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You wanna hear clips from every song on Brandon Flowers’ new solo album Flamingo?

If that is a yes, click here. If that’s a no, click here.

Either way everything is gonna be ok.

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"What? Huh? Speak, up! I can't hear you. Because I'm old" - These guys

R.E.M. is making some news today. About time. Where the hell have those guys been? They’ve probably been sitting in their castles counting all their money. Unless they hired shady managers like everyone in the 80s. Then they might be making appearances at casinos and county fairs. Well, according to reports hitting the interwebs today, one place they’ve been is recording a new album and according to these same reports that new album will be “old school.”

I’m not sure what that even means. The last three U2 albums were supposed to be “old school U2” and they weren’t and they sucked. So… whatever. I’ll believe it when I see it. Or hear it I guess.

But in real “old school” R.E.M. news, the band released a previously unreleased song from the band’s Fables of the Reconstruction album sessions. The song, “Throw Those Trolls Away” can be listened to on the band’s website or by just clicking here.

I’ll admit, it’s been awhile since I really gave a shit about R.E.M. but I’m going to try to keep my mind open on this new album. But I swear… if they burn me I’ll totally U2 their ass. And by “U2 their ass” I mean I’ll kick them out of my heart and tell everyone I know that listening to them will give you brain cancer.

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With Fall Out Boy on indefinite hiatus Pete Wentz has to do something I guess. So instead of sitting around and counting money and regretting hooking up with the ugly Simpson sister, Wentz has started a new band called Black Cards. Yay?

A week ago Wentz leaked a song snippet and did the same thing again yesterday. We here at Music Boxer central ignored it the first time but it appears that this is in fact real (I mean, they even have a Facebook and MySpace page now!) so I figured we might as well put it out there so you guys aren’t surprised by it. We don’t want you coming back to us in a couple months screaming “why didn’t you warn us?!”

So consider this your warning.

But in the case that curiosity is getting the better of you, you can listen to the new song snippet (allegedly titled “Beating in My Chest”) by heading over to a password protected Vimeo page and entering “july8.” Click here to listen.

The song is pretty poppy. And by “pretty” I mean “really.” The band is apparently fronted by a woman as both song leaks feature a female singer. Coincidently, both song snippets are completely uninteresting to me… but whatever. What do I know anyways?

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"I am incapable of hu-man feeling" - The dude on the left

Here are a couple little pieces of Radiohead news for everyone.

First, Radiohead will release a new album this year – or at least that’s the word on the (Twitter) street.

Second, this:

Jesus…

Third, Radiohead drummer, Phil Selway, has a “solo” album coming out and today released the first track for us all to enjoy. So… enjoy:

By Some Miracle by Philip Selway

Neat!

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The Dirty Projectors (yay!) and Bjork (double yay!) have teamed up to record some new music. The music is weird. I ain’t gonna lie. But if you are a fan of both Dirty Projectors and Bjork (both.. not one or the other) than you probably won’t even blink while listening to the new stuff. Those that are not fans… well… maybe you watch this instead.

The collaboration now has a fancy new website where you can download (after making a donation) the new song “All We Are,” watch some videos and read a letter that explains the project. I started to read the letter but then I got to the part about the family of whales and decided that it would be better if I just didn’t know the story.

Anywho, click here to go to the website to get your Dirty Projector + Bjork on.

In unrelated news, the link I posted earlier (for those that don’t like Bjork and Dirty Projectors) is what’s wrong with this world. Just sayin’. But now that we’ve kinda talked about it we can continue to ignore it… as the world should.

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