Pet Shop Boys – Love etc. [stream AudioPorn FM]
What a way to start a new week here on APC! Pet Shop Boys
are back! The new album Yes is due later this year (end of March) and it'll see the boys rub shoulders with good ol' Johnny Marr himself, who apparently co-wrote several of the tunes on the new album.
Digitalism are back. And as a prelude to their next album release, you can participate in a remix competition and remix the first completed track of the new album, "Taken away". Read more and download stems here.
For one week only (starting from today) you can hear The Verve‘s new album Forth in its entirety via their official myspace page. Release date August 25 (UK) August 26 (US). If you like what you heard pre-order the CD from Amazon 
This is not the latest buzz, but we been dead when this was fresh. As huge Motörhead fans we must spread the world and keep reminding you that the mighty Lemmy Kilmister of rock ‘n’ roll overlords Motörhead is being further immortalised with his very own rockumentary. Simply, it’s called Lemmy: The Movie and is due for release at some point in 2009. It features interviews with friends, peers and fans such as Dave Grohl, Slash and Alice Cooper
talking about the man with the handlebar ‘tache rumoured to have bedded
over 2,000 women. Rumours such as that are said to be confirmed or
denied in this film. Watch the trailer. [via Trash Hits]
Earth, Wind & Fire appears likely to follow the Eagles and Journey in making its next album exclusively for a major retailer.
Frontman Philip Bailey tells Billboard.com that the group, which like those two bands is handled by Azoff Music Management, is planning a three-disc package like Journey’s recent "Revelation."
The set, which EWF hopes to release in mid-2009, is expected to include a CD of original material — its first since "Illumination" in 2004 — a live CD and a concert DVD.
"(Management) has done this twice with (the Eagles and Journey, both via Wal-Mart) and they’ve expressed interest in doing this with Earth, Wind & Fire," Bailey says. "That’s the new thing today, so we’re taking a template out of that whole thing. We have a history and a catalog and everything, so you don’t have to ‘break’ us. We’re still viable. Now, they’re able to make really good deals and make more money for (the acts), so it’s a pretty good day for us old guys." [read more @ Billboard]
Look around in your own country. Have you ever had a First Lady who released albums? None? Yeah, I thought so.
Carla Bruni aka Mrs Sarkozy is the First Lady of France, just in case you didn’t know. She was a songwriter and musician before she became First Lady. She has a new album out. Hmm. We can’t say anything about it because we only care about her naked photos, but thank god Jon Henley from the Guardian listened it already. He says – The new album from the French first lady contains many surprises, not all of them pleasant – and he continues – The hardest part about listening to Carla Bruni’s new album is somehow erasing from your memory that woman in the demure, dove-grey Dior coat, flat shoes and little black hat who had us all swooning back in March. You know, the one who dropped such a beautiful curtsey before the Queen, and allowed a starstruck Prince Charles to bend and kiss her hand. France’s new first lady, Madame Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
When she sings, in Je Suis une Enfant, that she remains a little girl "despite my 40 years, despite my 30 lovers", for instance, that doesn’t exactly sound what you might call presidential. Nor, you might say, in Ta Tienne, do the lines: "Let them curse me, I don’t give a damn/ I who made men dance – I give myself to you, entirely." – [read more @ Guardian]
The one and only Grace Jones readies her first new album in 19 Years!!! The Hurricane will be out this Fall and includes appearances by Tricky & Brian Eno. Here is the tracklist:
Corporate Cannibal
The Key To Funky
Hurricane
Devil In My Life
This Is Life
Love You To Life
William’s Blood
Keeping Up With The Jones
The very first video from Hurricane is the Corporate Cannibal.
Scary, sexist dark fetish. We <3 it BIG time.
The Dandy Warhols will release their sixth album, ‘Earth To The Dandy Warhols’, on August 18 – but are streaming clips of the album online now.
Fans can hear the album on Dandywarhols.com now. Users who join the band’s subscription service, which costs $34.99 (£17.60) to join, can download the album now and will receive a CD copy of the album between now and the album’s official release date.
The album is their first for the band’s new record label, Beat The World Records. Mark Knopfler and The Heartbreakers’ guitarist Mike Campbell both guest on album track ‘Love Song’. [NME]
Lat week saw The Verve’s forthcoming new single Love Is Noise receiving
its world exclusive first play on Radio One. If you missed it you can
hear it now online via the bands official myspace page. You will be also able to download an exclusive new Verve track for free
from midday on Monday 30th June. Titled Mover, this track will not
appear on the band’s forthcoming new album, and will only be available
from the official Verve website – theverve.tv.
The download will only be available for one week.
