Muse Predict September date for a new set
March 22, 2009
Muse Predict September Date for New SetMuse have been working diligently on their fifth studio album since last summer, and now are predicting a September release date for the new set, which will likely be followed by a European tour. Still untitled, the album has plenty of orchestral elements that will remain familiar to Muses existing fans, plus a song that the band says was written in three parts thats been an ongoing process for several years; they hope to make this epic number the albums closing track...
The Hold Steady are set to offer up their first live album and docu-DVD on April 7 via Vagrant Records. The disc, which showcases a Hold Steady Halloween show at Chicagos Metro in 2007, has been titled A Positive Rage and will include plenty familiar Hold Steady tracks as well as a duo of unreleased tunes, 40 Bucks and Spectres. The documentary portion of the set follows the band around during their 2006 international tour. Next up for The Hold Steady is teaming up with Counting Crows for a run of overseas tour dates in May...
OK Go are hitting the road this week for some tour dates that will help preview and test songs from their next album, which will serve as the follow-up to their 2005 set, Oh No. In a little change-up for the band, frontman Damian Kulash says they were influenced more by soul and Motown than by their own power-pop, so theyve taken away a lot of their usual guitar work and replaced it with strings, horns, and club beats. The band will play around a dozen dates on the brief tour trek...
And Coldplay are set to kick off a big North American tour on July 10. Their dates will begin in Portland, Oregon, and will run so far through mid-August, with more dates TBA. Coldplay recently won three awards at the Grammys, and were also the feature subject of a special segment during the pre-Grammys episode of 60 Minutes. Coldplays tour stops will include San Diego (7/16), Dallas (7/21), and Toronto (7/29)...
MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK:
Indie rockers and Merge Records founders Superchunk will release a new 5-track EP of songs on April 7 via their own label. Leaves in the Gutter will serve as Superchunks first - and highly anticipated - release of tunes since their 2001 album, and will let fans hear the bands new songs early. Check out all the info online at www.superchunk.com...
MINI BUZZ:
Scott Weiland has announced that Stone Temple Pilots Robert and Dean DeLeo have been writing music, and that the band will release a return album sometime in 2010...
American Idol runner-up slash-Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson is set to team up with R&B singer slash-Timberlake wannabe Robin Thicke for a five-week U.S. tour kicking off the end of March...
The National will trek around in May for a short North American tour in order to test out some new songs; tour stops will include Toronto (5/21), Boston (5/23), Washington DC (5/24), Atlanta (5/27), and Philly (5/29)...
TV on the Radio have been tapped to perform at Central Parks Summerstage in NYC; theyll play a benefit on June 5 to raise funds to assist the season of free entertainment that takes place in the park each year...
The Antlers new album, In the Attic of the Universe, is said to chronicle the bands evolution from pop to shoegaze, and is in stores now...
And in spite of the demise of several summer music festivals already this year, the Bonnaroo fest will attempt to continue onward, with headliners Phish, Bruce Springsteen, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, and Crystal Castles...
ON CD: Kelly Clarksons All I Ever Wanted... Pet Shop Boys latest...... Dan Deacons Bromst... Royksoops Junior... The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About... and The Decemberists Hazards of Love... ON DVD: Taylor Hicks Whomp at the Warfield... Hall and Oates Live at the Troubadour... Pete Doherty: Grace/Wastelands...and Neil Youngs Fork in the Road... and thats the buzz for this weeks Modern Rock.
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