Read & Listen

The new album of the Canadians Broken Social Scene is coming in May, for now there’s a song, World Sick, given out for free, i.e., for a subscription on their site.

The Knife will release a new album, Tomorrow, In A Year, on March 1, 2010. Gloomy and eerie sounds are an opera, built on nothing else but Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of the Species.” Wild nature as is.

Read & Listen:
Tomorrow, In A Year

October 6 a new album by French dreamers Air, Love 2, will be released on Astralwerks. The minimix is already available for listening.

Air // Love2 mini-mix by Stayloose

Stones Throw offers (a one-week only) free download of Koushik’s new album, “Beep Tape”. The review coming soon!

Koushik - Beep Tape

Geoff Barrow of Portishead is releasing an album with his new project Beak on October 17. For now, you can listen (and buy) on the official site. And here’s a dense, thick video:

DiS gave another mention of Sigur Ros. These guys have all the reasons to celebrate, anniversaries and all… There’s an exclusive track for download, Hafsól (live)

All the details of the album titled ágætis byrjun are here.

And the video:

nýja lagið from sigur-ros.co.uk on Vimeo.

Импровизированный диджей-дуэт (если слово “диджей” употреблять в очень размытом смысле) в составе я и Сергей Вовк в ближайшее воскресенье, 21 июня, будет ставить музыку в киевском клубе “44″. По случаю открытия фотовыставки Юли what_dou.

Все 24 hour party people, или c-5-до-9-вечера-party-people искренне приглашаются.

Charlie Cooper, one of Telefon Tel Aviv, died. His friend and bandmate Joshua Eustis wrote on their Myspace blog:

It breaks my heart to inform you all that Charlie Cooper, my better half in Telefon Tel Aviv, passed away on January 22nd.

We have been friends since high school, and began making records together a decade ago. We have been so fortunate to tour the world together, while at the same time having a massive amount of laughs at one another’s expense.

More details here

Telefon Tel Aviv recently had a great album out, Immolate Yourself.

Zooey Deschanel, a wonderful actress and singer (of She & Him) and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie are engaged!

Great indie couple!
(Volk also mentions this.)

Source:

“I bring my stuff with me, but lots of times I lose a bunch of stuff. Like, people are putting it in the garbage… it’s quite weird to have material that everybody thinks is just garbage.”

Volker Bertelman told Wired how he prepares his piano, what the public thinks of him, and what he thinks of the public. And there’s a link to Hauschka’s iTunes podcast.

How To Mod a Piano: The Hauschka Interview