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Broken Social Scene revealed the tracklist and preorder details for their upcoming album Forgiveness Rock Record today. Amongst the different preorder configurations (all of which include membership plans to their fan club), a vinyl boxset was revealed. The $125 boxset will feature seven 10″ 180 gram vinyl discs and is limited to a run of 100.

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Recently, we reported that LCD Soundsystem was preparing to release their next LP in May, but yesterday, we got word of the still-untitled album’s track names. Check it out below:

Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk Girls
One Touch
All I Want
Change
Hit
Pow Pow
Somebody’s Calling Me
What You Need

Murphy has also commented that the album is 65 minutes long, yet it spans nine tracks. Impressive.

Danger Mouse (nee Brian Burton) teamed up last year with Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous) and film director David Lynch to collaborate on an interesting project which brought together tons of big names, such as Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, The Flaming Lips, and James Mercer of The Shins (and now Broken Bells, Mercer’s new band with Burton). That giant collaborative effort came to be known as Dark Night of the Soul.

Although the details were pretty ambiguous at the time, EMI couldn’t release the album, but accompanying books were sold. Each book came with a blank CD-R, indirectly instructing the buyer to download the album from file sharing sites.

If there was a dispute between Burton and EMI, it has since cleared up, because EMI has agreed to officially release Dark Night of the Soul this year, “hopefully [...] in June or something like that,” according to Burton.

The uberpowerful major label recently released this official statement: “We can confirm that EMI are working with Brian Burton AKA Danger Mouse again, and are delighted to be doing so.” –EMI

I suppose this is good news, especially for people who still love physical formats. Look out for Dark Night of the Soul this summer on EMI.

(BBC 6Music News)

“Freak folk” sister act CocoRosie released their previous three LPs with Touch and Go Records, but seeing as the label downsized last year and stopped releasing new material, CocoRosie was left without a label to call home. Yesterday, news arose that the legendary Sub Pop label has signed sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady and will release their forthcoming album Grey Oceans on May 11.

While CocoRosie have released a few singles and EPs in the past several years, Grey Oceans will serve as a proper follow up to 2007’s The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, which was punctuated with hip-hop beats and lusher psychedelic influences, a departure from the minimalism found on their earlier albums, Noah’s Ark and La maison de mon rêve.

Not much in the way of information has been released yet, but at least we have the track list:

Grey Oceans

Trinity’s Crying
Smokey Taboo
Hopscotch
Undertaker
Grey Oceans
R.I.P. Burn Face
The Moon Asked the Crow
Lemonade
Gallows
Fairy Paradise
Here I Come

(The Music Slut)

Brooklyn rockers The Hold Steady have today announced the release of their fifth album Heaven Is Whenever, the follow up to 2008’s Stay Positive.

The news comes shortly after former keyboardist Franz Nicolay announced he would be leaving the band.

The press release on the band’s official website reads:

“The album was produced by Dean Baltulonis, who engineered the band’s ‘Almost Killed Me’ and produced ‘Separation Sunday,’ and was recorded at Dreamland Recording Studios in Upstate NY and Wild Arctic Studios in Queens, NY, with mixing also happening at Wild Arctic.

Singer Craig Finn says ‘Heaven Is Whenever’ is about “embracing suffering and finding reward in our everyday lives.” Piano and keys take a backseat to guitar on the new record, which also gets production help from guitarist Tad Kubler.

Recorded in several smaller sessions spread out over a long period of time, the songs on ‘Heaven Is Whenever’ received the benefit of being tested on the band’s recent tours. As Finn says this allowed them to “see what was working and what wasn’t. I believe this record benefits from us working at a more deliberate pace.”

The album is due out on May 4th in the USA via Vagrant Records and a day earlier in Europe on Rough Trade.

The track list of Heaven Is Whenever is:

01. The Sweet Part of the City
02. Soft in the Center
03. The Weekenders
04. The Smidge
05. Rock Problems
06. We Can Get Together
07. Hurricane J
08. Barely Breathing
09. Our Whole Lives
10. A Slight Discomfort

The Hold Steady are also embarking on a tour encompassing much of North America in April and May, before heading to Europe in June. Dates are below.

April 2nd – Ardsley, NY, LIFE the place to be
April 3rd – New Haven, CT, Toad’s Place
April 5th – South Burlington, VT, Higher Ground
April 6th – Northampton, MA, Pearl Street
April 7th – Albany, NY, Linda Norris Auditorium
April 8th – Woodstock, NY, Bearsville Theater
April 9th – Jermyn, PA, Eleanor Rigby’s
April 10th – Syracuse, NY, The Westcott Theater
April 12th – Rochester, NY, The Club at Water Street Music Hall
April 13th – Cleveland, OH, Beachland Ballroom
April 14th – Pittsburgh, PA, Diesel Club Lounge
April 15th – Morgantown, WV, 123 Pleasant St.
April 16th – Harrisburg, PA, Appalachian Brewing Company
May 5th – Los Angeles, CA, El Rey Theatre
May 6th – San Francisco, CA, The Fillmore
May 29th – George, WA, Sasquatch Festival
June 12th – Newport, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Festival
June 14th – Paris, FR, Fleche D’Or
June 21st – Amsterdam, NL, Melkweg
June 22nd – London, UK, HMV Forum
Jun 26th – Manchester, UK, Academy 2

Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is preparing to release his sixth studio album, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, which has varied release dates of March 23 (Canada), April 5 (U.K.), and April 20 (U.S.). The album will draw inspiration from Shakespeare and the 1929 film Pandora’s Box. The track titles have been revealed on Wainwright’s official site.

Who Are You New York?
Sad With What I Have
Martha
Give Me What I Want And Give It to Me Now!
True Loves
Sonnet 43
Sonnet 20
Sonnet 10
The Dream
What Would I Ever Do With A Rose?
Les Feux D’Artifice T’Appellent
Zebulon

If you are in the U.K., you can catch Wainwright during the month of April:

April 2010 U.K. Tour
Tue 13th LONDON at Sadler’s Wells
Thu 15th GLASGOW at Royal Concert Hall
Fri 16th EDINBURGH at Usher Hall
Sat 17th SHEFFIELD at City Hall
Mon 19th GATESHEAD at The Sage
Tue 20th BIRMINGHAM at Symphony Hall
Thu 22nd MANCHESTER at Apollo
Fri 23rd BRISTOL at Colston Hall
Sun 25th NOTTINGHAM at Royal Concert Hall
Mon 26th OXFORD at New Theatre
Thurs 29th IPSWICH at Regent Theatre

Scottish dance punk group Franz Ferdinand released their third LP, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, last year to reception considerably more tepid than that of their first two blockbusters, 2004’s self-titled debut, and 2005’s Alexander Rodchenko-inspired You Could Have It So Much Better. Despite the large gap between LPs two and three, it seems the band is already preparing new material. In an interview with the BBC, frontman Alex Kapranos discussed writing sessions that had taken place at the house of the band’s guitarist, Nick McCarthy. “We’ve been writing some things, and trying to do things in a different way again,” Kapranos said.

The band is also now wary of press and promotion as a means of building up false hype. “Before the last record, I talked far too much about it as we had the ideas and I made a vow that I wasn’t going to say anything about what we are actually doing until we’ve done it, and then wait about another three weeks,” Kapranos added. So don’t expect some kind of iamamiwhoami build-up, then.

Franz Ferdinand are headlining the Future Music Festival in Australia which begins in Brisbane on February 27.

Months ago, when MGMT announced they were working on the follow-up to their highly successful album Oracular Spectacular, they told fans to expect more experimentation on their forthcoming sophomore effort. We have since learned that the album has been given the title of Congratulations (Is it meant to be as self-congratulatory as it seems?), and new details have been revealed through an exclusive interview with Spin.

For starters, the album was mostly inspired by surfing, but it also lifts inspiration from Lady Gaga and the world economic crisis. These sorts of themes don’t exactly seem like they could go hand-in-hand with more experimentation.

But wait–Andrew VanWyngarden, one half of the duo, has previously told New York magazine that the track “Brian Eno” is “kind of a vampire-punk-rock song about finding Brian Eno in like a cathedral in Transylvania.” He also recently told Spin that “Siberian Breaks” is “like eight different songs strung together into one, and the general theme is about surfing in the Arctic Circle by Russia.” Those ideas are a bit more likely to coincide with their promises of experimentation, even if they do seem a little ironic.

However, VanWyngarden assures, “We dropped any sort of irony that was on the first record, and Congratulations feels true to who we really are.”

Perhaps they really will surprise us on this next album. Look for its release via Columbia Records on April 13.

Tracklist for Congratulations:

01 It’s Working
02 Song for Dan Treacy
03 Someone’s Missing
04 Flash Delirium
05 I Found a Whistle
06 Siberian Breaks
07 Brian Eno
08 Lady Dada’s Nightmare
09 Congratulations

Just when you thought electronic musician/neodandy Daedelus couldn’t get any more historical, what with his wardrobe’s references to the Victorian period and all, think again.

His forthcoming album, Righteous Fists of Harmony, is an opus dedicated to the Chinese Boxer Rebellion and its resistance fighters who shared their name with the title of this album:

Daedelus endeavors to compose a requiem for the end — of beliefs, of lives, and of an era. This elegy for a bygone battle sheds light on our own contemporary conundrum: will our faith in modernity be our downfall? Are we blinded by this age of wonders, doomed to be destroyed by our ingenious inventions? Although Daedelus’ music has always juxtaposed organic and electronic elements, they war as never before on “Righteous Fists of Harmony,” a portrait of a tumultuous era that came crashing to a close.

The tracklist is below, along with a Fantasia-like teaser video featuring Long Lost member and Daedelus’ wife, Laura Darlington, who will contribute vocals to a track on the album. The music in the background is a clip of “Fin De Siècle,” the final track on the LP.

1. An Armada Approaches
2. Tidal Waves Uprising
3. The Open Hand Avows
4. Order Of The Golden Dawn (featuring Laura Darling)
5. The Finishing of a Thing
6. Succumbing To (featuring Kid A)
7. Stampede Me (with Amir Yaghmai)
8. Fin De Siècle

Daedelus “Righteous Fists of Harmony” from DestroyRockMusic Inc. on Vimeo.

While Daedelus’ albums are typically released through Ninja Tune, Alpha Pup, and various other indie labels, this album is to be released on Brainfeeder, the new label fronted by hip-hop/electronica producer Flying Lotus.

(Prefix Mag & Brainfeeder)