Weekly News Roundup - 05/05/13 - Ft. Sigur Rós, Fleetwood Mac, Wolf Alice

It's been a pretty bitchin' week for music y'all.

Fleetwood Mac has released a new EP - you can stream it via NPR right here.

She & Him are streaming their new album 'Volume 3' right now, over on NPR, before it's release on 7 May.



Tamp Impala did a pretty excellent cover of OutKast's 'Prototype'.

Sigur Rós are soundtracking an episode of the Simpson on 19 May - intriguing...

From the Sigur Rós website:

in the episode, entitled “the saga of carl,” homer, moe, lenny, and carl team up to buy a winning lottery ticket, but after carl snags the ticket and flees to his home country of iceland, the guys head there in hot pursuit. the band’s music scores homer’s visit to iceland, marking an unprecedented musical collaboration between the show and a band; with this episode, sigur rós have written and performed more original music for the simpsons than any other outside band in the show’s history.
says simpsons creator matt groening, “i’m a longtime fan of sigur rós, and we’re honored to bring their icelandic, ambient moods to our goofy cartoon show.”

Youth Lagoon and CocoRosie will be co-headlinging the Barbican on 20 July. Dead excited about this already! The Barbican's website states:

"American duo CocoRosie returns with a powerfully poetic blend of organic and electronic in their fifth studio album, Tales Of A GrassWidow (City Slang), produced in association withValgeir Sigurðsson (Bjork, Nico Muhly). 

Expanding on the woozy psychedelia of his 2010 debut The Year of Hibernation, Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon presents Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum) – an album which stems from an increasing fascination with 'where the spiritual meets the physical world."

Spectrals streams ‘A Heartbeat Behind’ from his new album Sob Story which will drop via Wichita on 17 June:

Wolf Alice are streaming their new single 'Bros'  which is set for release on May 20th via Chess Club Records.