Saturday, September 26, 2009

Tell Me Something New: Parralox


Parralox began life as an Australian electronic duo of John Von Ahlen & Roxy who released their debut album 'Electricity' last year. They now feature another female vocalist, called Amii, and release their second album "State Of Decay" in November which features contributions from Ian Burden (ex Human League) among others.

You can check them out on their myspace site here:

And you can view their video to the track 'Hotter' here:

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Celebration

Madonna releases her "I'm leaving Warner Brothers" compilation album "Celebration" on 21st September. Track listing is as follows:

Disc One

1. Hung Up
2. Music
3, Vogue
4. 4 Minutes
5. Holiday
6. Everybody
7. Like A Virgin
8. Into The Groove
9. Like A Prayer
10. Ray Of Light
11. Sorry
12. Express Yourself
13. Open Your Heart
14. Borderline
15. Secret
16. Erotica
17. Justify My Love
18. Revolve

Disc Two

1. Dress You Up
2. Material Girl
3. La Isla Bonita
4. Papa Don't Preach
5. Luck Star
6. Burning Up
7. Crazy For You
8. Who's That Girl
9. Frozen
10. Miles Away
11. Take A Bow
12. Live To Tell
13. Beautiful Stranger
14. Hollywood
15. Die Another Day
16. Don't Tell Me
17. Cherish
18. Celebration

A DVD compilation is released the following week on 28th September. The video of "Celebration" can be viewed, if you so desire, at http://www.madonna.com/

Saturday, September 05, 2009

So Tough

The next wave of releases from Saint Etienne started earlier this week with two disc "Deluxe" editions of "So Tough" and their experimental "Sound Of Water" albums. Each album comes with a bonus disc of seventeen tracks.

Further details can be found here:

http://www.saintetienne.com/news.html

An absolutely fabulous "Subbuteo" edition of "Foxbase Alpha can be found here):

https://secure.easyanswer.net/subbuteo/

And for those of you on Spotify, Sarah Cracknell has posted her 'Stoned Soul Picnic' playlist here:

spotify:user%3Asarahetienne%3Aplaylist%3A7n7ddCPtS1ZrdoyFx9hGQF

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Like A Satellite

Panic Room are now taking pre-orders for their second album entitled 'Satellite'. In addition to receiving the album ahead of its official release date, pre ordered copies also contain an expanded lyric booklet and a bonus CD with four bonus tracks. The first 50 pre orders also get a signed copy of the Special Edition!

Further details and a rough mix of some of the tracks can be found at:

http://www.panicroom.org.uk/satellite.htm