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Underground Hum: Moz back with Years of Refusal
Welcome back to Underground Hum, my brave little indienauts
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Welcome back to Underground Hum, my brave little indienauts. 'Tis once again time to hop into our little geek spaceships and fly head first into a galaxy of totally cool music news. As always, thanks for the feedback. Now, let's get cracking with this week's Reverb.
REVERB
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After being caught up in record label politics, the Boy Least Likely To's forthcoming sophomore album, The Law of the Playground, will finally see release on March 3 via the English duo's own Too Young to Die label in the UK and in North America via +1. "This record should have been released sooner," admits a press release for the band.
The follow-up to 2005's The Best Party Ever will not include the holiday single "The First Snowflake" that was specially podcasted on pitchfork.com a while back. It will, however, include other net released singles -- "I Box Up All the Butterflies" and "Balloon on a Broken String". "The First Snowflake" will be released officially as a download-only single on Dec. 15, and that will be the only way to get it until the Boy Least Likely To releases a greatest hits/B-sides and rarities/holiday album, of course.
The Prodigy is back! The UK techno-rock collective has announced an upcoming new full length. Invaders Must Die is the band's fifth studio LP, due March 2 in the UK and March 3 in the States on the band's own Take Me to the Hospital imprint, via Cooking Vinyl. The 11-track set is backed up by some knowledgeable drum work from Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, and, of course, plenty of massive beats.
Morrissey has given us yet another in a long series of "What the **$% ?" moments he has provided us fans since his declaration of celibacy and renouncement of it packaged in an announcement of his homosexuality almost two decades later.
The cover of his new album Years of Refusal features Moz himself, rather uncomfortably, holding a baby which, despite the fact that it looks like Moz is about to drop the poor thing, is smiling.
Anyway, Years of Refusal was produced by the late Jerry Finn, and is due out on Polydor. His Fansite, Morrissey-solo, reports that it will be released Feb. 16 in the UK, with lead single "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" out Feb. 9.
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Underground Hum's Random Weekly Top 5
The sophomore edition of this list will address something that I know a lot of you geeks think about: Why are there so many bands out there with far-out trippy names? While we can't answer that question here at UH, what we can do is give you the following list:
Top 5 Weirdest Band Names Ever in The History of Modern Music
1. !!! (read: chk chk chk): Named to simulate mouth clicking sounds, this Sacramento, California-based dance rock collective definitely takes the cake in the contests of most ridiculous musical monikers since Prince's unpronounceable glyph.
2. Death Cab For Cutie: Twisted, violent, surreal, yet easy to remember. Frontman Ben Gibbard took the band name from the title of the song written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in The Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour.
3. Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin: I really can't come up with any clever comments about the name that this Missouri-based Pop-rock band chose to call themselves, except that they must've really loved the late former Russian President.
4. F**k Buttons: Their mission with this band name must've been to totally avoid mainstream radio and TV. Which makes sense, since they make entirely experimental, and brilliantly complex, noise compositions.
5. The Sea and Cake: Chicagoans Sam Prekop and Archer Prewitt's plans to open a floating bakery must've fallen through, so they decided to form a lovely little pop-rock band instead. Good thing they did.
That about does it for this week's Underground Hum. Underground Hum can now also be read at: http://undergroundhum.blogspot.com. Do pay it a visit.
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Be good now, children!
