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Yay! Best of 2008 Lists! Ok, so I found out Hail Mega Boys was released in '07, but I'm leaving it on the list anyway.

1. Annuals - Such Fun (Red Ink)
2. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) (Earthology / Rebel Group)
3. J. Roddy Walston & The Business - Hail Mega Boys (Morphius)
4. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
5. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
6. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)
7. Slow Runner - SHIV!
8. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale (Chocolate Industries)
9. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E (Universal / Spaceman)
10. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals (Illegal Art)

Nick Cave sure is busy these days. After the critically acclaimed release of Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (accompanied later by a little book) and a tour filled year, Cave has announced plans to release a new book entitled The Death of Bunny Munro. This will be, of course, his second work of fiction after releasing And the Ass Saw the Angel in 1989.

Fire, death, the soul, drugged-up bliss: Jason Pierce, the force behind Spiritualized, navigated his favorite heavy topics at Metro on Monday, but even during the deepest of lyrical explorations Pierce remained composed, hidden behind sunglasses, standing in profile to the crowd.

The buzz and short attention spans I spoke of in Day One, and the newfound diversity heralded in Day Two, these things imploded upon each other the final hours of Sunday, with one holy rockness middle ground rising up from the rubble.  

The moment can be pinpointed actually, if you were to witness Les Savy Fav’s punk-maestro, Tim Harrington, careen his bald dome into a city garbage can, demanding the crowd hoist him, and his new stage, into the air so he could finish his song.

Post-set comment from a fan:

Dude wanted up, like Oscar the Grouch, towards the sky! Easily the most zenith of any rock and roll moment I have ever witnessed.

It's like a bad sitcom plot. He's a working-class musician from Jersey with millions of fans across the world. They're semi-obscure city musicians from the '70s who were routinely booed off stage. This summer, watch as one attempts to cover the other...to hilarious results! Check your local listings.

Has it really been almost five years since the last Spiritualized record? Sure, Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman) has kept busy recording soundtracks to beautiful-looking, idiosyncratic indie films and touring the world a bit, but five years without a mind-expanding, heroin-use-referencing, orchestra-arranging Spiritualized record is at least three years too long.

In a match made in a version of heaven where everyone is depressed (hell?), Spirtualized frontman Jason “Spaceman” Pierce and director Harmony Korine—the latter known for the feel-good indie hits Kids and Gummo—have teamed up for the director’s latest, Mr. Lonely. Joined by the Sun City Girls, J. Spaceman and Co. provide the soundtrack to Korine's first foray back into feature films since penned the script for 2002's Ken Park, which never received U.S. distribution and was banned in Australia for all kinds of graphic sex. Mr. Lonely centers around a Michael Jackson impersonator in Paris who stumbles upon a commune of other celebrity impersonators including Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe. We can't make this stuff up, folks.

According to the film's press release, the music created by the Sun City Girls and Pierce "conspires in an exquisite corpse-like fashion—without knowing what the other was doing, they've each brought half a body to the film, supplying the apparitional and austere sounds of a world in which everyone is something they're not—i.e., the people they dream of being."

The soundtrack drops on April 22 and the film is currently only playing in select arthouse cinemas in London.

Tracklisting:

1. “Michael’s Opening” (dialogue)
2. Jason Spaceman - “Blues 1″
3. Jason Spaceman - “Blues 2 (Intro)”
4. Sun City Girls - “3D Girls”
5. Jason Spaceman - “Panama 1″
6. Sun City Girls - “Spook”
7. Jason Spaceman - “Garden Walk”
8. Sun City Girls - “Steppe Spiritual”
9. Jason Spaceman - “Pope in the Bath”
10. “Nun’s Prayer” (dialogue)
11. Sun City Girls - “Mr. Lonely Viola”
12. Sun City Girls - “Beryl Scepter”
13. “Red Riding Hood’s Hangman” (dialogue)
14. Jason Spaceman - “Stooges Harmonica”
15. “Father Umbrillo’s Broken Nation” (dialogue)
16. Jason Spaceman - “Musicbox Underwater”
17. Sun City Girls - “Circus Theme”
18. Sun City Girls - “Vine Street Piano”
19. Jason Spaceman - “Paris Beach”
20. Sun City Girls - “Farewell”

Related links:
MisterLonely.co.uk
Spiritualized on MySpace
Sun City Girls on MySpace

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Back when Spiritualized last graced us with an album and tour, George W. Bush was president, the San Antonio Spurs were NBA champions, and a CD cost only $15. Okay, so it's only been four years. But for those who twitter with excitement every time band leader Jason Spaceman's foot touches an effects pedal, we have big news for you.

The group has finished work on its follow-up to 2003's Amazing Grace, which should see widespread release some time next year. In the meantime, Spaceman and Co. has scheduled a handful of American dates. Even though it's a brief schedule so far, the trek has its own name: the "Acoustic Mainline Tour." Spiritualized.com promises music from the catalogues of "Spiritualized, Spacemen 3 and others." What's more, there will be strings and gospel singers to complete the rapturous experience. Wow!

Ladies and gentlemen, Spiritualized is floating in America:

November
11 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Bimbos
12 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Vista Theater
13 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Vista Theater
16 - New York, N.Y. @ The Apollo

Related links:
Spiritualized on MySpace
YouTube: Spiritualized - "Come Together"
Spiritualized forums

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