New Album Out March 9
First Single “Stylo” Available January 26
April 18 Coachella Headline Slot Confirmed

20 January, 2009 – Plastic Beach the new album from Gorillaz, will be released by Virgin on 9 March, 2010.

The album is preceded by first single Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack) which will receive its radio broadcast premiere tonight and will be available for download January 26.

When reached with news of the leak that pushed up the premiere of the “Stylo” single, Gorillaz bass god Murdoc Niccals ranted via Twitter http://twitter.com/MurdocGorillaz: “A leak! A leak! Plastic Beach has sprung a leak! One of those Russian pirates has put a bullet hole in my island! My single’s leaked! STYLO!”

Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc and co. return with Plastic Beach. The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity. This Plastic Beach is the furthest point from any landmass on Earth; the most deserted spot on the planet.

The world’s biggest animated band, Gorillaz formed in 1998, and have since sold 12 million copies over two albums Gorillaz (2000) and Demon Days (2005). They have hit number 1 in more than a dozen countries and picked up awards including Grammys, Novellos, VMAs and EMAs.

The Gorillaz’ return will be marked by a headline appearance at this year’s Coachella festival. The Sunday April 18 performance will be the first Gorillaz live spectacle on U.S. soil since the awe-inspiring Demon Days Live run in April 2006 at New York’s Apollo Theater.

Plastic Beach is produced by Gorillaz.

The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. Orchestral Intro (featuring Sinfonia ViVA)
2. Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. White Flag (feat. Kano, Bashy & The National Orchestra For Arabic Music)
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def)
6. Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul)
7. Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
8. Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
9. Some Kind Of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes (feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)
14. To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)
15. Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16. Pirate Jet

For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com

Sophomore Album out March 2 on Fat Possum
Pre-Order With Exclusive Handmade Bonus Gift Begins January 25 at:
Hologram Jams
Band Ready to “Rumble” with February Club Dates

Jaguar Love has confirmed the release date of its second album and first for new label partners Fat Possum. Hologram Jams, in stores March 2, 2010, is the first Jaguar Love album to feature the band’s stripped down and rebuilt from the ground up two-piece line up of Johnny Whitney (Vocals, keys, drum machines) and Cody Votolato (Guitars, vocals, drum machines), both formerly of the late, lamented Blood Brothers.

“Cody and I have always had a strong bond, both creatively and as friends – and working on this album together was the most productive, free flow of ideas I have ever been a part of,” said Whitney.

The album’s release will be preceded by a pre-order at http://fatpossum.com/products/hologram-jams starting Monday, January 25th, that will come with a special bonus: Johnny and Cody have hand-made a limited number of Jaguar Love wristbands that will be hand numbered, and will be included free with the pre-purchase of Hologram Jams.

Produced by the band and John Goodmanson and featuring a sound that combines soulful howls colliding with and coursing over relentless dance beats and heavy glam guitars, Hologram Jams is bursting with hooks. The complete track listing for the album is:

I Started A Fire
Polaroids And Red Wine
Cherry Soda
Don’t Die Alone
Up All Night
Jaguar Warriors
Everything Is Awesome
Evaline
Sad Parade
A Prostitute An Angel
Freak Out

Beginning February 1, the duo will headline The Rumble, a series of mostly West Coast dates at intimate venues, presented by Future Sounds and sponsored by the likes of WOXY, Noise Pop, Owl Magazine and many others. The Rumble dates are as follows:

February 1 – Seattle, WA – Havana Club
February 2 – Portland, OR – Holocene
February 3 – San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord
February 4 – Los Angeles, CA – Three Clubs
February 5 – Oceanside, CA – The Royal Dive
February 6 – San Diego, CA – Bar Pink
February 7 – Las Vegas, NV – The Aruba

For further information, contact Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com

AFI ADD NORTH AMERICAN DATES
On Sales Begin January 16 For March Run

By popular demand AFI has added a spring run of dates to its ongoing worldwide campaign in support of its recent Crash Love. The new dates, which go on sale January 16 (coincidentally the same day the current leg of the Crash Love tour kicks off at the Knitting Factory in Reno NV), will commence March 12 in Nashville and conclude with a March 19 appearance at new Orleans” House of Blues.

As mentioned above, all shows go on sale January 16 with the exception of New Orleans and Pensacola which go on sale January 23.

AFI”s new dates will follow a January run through much of western North America as well as a February 15-March 1 Japan/Australia jaunt. Following the conclusion of the newly announced March dates, the band will head abroad once more in April for a month-long UK/Europe tour. See below for a full listing of upcoming AFI dates.

Crash Love, the eighth full length AFI studio album, was released in September 2009 on DGC/Interscope. Preceded by the single “Medicate” and followed by customarily relentless touring, the record more recently rocked Alternative Press” year-end poll, landing in the editorial staff”s Best Albums of “09 casino list (“We were beyond stoked to see AFI get back to the business of being a punk rock band with a new age Morrissey as their frontman”) and their readers voting the band”s Jade Puget best guitarist.

For further information and updates on AFI touring, check back at afireinside.net

AFI LIVE 2010
New Dates in BOLD

01/16/10 – Reno, NV – Knitting FActory
01/18/10 – Boise, ID – Big Easy Concert House
01/19/10 – Missoula, MT – Wilma Theatre
01/21/10 – Spokane, WA – Big Easy Concert House
01/22/10 – Seattle, WA – Showbox Sodo
01/24/10 – Vancouver, Canada – Commodore Ballroom
01/25/10 – Portland, OR – Roseland Annex
01/27/10 – Fresno, CA – Rainbow Ballroom
01/28/10 – Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst
01/30/10 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theater
01/31/10 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues

02/15/10 – Osaka, Japan – Club Quattro
02/16/10 – Tokyo, Japan – Club Quattro
02/20/10 – Brisbane, AU – Soundwave Festival
02/21/10 – Sydney, AUS – Soundwave Festival
02/23/10 – Sydney, AUS – Big Top Luna Park
02/24/10 – Melbourne, AUS – Festival Hall
02/26/10 – Melbourne, AUS – Soundwave Festival
02/27/10 – Adelaide, AUS – Soundwave Festival
03/01/10 – Perth, AUS – Soundwave Festival

3/12/10 – Nashville, TN – Rocketown
3/13/10 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
3/15/10 – Jacksonville, FL – Plush
3/16/10 – Tampa, FL – The Ritz
3/18/10 – Pensacola, FL – Seville Quarter
3/19/10 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues

04/05/10 – Nottingham, UK – Nottingham Rock City
04/06/10 – London, UK – Brixton Academy
04/08/10 – Glasgow, UK – ABC
04/09/10 – Manchester, UK – Academy
04/11/10 – Newcastle, UK – Academy
04/12/10 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy
04/14/10 – Hamburg, Germany – Grosse Freiheit 36
04/17/10 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz
04/21/10 – Warsaw, Poland – Stodola
04/24/10 – Meerhout, Belgium – Groezrock Festival

2010 NORTH AMERICAN DATES ANNOUNCED
TONIGHT SHOW APPEARANCE CONFIRMED FOR JANUARY 19 TRANSFERENCE RELEASE DATE
NPR FIRST LISTEN FULL ALBUM STREAM LIVE NOW

On the eve of the January 19 release of its eagerly anticipated Transference, Spoon has announced the itinerary of its 2010 North American tour. The dates kick off with a March 17 headlining appearance at Stubb’s in Austin as part of the annual South by 000-577 Southwest conference, and include the band’s first ever headline engagement at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Transference, the seventh Spoon album and the first produced by the band itself, already has the media salivating in advance notices from THE NEW YORKER to MAXIM and all points in between. The record’s release is preceded by first single “Written In Reverse,” released earlier this month both digitally and to independent retail as a vinyl 7″ featuring non-album B-side “Mean Red Spider.” The album, which also includes Spoon neo-classics “Who Makes Your Money,” “Is Love Forever?” and “The Mystery Zone,” began streaming in its entirety today as an NPR First Listen at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122279793

Spoon will commemorate Transference’s release with a January 19 appearance
70-501 on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

For a full itinerary, see below and check back at Spoontheband.com for updates.

SPOON North America 2010

17-Mar Stubbs Austin, TX
18-Mar Republic New Orleans, LA
19-Mar Workplay Soundstage Birmingham, AL
20-Mar Tabernacle Atlanta, GA
22-Mar 9:30 Club Washington, DC
23-Mar 9:30 Club Washington, DC
24-Mar The National Richmond, VA
26-Mar Radio City Music Hall New York, NY
27-Mar House of Blues Boston, MA, USA
29-Mar Sound Academy Toronto, ON
30-Mar Royal Oak Music TheatreRoyal Oak, MI
1-Apr Aragon Ballroom Chicago, IL
2-Apr First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
3-Apr First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
5-Apr Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
6-Apr Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
7-Apr In the Venue Salt Lake City, UT
9-Apr Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
10-Apr Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
11-Apr Orpheum Theatre Vancouver, BC
13-Apr Fox Theater Oakland, CA

*Deerhunter direct support on all dates.
*New Orleans – Royal Oak w/ The Strange Boys
*Chicago – Oakland w/ Micachu & the Shapes

OLAF BRUENING TO BE FIRST FEATURED ARTIST VIRTUAL ART GALLERY JOINS RECORD CLUB, IRRELEVANT TOPICS, PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE AND OTHER EXCLUSIVE BECK.COM CONTENT http://www.beck.com/colorspace

Beck.com has unveiled the virtual art gallery Colorspace (http://www.beck.com/colorspace) as the newest of the site’s expanding array of exclusive features. Colorspace will serve as an online showcase for new visual talent, featuring new artists every month, and also making available limited edition T-shirts, prints, posters and more.

The first artist to be featured at Colorspace will be Olaf Bruening. Breuning’s artistic sensibility was developed, steeped in and informed by the music of Talking Heads, Eurythmics and Grace Jones, the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman, and the sculpture of Jeff Koons. He cites as influences everything from sci-fi to horror via Vikings and haunted houses. His photographs, installations, and films feature a recurring vocabulary; face-painting, eyeballs attached to inanimate objects, long cheap wigs, naked breasts or direct movie allusions.

Bruening’s most recent showcase took place this March at the Whitney Biennale in New York. Taking inspiration from one of the exhibition buildings, the 18th century Upper East Side Armory, he created an installation called The Army, consisting of 30 miniature metal soldiers with identical spherical bodies and different heads resembling sci-fi robots marching as if to war.

Beck.com’s current featured content includes Record Club’s third installation (Beck, Wilco, Feist and friends’ recording of Skip Spence’s Oar), Irrelevant Topics (unsupervised co-interviews between Beck and Will Ferrell, Tom Waits, and others), and the regularly updated Planned Obsolescence, Videotheque, and more.

For further information, check back at http://www.beck.com/colorspace hourly.BECK.COM PRESENTS OPENING OF COLORSPACE

First Single “The High Road” To Premier December 21 at Brokenbells.com

James Mercer and Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse have completed work on the first album by their new and ongoing band Broken Bells. The album, also titled Broken Bells, will be released by Columbia Records March 9, 2010.

The album features 10 melodically seductive and psychologically provocative songs co-written and performed by Mercer and Burton. Titles include “The High Road,” “Vaporize,” “Your Head Is On Fire,” “The Ghost Inside,” “Sailing to Nowhere,” “Trap Doors,” “Citizen,” “The Mall and Misery” and more.

Broken Bells features Mercer on vocals, guitars and bass while Burton plays organ, drums, piano, synths and bass. The pair play all the instruments on the album with the exception of a full string section arranged by Daniele Luppi. Broken Bells was recorded by Todd Monfalcone and Kennie Takahashi at Mondo Studio in Los Angeles and produced by Burton.

Each a long-time fan of the other’s work, Burton and Mercer first met face-to-face backstage at the 2004 Roskilde Festival in Copenhagen. The pair immediately hit it off and kept in touch over the prevailing half decade and in May 2008 seized the opportunity to finally collaborate on original music together. Once in the studio, the musical floodgates opened, an intuitive ease and seemingly ego-less telepathy producing an astonishing flow of new material over the course of a year. From more than 20 pieces of new music written and recorded, Broken Bells was assembled from 10 songs that coalesced together the most seamlessly.

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Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse has been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, as both an artist and a producer, winning two in 2006 — Best Alternative Music Album (St. Elsewhere) and Best Urban/Alternative Performance (”Crazy”) — for his work with Cee-Lo as Gnarls Barkley. Picked by Esquire magazine as one of the “75 most influential people of the 21st century,” Burton has previously collaborated with a range of artists including Beck, Gorillaz, the Black Keys and others.

James Mercer is best known as the founder, principle songwriter and frontman of the Shins. The Portland OR-based group’s massively successful third album, Wincing the Night Away, debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart in January 2007, becoming the highest charting album to have ever been released solely on the iconic SubPop label before its nomination for the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

Mercer and Burton previously worked together on the track, “Insane Lullaby,” a song appearing on the Dark Night of the Soul multi-artist collaboration with David Lynch.

Mercer and Burton will continue to work as a band in the future.

For more information, please contact Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man e: laura@nastylittleman.com

For online inquiries, please contact Arbell Camron at Sony Music
e: arbell.camron@sonymusic.com

Eagerly Awaited Prequel To “The Amory Wars” Tetralogy Slated For Release in April 2010 on Columbia Records

Deluxe Edition To Include 300+ page “Year of the Black Rainbow” Novel, Penned by Claudio Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling Author Peter David

Columbia Records is proud to announce the upcoming release of Year of the Black Rainbow, the heavily anticipated fifth studio album from Coheed and Cambria, the 21st century’s premier progressive rock band. Year of the Black Rainbow is slated for release in April 2010.

Year of the Black Rainbow will be made available in a deluxe package including a 300+ page prose novel of the same name, co-written by Claudio Sanchez and New York Times bestselling author Peter David, which promises to “tell the origins of Coheed and Cambria, and much more.” Presale information on the deluxe edition of Year of the Black Rainbow will be announced toward the end of December.

Year of the Black Rainbow provides the eagerly awaited prequel to the band’s four previous inter-related concept albums — The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) – which comprise “The Amory Wars,” the conceptual narrative driving the band’s lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez.

Through the group’s career, Coheed and Cambria have created consistently complex and challenging musical soundscapes to frame the psychological and narrative arcs of the band’s futurist mythic visions.

Year of the Black Rainbow is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to the Coheed and Cambria, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.”

Songs on Year of the Black Rainbow include “Here We Are Juggernaut,” “The Broken,” “Pearl of the Stars” and “Guns of Summer.”

In a post this week on the band’s website (www.coheedandcambria.com), Coheed and Cambria confirmed that “….the new album will be the ‘Origin Story’ or ‘The Prequel,’ and likely the final story of the ongoing concept story of ‘The Amory Wars.’”

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For more information on Coheed and Cambria, please contact:

Steve Martin or Amy Grote, email amy@nastylittleman.com

Benny Tarantini, Columbia Records, Media, New York, 212-833-5858
benny.tarantini@sonymusic.com

www.coheedandcambria.com

www.columbiarecords.com

TRANSFERENCE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT spoontheband.com, IN STORES JANUARY 19

“Written In Reverse,” the first single from Spoon’s eagerly anticipated new album Transference, is now available for purchase via iTunes. The song is also streaming free courtesy of NPR’s All Songs Considered (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120830261 ), who it inspired to predict that Transference “may be Spoon’s best record yet.”

“Written In Reverse” will be released January 5 to independent retail in a 7″ vinyl format featuring the non-album B-side “Mean Red Spider.”

Featuring a just-unveiled cover photo by William Eggleston (http://stereogum.com/archives/spoon_transference_cover_unveiled_102931.html ), Transference will be in stores January 19. The album is now available for pre-order with an exclusive Transference t-shirt at spoontheband.com. Pre-orders placed by December 15 will receive the unavailable-elsewhere T-shirt in time for the holidays.

Spoon will wrap up 2009 with a series of appearances at radio shows followed by a one-off headlining New Years Eve extravaganza with support from Jay Reatard at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater. For further information on upcoming Spoon shows, see below and continue to check back at spoontheband.com.

SPOON DEC. 2009-FEB. 2010 CONFIRMED DATES:
12/03/09 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
12/04/09 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
12/11/09 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
12/12/09 – La Jolla, CA – RIMAC Arena
12/31/09 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater

02/14/10 – Glasgow, UK – King Tuts
02/15/10 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
02/16/10 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom
02/18/10 – Amsterdam, Holland – Paradiso
02/19/10 – Cologne, Germany – Luxor
02/20/10 – Berlin, Germany – Frannz Club

The Time is Here, Enter THE CIRCLE and Stand Tall.

New York, NY (November 30, 2009) – It is with pride and honor that we (those who forged the circle) have devised a way that you (the Chosen One) can enter the sacred realm and fulfill your true destiny. Until now, Mars was in the house of Neptune’s second moon, and as such, you were prevented from journeying into this sacred cipher. Now, as worlds align, the chalice is within your grasp. Heed the omen, reach for the grail, let no man put asunder what has been ordained as yours. We await inside to break bread with you.

The meager sum of 150 bones will get you the next 10 DVD’s we release (about 1 a month, give or take…)

Why go out and risk catching swine flu? Your Christmas shopping is already done. Even Oprah recommends buying our DVDs as a holiday gift. Check this out: http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/food/partyplanning/pkgholiday/200912-omag-gift-dvds

DVD’s will arrive about a week before the street date. (Your friends will envy and covet your collection.)

If you are interested in our back catalog, you can buy previously released DVD’s at half price while you have the subscription. (Say what?!!??)

We know you’ll be satisfied with the result it will have on your constituency, and if not, at least you’ll have something to talk about at parties. You can slag us off and call us liars… that’s always fun.

This gift idea might not be right for the little ones, but we don’t ever release films that suck, at least none that we know of.

Adam Yauch, the Minister Of Information at Oscilloscope Laboratories commented” There’s a real void in the marketplace since Columbia Record club is no longer active, so we’re hoping to hire a staff of tens of thousands to call our valuable membership over and over again and harass them until they cry.”

The realm of trust seeks you, mount your steed and come hither!

About Oscilloscope Laboratories: Oscilloscope Laboratories is a film production and theatrical distribution entity launched in 2008 by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Yauch modeled the company after the indie record labels he grew up around, choosing films and then marketing them with the same artistic integrity with which they were made. The company, which is an extension of Yauch’s recording studio of the same name, has an in-house DVD distribution and production arm, and the paper packaging is reminiscent of the heyday of LP record jackets. All of the company’s DVD packaging is (free of any plastic) printed on FSC Certified 80% post-consumer waste paper and produced in a carbon neutral, hydroelectric, ISO-9001 and ISO-14001 certified plant. Other Oscilloscope theatrical releases include Yauch’s GUNNIN’ FOR THAT #1 SPOT, Irena Salina’s FLOW, Caroline Suh’s FRONTRUNNERS, Kurt Kuenne’s DEAR ZACHARY, Kelly Reichardt’s WENDY AND LUCY starring Michelle Williams, So Yong Kim’s TREELESS MOUNTAIN, the Academy-Award nominated THE GARDEN from Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Anders Ostergaard’s multi award-winning BURMA VJ, Nati Baratz’s UNMISTAKEN CHILD, and Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s NO IMPACT MAN. Upcoming releases include Lance Daly’s award-winning Irish film KISSES, the re-release of Jules Dassin’s classic THE LAW, Gabriel Medina’s offbeat comedy THE PARANOIDS, and Michel Gondry’s personal family documentary THE THORN IN THE HEART. Recent releases include Oren Moverman’s award-winning drama THE MESSENGER, starring Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster and Samantha Morton.

Contact for the Circle:
Lauren Schwartz, Oscilloscope Pictures:212.219.4029 x22, lauren@oscilloscope.net

TRANSFERENCE RELEASE DATE MOVED UP TO JANUARY 19
“Written In Reverse” Digital Single Out Dec. 1

Spoon has announced the first six dates of an extensive world tour in support of the band’s seventh album, Transference, now due out in the U.S. on Merge on January 19, 2010 and a day earlier in Europe on Anti-. See below for the full listing of dates.

U.S. tour dates will be announced as they are confirmed. At present, Spoon’s sole confirmed Stateside headline appearance is a one-off New Years Eve extravaganza at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee with Jay Reatard supporting.

Produced by the band, Transference will be preceded by first single “Written In Reverse,” which will be released digitally December 1. A seven-inch vinyl release will follow January 5 featuring the exclusive B-side “Mean Red Spider,” which will not be available digitally.

Transference is the first full length offering of new Spoon material since 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Spoon’s first Top 10 album with U.S. sales having since exceeded 300,000. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was hailed upon its release with the band’s biggest ever coverage in the likes of TIME and THE NEW YORKER, and wound up 2007 with year-end best of accolades from NPR, GQ, NEW YORK, ROLLING STONE, PITCHFORK, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, SPIN, THE ONION, PASTE and the WASHINGTON POST, while Oct. 6, 2007 marked the band’s debut appearance on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.

For further in formation, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com or check back at spoontheband.com

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SPOON February 2010:
14 Glasgow @ King Tut’s
15 Manchester @ Academy 3
16 London @ Electric Ballroom
18 Amsterdam @ Paradiso
19 Cologne @ Luxor
20 Berlin @ Frannz Club