Aside from his work as the Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr has been enjoying a nice solo career. He has now revealed the details of his second album. It will be titled “Como Te Llamma?”, which is a horrible translation of ‘What’s Your Name?’ in Spanish. He said of his new album: “I’m really proud of the power this record has. I feel like my melodies and song arrangements have matured. Lyrically, I tried to have the words flow out more freely and not try to write one song but many. I would just sing and sing and then arrange the words afterwards.” Along with his band Matt Romano, Marc Philippe Eskenazi and Josh Lattanzi, the album featured Sean Lennonon a piano on ‘Spooky Couch’ and a string quartet. The first single from the album will be ‘GfC’, which will be out before the album. He has a reggae-inspired track called ‘Miss Myrtle’, an Ameicana-influenced song called ‘Bargain Of A Century’ and an electro track called ‘Lisa’.

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The Kills performed last night on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. You can enjoy their performance below.

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Bloc Party has announced plan for a brief summer tour. They will feature stops at Lollapalooza and at the Toronto Virgin Festival. They will also be stops in the usual cities like New York and LA. The band is currently recording a third album and there could be new songs tested during these shows. Does It Offend You, Yeah? will open all of the shows of the tour.

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The Black Kids will be releasing their song ‘Hurricane Jane’ as a single on June 23. It will feature a CD and two different 7″ vinyls. They will be backe up by two b-sides called ‘You Only Call Me When You’re Crying’ and ‘Power in the Blood’. Their debut album is due out later this year.

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CSS have named their new album “Donkey” and have announced that the release date will be July 21. They are currently offering a track from the album called ‘Rat Is Dead (Rage)’ on their website, you can get it here. The first single from the album will be ‘Left Behind’. Lovefoxxx from the band said of the album: “(The first album, released in the UK in 2006) sounded very lethargic. We didn’t really know what we were doing. It wasn’t really an album, it was just a load of songs we made together. (This album) sounds more solid.” The tracklisting is below.

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Santogold performed on Late Night with Conan O’Brien yesterday, watch the performance from last night.

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Feist was interviewd and performed yesterday on The Colbert Report. She performed ‘I Feel It All’, you can see a video of the interview here.

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