As you may have guessed from the title 4AD is going to be releasing the Red Hot compilation I reported back in May. If you don’t remember the compilation was being curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National and will many of today’s best indie musicians. The compilation has been named “Dark Was the Night”. It will be released in February 2009 and will have 32 exclusive songs that will packaged in 2 CDs or 3 LPs. Some of the musicians and acts featured will be: Antony (with Bryce Dessner), Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, The Books with Jose Gonzalez, Bright Eyes, My Brightest Diamond (covering “Feeling Good”, famously interpreted by Nina Simone), Sigur Rós offshoot Riceboy Sleeps, Sufjan Stevens, Feist with Grizzly Bear, Feist with Ben Gibbard, Grizzly Bear by themselves, the Decemberists, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, the National with Nico Muhly, David Byrne and Dirty Projectors, Spoon, the New Pornographers,and TV on the Radio’s David Sitek. I’m really looking forward to listening to some of these songs.

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I mean to post this yesterday but never came around to posting it. Anyway The Last Shadow Puppets peformed ‘Standing Next To Me’ on Late Night with Conan on Wednesday, you can watch the performance below.

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This was recorded almost a year ago by La Blogotheque. Department of Eagles was giving them a tour of Chinatown in New York. There they premiered many songs that were going to be on “In Ear Park” including ‘Balmy Nights’ and ‘Phantom Other’, some other time I’ll post all of the songs in the session. Download the song below, for video of the session go here. For the other alternate take of the original track recorded for Pitchfork go here.

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Brooklyn base elecytronic band Telepathe will be releasing a new 7″. The single will be their new song ‘Devil’s Trident’. The song features production from TV on the Radio’s David Sitek. The clear limited edition vinyl was designed by Edward Quarmby from ox.eagle.lion.man. The single is out now through Merok. You can download the song below. You can see th cover for the single here. For more Telepathe visit their myspace.

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Along time ago all the way back in 2006 before Grizzly Bear released the spectacular “Yellow House”, they made a song for a compilation titled “Help Wanted” by the bi-annual magazine, Esopus. For this compilation Esopus had “asked 10 musicians to scour job listings and then write a song inspired by one of them.” Grizzly Bear’s contribution was mostly instrumental, vocals are not heard until 3:53 in the song. Judging by the lyrics the job listing that they found that inspired the song was probably for a dishwasher. For more information about the compilation go here. It starts off slowly and begins to pickup at around a minute. Throughout the track various instruments are heard layered to make the song; guitar, piano, banjo are some of the most easily heard. The song sounds like it would fit along with the other tracks on “Yellow House” but it still unfinished. You can download the song below. UPDATE: Seems like this is the track ‘Granny Dinner’ released on their “Friend EP”, makes me me feel like I wasted so much time. After all I had to track down the song.

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New Zealand indie rockers have recorded a Daytrotter session. The session features tracks from various albums. They sampled their own song ‘Oh, Mojave’ and play their song ‘Sleep in the Garden’ along with it. You can download the whole session here.

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Zach Condon has annonuced the release of two EPs. One will feature six new songs by Beirut, that were recorded while Zach was in Mexico. The second EP will feature songs by Zach’s solo project Realpeople. The release by Beirut will be titled “March of the Zapotec”, the release by the Realpeople will be titled “Holland”. You may have heard songs from Realpeople one called ‘My Night With the Prostitute From Marseille’ released under Beirut for Natalie Portman’s Big Change compilation, the other is called ‘Venice’ and was released under his own name for a Beliver magazine compilation. For other early demos by Realpeople go here. The Realpeople EP features new recordings of the old songs. The EPs will be avaliable on February 17 in the US and on February 16 in Europe

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