Kings of Leon are set to release Come Around Sundown, the follow up to their massively successful Only By The Night on October 19th via RCA Records. The album’s first single is titled “Radioactive” and will be released Sept 13th. You can catch the song a week early by visiting their site on Sept 8th, which will air the music video for the single.

Come Around Sundown was recorded in New York at Avatar Studios and produced by Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King.

Come Around Sundown Tracklist:
01. The End
02. Radioactive
03. Pyro
04. Mary
05. The Face
06. The Immortals
07. Back Down South
08. Beach Side
09. No Money
10. Pony Up
11. Birthday
12. Mi Amigo
13. Pickup Truck

Although the sad end of summer approaches, not everything is as depressing as it seems. Austin, Texas’ The Strange Boys are beginning a month-long fall tour with Gentleman Jesse and His Men, giving fans of timeless rock n’ roll something to look forward to.

Comparable to the 13th Floor Elevators, the Strange Boys bring a sound to the year 2010 that is familiar to fans of psychedelic/garage rock n’ roll as well as incorporating new and current trends in this genre. Signed to In the Red records, it is easy to see how this band fits in well; the label is also home to Black Lips and Mark Sultan.

Opening for Gentleman Jesse and His Men, this tour seems to be one to follow if the lack of recent garage is getting you down. Having started their tour on September 2nd at the Saturn Bar in New Orleans, LA, the bands will be on tour until the 3rd of October, ending up in Memphis, TN. Dates can be found here on MySpace. For those of you who aren’t being graced with the presence of these bands in your hometowns, don’t fret; The Strange Boys formed in 2003 and have been on tour almost entirely since their formation, you’ll probably see them much sooner than later.

Caribou, music project of one Mr. Dan Snaith, have had a good year. The album Swim, released early this year, was a critical hit and they’ve toured the globe since, and they’re still going.

To celebrate all this Snaith is releasing a live album entitled Vibration Ensemble, which was recorded at The Flaming Lips-curated ATP New York last September. This was something of a special show because the band was bolstered to a 15-piece by guests including Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), Luke Lalonde (Born Ruffians), Koushik Ghosh (Koushik), a five piece horn section, four drummers and Marshall Allen, the leader of the Sun Ra arkestra.

This should be a very special and different album, and appropriately the release will be only on double vinyl and the album will be available only at Caribou’s shows. Accompanying the album will be a video of the show on DVD.

The tracklist for Vibration Ensemble is below.

A1. Every Time She Turns Round It’s Her Birthday
A2. Hendrix With Ko
B1. Sandy
B2. Skunks
C1. Barnowl
C2. Melody Day
D1. Brahminy Kite
D2. A Final Warning

To buy it you’ll have to see the band at one of these upcoming shows:

Summer Festivals:

Sept 03 Vlieland, Netherlands – Into The Great Wide Open
Sept 04 Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic
Sept 05 London, England – Offset Festival
Sept 09 Lille, France – Radar Festival
Sept 10 Berlin, Germany – Berlin Festival
Sept 11 Somerset, England – End of the Road Festival
Sept 12 Isle of Wight, England – Bestival

North American Tour:

Sept 14 Guelph, ON – Ebar ^
Sept 15 Ottawa, ON – Babylon ^
Sept 16 Montreal, QC – National ^
Sept 17 Toronto, ON – Phoenix ^
Sept 17 Toronto, ON – Drake Hotel [DJ SET]
Sept 18 London, ON – Lolafest
Sept 19 Boston, MA – Paradise & $
Sept 21 New York, NY – Le Souk [DJ SET]
Sept 22 New York, NY – Webster Hall &
Sept 23 Washington, DC – Black Cat &
Sept 24 Cincinnati, OH – Midpoint Music Festival
Sept 25 Urbana, IL – Pygmalion Music Festival (Canopy Club) &
Sept 26 Chicago, IL – Metro &
Sept 27 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue &
Sept 28 Winnipeg, MB – West End Cultural Centre &
Sept 29 Saskatoon, SK – Amigos &
Sept 30 Edmonton, AB – Starlite &
Oct 1 Calgary, AB – Republik &
Oct 3 Vancouver, BV – Vogue &
Oct 4 Seattle, WA – Showbox &
Oct 5 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom &
Oct 6 San Francisco, CA – Regency &
Oct 7 Los Angeles, CA – La Cita [DJ SET]
Oct 8 Los Angeles, CA – Music Box & %
Oct 9 Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouse &
Oct 11 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge &
Oct 12 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre &
Oct 14 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa !
Oct 15 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon !
Oct 16 Tallahassee, FL – Engine Room !
Oct 17 Tampa, FL – Crowbar !
Oct 18 Orlando, FL – Backbooth !
Oct 19 Miami, FL – Grand Central !
Oct 20 Mexico City, Mexico – Lunario [LIVE & DJ SET]
Oct 21 Guanajuanto, Mexico – Mutek/Cervantino Festival
Oct 23 Santiago, Chile – Festival Fauna Primavera
Oct 27 Sao Paulo, Brazil – Fourfest
Oct 28 Bogota, Colombia – Downtown
Oct 30 Asheville, NC – Moog Festival
Oct 31 Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle

European Tour:

Nov 03 Geneva, Switzerland – L’Usine
Nov 04 Montpellier, France – 34 Tours Festival
Nov 05 Torino, Italy – Club to Club *
Nov 06 Bologna, Italy – Locomotiv *
Nov 07 Lubiana, Slovenia – Kino Siska
Nov 08 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk +
Nov 09 Zurich, Switzerland – Abart
Nov 11 Lorient, France – Les Indisciplines
Nov 12 Amiens, France – La Lune Des Pirates
Nov 13 Luxemborg, Luxemborg – Exit 07
Nov 14 Leipzig, Germany – Central Theater +
Nov 15 Hamburg, Germany – Uebel & Gefaehrlich #
Nov 16 Heidelberg, – Enjoy Jazz Festival #
Nov 17 Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie #
Nov 18 Reims, France – La Cartonnerie #
Nov 19 London, England – Coronet @
Nov 20 Manchester, England – Warehouse Project @
Nov 21 Glasgow, Scotland – ABC @
Nov 22 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
Nov 23 Bristol, England – Thekla
Nov 24 Brighton, England – Coalition
Nov 25 Bucharest, Romania – MNAC
Nov 26 Utrecht, Netherlands – Le Guess Who Festival ~
Nov 26 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Trouw [DJ SET]
Nov 27 Brussels, Belgium – Autumn Falls Festival AB ~ =
Nov 28 Paris, France – Cabaret Sauvage =
Nov 29 Cologne, Germany – Gloria #
Dec 02 Budapest, Hungary – Godor +
Dec 03 Zagreb, Croatia – Teater ITD +
Dec 04 Vienna, Austria – Fluc
Dec 05 Frankfurt, Germany – Mouseoturm +
Dec 07 Minehead, England – ATP In Between Days
Dec 08 Liverpool, England – Kazimier
Dec 09 Dublin, Ireland – Crawdaddy
Dec 12 Barcelona, Spain – Sala Razzmatazz 2

^ with Russian Futurists
& with Emeralds
$ with Holy Fuck
% with Nite Jewel
* with Four Tet
@ with Four Tet, James Holden, Nathan Fake, Rocketnumernine
! with Arp
# with Mount Kimbie
+ with Barbara Panther
~ with Beach House
= with Junip

The video for “Fuck You” by Cee-Lo Green, one of our favourite songs of the year, has been released. For now you can only view it on facebook, by heading to the man’s official facebook page and clicking “Like.”

It features a child Cee-Lo singing and dancing with toy trucks, the real Cee-Lo, and a great song, so you’re going to want to check it out.

One of last year’s biggest critical successes, Bitte Orca, the seventh album from Brooklyn band Dirty Projectors, is to be rereleased in expanded form. The reissue will be two discs; the first consisting of the original album and the second will have 10 tracks that vary between live cuts, b-sides and Bob Dylan covers.

the tracklist for disc two is below.

Bitte Orca disc 2:

01. Fluorescent Half Dome (Live at Other Music)
02. Temecula Sunrise (Live at Other Music)
03. Two Doves (Live at Other Music)
04. Cannibal Resource (Live at Other Music)
05. No Intention (Live at Other Music)
06. Ascending Melody
07. Emblem of The World
08. Bitte Bitte Orca
09. Stillness Is the Move (Lucky Dragons Remix)
10. As I Went Out One Morning (Bob Dylan cover)

Domino will release Bitte Orca [Expanded Edition] on September 28th.

It seems a certain Mr. Sufjan Stevens is on something of a roll. Less than a week after releasing a surprise EP (if a 60 minute set of songs can truly be called an EP) he has now announced the release of his new album The Age of Adz!

Here are the important details about The Age of Adz: 1. “Adz” is pronounced “Odds.” 2. It is to be released on CD on October 12th and LP on November 9th. 3. If you pre-order either format right now from here you will receive an MP3 download of the full album on September 28th.

The official press release on Asthmatic Kitty’s website description tells us that

“the new album sounds nothing like the All Delighted EP (although it shares similar themes of love, loss, and the apocalypse). Nor is this new album built around any conceptual underpinning (no odes to states, astrology, or urban expressways).

We can say it shows an extensive use of electronics (banjos and acoustic guitars give way to drum machines and analog synthesizers), and an obsession with cosmic fantasies (space, heaven, aliens, love), to create an explicit pop-song extravaganza, augmented by heavy orchestration, and maybe even a few danceable moments. Enjoy Your Rabbit meets the BQE. But with songs. Verse, chorus, bridge, backbeat. Gated reverb. Space echo. Get your boogey on.

Try not being excited after reading that.

Sufjan has put out a few random songs and collections of songs in the last couple of years, but The Age of Adz is set to be the true follow up to his 2005 opus Illinois, so it has quite a lot to live up to. If anyone can fulfill the requirements it’s Sufjan, and we couldn’t be more excited, especially as it is effectively only a month until the album is set for release.

Tracklist:

01 Futile Devices
02 Too Much
03 Age of Adz
04 I Walked
05 Now That I’m Older
06 Get Real Get Right
07 Bad Communication
08 Vesuvius
09 All for Myself
10 I Want To Be Well
11 Impossible Soul

The insanely ambitious, and now annualized, 77 Boa Drums concert will be getting a proper DVD release this fall. Out September 7th on Thrill Jockey Records, the documentary will feature various Youtube videos along with the professional footage of Jun Kawaguchi and his crew.

Unfamiliar with the now three year old concert? Well 77 Boa Drum was a concert held in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, featuring 77 drummers all collaborating at the same time. The group included drummers for such bands as The Boredoms (whom the project was created by), Gang Gang Dance, Pixeltan, and Holy Fuck. You can check out the whole list over at the concert’s Wikipedia page. Maybe I’m just a bit of a percussion junky, but I’m really happy to see this concert on DVD. Enjoy the trailer below.

Following the release of their third album The Black Dirt Sessions, Deer Tick are heading out on the road to air their new songs in a live setting. Check them out if they’re coming to a town near you, dates below.

10/06 – Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
10/07 – Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
10/08 – Greenville, SC Fall For Greenville
10/09 – Auburn, AL Bourbon Street
10/10 – Birmingham, AL Zydeco
10/11 – New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks
10/12 – Houston, TX The Bronze Peacock Room
10/13 – Austin, TX Emo’s
10/14 – Laredo, TX Old No. 2
10/16 – Tempe, AZ Sail Inn
10/17 – San Diego, CA The Loft
10/19 – Los Angeles, CA El Rey
10/20 – San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom
10/21 – Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
10/22 – Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
10/23 – Bellingham, WA Wild Buffalo
10/24 – Seattle, WA Neumos
10/26 – Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
10/27 – Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
10/28 – Omaha, NE TBD
10/29 – Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club
10/30 – Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
11/02 – Washington, DC Black Cat
11/03 – Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church

A few weeks ago the first details of a new Brian Eno album to be released on Warp Records emerged. In fact those were the only details we had, but it was enough to cause some excitement; this is, after all, the Brian Eno we’re talking about.

Today Brian Eno’s site was updated with the full details of this new album, entitled Small Craft On A Milk Sea and you can see the beautiful sepia-toned desolate cover art above.

The album, which was recorded with other musicians Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, is being released on November 2nd in North America and 15th November in the UK.

There are several different packages to choose from. Aside from the usual CD or download option, for those who are true Eno fans there is both a Limited Edition and a Collectors’ Edition version. For the full details of what each package includes and to pre-order the album in whichever format takes your fancy head to the official Small Craft On A Milk Sea page now.

In an interesting cross-marketing move, upscale supermarket chain Whole Foods Market announced that they will kick off their new music project by streaming The Weepies’ upcoming release “Be My Thrill” on their website’s blog starting September 4th. Furthermore, starting Sept. 7th (a week after the album’s August 31st release date), “Be My Thrill” will be prominently displayed at checkout lines in Whole Foods stores. The promotion marks the first installment of the music promotion, with a new album getting the grocery spotlight each month.

Source: The Daily Swarm