It’s getting super exciting with the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach out NEXT FRIDAY March 5!!!!

They’ve posted a new song online called ‘Superfast Jellyfish’ featuring Gruff Rhys and De La Soul at www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UtbrbsrjY

AND they’ve announced the first video from the new album Stylo will premiere on YouTube at 4pm next Tuesday. Mighty Murdoc remembers, “Someone was chasing me through the desert! Luckily I had my camera crew following me and they captured it all on film, so I’ve cut it up and stuck it back together for my Stylo video! That’ll learn me not to leave the safe, toxic, isolated haven of Plastic Beach…”

They’ve also revealed a little more here

Pre-order the album now on iTunes, JB Hi-Fi or Sanity!

Spoon’s video for Written In Reverse (from the new album Transference) is doing my head in… are they playing in a studio fitted out with mirrors a la Arcade Fire photo shoots or is it simply cinematic trickery??

The video was directed by the amazing Danny Clinch, who is usually makes a crust as a music photographer, shooting the likes of Johnny Cash, Springsteen, Tupac, The Smashing Pumpkins, Blind Melon, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, and Björk. Occasionally though, he dabbles in film-making, and by the result below, he should keep it up!

Spoon’s Transference is available from iTunes and cute boys in indie record stores now.

JET are releasing their new single Seventeen in Australia first. Personally my favourite track of their album Shaka Rock.

Chris Cester, JET’s drummer and singer (how he does both at once is beyond me!) told us about the writing of this song:

Shaka Rock is out now.

The 4th single from the rap-pop motormouth who loves to tell a story shows a softer side to this British lad who proves he can sing and write beautiful lyrics If you thought you knew Jamie T take a listen to Emily’s Heart from Kings & Queens. It also comes with a super sweet video featuring a young fella who could be a young Jamie.

ohhhhh cute!

The digital 1-track will be released March 12 and there will be an iTunes 2-track the same day

Also Triple J have just confirmed that Jamie’s Live At The Wireless recorded at this years Falls Festival will be airing on March 8…so for all those who danced in the rain (me being one of them) and for all those who just love Jamie tune in

Our friends over at Moshcam have a vertiable treasure trove of concerts on their site. And, they have damn fine taste, we might add. The Decemberists first ever headline show in Australia was filmed for posterity on January 19th at Sydney’s Metro Theatre and is now live on Moshcam for your midday or midnight Decemberists fix.

Highlights? On the Bus Mall – a nostaglic favourite. The Rake’s Song – multiple percussionists and a sprawling narrative that if you think too much about becomes unsettling. And of course, a cover of The Go Betweens Bye Bye Pride. Colin and co. know their audience.

This is RAD.

Faith No More opening up Chinese Arithmetic with Lily Allen’s Fuck You - live at the Hurricane Festival at Scheeßel in Germany.

In Wes’s (of Wes’s Music Soapbox fame) immortal words: “One of the greatest band that ever was, and greatest singers of our generation.”

Man, TV is just getting crazy. I love it.

Who would’ve ever thought that Alex James from Blur would be singing Opera on a reality TV show with Meatloaf as the judge???

Did someone just turn the heat up?? …Cos it’s getting kinda steamy in here. Logic is one sexy tune, and the video does it justice.

The band collaborated with director Price James, who also directed Just a Song About Ping Pong (plus clips by Fiery Furnaces, Florence and the Machine, and Peaches).
The treatment emphasised styling, design, sleekness… and hot pink lips!

Remember that Operator Please are dishing out their upcoming album Gloves on cassette tape! If you get in early that is… You can pre-order 3 different versions:

• Standard – CD album of Gloves… but signed!
• Deluxe – Signed Gloves album + an exclusive cassette tape of OP remixes and demos.
• Premium – Signed Gloves album + an exclusive cassette tape of OP remixes and demos + an OP tote bag.

If you’re super enamoured of the single, you can order Logic on 7″ vinyl too!