Cold Cave- Cherish The Light Years

Cold Cave will release a new album in April. Their second album is entitled 'Cherish The Light Years' and it will be released on Matador Records. The albums was recorded with Chris Coady in New York City and it is reported that the record is a tour de force of pounding synths and soaring romantic melody. The first track from the forthcoming album "The Great Pan is Dead" is available as a free download. The band will also be touring extensively throughout the spring.

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Autumn- Synthesize LP

Autumn, the legendary minimal wave project of Peter Bonne and Geert Coppens will release a full length LP this February. 'Synthesize' the LP reissue will feature a selection of Autumn’s best material including the a "modest summer hit" "Synthesize" from 1982. (via Minimal Wave)

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Nileism- The Strange Course of the Blue Nile

This year sees the 30th anniversary of The Blue Nile's first work together. Four albums - containing a total of just 33 songs - have followed since. For the first time Allan Brown, a fan from the time of the band's first album in 1983 and friend of the band's composer Paul Buchanan, gets behind the veil to analyse the band's agonisingly slow progress through personal memoir, critical study, access to unreleased recordings and encounters with those who have been central to the strange and elusive mythology of The Blue Nile.

Blancmange Interview

Blancmange have announced the first single from the new Blancmange album 'Blanc Burn'. "Drive Me" is available now on iTunes and will soon be available from all other good download stores. The track features the Indian percussionist Pandit Dinesh. Find out more about Blancmange and the upcoming album in the interview by John Doran for Quietus Magazine. Also be sure to catch the guys on BBC 6 Music.

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Next Wave: Petroleum By-Product

Petroleum By-Product is a trio from Vancouver, BC formed in 2006 by Sally Jorgensen and Vanessa Turner. The band has a penchant for garbage and glamour and their band concept expresses the dramatically altered world since the invention of plastic. Their music is lush and lavish new wave/post-punk and it echoes this view of society as artificial, superficial, excessive and decadent. Their self released debut album Superficial Artificial was released in 2009 and the band has plenty more to offer! We hope their new material will find a way to be released soon.

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February's Singles Round-Up

The Round up of February single releases includes: Cut Copy- "Need You Now", a pick of the month, Alphaville's second single "Song for No One", from the album 'Catching Rays on Giant' which was released last year. Lykke Li is back with  much anticipated new single "I Follow Rivers" which also announces a new album in March. Papercuts are also up for a new album release in March. Their fourth album is entitled 'Fading Parade' and "Do What You Will" is the first single to be taken from it. Yeasayer will release the fourth single from the album 'Odd Blood' called "I Remember" and Hurts are back with "Sunday" an iTunes Bundle released on February 26, 2011.And last but not least, our band of the month is releasing their first single "Drive Me" from the upcoming album 'Blanc Burn'.  

The Dears- Degeneration Street

The long awaited fifth studio album from Montreal based group the Dears is out tomorrow, February 15, 2010. 'Degeneration Street' marks the return of several band members who were absent from the band's previous album 'Missiles', including Patrick Krief, Rob Benvie and Roberto Arquila. The album features a sweeping collection of orchestral pop / rock that is at once enlightening, angst-ridden and mesmerizing. "Omega Dog" is currently the only single from the album which was released in October 2010.

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80's Duets: Bananarama & Fun Boy Three- "Really Saying Something"

During the 1982, early Bananarama and Fun Boy Three recorded two duets. The three women provided credited chorus vocals on the hit "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" and the Fun Boy Three later sang on the Bananarama song "Really Saying Something". Both songs were released as singles during the same year and also appeared on both bands' albums.

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Instant Hit: The Naughtiest Girl was a Monitor- Front

Thirty years ago the Sheffield minimal synth pop group The Naughtiest Girl was a Monitor released their first EP on the Imaginating Music label. They released one more single before disbanding in 1982. Back then, there were rumours about an official album release which never happened. In 2007 the band released a self titled LP compilation with all the singles, b-sides and six previously unreleased tracks.

Ladytron's Decade in Review

'The Best of Ladytron: 00-10' will be released on March 29, 2011 in the US through Nettwerk Records (March 28 in UK). The collection reflects on a decade highlighted by '604', 'Light & Magic', 'Witching Hour' and 'Velocifero' plus two new tracks; "Ace Of Hz" and "Little Black Angel." A two-disc deluxe version, featuring an additional 16 tracks & 80-page photo booklet, will also be available on March 29, 2011.

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