* Album Stream: Feist - Metals
* Album Stream: Bjork - Biophilia
* Album Stream: Mutemath - Odd Soul
* Thrice is giving away the track ‘Words In The Water’ from their new album ‘Major/Minor’ via RCRD LBL.  This is currently my favorite song on the new album.
* Daytrotter has released new sessions from Mat Kearney and Alexi Murdoch.
* Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead performed on Fallon.

* Album Stream: Ryan Adams - Ashes And Fire
* Album Stream: Blink-182 - Neighborhoods
* Album Stream: Mutemath - Odd Soul
* Sigur Ros have announced the details for their upcoming live album/film, Inni.
* Radiohead performed on SNL, performed on The Colbert Report, released the 7th and final remix 12” for streaming, plan to tour next year and Thom Yorke’s other band ‘Atoms For Peace’ are close to finishing an album.
* Wilco performed on Letterman.
* Minus The Bear have released their first 2 records (the EP ‘This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic’ and the album ‘Highly Refined Pirates’) on vinyl in honor of their 10th anniversary.
* She & Him have revealed the details for their upcoming holiday album, ‘A Very She & Him Christmas’.

Sorry this is such a massive list…I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile and my list of news just kept growing and growing…

* Owen (Mike Kinsella) has finished a new album called Ghost Town which is scheduled to be released on November 1.  He also has a song on the new Polyvinyl compilation ‘Japan 3.11.11’ (it’s a cover of Screeching Weasel’s ‘Guest List’) and he recently performed a cover of Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Summertime Rolls’ for the AV Undercover series.  (Other recent AV Undercover series videos: They Might Be Giants perform Chumbawamba’s ‘Tubthumping’, The Get Up Kids perform Blur’s ‘Girls And Boys’, and Matt Nathanson performs Prince’s ‘Little Red Corvette’.)
* Hot Water Music have signed to Rise Records.  After self-releasing a new 7” this fall (the A-side is available for streaming now and so is the B-side), the band plans to record a new album this winter and release it on their new label in 2012.  The band will also be releasing a 2xCD/3xLP called ‘Live In Chicago’ on No Idea Records on September 27.
* Polar Bear Club have announced that their new album ‘Clash Battle Guilt Pride’ will be released on September 13.  The band has posted the album’s cover and their fall tour dates on their website.  The first single ‘Screams In Caves’ is available for streaming and for pre-order as part of ‘The View. The Life’ 7” from Bridge Nine Records.
* Mates Of State have revealed the tracklist and cover art for their new album ‘Mountaintops’, which comes out September 13. The first single ‘Maracas’ is available for download from the band, and the song’s video is available for viewing.
* Maritime have posted all of their b-sides on Soundcloud for free download.
* Radiohead recently announced a series of 12” records featuring remixes of songs from The King Of Limbs.  So far, you can listen to the first volume, listen to the second volume, order both directly from the band, check out the details for the third volume, and check out the details for the fourth volume.
* Wilco have released a new 7” and both songs are available for streaming now: ‘I Might’ and b-side ‘I Love My Label’. The band will be releasing a new album ‘The Whole Love’ on September 27, and they recently played several new songs live.
* Ryan Adams has released a new European tour 7” with the songs ‘Empty Room’ and ‘Nutshell’ (which is an Alice In Chains cover) and both songs are available for streaming now.
* MuteMath have released the cover art and the video for the title track from their upcoming album ‘Odd Soul’ which comes out October 4.
* Blink 182 have released the first single from their new album.  It’s called ‘Up All Night’ and it is streaming on their website.
* Bon Iver recently performed on Jimmy Fallon (‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’), performed on The Colbert Report (‘Skinny Love’ and ‘Calgary’), and then performed again on Jimmy Fallon (‘Holocene’). The b-side from the first single ‘Calgary’ is available for streaming (‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’) and the second single ‘Holocene’ will be released on September 5 with b-side ‘Come Talk To Me’.  The band also announced a string of tour dates.
* Chuck Ragan will be releasing a new album called ‘Covering Ground’ on September 13.  It is available for pre-order now and the first song is available from Chuck on his website.
* Iron & Wine recorded a 4AD Session and it is available for viewing now.
* Thrice have released a song called ‘Yellow Belly’ from their upcoming album ‘Major/Minor’, along with a number of tour dates for the fall.
* Office Of Future Plans have announced that their debut album will be released on Dischord Records in the fall.
* Feist will be releasing a new album called ‘Metals’ on October 4.
* Joshua have released their new album ‘Choices’ in the US.  It is available for streaming and purchase from their Bandcamp page.
* Imogen Heap has released a new song called ‘Propeller Seeds’.  It is the second song in her multi-year collaborative project of writing her new album.
* Minus The Bear have announced a 10th Anniversary Tour where they will be playing ‘Highly Refined Pirates’ in its entirety.  The band is also issuing ‘This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic’ on vinyl for the first time and ‘Highly Refined Pirates’ on 180-gram vinyl.

* On Monday, I bought Third Eye Blind’s new album Ursa Major for $3.99 from Amazon’s Digital Store.  (I think the first Third Eye Blind album is still their best, but this new one is already growing on me.)
* On Tuesday, I bought MuteMath’s new album Armistice for $8.99 from Amazon’s Digital Store.  (The album is pretty good, but I don’t like it as much as their first 2 releases.)
* Today, I downloaded Radiohead’s These Are My Twisted Words single for free here.  (Radiohead has set the bar so high, but after just one listen, I think the song sounds good.) I also downloaded Copeland’s Daytrotter session for free here.  (The session has the slightly stripped down feeling of many Daytrotter sessions, which in this case, I really appreciate.  I like Copeland, but sometimes their stuff sounds a little too overproduced.)
* I also listened to Imogen Heap’s new album Ellipse here.  I think it sounds really good.  It officially comes out next week.

I make lists all the time.  I always have a To Do list.  I have a list of books that I have read and that I want to read.  I like the habit, but sometimes I can get a little obsessed with my lists.  Anyways, one of the lists I keep is upcoming release dates for albums.  I put things I’m really excited about on there, but I also put things I’m just slightly interested in on it as well.  Here’s the list in its current state:

Date - Artist - Album (Notes)
7/14/2009 - Owl City - Ocean Eyes (July 14th on Itunes, July 28th elsewhere)
7/21/2009 - Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi from Sigur Ros and Alex from Parachutes)
7/28/2009 - Phish - Joy
8/11/2009 - Bloc Party - One More Chance (single)
8/18/2009 - MuteMath - Armistice
8/24/2009 - Mum - Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know
8/25/2009 - Radiohead - Reissues of Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief
8/25/2009 - Imogen Heap - Ellipse
9/1/2009 - Chuck Ragan - Gold Country
9/1/2009 - Frontiers - 7” (Chris Higdon from Elliott)
9/15/2009 - Sunny Day Real Estate - Reissues of Diary and LP2
9/22/2009 - Brand New - Daisy
9/22/2009 - Volcano Choir - Unmap (Bon Iver + Collections of Colonies of Bees)
9/22/2009 - Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk (Conor Oberst, Jim James, M Ward)

September 2009 - Owen - New Leaves
October 2009 - Thrice - Beggars
Late 2009 - Far
Late 2009 - Headlights

I’m most excited about Imogen Heap, Brand New, Owen, Thrice, and Far.  Ooo-wee do I love a new album!

I just bought the following things:

1.  MuteMath - Spotlight EP (I saw that they have a tour date in Cleveland and I thought “Do they have something new out?”.  They have a new album coming out in August, but this EP was released in February.)
2.  The Weakerthans - iTunes Session EP (While the arrangements on these songs are definitely strange, I can’t resist anything from John K. Samson and the boys.)
3.  Spoon - Got Nuffin EP (They just announced this single last week and it was released this week.  Apparently they are working on their next album.)
4.  Alexi Murdoch - The Ragged Sea [from the Away We Go soundtrack] (I have Alexi’s Four Songs EP and Time Without Consequence album.  He has a new album called Towards The Sun which he is selling now in his store online and should be widely released soon.  After seeing Away We Go, I looked at the soundtrack to see what songs of his are on it.  Of his 9 songs on the soundtrack, 6 songs are from Time Without Consequence and 2 others are on the Towards The Sun CD.  Only the song The Ragged Sea seems to be exclusive to the soundtrack, so of course I had to buy it.  I get slightly obsessive over things like this…wait, did I say slightly?  I meant TOTALLY.)

I’m also going to get the new Wilco album, but I think I’ll buy it on CD, so I’ll get it sometime this weekend.