Music

This Morning In New Music April 23, 2010

by Ciaran Thompson

Seattle’s Death Cab For Cutie have plans to record the followup to their major label debut Narrow Stairs and fans can expect the album early next year. “We’re going in the studio in June to start working on the record,” lead singer Ben Gibbard said in an interview with MTV. “We’re going to be recording through the summer and into the fall… we’re probably looking for a spring 2011 release…I feel like we have a lot more records to make.” [MTV]

Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren was laid to rest yesterday at a cemetery in London. Among those in attendance were Pistols members Glen Matlock and Paul Cook, Annie Lennox, Adam Ant, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and Bob Geldof. McLaren died of cancer in New York on April 8. He was 64. [NME]

And The National’s new LP titled High Violet is currently streaming on the New York Times website. Act fast as it will only be available until April 27. This is the band’s fifth studio album and it comes out on May 11. [Pitchfork]