Joanna Newsom’s 3rd album is titled Have One On Me and it’s set to be released around the world on February 23rd. It will be a triple album (available as both a triple CD and a triple LP.)
Her first two albums were 2004’s The Milk-Eyed Mender and 2006’s Ys.

The Hope For Haiti Now charity album debuted at #1 on the US album charts and made a bit of history by becoming the first digital download only album to make it to #1.
The album sold 171,000 copies to get the top spot. This is most impressive when you consider that it only became available […]

The Magnetic Fields’ Realism is their first album since 2008’s Distortion which hit #77 on the US album charts.
Four Tet’s There Is Love In You is Kieran Hebden’s first album in over four years (Four Tet is Kieren Hebden’s stage name.) His last full length album release was 2005’s Everything Ecstatic which charted at […]

Gorillaz fans should check out Gorillaz.com as there’s a lot of new stuff (including a stream of the new single “Stylo” featuring Bobby Womack & Mos Def) to check out over there with the group’s new album, Plastic Beach, coming out on March 9th in the US (the 8th in the UK.)

Some selected entries from this week’s billboard charts:
#01 Vampire Weekend - Contra
Is that a younger Britney Spears on the cover of this album? I haven’t heard this yet, so I can’t make any comments on the quality of the music. These days it’s quite unusual for someone other than a solo female act to reach […]

The line up for the three day Coachella music festival in Indio, California has been announced and it includes the following artists (and many more, go here for complete listings.)
Jay-Z, Gorillaz, and Muse are the headliners for each of the respective days of the three day festival but there are quite a few artists that […]

Among those releasing new albums tomorrow are Spoon, Editors, & Eels.
Spoon’s 7th album Transference is currently #5 on Amazon’s best selling music list.
In This Light and On This Evening was originally released by the Editors in October of ‘09 in the UK (their homeland) but it’s getting it’s official US debut (on CD […]

A new Jimi Hendrix album including previously unreleased recordings made from February to May 1969 is due out on March 9, 2010: Valleys Of Neptune.
The 12 song track listing includes some songs that just about every Hendrix fan will already be familiar with (including “Stone Free,” “Fire,” & “Red House”) but it also includes […]

Joanna Newsom’s third studio album (after 2004’s Milk Eyed Mender and 2006’s Ys) will be released on February 23. The title is Have One On Me.
Newsom begins a world tour on January 16 (that’s Saturday) beginning in Australia. She then makes her way to New Zealand & Japan. On March 12 she begins her North […]

Nine Inch Nails are finished as a touring band (their last show was on September 10, 2009) but Trent Reznor plans to continue the band as a studio only group.
On the NIN website Reznor wrote this:
“2010 has a number of things planned including new material from Nine Inch Nails and something else that isn’t […]