You're an Angel with Wings Afire

Billboard interviews Liz Phair about her upcoming re-release of Exile in Guyville and her newfound independence and creativity.

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Pleasure Is Mine

IT'S ABOUT FRICKIN' TIME!!!

Sorry, but this is worthy of yelling. Matthew Sweet has FINALLY released details about his new album Sunshine Lies:

“When it rocks, it rocks hard with lots of attitude,” Sweet told CMJ, speaking about the upcoming album. “Then again, it's really very melodic overall, with plenty of dreamy jangling psychedelic poppiness.”

Ah, poppiness - sweet sweet poppiness.

The album will be released July 22 on Shout! Factory. Quite honestly, that is just too damn long to wait. In the meantime, you can preview the new song Badass at HisSpace, which has been there for a long time (and rumors of a new album even longer.)

Sunshine Lies tracklisting:
1. Byrdgirl
2. Flying
3. Feel Fear
4. Sunrise Eyes
5. Sunshine Lies
6. Badass
7. Daisychain
8. Stick It
9. Meltdown
10. Back Of My Mind
11. Burn Through Love
12. Pleasure Is Mine
13. Time Machine
14. Let's Love
15. When You're Gone
16. Could You Need Me?

I have no doubt that this will make my summer! Swoon!

Yes, I just swooned.

The vibrant Sunshine Lies will certainly revolve in your mind long after each listening.

UPDATE: Warren just noticed a difference in the tracklisting above and the Paste article I originally linked it to. Paste's tracklisting is below. The above tracklist is from the CMJ article (I've since fixed the link.) I prefer 16 songs over 13 so I guess we'll have to wait from Mr. Sweet to clarify.

Sunshine Lies tracklisting:
1. Time Machine
2. Room To Rock
3. Byrdgirl
4. Flying
5. Feel Fear
6. Let’s Love
7. Sunshine Lies
8. Pleasure Is Mine
9. Daisychain
10. Sunrise Eyes
11. Around You Now
12. Burn Through Love
13. Back Of My Mind

All Those People, All Those Lives, Where Are They Now?

The Smiths' best album - and easily one of the darkest albums you'll ever hear - The Queen Is Dead is getting a DVD treatment.

DVDs are boring. Just get the album.

Oh, Lord, Loosen My Lips

U2 is back in the studio and their first three albums are getting remastered.

So there you go.

Got to Pay Your Dues

Ringo Starr has no head.

Amen.

Perfect

I should do a count of how many times I've said something like this on Too Poppy: "Not Lame does it again!"

In its undying quest to put cool music in our hands, Bruce and the rest of the Not Lame team have compiled 22 choice tracks from their top picks for a free download! Bryan Scary! Brandon Wilde! P. Hux! Michael Carpenter! Andy Bopp (of Myracle Brah)! And more.

Get the full track list and the links to download each track here. For the sake of convenience, I've zipped the whole compilation as well, which you can download here.

Happy popping and thanks Not Lame!

You Want a Taste of What's Going Around

It sounds like Brandon Wilde's Songs from the Deep Sleep is one to consider. Powerpopaholic drops names like Paul McCartney, Elliott Smith, David Grahame, and Radiohead in their 8/10 review of the album. As if you need any more to sweeten the deal, Brandon's group Thisway has had a WB-style hit (link to video) with Crawl, which is a great tune.

HisSpace
Official Site
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