+++ 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.
+++ Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater) have teamed up teamed up for a band project called Blue Water White Death. Their self-titled debut album will be released on October 12 from Graveface (via Pitchfork) +++
+++ Download three really great remakes/-mixes by YACHT (“Nausea” is a cover of a song by the punk band X [here]), Salem (“Hologram” is a remix of a song by These New Puritans [here]) and Morgan Geist (who did a gorgeous remix of Tracey Thorn‘s “Why Dows The Wind Blow” [here]) +++
+++ A small musical suggestion first: Check out Prince of Assyra, a pretty interesting Swedish singer/songwriter Riku introduced me to a few days ago. Click here for his Myspace page +++
+++ There’s a new video by Ali Love directed by Trevor Jackson (Playgroup). I don’t like it, although the song is great. Anyways, I thought I’d keep you updated. You find it here on BIGSTERO +++
+++ Tracey Thorn has posted the song “Oh, The Divorsces” as a free download on her website. It’s going to the opener of her upcoming album “Love and its Opposite” (which is going to be released in May) +++