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Spiritualized Announce Spring Tour

Spiritualized Announce Spring Tour

Spiritualized are set to make a return in April behind their upcoming Sweet Heart Sweet Light. In support of that album, the band will embark on a U.K. and North American tour starting in March.   read more

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Spiritualized to Release New Album

Spiritualized to Release New Album

Jason "J. Spaceman" Pierce, the mastermind behind space-rock outfit Spiritualized, recently revealed he's preparing to release his seventh studio album under this moniker, and his first since 2008's Songs in A&E. The new album is titled Sweet Heart Sweet Light and is slated to be released on Mar. 19 in the U.K. (a U.S. release is planned for March, but an exact date is yet to be announced).  read more

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Watch About Group's New Video "You're No Good"

Watch About Group's New Video "You're No Good"

Pitchfork reports that About Group, a band we first wrote about nearly a month ago that’s comprised of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, This Heat’s Charles Hayward, Spiritualized’s John Coxon and Pat Thomas, have released a video for the song “You’re No Good.”...  read more

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Hot Chip + This Heat + Spirtualized = About Group

Hot Chip + This Heat + Spirtualized = About Group

Two years ago, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor teamed up with Charles Hayward (This Heat), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) and Pat Thomas to form About Group, recording an improvised record together. Recently, the supergroup returned to the studio and have announced plans to release their new album Start and Complete this April....  read more

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Step Out Into The Light: Fourteen Covers Of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You In The End"

Step Out Into The Light: Fourteen Covers Of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You In The End"

What is it about this song? Like almost all the music of Daniel Johnston (whose first album in six years, Is And Always Was, came out last week), it's so much more massive than the sum of its parts—just this man and his springy guitar and wavery, unsteady voice. But the words are so reassuring, so deeply comforting, promising us something that we all really want to be true, that it's really hard not to love it. And that, paired with its astounding simplicity (it ain't no "Stairway to Heaven," that's for sure), makes it ripe for the covering. Here...  read more

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Staff Picks - Nate Douglas (music sales director)

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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 &...  read more

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Staff Picks - Mark DiCristina (production coordinator)

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I like to believe that there's a certain objectivity to my list. Maybe you don't agree, but that's just because you don't know what you're talking about. 1. Deerhunter - Microcastle2. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles3. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago4. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E5. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III6. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea7. M83 - Saturdays=Youth8. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes9. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In the Light10. Subtle - ExitingARM...  read more

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Nick Cave writes book, curates/headlines Aussie ATP

Nick Cave writes book, curates/headlines Aussie ATP

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....  read more

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Live Review: Spiritualized @ Metro 9/8

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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. ...  read more

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Pitchfork Fest '08 Day Three: Lights & Music

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(Tim Harrington plays music, really. Courtesy of Jeremy Farmer)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,...  read more

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