several months = could totally suck. At any rate it'll be interesting.
 
 Here are some other shows coming up:
 
 
 April
 30 - Coachella Valley Music Festival, Indio, California (part of the festival with Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Metric, Wolf Parade, Depeche Mode, Scissor Sisters, The Go! Team, Mogwai, Massive Attack, Bloc Party, Madonna, and many more)
 
 
 May
 22 - Tulip Festival, Ottawa, Canada (with Malajube, and more)
 
 
 June
 10 - Sydney, Australia (TBC)
 25 - Wireless, London, England (part of the festival with Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four, Thomas Dolby(!) and more)
 29 - Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, MontrÃ?al, Canada (at Metropolis)
 
 
 July
 1 Canada Day, Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
 
 
 August
 19 - V Festival, Stafford, England (part of the festival with Radiohead, Beck, Bloc Party, Fatboy Slim, and more)
 20 - V Festival, Chelmsford, England (part of the festival with Radiohead, Beck, Bloc Party, Fatboy Slim, and more)
 22 - Dublin, Marlay Park (with Morrissey, The Dandy Warhols, The Magic Numbers)
 
 We are also planning a tour of Canada for the month of September. We haven't toured here proper in like 2 years. Shameful.
 
 I think that's it for now. Looking forward to seeing you all soon, somewhere.
 
 Murray (on behalf of The Dears)

[ggw]

Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
  The Features have a  new blog where they are posting demos for the new album.

From the Features Blog:
 
 
 Update
 May 1st, 2006
 
 This past week was one of the most difficult ever for us as a band. We had to make an incredibly hard decision that has a direct effect on our future. Earlier this week our record label offered us a chance to record a cover song for a large corporation to be used in a commercial. In addition to using the song in the commercial they wanted us to put it on our record and potentially use it as a single. We turned down the offer(knowing the probable consequences), and our record label dropped us. Needless to say, this came at a bad time since we were a week away from recording our next record. At the moment we are weighing all of our options and still plan on recording next month. We will release another record, we just are not sure with what record label. We promise to keep you up to date with new information and as always check back here for new show dates and content.