Bizarre album title, but overall, fantastic news! Here’s some more info on the new release as well as some tour dates below which are selling out fast!

Sufjan Stevens is set to release The Age of Adz, his first full length collection of original songs in five years, October 12 on Asthmatic Kitty Records. The album is available for pre-order now until September 25, with pre-orders receiving music digitally two weeks prior to the physical release date. The Age of Adz comes on the heels of Stevens’ All Delighted People EP, available for purchase now from most digital stores, and his 2009 film and musical suite The BQE. Stevens is planning a North American tour of large, elegant venues—including two nights at New York’s fabled Beacon Theatre and The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles—in support of the new record. With a dozen dates already sold out, Stevens will tour with his large ensemble performing alongside projections. See tour dates below. To pre-order album and for additional ticket information, go to www.asthmatickitty.com/sufjan-2010. continue reading...

There aren’t many details yet, but The Magnetic Fields will be releasing a new album on January 26th called Realism.  This will be the bands 9th full length album and first since 2008’s Distortion.  Check out the tracklist below and the band performing a classic tune from their back catalog. continue reading...

Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release The Fall, her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records on November 17, 2009. Jones wrote nearly all of the songs in the past two years since completing tours in support of her 2007 global chart-topping, U.S. double-platinum album Not Too Late. continue reading...

“…desperately exciting, frenetic, frightening stuff …deeply fascinating and intriguing, soaked in the blood and madness of some of today’s most bizarre and talented noise and experimental artists.” - Blogcritics continue reading...

Sick Puppies have just unveiled the album artwork for Tri-Polar, their second major label album, and follow-up to Dressed Up As Life. Tri-Polar will feature the anthemic single, “You’re Going Down,” which is being used as the theme song for the WWE’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view as well as “Street Fighter War.” The full track-listing can be seen below. Sick Puppies’ Tri-Polar can be pre-ordered on the band’s merch site, http://gomerch.com/sickpuppies/preorder/, before it hits stores on July 14th. continue reading...

 Not sure about this album art… but I am very curious to hear this new album. The first single will hit the internet January 19th. continue reading...

Britney Spears will be celebrating her twenty-seventh birthday this year with the release of her sixth studio album, Circus.  The highly anticipated album set for a December 2nd release features the # 1 hit “Womanizer” as well as collaborations with Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Danja, Guy Sigsworth (Madonna, Alanis Morissette) and more.  Britney recently had a triple win at this year’s MTV VMAs.  This year marks the 10th anniversary of her breakthrough debut Baby One More Time. continue reading...

Hear Thicke’s entire new album only on Myspace now.
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Nice to see Keane back on the scene. Here’s the new single off of their upcoming third album, Perfect Symmetry:

Grammy-nominated British trio Keane previews their third album, Perfect Symmetry, with the release of “Spiralling,” August 19, 2008.  The song will be available at all major online retailers.  The track was made available for free on the band’s website (keanemusic.com), and logged over half a million downloads in one week.  “Spiralling” was the #1 most added song on UK radio for its first week of release. continue reading...

For those aching to hear the pure, lonesome tenor from the Appalachian siren of modern country, the wait isover. With her first release in three years, Patty Loveless is back with her19th CD on a new label, Saguaro Road Records, formed in June 2008 by Direct Holdings Americas Inc. Direct Holdings also markets and sells audio and video entertainment products under the Time Life brand, which it uses underlicense from Time Warner Inc.

Produced with her husband and musical soul mate, Emory Gordy Jr., and backedby a Who’s Who of Nashville A-list session players, including Harold Bradley, John Hobbs, Hargus “Pig” Robbins, Harry Stinson, Steve Gibson and Biff Watson, with background vocals by Vince Gill, Sleepless Nights features14 titles that the pair culled from a pool of nearly 500 songs. This albumof classics celebrates the many facets of heartache that make country music the diary of the common man.
“Emory and I were talking over dinner about recapturing some of these moments from my youth,” Loveless explains, “because I want to inspire and remind people of what country is made of. It takes me back especially to mybrother, Roger, and my sister, Dottie, and the music they loved. continue reading...