Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases! This installment covers a wide swath of the crucial cuts you'll be jamming on through the summer and into the fall, from LPs and EPs to singles and music-related DVDs of note.
Compiling such a list isn't easy in this day and age, with different release dates for digital and physical versions of albums, as well as different release dates for different countries. So we tried to stick with North American physical release dates as much as possible, with exceptions as noted. When an album's North American release date differs from its overseas one, we also made a note of that. Keep in mind that release dates are as shifty as manual transmission, and any one of these is subject to change at any moment.
07-04:
Various Artists: Independents Day ‘08 Compilation
07-07:
Beck: Modern Guilt [XL] [UK release]
Black Kids: Partie Traumatic [Almost Gold] [UK release]
Hercules and Love Affair: "You Belong" single [DFA/EMI] [UK release]
Tricky: Knowle West Boy [Domino] [UK release]
UNKLE: End Titles... Stories for Film [Surrender All] [UK/European release]
07-08:
Alison Moyet: The Turn [Decca]
Architecture in Helsinki: Like It or Not EP [Polyvinyl] [physical release]
A Storm of Light: And We Wept the Black Ocean Within [Neurot]
Abe Vigoda: Skeleton [PPM]
The Baseball Project: Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails [Yep Roc]
Basic Channel: Basic Channel 2 [Basic Channel]
Beck: Modern...
i dont think we’ve done this before: but here is a fan presale for the redrocks concert in colorado on september the 27th. the presale password is “sigurros”.
this post will be deleted when the presale is over. (the general sale for the concert starts on ticketmaster on july the 12th)
two more shows have been added to the bands schedule in europe. on august the 23rd the band visit estonia for the first time, and on november the 17th the band play in amsterdam. more information about these shows are on our tour page.
also “heima” is scheduled to get lots more screenings this summer worldwide. in july the documentary will be screened on the sundance film channel in america several times. in hong kong on the 4th of july the chinese sigur rós fansite will host a screening and it will also be screened at the transmission festival in austria on july the 6th. full details of these events (and all the other summer screenings of “heima” around the world) are available here.
Friendly Fires have announced details of an intimate gig in London later this month.
Radiohead frontman teams up with Gorillaz and The Beta Band for special side project.