current news that makes me happy

I just heard another track off the upcoming Clap Your Hands Say Yeah release, Some Loud Thunder. It's called Yankee Go Home and is one of the many wonderful songs featured on Uncut Magazine's February 2007 CD:

The Hold Steady – Chips Ahoy!
Saint Thomas – Into Your Deep
The View – Wasted Little DJ’s
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3
Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Yankee Go Home
Ray LaMontagne – Be Here Now
David Vandervelde – Nothin’ No
Pentangle – The Snows
Gruff Rhys – Beacon In the Darkness
Jamie T – Livin’ With Betty
Alasdair Roberts – Where Twines The Path
Tinariwen – Cler Achel
The Shins – Black Wave
Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Emerald Tendrills

Damn fine selection, no? I just can't believe that Some Loud Thunder has not leaked yet... only 9 more days 'til the pre-order MP3 download is available... but I'm very impatient for this one. :)


After 21 months of touring, We Are Scientists have started working on their sophomore album. Singer Keith Murray states: "It is going to mix the actual music of Editors with the actual lyrics of Arctic Monkeys and the three-part harmonies of the Eagles". :) Now if they'd only release Crap Attack here in the U.S....


Arcade Fire has made available the first single from their upcoming album, Neon Bible. You can hear Black Mirror at arcadefire.com by clicking on Win's Scrapbook. Great tune. I don't think there's an official release date yet, outside of March/April 2007.

Edit: Neon Bible will be released in Europe on March 5, and in the US & Canada on March 6. Also, here is the tracklisting:

01 Black Mirror
02 Keep The Car Running
03 Neon Bible
04 Intervention
05 Black Wave Bad Vibrations
06 Ocean of Noise
07 The Well & The Lighthouse
08 Antichrist Television Blues
09 Windowsill
10 No Cars Go
11 My Body Is A Cage

Finally, Josh Ritter is playing Letterman this Friday, January 12. w00t!