Arcade Fire working on next album - 10.25.2012



Arcade Fire are at work on their fourth album and follow-up to 2010's The Suburbs, according to drummer Jeremy Gara's interview with Ottawa radio station CKCU 93.1. In the interview, Gara says that the band had to leave their old recording studio, which was in an old church, because its roof collapsed, but they've got a new space now, where Owen Pallett has already recorded.

He also said that there's no time frame on finishing the album, but they expect it to be ready for release by the end of 2013.

Listen to the full interview here.

Video: Sinkane - "Runnin'" - 10.25.2012
Violent revolution breaks out in the red-tinted clip for "Runnin'," from Sinkane's new album Mars. Watch the Philip DiFiore-directed video below.

Video: Red Fang - "Dirt Wizard" - 10.25.2012
More than a year after the release of 2011's Murder the Mountains, Portland stoner rockers Red Fang are still cranking out videos from the album. The latest, for "Dirt Wizard," is not quite as over the top as their previous ones, this time focusing on the band's ripping live show and road antics. Watch it below.

Video: M83 - "Steve McQueen" - 10.25.2012
M83 has revealed the third video from blockbuster 2011 album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, directed by Balthazar Auxietre and animator Sylvain Derosne. According to a press release, the intent was to create a world built on the “power of childhood, an eagerness for life, and the kind of paradoxical energy you have when you grow up.” So, in the continuing theme of the videos released thus far, it continues to blend childlike innocence with fantasy. Watch it below.

Girls' Christopher Owens announces solo debut - 10.25.2012


Not too long after the release of their 2011 album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Girls' frontman Christopher Owens announced he would no longer stay in the band. And next year, we get to hear the first solo album that Owens' has been working on, post-Girls. It's called Lysandre, and it'll be out Jan. 15 via Fat Possum.

While this is a solo affair, there will be a number of other musicians on Lysandre as well, including Evan Weiss (guitar), Matthew Kallman (keyboard), Vince Meghrouni (saxophone/flute), David Sutton (bass), Seth Kasper (drums), Hannah Hunt (vocals) and Cally Robertson (vocals). Check out the tracklist and listen to new songs "Lysandre's Theme"/"Here We Go" below.

Listen: Chistopher Owens - "Lysandre's Theme"/"Here We Go"

Tracklist:

1 Lysandre's Theme
2 Here We Go
3 New York City
4 A Broken Heart
5 Here We Go Again
6 Riviera Rock
7 Love Is in the Ear of the Listener
8 Lysandre
9 Everywhere You Knew
10 Closing Theme
11 Part of Me (Lysandre's Epilogue)