So here we stand, at the cusp of the new year, on the threshold of things to come. Here’s a little of what has been happening while I’ve been away stuffing my face with Christmas sticky date pudding:
- I’m currently reliving my 6th favourite concert of 2010 by listening to Yeasayer‘s Live at Ancienne Belgique album – it’s EXCELLENT. Pay what you think it is worth (even free!), and choose from a variety of formats. Download it here (via Pitchfork)
- Frank of Berlin music blog Akkordarbeit has been a busy boy during the festive season (unlike yours truly, ahem). He’s compiled a shitload of awesome stuff to download from the NPR Live in Concert series – get to it!
- Mysterious Swedes jj have released Kills, a mixtape of sorts. Download it from Sincerely Yours here.
- Update on the cancelled Soulwaxmas gig – it won’t be rescheduled, so get your refunds now from the usual places.
- Who wants to bet that 2011′s session of the BIMM Summer School will be particularly well attended by throngs of guitar-wielding Placebo fans? Because Brian Molko will be a star tutor/special guest at the 2011 Summer session.
- Hear the new British Sea Power album, Valhalla Dancehall tomorrow – those in the know swear it’s a killer.
- The trickle of info available about PJ Harvey‘s new album Let England Shake is turning into a veritable flood. Or at least a fast flowing river. A series of short films made by Seamus Murphy to accompany the 12 songs on Let England Shake will be available in the lead up to the album’s February 14 release – see the first here. (via Webcuts Music)
- With fan support, Patrick Wolf has decided that his new album (his first on new label Hideout Recordings) will be called Lupercalia, after the ancient festival of purification and fertility. Continuing his wolfy theme, the festival was also known as the festival of the she-wolf in honour of Lupa, who suckled Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. Listen to the first single ‘Time of my life’ here.
