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This Morning In New Music - May 26, 2010
by Ciaran Thompson
May 26, 2010
This morning's new music news; Ra Ra Riot set a release date for their upcoming album The Orchard, the cover art for Eminem's next disc has been unveiled and ex-Dresdon Doll Amanda Palmer is set to release an EP of Radiohead covers.
The new album from Syracuse, New York band Ra Ra Riot entitled The Orchard will be released on August 24. This is the followup to the band’s debut LP released in 2008 called The Rhumb Line. Producer/guitarist Chirs Walla from Death Cab for Cutie mixed nine of the albums 10 tracks while Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij mixed the other. [NME]
The cover art for Eminem’s forthcoming album Recovery has be unveiled on his official website (above). This will be the rapper’s seventh studio album following Relapse, released last year. The disc drops on June 22. [Eminem]
And former Dresdon Doll member Amanda Palmer is set to release an EP of Radiohead covers. In an email to fans the singer said,”i’m going to unveil my NEW ALBUM PROJECT, which *might* be an EP, and it *might* be an EP of radiohead songs, and i *might* be playing those radiohead songs on a magical instrument like, oh, a little ukulele.” The album is expected this summer. [TwentyFourBit]
Tags: Music, News, Amanda Palmer, Eminem, The Orchard
