Listen to some songs that will be on their new album “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends”!

Coldplay - Violet Hill

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Coldplay - A Spell a Rebel Yell

This last song won’t be on the album, but will be a B-side on a special vinyl of ‘Violet Hill’

Edit:
Extra B-side from ‘Violet Hill’

Coldplay - Lost

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Yes, Mellow Music is back!

- Why?
Because I feel like it. I was a bit tired of writing a review every day and that’s why I quit and started doing other stuff to entertain myself: it wasn’t fun anymore … But now I feel like writing back.

- Is it going to be the same?
No, I will definitely post less than before, so that it remains fun for me. I will also post some random rants sometimes, just because I like it. There will be no more Musicnews or Tournews : I don’t think anyone really read that stuff and it wasn’t fun writing it.

So you can expect some fresh album reviews in the near future!

PS: I also updated the frontpage of ICkStuff … A lot better now in my opinion!

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As everyone will have noticed by now: I’m quiting the mellow music blogging…

Why?
- No time
- Lost interest

If someone wants to take-over … mail me (see Contact)

If you want to look for mellow albums yourself: use the music-search @ http://www.ickstuff.com/ (Free Filehosts)

Peace out,

S

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• Raised By Swans is an indie rock band that makes great music! Convince yourself:

  Raised By Swans - Capable of Cruelty
  

  Raised By Swans - Relentless
  

  Raised By Swans - Violet Light
  

• The new album of Jimmy Eat World is already to be found on the dark side of the Internet, but in bad quality. For a decent leak, you all will have to wait a bit longer! To ease the waiting, listen to their first single ‘Big Casino’:
  Jimmy Eat World - Big Casino
  
• I’m not so into remixes, but if you like them, you can find the remix-album of Feist on Debaser!
• The drummer of Placebo, Steve Hewitt, has left the band after 11 years. The split is described as “amicable”

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• Found some nice B-sides of The Editors on a nice blog, Ear Bleeding Country, I often visit.
• Live performance (tol be downloaded) of The National to be found on Deaf Indie Elephants!
• Some new Doves songs: check them out at tha Bomb Shelter!!
• And also some songs of Athlete: Remixes and covers to be found @ Zeon’s Music Blog!

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• Ryan Adams is prepping a 7-track EP, that should be in the shelves around end October. Read more about it in Paste Magazine!
• Poets of the Fall have begun recording a new album after some intense touring. The new album is set to hit the shelves some time next year.
• Ben Gibbard is ‘living the life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived’ to get inspiration for his the new Death Cab for Cutie album. Read more on RS.
• Radiohead has made the soundtrack for ‘Magnolia’ director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film ‘There will be blood’. ‘There Will Be Blood’ is set to be released in US on December 26.

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• Last details of the upcoming album of Jimmy Eat World! ‘Chase The Lights’ will be available in stores from 16 October and it’ll be packed with these songs:
  
  Big Casino
  Let It Happen
  Like She’ll Always Be
  Carry You
  Electable (Give It Up)
  Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues
  Feeling Lucky
  Here It Goes
  Chase This Light
  Firefight
  Dizzy

  On Billboard they say:

  “The record is quite eclectic,” Vig told Billboard.com. “There are three or four songs that sound like classic Jimmy Eat World, with angular, razor-sharp guitars. There are a couple that are a lot more dreamy, and some that are very groove-acious. Anybody who is fan will like this record.”

  And this is the (quite ugly :x) cover (linked from Stereogum):
  

  They are also re-recording ‘Your House’ (originally on Bleed American), and it will probably be released as a B-side.

• The Killers are going to release a new album (which will contain some remixes of older albums) this year and also a B-side album.
• Listen to the Camp America Remix of Athlete’s single ‘Hurricane’:
  
  
• Matt Hales of Aqualung is blogging: follow him here!
• Forthcoming ‘The Shade of Poison Trees’ of Dashboard Confessional will be back like in the early days: acoustic! You can listen to some new stuff of it on their Myspace (I think, I’m not gonna check it, since I’m at work now…)
• U2’s new album has been written and will be released in 2008. There ought to be some footage of them rehearsing the new songs, but I don’t know where … google it yourself!
• The Shins - Little Boxes (Theme to Weeds, a tv show):
  
  
  
  There is also a version of The Decemberists that is said to be quite good … google it!
• Amandine also started working on a new album. No extra information available …

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1. Spotted a nice free EP on Aquarium Drunkard of Great Lake Swimmers, thought I’d share it with you all …
2. A new video of The National:
   
3. Some album news from Razorlight: Read more on NME!
4. Some Coldplay album news:
   As we can read on RS:

   Coldplay posted a hand-written note on their website with details on the foundations for the next, Brian Eno-produced album. The set will have a running time of about forty-two minutes, with a tracklist of approximately nine tunes. Among the possible songs making the cut are “Cemeteries of London,” “Violet Hill,” “Poppy Fields,” “42,” “Leftrightleftrightleft,” “Rainy Day” and the exclamation-happy duo of “Lost!” and “Yes!” The band is still “a few months from finishing” the follow-up to 2005’s X & Y.

5. And last but not least also album news of Death Cab for Cutie:
   They are ready with the pre-production of the follow-up to Plans.

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