As mentioned previously, The New Pornographers will be releasing their new album, Together on May 4. You can pre-order it today from Matador Records. Preorders come with a poster and a 7″ of the band covering three songs from the Detroit psych-pop band Outrageous Cherry. The first single, “The Crash Years” is available today via iTunes.
Before we get to that epic list of tourdates, here’s one of the tracks Outrageous Cherry tracks that will be on the 7″ for all pre-orders:
Mark Linkous, the man behind Sparklehorse and one of the men behind the Dark Night Of The Soul record that this blog loves so much took his own life, Saturday, at the age of 47. The New York Times has an informative obit here.
He will be missed.
In a bitter twist, we have also learned from this BBC article that the Dark Night Of The Soul album may finally be headed for record store shelves in June of this year. The unspecified problems with EMI have apparently been resolved. I’ll be sure to keep you posted.
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Update:
Great piece from Robin Hilton at NPR Music.