Thursday, August 12, 2010

Quick News

Kanye West has said that his latest record will come out "sometime in November," the rapper tells his fans while speaking from UStream in Korea. The album's original title, Good Ass Job has been scrapped and no word on what it will be called now.

Arcade Fire's latest, The Suburbs debuted #1 on the Billboard charts this week. Congrats to the band on a well deserved #1 spot!

Kings of Leon are set to release their latest, Come Around Sundown on October 19. This is the band's fifth record and the follow up to 2008's enormously successful Only by the Night.

U2 returned to the stage this weekend in Torino, Italy. This is the band's return to the stage after Bono's emergency spine surgery earlier this summer. The band debuted three brand new songs, including the track "Glastonbury," which they originally wrote for their headlining slot at this year's Glasto festival that they had to unfortunately abandon due to Bono's surgery.

Kill Rock Stars label is set to release An Introduction to...Elliot Smith on November 2. The album will be a 14 song compilation of the late singer's work.

For their first album in five year's Belle and Sebastian have released the cover art to their latest, Belle and Sebastian Write About Love. No word on when the record will be released but take a look at the cover below: