From the Salmon

It’s been raining for days here, and it’ll probably keep raining through the weekend. I don’t know that it’s necessarily the rain’s fault that I don’t have anything of substance to write, but it makes for a convenient scapegoat.

I do, however, have a few tasty music tidbits. Lordy, do I have tidbits....

Feist!

For example, Feist announced the tracklist from her upcoming album, The Reminder. And I’ve already seen more than half of the songs live!

Back in December, when we saw her open for Death Cab for Cutie, she mentioned that she’d just finished the album and then went on to play something like six new songs. Here’s “I Feel It All” and “Sea Lion Woman” for your anticipatory excitement:

(There’s more where that came from… the whole set in six parts. Enjoy!)

Iron & Wine!

In other album news, Sam Beam played the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee this week and informed the audience that his new record will be called “The Shepherd’s Dog.” No official release date yet, but I’m awfully excited about this. He played eight new songs, including one called ”Flightless Bird, American Mouth.” Since YouTube doesn’t want to let me embed that track, you get to see Sam rock the falsetto on “Upward Over the Mountain” (quite possibly my favorite Iron & Wine song):

Radiohead?

This probably means nothing, but Amazon.co.uk lists the new Radiohead album for pre-order. They claim it will hit August 6 on EMI (in the UK, one assumes). Seems a little premature, since they don’t have a title, much less (as far as I know) a contract with a label. Well, that and they haven’t even finished recording. All I know is, the sooner I get studio versions of “15 Steps” and “Down Is the New Up,” the happier I’ll be.