Weekly music update!

Photo from The Leisure Society's myspace

The Leisure Society's cover of 'Inchworm' from the Sing Me To Sleep charity album can be listened to on American Laundromat Records myspace.  There is a link for purchasing as well, of course!

Arctic Monkeys have made plans to record their next album immediately after their current north american tour ends.

Crystal Castles are releasing a new single, 'Doe Deer', on a (500 copies) limted-edition vinyl release, with no plans to release a digital version, on April 17th.

It has been announced that Johnny Flynn is collaborating with Laura Marling on his new album, Been Listening.  The album is to be released June 7th!  Tracklisting here.

Record Store Days is coming up on April 17th!  Celebrations include parties, live acts, and the like.
If you're in the UK you can find out if your local independent record store is here... and see if anything is happening near you.
US here!  Other countries here!

Devendra Banhart has broken his leg in a skatboarding accident, resulting in the remaining shows of his current american tour being cancelled.  Oops.

Julian Casablancas being interviewed by Brian Williams is up now on NBC here.
Interview with Julian Casablancas the does not constantly repeat the same questions. (Time Out Chicago)
And... Julian performed on Jimmy Fallon this week:


The Libertines held a press conference and played a guerilla gig at the Boogaloo in London this week.  Therefore there is an insane amount of Libertines-related news to report!
Including interviews and articles regarding their recent reunion:
Overview from BBC
Times Online article with an oddly passive-aggressive bias... We get it.  Pete did/does drugs.
A lovely interview with Gary from Rhythm
And they were on the cover of this past week's NME.  Still in shops!

And video of their press conference/interviews:
NME full video of the press conference
Post-conference interview with Sky News
Post-conference interview with Channel 5 = loltastic
Behind the scenes interview with The Sun (really sweet!) - below
A clip of the surprise gig



~Jules