Alright kids, time to give you the first Music Ticker of 2011.
+++ Last night, D.I.Y blog Neon Waves posted the new single by Patrick Wolf. The City shows signs that Patrick Wolf is ready for happy times and new boys. We’ll see what happens when Lupercalia drops in May.
+++ 2011 will start with new records by Hercules and Love Affair (“Blue Songs”), MEN (“Talk About Body”) and Toro Y Moi (“Underneath The Pine”). All records will be out in January / February and as you can see above will have nice cover artworks (MEN cover via Expatriarch, Toro cover via XLR8R) +++
+++ Kim Ann Foxman has recorded a free mixtape for The Fader, which includes both her Mr.Intl songs “Creature” and “What You Need”. The tape has been uploaded on Soundcloud by DIY, click here for the original source and the playlist.
+++ Barbara Panther is going to release her “Empire E.P.” on September 10th. The record was produced by Matthew Herbert. You can stream it here, it’s pretty exciting stuff I think +++
+++ This is Fever Ray‘s cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street” (unfortunately no longer downloadable). Click here if the Soundcloud doesn’t appear in the post on your blog reader.
+++ I’ve recently fallen in love with “Congo Cut Cut”, a completely crazy track produced by Young Cream (picture on top), a side project of Salem‘s Jeff. Here it is:
+++ Since Yesterday José Gonzales’ band Junip ist giving away their new E.P. “Rope and Summit” for free on their website, you only have to leave your Email. Click here +++
+++ If you haven’t seen the yet: Check out the new videos by Robyn (“Dancing on my Own”, here) and CocoRosie (“Lemonade”, here) +++
+++ And some more free stuff: Download songs by Ali Love (“Love in Darkness”, via BIGSTEREO), Light Asylum (“A Certain Person”, via Young Creature), Toro Y Moi (“Leave Everywhere”, via Pitchfork) and a whole bunch of songs of a British electro-songwriter called Neave (via Soundcloud) +++
+++ Here comes the awesome video by an awesome band called Male Bonding (via Riku):