i fucking love elvis costello. he’s influenced everybody from bret easton ellis to theophilus london (post about mr london coming up soon) to my very own choice of eyewear. he has released details about his upcoming album today. entitled ‘national ransom’, out on october 25 and featuring the above artwork, the track listing looks like this…

national ransom
national ransom
jimmie standing in the rain
stations of the cross
a slow drag with josephine
five small words
church underground
you hung the moon
bullets for the new-born king
i lost you
dr watson, i presume
one bell ringing
the spell that you cast
that’s not the part of him you’re leaving
my lovely jezebel
all these strangers

this is the cover art for the new weezer album, ‘hurley’. amazing.

normal service should be resumed tomorrow by the way when i will be posting about an actual band and talking about actual music.

do you see what i’ve done with the title there? probably my proudest moment. anyway, the mercury prize nominations have been announced. as the title suggests, gorillaz have missed out. i’m disappointed. out of those that have made it, i’d probably like to see foals or wild beasts win it please. thanks.

so, those nominations in full..

biffy clyro. only revolutions
corinne bailey. rae the sea
dizzee rascal. tongue n’ cheek
foals. total life forever
i am kloot. sky at night
kit downes. trio golden
laura marling. i speak because i can
mumford & sons. sigh no more
paul weller. wake up the nation
the xx. xx
villagers. becoming a jackal
wild beasts. two dancers

i’m more excited about the popjustice twenty quid music prize probably.

this cropped up on elizabeth sankey’s twitter a few minutes ago. excited.

as announced a couple of weeks ago, ‘young’, summer camp‘s new ep is out on the 6th september. once again… excited.

probably the most exciting news ever.

137 days and counting…

carl barat has finally stopped with that dumb idea of becoming an actor and going back to music. the libertines have, of course, already confirmed their massive huge exciting reading/leeds comeback and now carl has released details about his solo album and tour. alright, so the second dirty pretty things album may not have been up to much, but this is carlos barat. the carlos barat. the album hasn’t been named or anything, but it should be out in october. the tour starts in brighton on the 15th of that month and ends twelve days later at scala, here in london.

buy tickets here

this is probably the worst news ever

rip natalie portman’s shaved head. long live brite futures.