New album from Brendan Benson on the way

Brendan Benson's new album You Were Right is available right now in vinyl format for Record Store Day Black Friday and comes out in CD and digital formats December 10. Check out the new tunes "Diamond", "Swallow You Whole" and "Red White And Blues". There's a cool, acoustic-based Benson classic, an old-timey piano romp and a crunchy, rockin' guitar tune. Sounds good!

Brendan Benson's Pretty Baby video

Brooding, melancholy, disturbing. Quite the mood you've set there, Mr. B.

New Brendan Benson song "Bad For Me"

I posted about Brendan Benson's upcoming album What Kind of World coming out April 21.  Now Stereogum's got a first track to listen to.  You can trade your email address for a copy of the track over at Brendan's site, too.

And thanks to Brendan for tweeting about my previous post! Muchos gracias!

Pic from Brendan's site.

New album from Brendan Benson coming out in April

Brendan Benson, sometimes known as the co-founder of The Raconteurs, has been putting out some great music on his own for many years.  He's just announced that he's got a new album coming out on April 21 and it's called What Kind of World.

If you're not familiar with his easy going power pop, check some out here!

"A Whole Lot Better",


"Eyes on the Horizon", and


"Don't Wanna Talk" from 2009's My Old, Familiar Friend.


And "Spit it Out", and


"Cold Hands Warm Heart" from his 2005 album Alternative to Love.


Great songs!  Looking forward to this release.

And while I'm at it, here's some Raconteurs with "Steady as She Goes",


"Hands", and


"Level" from 2006's Broken Boy Soldiers.


Great tunes!