New music from Glasvegas

Glasvegas have a new album on the way. It's called Later... When The TV Turns To Static and it'll be out September 2. Here are a couple of new tunes. "If" features always cool Canadian William Shatner. Great sounding tunes.

"If"

"I'd Rather Be Dead (Than Be With You)"

Five by Five: Jools Holland

Later with Jools Holland is a fantastic show in that they bring together diverse artists, present them in a true live sound setting and give exposure to new artists and established stars. If they could get Jools himself to enunciate, it would be perfect, but I'm probably reaching.

Here are five five-star rated tunes performed live on Jools.

"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead

"Tighten Up" by The Black Keys

"Glory Box" by Portishead

"Stuck Between Stations" by The Hold Steady

"Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS

New Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand have a new album coming out August 27. It'll be called Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action and they've released two classic Franz sounding tunes for our enjoyment and general excitement-building.

"Love Illumination"

"Right Action"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs video from atop the Empire State Building

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have just released a new clip from Mosquito. It's for the song "Despair" and they've made history as the first band to film a video on the top of the Empire State Building. So there.

Uplifting!

New Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys just announced that their new album, called AM, will be released September 10. Here's the first track from the album, "Do I Wanna Know?" It starts off with the drum beat from "Closer" and then uses a smooth lick to transform into a downtempo groove.

I posted the track "R U Mine?" back in April of last year.

Does anyone think that their choice of album title, along with Beady Eye's recent BE, is part of some global conspiracy?