Songlines Festival

Rolling Stone reports that a ten-song album filled with never-before-heard Michael Jackson songs is due out in November via Sony. It is not yet known which Jackson era the songs are from-- the late singer's manager told Rolling Stone there are "more than 100 completed and unreleased songs" in existence, including relatively recent collaborations with Akon, Will.i.am and Ne-Yo as well as tracks left off classic albums like Thriller and Bad. The album is the first of 10 forthcoming projects as part of a $250 million dollar deal with Sony that includes reissues, a greatest hits, and a DVD.

On August 17, Definitive Jux/Fat Possum will put out King of Hearts, the debut (and final) solo album by late rapper/producer Camu Tao. To coincide with the release, the labels are offering a free download of Forever Frozen in Television Time, the 2005 EP from Central Services, Camu Tao's collaboration with Def Jux founder/producer/rapper El-P. You can grab the whole shebang here. It features a cover of "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News, retitled "I Need a New Drug".

Also, you can hear El-P's new instrumental album Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 (due out August 3 on Gold Dust) in its entirety over on his MySpace.

The yelping member of Animal Collective, Avey Tare aka Dave Portner, is coming out with a solo album called Down There on October 26 via AnCo's own Paw Tracks imprint. The nine-song record is his first totally solo affair and was recorded by AnCo member Josh Dibb aka Deakin.

According to a press release, Avey's "favorite animals are the otter and crocodile [and] the latter has played a big role in his newest record.?" I guess that explains the swampy promo pic above and the album's cover, which you can view along with the album's tracklist after the jump:

Perhaps you've seen this YouTube channel allegedly streaming the entire Daft Punk Tron Legacy soundtrack. Well, like several other impostors before it, this newest "leak" is also a fake, according to Daft Punk's camp.

To hear totally genuine (and bombastic) bits from the actual Daft Punk score right now, click here.

Vimeo-- aka YouTube for the web-savvy set-- is holding its first ever festival and awards shindig in New York City October 8-9. To help judge which online videos are the best, the site has a group of heavy hitters including filmmakers David Lynch, Doug Pray, Morgan Spurlock, Roman Coppola, and a multi-media troublemaker you may have heard of named M.I.A. (The full list of judges is here.)

In their heyday, Michael Gira's NYC-based noise-punk outfit Swans were pretty fucking loud. Gira's gotten a new lineup together to restart the project, and the newly-revitalized Swans will release a new full-length, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, September 21 Update: the release has moved to October 5) via Gira's own Young God Records. (That's the cover pictured above.)

Artist: Gang Gang Dance
EP: Kamakura
Release Date: August 2
Label: Southern Records

Photo by Jelle Wagenaar

You might've heard that NYC gloom merchants Interpol have a new, self-titled record coming out September 7 via Matador. You also might've grabbed the album's second "single", "Barricade", when it hit iTunes a while back. Well, Interpol played "Barricade" on the "Late Show With David Letterman" last night, so a lot more people have heard that song now.

Photo on front page by Kathryn Yu; photo on this page by Patrick Heagney

"You look like a playground to me, player," sings of Montreal front man Kevin Barnes to duet partner Solange Knowles on the laid-back, Mayfield-inspired new track "Sex Karma". (Think: New Radicals.) The band's performance of the track on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last night was characteristically goofy-- they all wore white face paint and a few non-playing mimes even had a milk party in the middle of the stage. Meanwhile, Barnes wore a Genesis-era Peter Gabriel get-up and looked endearingly awkward next to a natural-like Solange. They also did the less funky, previously released new one "Coquet Coquette" with a couple gas-mask-wearing sword fighters in a performance for the Fallon website. Watch it all below.

False Priest is out September 14 in North America on Polyvinyl (September 13 in Europe).

This September, Christmas is going to come a little bit early for fans of pretty-sounding electronic textures and gentle noise, as Austrian electronic composer Christian Fennesz will hit North American shores for a month-long tour. Fennesz is scheduled to perform a string of U.S. and Canadian dates after some scheduled European festival appearances throughout August. The tour covers mostly major cities, so, sorry, Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Maybe next year. Check out the tour dates below.