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Dum Dum Girls Announce New Album Only In Dreams

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Dum Dum Girls have announced their new album Only in Dreams, which is due out on Sub Pop Records on Sept. 27. It's the follow up to this year's He Gets Me High EP and shows the band rolling out music at a fast clip. Only in Dreams was produced Richard Gottehrer and Sune Rose Wagner from Raveonettes. The tour dates have been announced, and include shows with Crocodiles.

"Just about all the songs reflect the fact that I'd been on the road for about a year, pretty much separate from everything real in my life except the band," says Dee Dee. "A lot of it is about distance and detachment," said Dee Dee about writing the album.

Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams Track List
01 Always Looking
02 Bedroom Eyes
03 Just a Creep
04 In My Head
05 Heartbeat
06 Caught in One
07 Coming Down
08 Wasted Away
09 Teardrops on My Pillow
10 Hold Your Hand

The Glitch Mob Ready New EP and Summer Tour

The Glitch Mob are rolling out their new EP We Can Make The World Stop on July 12 via Glass Air. The EP is a three-song affair, a run-up to a full length album due next year.

They're going out on tour with Phantogram and Com Truise, and the live show has grabbed the vibe of stage designers Martin Phillips and John McGuire (Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, and Kanye West) to help do the lighting and on screen displays for their ever-expanding live set.

“After writing Drink The Sea, we spent a lot of time touring. While on the road, we were bursting with inspiration and ideas for the next phase in the evolution of our sound,” said Justin Boreta about the live experience this time around.

“We were so inspired from spending so much time on stage last year that this will be our first attempt to materialize everything we learned."

The Glitch Mob is an experimental electronc band from LA, focusing on bass-heavy, stop and start (glitch) music.

Blitzen Trapper Announce New Album American Goldwing, Tour Dates

Blitzen Trapper will release a new album titled American Goldwing on Sub Pop Records on Sept. 13, and a set of tour dates have been announced.

“It’s me trying to evoke a true American nostalgia. My vision and focus while writing our new album was on the inescapable past. It’s about those feelings of being trapped in a small town. That fine line between the rural and the suburban settings that define much of America, that line between love and loss that occurs when you find yourself taking it too easy and sticking around a lonesome town for far too long,” said Blitzen Trapper lead singer and songwriter Eric Earley.

Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor Readies New CANT Album Dreams Come True

Grizzly Bear guy Chris Taylor is currently finishing his new solo album Dreams Come True, with a release date of Sept. 12 on Warp Records in Europe, and Chris Taylor's own Terrible Records label. He's doing it under the name CANT. Taylor wrote and recorded the album in just over a week's time in the same studio that Grizzly Bear recorded their album Veckatimest, collaborating with George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow.

Tour dates have been announced.

CANT: Dreams Come True Track List
01 Too Late, Too Far
02 Believe
03 The Edge
04 BANG
05 (brokencollar)
06 She's Found a Way Out
07 Answer
08 Dreams Come True
09 Rises Silent
10 Bericht

Erasure Announce Tomorrow's World Release for This Fall

Erasure have decided to make 2011 the year of their comeback. They'll release a new album titled Tomorrow's World in the Fall, on Mute Records, but as of right now an actual release date is uncertain. The group was refueled after appearing at Mute's Short Circuit Festival last year, and also at this year's Ultra Music Festival in Miami.

Tomorrow's World was written in New York, London, and at Vince Clarke’s studio in Maine. It's been produced by Frankmusik (Lady Gaga, Pet Shop Boys, Ellie Goulding, and Far East Movement) and mixed by Rob Orton.

They'll also do a fairly extensive run of North American tour dates in late summer / early Fall.

Wild Flag Announce New Album, Free MP3, Tour

Wild Flag, the collective band put together by long time musicians Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole and Janet Weiss have announced their new self-titled album; it's due out on Merge Records on Sept. 13. The label is offering a free MP3 download of their new song "Romance," which you can also stream above.

They've also announced a series of shows for this year, mostly in the Fall.

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VIDEO: Wild Flag at South By Southwest Music Festival 2011 (SXSW)

New Braid EP Due Out In August, "The Right Time" MP3 Available Now

Indie rock / alternative band Braid have gotten together for the first new music since 1998's album Frame and Canvas. The new Braid material comes together as an EP of three new songs and a cover of Jeff Hanson's "You Are The Reason." The EP is titled Closer to Closed, and comes out on Polyvinyl Records on Aug. 16 on CD, vinyl and download. Vinyl is 180-gram white or black, with white limited to 1000 copies.

Check out the advance track "The Right Time."

Closer to Closed was recorded with J. Robbins (Jawbreaker, The Promise Ring, Frame and Canvas).

"We knew we wanted to record with J from the very beginning. Being in the studio with him felt like we were just picking up where Frame and Canvas ended," said Bob Nanna.

Mates of State Announce New Album, Twee Fans Rejoice Everywhere

Everyone's favorite band/married couple (and stomach-churningly indie) combo Mates of State return on Sept. 13 with their new album Mountaintops, a ten track affair to be released on Barsuk Records. They're the envy of the twee revolution, like the Belle and Sebastian’s kid sister and his girlfriend.

The indie pop group of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel last released a full-length album in 2008 with Re-Arrange Us. They made the Mountaintops announcement yesterday via Facebook.

Mates of State: Mountaintops Track List
01 Palomino
02 Maracas
03 Sway
04 Unless I’m Led
05 Total Serendipity
06 Basement Money
07 At Least I Have You
08 Desire
09 Change
10 Mistakes

Twin Sister Announce New Album, In Heaven; Shows with Beirut

Twin Sister have a sort of experimental pop sound to them, part indie aesthetic and part dream pop. They're a five-piece, and are out touring this Summer with the likes of Beirut, Holiday Nothing and Lost Boy depending on location.

Domino Records signed the Long Island, NY band for the release of their full-length debut album due later this year. Titled In Heaven, the album will be available on CD, vinyl and download on Sept. 27.

Twin Sister: In Heaven Track List
01   Daniel
02   Stop
03   Bad Street
04   Space Babe
05   Kimmi In a Rice Field
06   Luna’s Theme
07   Spain
08   Gene Ciampi
09   Saturday Sunday
10  Eastern Green

Twilight Sad, Idlewild, Frightened Rabbit Members Get Together for New Project Called The Fruit Tree Foundation

Members of the bands The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Idlewilds and more have gotten together to create a group called Fruit Tree Foundation. James Graham (Twilight Sad), Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), Rod Jones (Idlewild), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop), Emma Pollock, Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston all make up the band.

They've created an album of songs to raise awareness about mental health, in coordination with the The Mental Health Foundation and the Mental Health Arts & Film Festival.

They have two new songs for download, and will offer a full album titled  First Edition that was previously only available at shows.