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This Week's New Album Releases (5/3/11)

Two of the nine albums we chose to highlight this week are actually box sets, but with a 9.0 rating, one of today’s new releases approaches instant classic....  read more

12 May Albums Worth Checking Out

For much of the U.S., this was a rough winter. But spring has more going for it than budding flowers and baseball games. May is packed with some great new music. We’ve highlighted a dozen albums we’re particularly looking forward to....  read more

Super Furry Animals Frontman Gruff Rhys Announces Solo Album, U.S. Tour

Gruff Rhys has announced that his next solo album, Hotel Shampoo, will be dropping in North America on May 3, followed by a string of U.S. tour dates starting later that month. The Super Furry Animals frontman will be on the road in Europe until March 19, but starts the North American leg of the tour in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 18....  read more

Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys Records with Instrument-Inventing TV Repairman

Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys met Tony Da Gatorra (pictured above), a Brazilian TV repairman, while in South America making a road trip movie called Seperado!. Though the two men didn’t speak the same language, they began rehearsing together for a live show in Sao Paulo. “We spent five days rehearsing a set of songs to play live at the venue—our only shared language was music itself so there was no small talk, just intense concentration on the music,” Rhys recently told Spinner. “On the final day, as the rehearsals had been so productive, we hooked up some recording...  read more

SFA's Gruff Rhys involved in Brazilian zombie rock opera

Gruff Rhys may be a Candylion, but he recently partnered with a pair of Brazilian artists who hunger for something a little more sinister than sugary sweets: BRAINS! OK, maybe Diego Medina and Desirée Marantes don't want to literally consume anyone's grey matter; they're more interested in worming their way into the ears of horror/music fans across the globe with their ambitious Zombieoper collaboration. After discovering that they shared an interest in both at-home recording and the undead, Medina and Marantes brainstormed Zombieoper—a bizarre, lighthearted rock opera about zombies who exhaust the cerebral-cortex supply on Earth and have to...  read more