The Gutter Twins will release a new iTunes-exclusive EP called “Adorata”. It features two unreleased songs called ‘Spanish Doors’ and ‘We Have Met Before’. The EP will also include cover; José González’s ‘Down the Line’, Primal Scream’s ‘Deep Hit of Morning Sun’, Scott Walker’s ‘Duchess’, Vetiver’s ‘Belles’, Eleven’s ‘Flow Like a River’, and a traditional song called ‘St. James Infirmary’. A portion of the proceeds will go the Natasha Shneider Memorial Fund. It will be released on September 2.

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With ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr being added to the band The Cribs have announced plans that they will try to release a single later this year. They have also said that they will release a proper album with Johnny Marr in early 2009. You can see the video here on NME.com. The Cribs also debuted a new song at Reading Festival called ‘Victims Of Mass Production’, which you can download below and could possibly be a song that they worked on wit Johnny Marr. Edit: I also decided to put up the Cribs cover of the Smiths’ ‘Panic’, they performed it live at the NME Awards.

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After releasing a great solo album this year, Albert Hammond Jr. thought that it would be a great idea to co-design a line of designer suits with designer Ilaria Urbinati. The suits will be on sale at Ilaria Urbinati’s LA store Confederacy. Albert Hammond, Jr. said to New York Magazine about the line: They’re for the person who needs his one suit for a wedding, He’d rather get something like this than go to Men’s Wearhouse, pay the same amount, and look like an out-of-date parent. The whole goal is to make this line and see what it does and if we can just break even to make the next set then every time we’ll do it we’ll add one new design and then we’ll add a few different things to the old designs so it’ll constantly be growing, it’ll constantly change. It’s kind of like the way cars slowly evolve ever year, you think they look the same but you look back and they’ve slowly changed over time. Sometimes there’s certain things that happen in fashion but what I’m trying make is something that’s a little more classic to do I feel like 20 years from you could wear. It’s not going to be like some flared suit that you’d wear now and look like it was Halloween.” He will also be opening for Coldplay on their European tour. The dates for the tour are below.

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Justice will be releasing a new CD/DVD entitled “A Cross the Universe”. The CD will feature a live performance by Justice and the DVD will feature a documentary directed by Romain-Gavras, who directed the ‘Stress’ video, and So Me, who did ‘DVNO’ and ‘D.A.N.C.E.’. There is still no tracklisting for the live CD but it will be released in November. On their myspace Justice put out a bulletin saying: (more…)

Self-proclaimed professional whistler Andrew Bird has announced some tour fall dates. Most of the tour dates will be along the east coast of the United States. He is only scheduled to play one show in the month of September so far. His two shows in New York’s Hiro Ballroom sold-out in a matter of two hours. He will likely be premiering new songs and after the tour he will head back to the studio to finish his next album expected out in early ’09. The tour dates are below.

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I haven’t posted in a little while, but I think that I will be posting regularly again next week. In the meanwhile here is an acoustic version of Grizzly Bear’s ‘Knife’ done by band members Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen how José González would have covered the song. They use a finger picking-style that José González uses when he covers songs. You can download the song below.

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The National premired a new track at a concert in Denmark. It is entitled ‘A Thousand Black Cities’. You can see it in a video below.

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