valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Another great week of new releases, checkit:

• Adele - 19
• Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement
• The Beach Boys - U.S. Singles Collection Box (16 Discs)
• Ben Sollee - Learning To Bend
• The Charlatans UK - You Cross My Path
• Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be
• The Fratellis - Here We Stand
• Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
• Joan as Policewoman - To Survive
• Johnny Cash - The Complete Sun Masters
• Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
• Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
• Mono In VCF - Mono In VCF
• Morrissey - The Lowdown Unauthorized
• My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
  
• N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds
• Ponies In The Surf - See You Happy
• The Pretenders - Packed!
• Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard Is Off to Business
• Sloan - Parallel Play
• Solomon Burke - Like A Fire
• Styrofoam - A Thousand Words
• Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
• Wooden Shjips - Volume 1

What else is out there on this alarmingly hot week?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Pretty sweet week for releases, definitely makes up for last week:

• The Accidental - There Were Wolves
• Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
• The Cool Kids - Bake Sale
• Ed Harcourt - Beautiful Lie
• Fleet Foxes - S/T
• The Futureheads - This Is Not The World
• Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
• Jaguar Love - S/T EP
• Ladytron - Velocifero
• The M's - Real Close Ones
• Matmos - California Rhinoplasty EP
• Oppenheimer - Take The Whole Midrange And Boost It
• Philip Glass - Waiting For The Barbarians (Box Set)
• Radiohead - The Best Of
• Shearwater - Rook
• Stars Like Fleas - Ken Burns Effect
• Subtle - Exiting Arm
• The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
• The Virgins - S/T
• Weezer - S/T (The Red Album)

Happy June. What else is out there and new today?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Feels like a Monday but it's already Tuesday, here are today's new releases:

• Al Green - Lay It Down
• All The Saints - Fire On Corridor X
  
• John Hiatt - Same Old Man
• Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
• Mogwai - Young Team
  
• Ozric Tentacles - Sunrise Festival
• Spiritualized - Songs In A&E (Import)
  
• Walter Meego - Voyager

Hmm, not so much a huge week for releases it appears. What else is there?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

One of our most anticipated albums of the year drops today, hooray for Islands:

• Blackstrap - Steal My Horses and Run
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
• Donna Summer - Crayons
• The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind
• The Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop And Roll
• French Kicks - Swimming
• Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!
• Islands - Arm's Way
• Mason Jennings - In The Ever
• Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
• Mudhoney - Lucky Ones
• Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
• Sybris - Into The Trees
• The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
• The Wedding Present - El Rey
• Windsor for the Derby - How We Lost

Some great offerings, but what have we missed?

valentine's day The Secret Life of Sofia - Seven Summits Out Today

valentine's day When we last checked in with The Secret Life of Sofia, they assured us the release of their debut full-length Seven Summits was "semi-imminent". And after weeks of hand-assembling 500 limited edition copies, they've emerged from their impromptu sweatshop to announce that as of today the wait is officially over!

To get your mitts on one of the limited edition copies, you have several options. Firstly, you can head over to their site right HERE and have it shipped to you for $12 (includes shipping).

OR, if you're like us and have one of those semi-fetishist collection compulsions, lead singer/guitarist Kyle Wilson tipped us off that the lower-numbered copies (they are all hand-numbered after all) are currently stocked at Etherea and Sound Fix (and he assures us that #1 of 500 is on the shelves at Etherea) for $8.

And of course, the band will also be selling copies at all future live shows for $10, their most recent string of dates listed after the jump along with some interesting info about the inspiration behind Seven Summits....

valentine's day a glimpse inside the TSLOS sweatshop during the hand-packaging process
Wilson posted a MySpace bulletin late last night/early this morning detailing the stories and characters behind the songs on the album. As he writes:

"All of the stories on Seven Summits are at least partly true. Some are completely true, and were told to me firsthand. Some are more like historical fiction. All of them, I hope, are respectful to the parties involved, most of whom I have great admiration for.

The idea of writing the album Seven Summits first came to me on a climb of Long's Peak in Colorado. The experience was life changing, and I soon became intoxicated with the drive to climb more peaks. I also became fascinated with the stories I was hearing from other climbers and reading in books.

So it's a limited edition, hand-numbered concept album? Shoot, we like where this is going.....

Listen:
"Outside"
"Fifty Fourteeners"

See also:
- The Secret Life of Sofia - new record, two brand new MP3s, live dates
- The Secret Life of Sofia @ The Delancey - 26 February 2008
- StereoactiveNYC/Hot Rocks Official CMJ Showcase - 20 October 2007 @ The Delancey
- The Muggabears, The Secret Life of Sofia, Mancino, Nous Non Plus @ Pianos - 12 May 2007
- EAR FARM Presents... at Sin-e - 29 June, 2006

See The Secret Life of Sofia Live:
16 May - New York, NY @ Rehab (Crashin' In)
30 May - New York, NY @ The Delancey
05 Jun - Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands Gallery
20 Jun - Harrisonburg or Charlottesville, VA @ TBA
21 Jun - Washington, D.C. @ The Velvet Lounge
22 Jun - Philadelphia, PA @ M Room
27 Jun - Lehigh Valley, PA @ TBA
04 Jul - Brooklyn, NY @ The Yard

Visit The Secret Life of Sofia on MySpace.

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

This weeks best and brightest:

• Acid Mother's Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Recurring Dream and Apocalypse
• The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
• Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
  
• Dosh - Wolves and Wishes
• Duffy - Rockferry
• Iron Maiden - Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of 1980-1989
• Local H - 12 Angry Months
• Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity
• The Presets - Apocalypso
• The Secret Life of Sofia - Seven Summits
  
• The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
• T Bone Burnett - Tooth of Crime
• Tobias Froberg - Turn Heads
• Vetiver - Thing of the Past
• We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
  

What else is coming out this week?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Not counting NIN's release of The Slip yesterday, voila: this week's new releases:

• Animal Collective - Water Curses EP
• Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Momofuku
• Four Tet - Ringer
• The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
• The Long Blondes - Couples
• Lykke Li - Little Bit EP
• Matmos - Supreme Balloon
• No Age - Nouns
• Pattern Is Movement - All Together
• The Republic Tigers - Keep Color
• Russian Circles - Station
• Shy Child - Noise Won't Stop
• Tim Fite - Fair Ain't Fair

What else has caught your eyes/ears?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Kicking off May, behold this week's new offerings:

• Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines
  
• Bombadil - A Buzz, A Buzz
• Boris - Smile
• Constantines - Kensington Heights
• Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - Roll With You
• Heloise & The Savoir Fare - Trash, Rats and Microphones
• Jamie Lidell - Jim
• Joy Division - The Best of Joy Division
• Langhorne Slim - S/T
• Madonna - Hard Candy
• Mudcrutch - S/T
  
• Portishead - Third
• Robyn - S/T
• The Roots - Rising Down
• Santogold - S/T
• South - You Are Here
• Zappa Plays Zappa - S/T

Tis the week for self-titled albums? What else is out there?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

This week's new releases:

• Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
• Blind Melon - For My Friends
• Clipse - Re-Up Gang: The Saga Continues
• El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars
• Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
• Frauke - Dirtier Than Horses
  
• The Jealous Girlfriends - The Jealous Girlfriends
• Jukebox the Ghost - Let Live and Let Ghosts
• The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement (Import)
• Monotonix - Body Language EP
• The Replacements - Hootenanny (Reissue)
• The Replacements - Let It Be (Reissue)
• The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (Reissue)
• The Replacements - Stink
  
• Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

What else?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Kinda so-so compared to last week's offerings:

• Black Francis - Svn Fngrs
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
• Does It Offend You Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
• Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
• Joseph Arthur - Crazy Rain
• The Kooks - Konk
• M83 - Saturdays = Youth
• The Plastic Constellations - We Appreciate You
• The Silver State - Cut and Run

What have we missed/overlooked for this week?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

This week rules, plain and simple:

• The Breeders - Mountain Battles
• Clinic - Do It!
• Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live!
• Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
• Dark Meat - Universal Indians
• The Duke Spirit - Neptune
• Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP
• Foals - Antidotes
• Jim Noir - Jim Noir
• Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild
• The Long Blondes - Couples
• Man Man - Rabbit Habits
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
• Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV (cd & lp)
• Peter Moren - The Last Tycoon
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
• Spanish Prisoners - Songs To Forget
• Spoon - Don't You Evah (EP)
• Tapes 'n Tapes - Walk It Off
• Wye Oak - If Children

Best week of '08 so far? What says you?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Lots of names coming out for April Fools Day:

• Annuals - Wet Zoo
• The Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects For Musicians
• The Black Keys - Attack & Release
• Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears - Flight of the Knife
• Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster
• Ministry - Cover Up
• Moby - Last Night
• Mono in VCF - Mono in VCF
• R.E.M. - Accelerate
• Rolling Stones - Shine A Light (soundtrack)
• Sun Kil Moon - April
• The Sword - Gods of the Earth
• Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
• Van Morrison - Keep It Simple

What else?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

The Raconteurs are causing a bit of a fuss this week, aren't they?:

• The B-52s - Funplex
• De Novo Dahl - Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound
• Elf Power - In A Cave
• Excepter - Debt Debt
• Ghostface Killah - The Wallabee Champ
• Helvetia - The Acrobats
• The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (Collector's Edition)
• Morrissey - Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition)
• Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
• Pennywise - Reason to Believe
• Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
• The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
• Randy Newman - Leatherheads (Movie Soundtrack)
  

Any week bookended with the B-52s and Randy Newman has got to be pretty good, what else though?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

If SXSW hasn't made you sick of listening to music yet, here are some NEW releases:

• Adam Green - Sixes & Sevens
• Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
• Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
• The Kills - Midnight Boom
• Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
• Dodos - Visiter
• DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling
• Neon Neon - Stainless Style
• She & Him - Volume One
• The Teenagers - Reality Check

What else?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Not too too much this week, eh?

• Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Eleventh Hour
• Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
• Presidents of the United States of America - These Are The Good Times People
• Why? - Alopecia

Help us out, what else is new and noteworthy?

valentine's day Three for Free - Miss Kittin, The Gutter Twins, White Hinterland

EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted each week. This week - three from this week's new releases. Click on the artist name to go to their site, click on the song name to listen to the song.

Listen:
Miss Kittin - "FFF fff"

The Gutter Twins - "Idle Hands"

White Hinterland - "Dreaming of the Plum Trees"

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

The Malkman cometh!

• Bauhaus - Go Away White
  
• Born Ruffians - Red Yellow & Blue
• The Black Crowes - Warpaint
• Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
• Chatham County Line - IV
• The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
• Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend
• Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
• Miss Kittin - Batbox
• The Ting Tings - Great D.J.
• Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo
• White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory

All in all, a very solid week. What else?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

It's all about Beach House this week:

• Beach House - Devotion
• Ghostland Observatory - Robotique Majestique
• Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
• Tift Merritt - Another Country
  

What am I missing? What else is good?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Wowza, this week is stacked with EF Band of the Week alums (check out the first four), good stuff...

• The Big Sleep - Sleep Forever
  
• Graveyard - Graveyard
• Pete & the Pirates - Little Death (Import)
• Throw Me The Statue - Moonbeams
• Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
• Cryptacize - Dig That Treasure
• The Epochs - The Epochs
• Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
• Heavenly States - Delayer
• Kula Shaker - Strange Folk
• Megafaun - Bury the Square
• Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious
• The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
• No Kids - Come Into My House
• The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
• Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe

Lots to choose from here, what else?

valentine's day Today's NEW Releases

Perhaps by now you've deduced we're particularly excited for the BSP album:

• British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
• Michael Jackson - Thriller (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
• The Two Man Gentleman Band - Heavy Petting
• Widespread Panic - Free Somehow
• Smashing Pumpkins - American Gothic (Import EP)
  

What else looks good this week?