* Office Of Future Plans have released the first track ‘Salamander’ from their upcoming debut self-titled album.
* Death Cab For Cutie will be releasing an EP called ‘Keys And Codes Remix EP’ on November 22. The EP is made up of seven remixes of songs from ‘Codes And Keys’. Leading up to the release, the band has been releasing one remix per week. So far they have released ‘Doors Unlocked And Open (Cut Copy Remix)’, ‘You Are A Tourist (The 2 Bears Remix)’, ‘Some Boys (RAC Maury Mix)’, ‘Home Is A Fire (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)’, and Codes And Keys (Yeasayer Remix).
* Nada Surf will be releasing a new album called ‘The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy’ on January 24. They have released the first single ‘When I Was Young’ for download on their website.
* Fanfarlo have released a video for the song ‘Deconstruction’ from their upcoming album ‘Rooms Filled With Light’, which is coming out on February 28. The song is available for purchase as a single (with b-side ‘Reconstruction’) from Amazon and iTunes.
* Radiohead have announced the dates for US tour next year (there’s no Pittsburgh date) and plans to return to the studio.
* The National have released their contribution to the upcoming Philistines Jr. covers album.
* Sigur Ros have released the one studio song on their upcoming live album/film ‘Inni’. The song is called ‘Lúppulagið’.
* Jonsi has revealed the details for his upcoming soundtrack for the Cameron Crowe film ‘We Bought A Zoo’. The album comes out December 13 and features several new songs.
* Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional) has released a new EP of covers for free download.
* Bon Iver and Feist recently performed on Later With Jools Holland. You can see videos from the performance here and here.
Here are the latest links that I enjoyed:
* Watch Thom Yorke perform some new songs at a recent gig [Link]
* Thom Yorke has named his solo band Atoms For Peace and they are going on tour [Link]
* Fanfarlo released a free live EP [Link]
* Jonah Matranga prepares to take on J-Lo? [Link]
* The National’s new album, High Violet, will be released on May 11 [Link]
* Wooden Birds (the new band from Andrew Kenny of American Analog Set) has released a free EP [Link]
* Far performed an acoustic version of a song from their upcoming album [Link]
* Stream the debut album from Broken Bells [Link]
* Stream Peter Gabriel’s new all-covers album, Stratch My Back (and download the Bon Iver cover for free) [Link]
* Download a song from the new Minus The Bear album, OMNI [Link]
* Band Of Horses will release their new album, Infinite Arms, on May 18 [Link]
* Stream the new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach [Link]
* Nada Surf released the first song and the tracklisting for their covers album, If I Had A Hi-Fi [Link]
* Stream the new Cursive single, Discovering America [Link]
* Watch Freelance Whales perform live in a studio [Link]
* Download the song Thieves from She & Him’s upcoming album, Volume Two [Link]
* John Mayer recorded a cover of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Inner City Blues’ [Link]
I haven’t posted any music related links in quite some time, so I have a lot of them. I’m going to post a few things individually, but here is almost everything that was noteworthy to me from the past few months:
* Radiohead played a benefit show for Oxfam’s Haiti relief [Link]
* The National have a new album coming out in May [Link]
* Thom Yorke is working on a Peter Gabriel cover [Link]
* Nada Surf are releasing a covers album and going on tour [Link]
* The Weakerthans are releasing a live CD/DVD [Link]
* Grade released a new single [Link]
* Angels & Airwaves released the first single from their new album (free download) [Link]
* Nine Inch Nails is going to release new material in 2010 [Link]
* Flight Of The Conchords (the TV show) is over [Link]
* Phoenix performed some acoustic songs on the streets of Paris. These videos are great. [Link]
* She & Him released the album art, the tracklisting, and the first song from Volume Two [Link]
* Pitchfork posted photos from a Spoon/Vampire Weekend/Phoenix show. The thought of seeing these three bands together makes me light-headed. [Link]
* Small Brown Bike did an interview with Punknews.org prior to playing The Fest 8 [Link]
* Lovedrug recorded some new songs and put them up on Myspace [Link]
* Death Cab For Cutie covered Simple Minds at the Critics Choice Movie Awards [Link]
* Filmmakers Unartig put together an At The Drive-In retrospective [Link]
* Sufjan Stevens talked about the 50 States Project [Link]
* Radiohead are recording for their next album [Link]
* Thom Yorke and Damien Rice are contributing new songs to the soundtrack for When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun [Link]
* Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes did an interview with Pitchfork [Link]
* Vampire Weekend played MTV Unplugged [Link]
* Matt Berninger of The National talked about their new album [Link]
* Angels & Airwaves plan to digitally release their next album, Love, for free on February 14 [Link]
* Peter Gabriel’s new album, Scratch My Back, is an all-covers album. Stereogum has his version of Flume, originally by Bon Iver, for stream and download. [Link]
* Phoenix performed an acoustic cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands’ [Link]
* Mike Kinsella (Owen) did an interview with Punknews.org [Link]
* Unartig also did a Hot Water Music retrospective [Link]
* Sufjan Stevens discussed his future in music [Link]
* Bon Iver played his last show for the foreseeable future on October 11. You can download the whole show from this link. [Link]
* Death Cab For Cutie performed live for NPR. [Link]
