FN News Roundup: April 23, 2012

Cat Power @ Webster Hall, 8/26/11

Hey everyone! Thanks again for coming through to our 1st Anniversary Party over the weekend, and special thanks to EULA, Grandfather, The Barrens, ZZZ's, Liquid Light Lab, and Fontana's Bar  for everything they did to make it kick so much ass. More goodness to come soon, but in the meantime, have a whole ton of news!

• At long last, Cat Power will be releasing her new studio album, Sun, on September 11 via Matador Records! (Stereogum)


• Meanwhile, her contemporary Fiona Apple is building up to the release of her own long-awaited new studio album, The Idler Hand... (out June 18 on Epic), with the LP's first official single. Stream "Every Single Night" after the jump! (FADER)


• With Hole back in the public eye recently for cool and not-quite-so-cool reasons, a new clip of former frontwoman Courtney Love and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain surfaced over the weekend: a duet entitled "Stinking Of You" (Consequence of Sound)


• Despite the rain and subsequent cold here in NYC, summer is definitely right around the corner, as heralded by the release of the Central Park Summerstage lineup featuring Kurt Vile, Alabama Shakes, Gary Clark Jr. and more (BrooklynVegan)


• Finally, bask in some of the limited edition bounty from this past weekend's Record Store Day with new singles and B-sides from St. Vincent, Beach House, Sigur Ros, and Animal Collective (All Via Pitchfork)

FN News Roundup: March 20, 2012

Happy Spring, true believers! We've got a glut of great news to share today, check it:

• Oh yes. As foretold by the seers, Neil Young And Crazy Horse will be releasing their new LP Americana on June 5. The legends' first new album since 2003's Greendale AND the first to feature the full Crazy Horse lineup since 1996's Broken Arrow will be a full-on American folk tribute with tracks like "This Land Is Your Land" and "Oh Susannah" (Rolling Stone)


• Tickets for Hot Chip's 2012 summer shows are on sale!!!!! (Hot Chip)


• Check out the video for "Adult" from Ceremony's very awesome new LP Zoo below (Matador)


• Stream Sharon Van Etten's Tramp B-Side "Life of His Own," and then catch her on Conan later on tonight! (Pitchfork)


• Questlove of The Roots continues to be a total badass by curating Shuffle Culture at BAM, a two-night (April 19 & 20) musical experience featuring Reggie Watts, Deerhoof, & more! (BAM)


• Sub Pop will be fully rocking Record Store Day (April 21) with a limited edition blue vinyl 7" of rare & unreleased Beach House tracks, an artist sampler, and much more. You can pre-order Beach House's new album Bloom (out May 15) to get it on limited edition white vinyl. Good times, guys (Sub Pop)

Listen: Pinback -- "True North" (Record Store Day Release)

Hey kids, hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving mini-vacation! A good portion of that likely consisted of you being inundated with Black Friday / Cyber Monday marketing messaging urging you to buy shit you likely don't need now immediately NOW, but there were indeed some really cool gems under the surface of all that.

For example - as part of Record Store Day, cult favorite San Diego rockers Pinback released part 2 of their Information Retrieved 7" trilogy, which is intended to hold us over until they f*&king finally release the full-length follow-up to 2007's Autumn of the Seraphs. And because the Internet exists, you can now listen to its A-side, "True North," after the jump; in typical Pinback fashion, it's gorgeous and awesome and making me antsy for everything to come. (Cheers to Stereogum for the heads up.)

The Flaming Lips Releasing A Collaborative Track Compilation On Record Store Day

Wayne Coyne and Rivers Cuomo activating Wonder Twin powers at PNC over the summer.

In what is surprisingly not at all weird news from The Flaming Lips camp, frontman Wayne Coyne announced in an interview with Billboard that the band is planning to release a compilation of all of their most recent collaborative tracks on the next Record Store Day. These collaborations include artists like Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, and Lightning Bolt, with other collaborations planned for the future with Death Cab For Cutie (huh?), Nick Cave (cool!), and Ke$ha (what the shit).

Check out one of the songs they did with Neon Indian, "Is David Bowie Dying?" (he'd better not be), below, as we await news of a 48-hour Flaming Lips track released on a microchip in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean. Totally not outside the realm of possibility with these guys.

There won’t be a second part to Radiohead’s The King of Limbs

When Radiohead released The King of Limbs in February, announced only 4 days before its release, there was almost instant speculation that it was just part one of a double album. Radiohead fans apparently are a bunch of conspiracy theorists. But despite releasing two new songs this Saturday for Record Store Day, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien is still squashing those rumors. You can read his official statement over at NME.

The Record Store Day release (a limited edition vinyl) contains songs “The Butcher” and “Supercollider,” both of which were from The King of Limbs sessions, but were subsequently left off the album’s release. The songs have apparently already leaked. You can read our picks for this Saturday’s annual Record Store Day exclusive releases here.

In other Radiohead news, Pitchfork reports that Radiohead is auctioning off items to raise relief funds for Japan.

Fucking Nostalgic Record Store Day Highlights

Record Store Day, now in its fourth year of existence, is a celebration of those wonderful little stores that actually still sell physical music (shocking, I know). Merchants around the country (some 700 participants) take part in selling exclusive Record Store Day releases, and many of them hold in store events. This year, RSD takes place this Saturday, April 16th. If you're a collector, and in New York City, it's a great day to stock up and spend some cash. Here are some highlights Fucking Nostalgic have deemed awesome.

Superchunk to reissue Here’s Where the Strings Come In for Record Store Day

Influential indie band (and Merge Records masterminds) Superchunk will be reissuing their 1995 studio album Here’s Where the Strings Come In for this year’s Record Store Day (4/16). The album, which has apparently been out of print forever, will be available on 180-gram vinyl (with mp3 download of course) and has been remastered from the original reel tapes. Also on the release will be acoustic demos from the album’s sessions in addition to a live performance from at 2003 Superchunk show at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. You can read more about it here. I caught Superchunk live back in September, and it was one of the more memorable shows I had been to last year, so a live recording of them is certainly a treat.

Nostalgic will be listing this year’s most nostalgic Record Store Day releases and events (there’s a lot) in preparation for this Saturday. Be sure to check back for that.