Blog: Strangeglue

Brooklyn duo Acrylics (aka Molly Shea and Jason Klauber) have released a new single, "Sparrow Song," off their forthcoming LP, Lives and Treasure. The song feature's Shea's lead vocals and the celestial backing vocals of her Girl Crisis collaborator Caroline Polachek of Chairlift.

• Acrylics - Sparrow Song

Radiohead have brought forward the digital release of their new album "The King Of Limbs" by 24 hours with the album now being sent to those who pre-ordered it earlier this week. It is also available for new orders through their website at a fixed price of £6.

Just a couple of days after revealing a mega tour of the U. K, Scotland's Glasvegas have dished the full details on their sophomore album. Entitled Euphoric Heartbreak or EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK as it states on the press release, the record will see the light of day on April 4th 2011 via Columbia Records.

The Horrors, TV On The Radio, Foals and Metronomy have been added to the bill for Pulp's headlining day at this year's Wireless Festival. It's TV On The Radio's first scheduled UK appearance of 2011 who are wrapping up their fifth album 'Nine Types Of Light', which comes out some time in the spring.

Good news for Death Cab For Cutie Fans: you haven't got long to wait for a new album. The band will release 'Codes and Keys' on May 31st via Atlantic. In an interview with the BBC's Zane Lowe, guitarist Chris Walla revealed that the first single will likely be called "You Are a Tourist".

Our friends over at the Guardian have scooped the video for the first single to be lifted from the brand new Bright Eyes album. The album came out this week, indeed on Conor Oberst's birthday in North America, to good reviews.

'Indefinite Hiatus'. Two words that fill every music fan with dread. Two words which if uttered by your other half would be something similar to: "I want to see other people". The point is that both the band and your other half are very unlikely to come back.

Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum has been announced by ATP as the curator of this winter's bash at Butlins Minehead. We just got this statement from ATP: ATP Concerts are very excited to present the return of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum to headline and curate one of two festival weekends planned for December 2011 at Butlins, Minehead.

Moby has unveiled details of a brand new album and book of photography called 'Destroyed'. Released on May 16th via his own label Little Idiot, to mark the announcement a three-track EP entitled 'Be The One' has been made available for free download.

Originally touting itself as a mini-festival, the Read & Shout festival has plenty of reason to join the upper echelons of the festival world after bagging the sublime Jens Lekman to headline the evening. The festival is held in the equally sublime Nettlefold Hall above West Norwood Library, with the aim to raise awareness and protest against the many pending national closures of libraries.

We've made no bones about the fact that the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is the best music festival in the world. Never afraid to embrace technology (partly because it boasts one of the best technology festivals too) - organisers have lined up a 4.

Mi Ami have announced a tour of Europe throughout April where they promise to show-off their brand new sound as featured on their forthcoming limited edition EP Dolphins (out on Thrill Jockey on 14 March). Now a duo, Mi Ami have discarded the guitars and replaced them with samplers and a 707 drum machine.

To mark the release of 'Let England Shake', PJ Harvey will debut her new album live in a one-off, special show from Paris next Monday February 14th. The show will be streamed live from 8pm GMT by the French music site Deezer and the cultural chanel ARTE.

Arcade Fire have announced two further summer UK shows - that's in addition to the massive show scheduled at London's Hyde Park on June 30th. The new announcement reveals that they will play the Manchester MEN Arena on August 31st and Edinburgh Castle on September 1st.

Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album last year, indie surf-pop trio Best Coast have revealed a set of European shows for the spring. The dates include six shows across the UK kicking off at Manchester Academy 2 on April 26th and concluding at Brighton's Coalition on May 2nd.

The High Wire are releasing the third single from their rising debut album, 'The Sleep Tape'. It's called 'Pump Your Little Heart' and we've got the video for you below. It's the band's favourite song from the album with the video footage shot by Director Michael Humphrey using a macro lens transforming the tiniest objects into full screen images.

Portland, Oregon psych rock 5-piece Eternal Tapestry have a new album in the works due out the middle of next month. Beyond the 4th Door is due out on 14 March 2011 via Thrill Jockey and the band have made the first single to be taken from it available to watch below.

Denver's DeVotchKa are on the verge of dropping their fifth album '100 Lovers' later this month and today the band have premiered a new video lifted from the LP. The song is called '100 Other Lovers' and it stars a bird-loving babushka and many luminescent wings.

What a stellar week of releases we have for you this week, kicking off with James Blake's debut solo LP which makes an early sprint for album of the year. But it's not just Blake running with the baton this week. There are sterling efforts from The Boxer Rebellion, Cut Copy, Sea Of Bees and And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.

LCD Soundsystem have revealed that they will play their final show ever on April 2, at New York City's Madison Square Garden. James Murphy had promised all and sundry that the release of their 2010 album 'This Is Happening' would conclude the LCD train for good.