The Shins new album, Port of Morrow, will be out March 20th. Click here to listen to the first track “Simple Song”. The ten track album was recorded in Los Angeles and Portland over the course of 2011 with James Mercer as usual handling all songwriting duties, lead vocals and the majority of instrumentation. The album was produced by Greg Kurstin and mixed by Rich Costey.
Brooklyn’s White Rabbits have also announced they’ll have a new album out on March 6th. Click here to check out “Heavy Metal” from Milk Famous.
Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with lymphoma. They still plan to release new album. More from The Washington Post.
Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer has directed the video for “Whole Love” from his dad’s band Wilco. The video features his brother Sammy.
On another musical family note, Jay-Z and Beyonce celebrated the birth of their new daughter Blue Ivy Carter with “Glory”, a new track by the famous dad, released yesterday.
Mini Twitter Roundup: Radiohead will play west coast dates around Coachella. The Roots‘ Questlove reacts to the news a big screen version of 24 is coming: 24 is back!!!!!!
