Pearl Jam has debuted the new single from their upcoming studio album, Backspacer. Give it a listen at pearljam.com.

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Since Brody Dalle, the tattooed Amazon goddess of a frontwoman, disbanded her So-Cal punk outfit, the Distillers, in 2006, her focus has been more maternal than nocturnal: She got hitched to Josh Homme – the Queens of the Stone Age frontman with whom she had a daughter, Camille, that same year. But that’s all about to change. As her new band, Spinnerette, made its NYC debut last night at the Bowery Ballroom, Dalle aimed to wrestle some of the spotlight away from her domestic life and put it back firmly where it belongs: on her voice.



But that voice, as Dalle explained to the Bowery crowd, didn’t quite make the trip with her to New York: The singer said she woke up hoarse, alluded to having laryngitis, and claimed, jokingly, that openers Band of Skulls had given it to her. But no worries: Dalle coerced someone to «stick a needle in [her] ass» – full of what we don’t know. And while that medicine probably helped her walk on stage with her trademark raspy alto intact, a major side effect appeared to be general fatigue.

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More infos: www.spinnerettemusic.com

Metric is a four piece band formed in NYC that has been based at various times in Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, and London. Their fourth full length studio album «Fantasies» is a much anticipated follow up to 2005′s highly acclaimed «Live it out». «Fantasies» was written by the band in a farmhouse outside Seattle, and by frontwoman Emily Haines in exile in Argentina. The album was recorded at guitarist Jimmy Shaw’s own Giant Studio in Toronto and mixed at Electric Lady in NYC by Grammy winner John O’Mahony (Coldplay, The Strokes). A densely textured modern mix of psychedelia, electro and rock, this album s dream like quality stays true to the band’s aesthetic while venturing into more accessible musical territory.

More infos: www.ilovemetric.com

Muse have named their fifth album via their Twitter. The album will be called «The Resistance» and it is due for release in September with a full arena tour planned.

The trio then confirmed via their official website that one of the song titles on the follow-up to 2006’s «Black Holes And Revelations» will be «United States Of Eurasia». Fans deciphered the title from a photo of Matt Bellamy holding some sheet music.

No matter which way you write it – with a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil – it’s good news: the Arctic Monkeys release their third album on Monday, August 24.

The as-yet-untitled album features 10 brand new Arctic Monkeys’ songs and was produced by Josh Homme in the Mojave Desert and Los Angeles and James Ford in Brooklyn. Does this mean we are to expect a stodgy rock epic in the mould of ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’? Is Alex likely to be trading in his SBA Zip Hoody for a bi-cep-bustin’ cap-sleeve T-Shirt and some ‘muscular’ riffin’?

Well let’s fooking hope not. Hope rests on the input of Ford, whose recent production credits include The Last Shadow Puppets, Test Icicles, Peaches and Mystery Jets.

Can you take the Monkey’s out of High Green and still have him swingin’ from all the right branches? Only time will tell.

The album will be available on CD (WIGCD220), vinyl (WIGLP220) and via digital download (WIG220D).

More Info: www.arcticmonkeys.com

EELS will release their first new album since 2005’s acclaimed double BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS. The new album, HOMBRE LOBO, set for June 2nd, 2009, features 12 new songs recorded in EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E’s studio in Los Angeles. Stay tuned to EELStheband.com and myspace.com/eels for more info.

Line up 2009 of the St. Gallen OpenAir festival from June 26-28, 2009:

• Nine Inch Nails
• Mando Diao
• Editors
• The Streets
• Cypress Hill
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
• Farin Urlaub
• Biffy Clyro
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• The Gaslight Anthem
• The Flaming Lips
• Cold War Kids
• and many more…

More acts will be announced soon. More Info: www.openairsg.ch

This is Jack Whites new band The Dead Weather!
It consists of Alison Mosshart from the Kills on vocals, Jack Lawrence from the Raconteurs on bass, Dean Fertita from Queens of the Stone Age, and Jack White on the drums!

Check out the websites of föhntön recording studios in Zug, Switzerland. The tiny little studio is home to many local bands and birthplace of indie, alternative and rock tunes. For more infos check out: www.foehntoen.ch