New CSS Album Update!

From Pitchfork.com:


CSS New Album Title: Donkey

Wow, that CSS album we mentioned when we ran down their tour dates a week ago was even more imminent than we realized.

Donkey, the sophomore platter from the Brazilian quintet, is due in stores in July, and in the Great Album Title Hall of Fame right about now. The disc was recorded in the band's native São Paolo during a four-month respite from their ever-exhaustive touring plans.

UPDATE: WE'VE GOT A RELEASE DATE! JULY 22 ON SUB POP!

Those looking to hop on this Donkey a little early have but a few days to wait. On April 28, the song "Rat Is Dead (Rage)" will be available on their website for download free of charge, and it will also hit the radio.

The band kick off that sizeable tour of theirs May 5 in Cardiff, Wales.

CSS:

05-05 Cardiff, Wales - Great Hall #
05-06 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC #
05-07 Dublin, Ireland - Academy #
05-09 Brittany, France - Art Rock Festival
05-23 Warsaw, Poland - Freshsounds Fest
05-25 Northampton, England - Gatecrasher Fest
05-26 Newcastle, England - Evolution Festival
05-31 London, England - Roehampton England
06-04 Montreaux, Switzerland - Montreaux Jazz Festival
06-05 Belfort, France - Les Eurockeennes
06-06-07 Frankfurt, Germany - Rock in Park Festival
06-07-08 Loch Ness, Scotland - RockNess
06-13 London, England - Rise Festival
06-19 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
06-20 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
06-25 Mt. Fuji, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
07-18 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-19 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-30 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *^
07-31 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall *
08-01 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-04 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival
08-05 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus *
08-07 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
08-08 Jersey City, NJ - All Points West Festival *
08-09 Worcester, MA - The Palladium *
08-10 Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
09-05 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-14 Morrison, CO - Monolith Festival
09-15 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue
09-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
09-19 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
09-22 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre
09-23 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre
09-25 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theater
09-26 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Festival

# with the Futureheads, MGMT
* with the Go! Team
^ with Black Kids


Video: CSS: Music is My Hot Hot Sex (iPod ad) [from the Cansei De Ser Sexy LP]

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Human Snake

Not sure if this is 'branded content' or not (Nokia is listed in related vids, so who knows?), but i appreciate the grande scale juxtaposed with the simplicity of the stopframe animation...

New and Old Music I'm Excited to Share with YOU!

Haven't made a music post in a while... never even got around to my 2007 Best Album Reco... which, for the record is an extremely tough call between Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam, Radiohead's In Rainbows, Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, M.I.A.'s Kala, Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future, Interpol's Our Love to Admire, Datarock's self-titled first album, !!!'s Myth Take, the Shins' Wincing the Night Away, Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver, and finally Panda Bear's Person Pitch. I must also give hearty nods to Tracey Thorn's tender coming-out-of-her-shell album Out of the Woods, Bjork's Volta, Patrick Wolf's The Magic Position, as well as Moving Units' sophomore effort I instantly fell in love with upon hearing the title - Hexes for Exes - and finally the blaringly obvious and loudly critically acclaimed releases from Amy Winehouse (Back to Black) and Mark Ronson (Version).

2008 is already proving to be quite a powerhouse year for solid releases.

Here's what I've recently snagged - some new, some old - this stuff comes HIGHLY recommended, but of course you should always hear for yourselves:

Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
Bang Gang - Something Wrong
Kylie Minogue - X
Celebration - Modern Tribe
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Daft Punk - Alive
Erlend Oye - Unrest
Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
Funk D'Void - Dos
Soulwax - Nite Versions
The Glass (various remixes)
GusGus - Attention
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (get the black bonus track edition if you can...)
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Hercules & Love Affar (Self-titled debut album)
In Flagranti - Wronger Than Anyone Else
Inland Knights - various (it's all good), but Best of Drop Music is a great foray
Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp fame) - Jarvis
John Tejada - various (again - all good)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Miss Kittin - Batbox
Mr. Oizo - Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Mu Fish Fu - Out of Breach
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
Professor Murder - Professor Murder Rides the Subway
Shitake Monkey - Street Beef
Purple Crush - Welcome 2 Emo Club
Riton - Djalma
Robyn - Robyn
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
The Teenagers - reality check
White Girl Lust - Solid Bump Records (you can find this mix on GBH.de - the best funk/disco/tech-house mix I've heard in years!)
Yello - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess / Stella
Yelle - Pop-up
OM Records' - 300th Release! Sounds of Om Vol. 6
Theatre of Disco - Theatre of Disco
White Williams - Smoke (with the lovely, the talented Sofia Lamar featured in the album art)
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into


Also there's this new site where you can upload your own, and stream other peoples' mixes from all over the place. For anybody who was of the mixtape generation, this will definitely pull your sentimental heartstrings and it's just cool to see what kind of playlists other people are making. The site is growing exponentially. Totally check it out for yourself!

www.Muxtape.com




Enjoy!

Michael/Corocet/Senor Blog