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Out in the UK on Monday

Here's the decent stuff that's out in the UK on Mon Oct 2nd.

Singles:

Razorlight - "America" [Vid. By far the best song on the album.]

• Clinic - "Harvest" [Vid. 1st single from the new album.]
• The Vines - "Don't Listen To The Radio" [Vid. 1st single from the album.]
• Serena Maneesh - "Sapphire Eyes" [Vid. 2nd single from their album.]
• Bureau - "After Midnight" [7"only. The Manchester Killers.]

David Hasselhoff - "Jump In My Car" [Vid. Cover of the 1975 classic. What? You don't love it? haha]

Albums:

The Boyfriends - self-titled [Debut from English 4-piece.]

Cord - Other People's Lives... [Debut from English 4-piece.]

John Power - Willow She Weeps [His 2nd solo album.]

Mercury Rev - The Essential...The Weird Years 1991-2006 + Hello Blackbird soundtrack

On TV tonight (Friday)

On TV tonight, courtesy of The Late Night TV Page:

• Liar/idiot Bill O'Reilly and Snow Patrol on Jay Leno.
• The Yeah Yeah Yeahs on Jimmy Kimmell.
• Bob Costas, David Cross and Phoenix on Conan.
• Starsailor on Craig Ferguson.

Meanwhile I'll be seeing Mojave 3 at The Roxy tonight, and again on Sunday in Santa Monia at McCabe's.

Life don't get much better than that.

U.S. Chart Report

Here's the decent stuff that entered the U.S. charts today.

Billboard 200:

• # 94 DJ Shadow - The Outsider [9,553. I'm no huge fan of DJ Shadow, but have you heard "You Made It"? Chris James of Stateless sings on it and it's fantastic like A-ha.]
• # 117 Ben Kweller - self-titled [8,177]
• # 155 Kasabian - Empire [Stream. 6,020, sound Brandon is the winner! please email me.]

Heatseekers chart (artists who've never been in the top 100 of the big chart):

• # 37 Joseph Arthur - Nuclear Daydream [2,526]

"Electronic" albums chart:

• # 36 Electronic - Get the Message: The Best Of... [468]

These albums did not chart:

• The Cardigans -  Super Extra Gravity
• Mohair - Small Talk [Debut from Watford 4-piece.]
• Mosquitos - III [3rd album from Brazil-NY indie-poppers, now a 7-piece.]

FYI:

Jarvis' solo album ready to go

Jarvis Cocker's self-titled debut solo album will be released in the UK on Nov 13. No word on a u.s.  release date.

The tracklisting for the album does not include "[Cunts Are Still] Running the World" which is on his myspace. But the track does feature in the closing credits of the film Children Of Men, which is out in the U.S. Dec 29th. Obscure Sound has an mp3 of the track and the two songs from Harry Potter.

Jarvis will be playing a few shows around the release:

Dublin Point Theatre (October 4-5)
London Barbican Hall (21)
Paris La Cigale (November 12)
London KOKO (15)
London Roundhouse (16)

And in this week's NME he says:

"I've always liked people who mess up. I don't like career people - it doesn't seem very appropriate when it comes to music which is about something emotional. Reading an interview with Razorlight is just like reading The Economist, saying 'Yeah, well we're going to be really big in America and we think this album's going to follow up the next one' - that's what the record company should be saying, not the people in the band.

"And even The Rapture, who I like, there was an article about them I read which just seemed to be about them being managed by the same people who manage U2. I just thought 'Why do I want to know that?' That's not what music's about. I don't care who they're managed by. I don't care who makes their guitars. I don't care how many records they've sold, really, I just want to know whether they've got anything to say and whether they're interesting."

UK Chart Report

Here's the decent stuff that entered the UK charts this weekend.

Singles:

• #23 Jet - "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" [Album stream.]
• #24 The Zutons - "Oh Stacey" [Vid. 3rd single from their latest album.]
• #25 The Automatic - "Recover" [Vid. 3rd single from their album.]
• #50 Cord - "Sea Of Trouble" [Vid. 2nd single from their album.]
• #58 Ok Go - "Here It Goes Again" [Vid. Download-only, on CD this week.]
• #64 The Streets - "Prangin Out" [Vid. Download-only, on CD this week.]
• #68 The Bluetones - "My Neighbours House" [1st single from new album.]
• #74 Nicky Wire - "Break My Heart Slowly" [Vid. 1st singe from his album. It might be a good song if only someone else was doing the singing!]

Indie-label singles chart:

• #9 Howling Bells - "Setting Sun" [Vid. 3rd single from their album.]
• #12 747s - "Death Of A Star" [Vid. 3rd single from their album.]
• #22 Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out Of This Country" [Vid. LGOOTC]
• #27 The Sunshine Underground - "Put You in Your Place" [Vid. 12"-only]

These singles did not chart:

• Sparklehorse - "Don't Take My Sunshine Away" [1st single from his new album.]
• The Aliens - "The Happy Song" [Vid. Debut from Fife 3-piece.]
• Lovers Electric - "Honey" [Vid. Debut from female-fronted Aussie duo.]

Indie-label album chart:

• #19 Liam Frost - Show Me How the Spectres Dance [Debut. From Manchester]
• #23 The Veils - Nux Vomica [2nd album from London-based Kiwi.]

Kasabian giveaway

       
I'm giving away a deck of Kasabian playing cards to whoever can most closely guess the number of copies Empire will sell in the U.S. in its first week. Post your guess in the comments. Contest closes Wed morning. The band is on tour thru mid-October with support from the brilliant Mew.

Out in the UK on Monday

Here's the decent stuff that's out in the UK on Mon Sept 25th.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK:

James Dean Bradfield - "An English Gentleman" [Vid. Great 2nd single from his great album.]

Voxtrot - "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives" [Live. 2nd single from Austin 5-piece]

The Pipettes - "Judy" [Vid. 3rd single from their album.]

The Streets - "Prangin Out" [w/ Pete Doherty spoken-word verse, but it's not in the vid.]

Ok Go - "Here It Goes Again" [Vid. 3rd single from their 2nd album.]

Jeremy Warmsley - "I Believe In The Way You Move" [Vid. 2nd single from his album.]

• South - "Up Close & Personal" [Vid stars MATNSS percussionist.]
• Dirty Pretty Things - "Wondering" [Vid. 3rd single from their album.]
• The Boyfriends - "Once Upon A Time" [2nd single from their album.]
• The Vitamins - "You Got Me Singing" [Female-fronted blues-rock band with Louis Eliot on guitar.]

Albums:

Babybird - Between My Ears There's Nothing But Music [First album in 5 years!]

747s - Zampano [Debut from great new English band.]

Nicky Wire - I Killed The Zeitgeist [Debut solo album from Manics bassist.]

Placebo - self-titled [10th anniversary edition w/ dvd]

I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends [Debut from Swedish billion-piece.]

David & The Citizens - Stop The Tape! Stop The Tape! [Debut from Swedish 5-piece.]

YouTube Oldies But Goodies

Longpigs - "Blue Skies" [What the hell is going on with Crispin's new band Gramercy?]

 

Gene - "London Can You Wait" [Live on UK TV]

Marion - "Violent Men" [Also a couple live vids from their 2006 shows]

Asobi Seksu live downloads

Head on over to DriveBlind.net for mp3 downloads of Asobi Seksu's set in Boston last week. Looking for their studio sound? Here's a jukebox. The band's sophomore album Citrus is out now, and they're on tour thru late October. I hope to catch their Oct 6th LA show with Darker My Love.

...in far off places

Are you a blogger (or do you know of a blogger) in or around any of these cities? if so, please e-mail me. thanks.

• Norman, OK   
• Springfield, MO
• Lawrence, KS 
• Ames, IA 
• Columbia, MO
• Boise, ID