The Brooklyn electro-rcokers have announced a five date tour of the United State. The tour dates are mostly in the West Coast. With the exception of a date in Brooklyn which will be the only date outside the West Coast. Their new album “LP3″ will be released on July 7.

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Due to the large amounts of aluminum smelters being built in their home country Björk and Sigur Rós want to play a large outdoor concert so that they can increase awareness of what is happening in Iceland. They believe that their country is far behind on being enviromentally friendly and want the country to be at the forefront of keeping their enviroment clean. You can see the post from the Sigur Rós website.
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Carl Barat spoke to The Independent and has told it that he would only reunite with Pete Doherty to make an album. He told The Independent: “Once I’ve done what I’m doing now, it won’t be hard at all, It may detract in the short term from what I’m trying to achieve. It’s certainly a friendship I cherish. But I want to let it be for a while. A lot of my friends say you should only do a reunion if you’re going to write a new album. I agree. Otherwise it’s just a cash-cow, a glory-milker. I’ve still got a ‘Libertine’ tattoo on my arm.” I wonder how the Libertines would sound if they reunited now. I hope if Pete Doherty can get off drugs and sober up that they reunite and make music again.

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New York City based band The Virgins recorded a Daytrotter session featuring some tracks from their 2007 self-titled EP “The Virgins”. They also recorded a track with Ra Ra Riot, the track is called ‘Va Va Virgins’. To download all of the tracks you can go here. The tracks played for the session are below.

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This week I have the Mars Volta’s ‘Miranda’. I got this from a bootleg of their acoustic New Year’s Eve Set. Enjoy the song.

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Almost two years after the album released in the UK Ed Harcourt will be releasing his fourth album in the US. It will be released on Dovecote Records on June 3. The album features contributions from Graham Coxon, former Blur guitarist turned solo artist, and Ed’s wife Gita Harcourt. The album was only released now because he had been dropped by his former label which had released his previous three albums.

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Brooklyn based Oxford Collapse have announced further details of their fourth album. Last time we learned that they were also going to release a single and EP before their new album. The album will be called “Bits” and will be out on August 5 via Sub Pop. Many of the songs were tried out on tour when they were touring with We Are Scientists. They have also announced a US in support of the album. Tracklisting for “Bits” is below.

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