Jamie xx’s reworking of Gil Scott-Heron’s 2010 album “I’m New Here” has leaked. The project was first announced back in November when Jamie xx’s new version of ‘New York Is Killing Me’, then closer ‘I’ll Take Care Of You’ now the entire album has hit the internet. As soon as I saw that the track ‘My Cloud‘ was out there it was evident that the album had leaked. Most of the album has Jamie xx fiddling around with adding different samples. It’s basically like they gave him free rein with the acapellass ince very little of it resembles the original instrumentation. The album is set to come out on February 24 on XL, you can buy it here.

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Panda Bear has just released the cover art for his new upcoming solo album “Tomboy”, the artwork was done by Scott Mou. Also announced was the fact that the album release date was moved up to April 12 so that the record would be available on Record Store Day on April 16. The tracklisting for the album is below.

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The National will be performing the track ‘Conversation 16′ from their 2010 release “High Violet” on the Late Show with David Letterman. The song is the new single off the album. The band has also announced it will support Arcade Fire on April 24 and 25 in Chicago at the UIC Pavilion.

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Gorillaz last album featured more misicians than ever with Lou Reed, Bobby Womack, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Snoop Dogg, now it seems like the band may be returning the favor. http://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/437569.html">Gorillaz-Unofficial was sent a tip that Gorillaz may appear on a song on Snoop Dogg’s upcoming album “Doggumentary”, in the tip the sender mentioned that a track-by-track of the new Snoop Dogg album by Complex featured the following information: (more…)

Cass McCombs has announced that he is releasing his new album “Wit’s End” on April 12 in the US and April 11 in the UK on Domino. It is the follow-up to his 2009 album “Catacombs”. He has put the opener ‘Country Line’ for streaming. “Wit’s End” was co-produced by McCombs along with Foreign Born’s Ariel Rechtshaid. You can see the tracklisting for the album below.

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Hooray For Earth and A Place To Bury Strangers have announced that they will be touring together this March. Both acts will be tour together mostly in the souther portion of the US. Hooray For Earth are releasing their new album “True Loves” on May 3. You can see their tour dates together below. (Thanks to A Heart Is A Spade)

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I just barely missed the Vaccines make their live debut in the US but they still dropped their new single ‘Post Break-Up Sex’. The song is rough and very immediate, you can listen tot the song below thanks to We All Want Someone.

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