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The Wedge News Round Up For June 21

June 21st, 2011

Portishead have compiled a two-hour mixtape to coincide with their ATP Festival in July… Dirty Projectors to begin recording new album this summer… Toronto’s Ohbijou to release new album this September… J Mascis announces North American tour, plays Canadian dates… The Strokes looking to record next album “as soon as possible.”

Tags: Dirty Projectors, J Mascis, Ohbijou, Portishead, the strokes
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

The Wedge Presents… The Ultimate Rapture Mixtape

May 20th, 2011

Okay, so tomorrow the Rapture apparently descends upon us. And if that is the case (highly skeptical about this one, by the way), well, you might want to make a mixtape to take it all in. Some people might be looking for some life-affirming music, some might want tunes to throw a party to end [...]

Tags: blur, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Los Campesinos!, lykke li, modest mouse, nine inch nails, Pixies, Rapture, Silver Sun, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sonic Youth, The Beta Band, The Cure, The Knife, The Sisters of Mercy, the strokes
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

The Strokes to write follow-up to “Angles” in April

March 25th, 2011

We waited five years for The Strokes to release their fourth album, Angles, this past Tuesday. But if we’re to believe the band, we won’t have to wait that much longer for their fifth. In an interview with UK radio station Xfm, bassist Nikolai Fraiture said The Strokes are looking to begin writing their next [...]

Tags: Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture, the strokes
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

The Wedge Playlist for March 9

March 9th, 2011

For the week of March, The Wedge featured videos from Cut Copy, The Naked and Famous, Memphis, The Strokes, James Blake, Twilight Singers, Louise Burns, MLCD (My Little Cheap Dictaphone), PS I Love You, and Pennywise. Cut Copy Need You Now Modular/Universal Director: Keith Schofield The Naked and Famous Young Blood Universal Directors: Campbell Hooper [...]

Tags: Cut Copy, James Blake, Louise Burns, memphis, MLCD (My Little Cheap Dictaphone), Pennywise, PS I Love You, The Naked and Famous, the strokes, Twilight Singers
Posted in Blog, Playlist, The Wedge | Posted by Simone

The Strokes’ new single available for free

February 9th, 2011

New York rockers The Strokes are poised to make their return to the charts after a five year break in between albums. Angles, the upcoming fourth studio album from the band, is set to be released sometime this year. Today the band announced that they are making their first single, Under Cover of Darkness, available [...]

Tags: News, the strokes
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Allison

The Vaccines move album release date forwards and backwards

February 9th, 2011

England’s hottest export of the moment, The Vaccines are experiencing a whirlwind of buzz and in order to capitalize on it they have decided to move up the release of their debut album’s release by one week… and back one week What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? will now hit the streets on March [...]

Tags: the strokes, The Vaccines
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

The Strokes name album and first single

January 19th, 2011

For years now, we’ve been updating whatever news has been trickling out of The Strokes’ camp and now we finally have something to say about the new album. Out March 22nd, the fourth Strokes album will be called Angles and according to a recent Rolling Stone interview with guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., “It’s what the [...]

Tags: the strokes
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

The Strokes to release new album “by March”

January 5th, 2011

After waiting five years, who thought we could actually count on The Strokes to hit a deadline? Well, it appears we can if we going by what the band promised back in November. In an interview with BBC Radio 1′s Zane Lowe, bassist Nikolai Fraiture said the album is done and in the process of [...]

Tags: Nikolai Fraiture, the strokes
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Cam

The Strokes Admit They Scraped Early Recorded Sessions

November 30th, 2010

Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes says that they decided to produce the new album themselves after scraping early recordings with producer Joe Chiccarelli. Rolling Stone is reporting that the first session started in February at Avatar Studios in New York. The upcoming album, out next year, was produced by the band themselves with engineer [...]

Tags: Albert Hammond Jr, the strokes
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Jessica F

2011… already!

November 26th, 2010

So this morning I stumbled across Stereogum’s Most Anticipated Albums of 2011 list. Some are confirmed and some are hopeful dreams. But hold up… geez…I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the sounds of 2010, much less try to predict what might be hip into the next decade. Anyway, here’s MY quick thoughts on [...]

Tags: Danger Mouse, death cab for cutie, Dr. Dre, Jay Electronica, Kanye West, lady gaga, lupe fiasco, playlist, radiohead, the strokes
Posted in Blog, Celebrities & Pop Culture, Music & Videos | Posted by Lauren