The New Music

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are releasing a brand new single called “Say No to Love.” On the flipside will be a track called “Lost Saint.” You can pick it up via Slumberland Records on June 8th. But more good news comes in the announcement of a North American tour. Okay, so it won’t come to Canada, but it will hit border cities like Buffalo and Rochester, New York, which are pretty close to Ontario. Even better is the news that fuzzy indie kids Surfer Blood will support them.

No Age is giving away a live album they recorded in Los Angeles recently. The gig was a performance of the score they wrote for a short film by Todd Cole for Rodarte titled Aenteni. You can grab it here.

Mates Of State’s next album will be strictly covers. The married couple of Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner recorded/produced the album themselves, which they’ve cutely named Crushes (The Covers Mixtape). Some artists’ songs you’ll hear include Death Cab For Cutie (“Technicolor Girls”), Belle & Sebastian (“Sleep the Clock Around”), The Mars Volta (“Son et Lumiere”), Daniel Johnston (“True Love Will Find You in the End”), Girls (“Laura”), Nick Cave (“Love Letter”), and Tom Waits (“Long Way Home”).

More details have emerged from the forthcoming album by The National. Due on May 11th, High Violet will feature Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and Justin Vernon from Bon Iver in different capacities.

Finally, the rumours of legendary hardcore fusionists Refused reuniting were false, we know this, but the band will be reissuing their landmark 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come on two gorgeous slabs of blue wax limited to 500 copies. It won’t be out till June 8th, but pre-orders are underway and for something like this, it’s best not to wait.