The hiatus is over. After a four year break, fans of Sigur Rós will finally get a new album from the celebrated Icelandic group. Their sixth studio album entitled Valtari will be released on May 26th.

The eight track LP will feature more “electronic” style songs than their last album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. Following the announcement, the band released the first video off the new album, Ekki Múkk, which you can watch below.

Sigur Rós is heading out on tour this coming August with their first stop at the incredible Osheaga Festival in Montréal. The rest of the tour dates can be seen HERE.

Valtar
1. Ég anda
2. Ekki múkk
3. Varúð
4. Rembihnútur
5. Dauðalogn
6. Varðeldur
7. Valtari
8. Fjögur píanó

Record Store Day is fast approaching and the list of new records is starting to surface for record geeks to drool over. Dine Alone Records in Toronto are pulling out some new and rare albums to press for this years offering.

Alexisonfire will have their Math Sheet Demos pressed on vinyl for the first time. The record will be pressed on white wax and will include liner notes from front man George Pettit. This is a must have for any Alexis fans out there. /1000

The second pressing of Attack in Black’s album Marriage will not only feature the whole album on a 12” but will also include a bonus 10’ with five unreleased tracks. /500

Dine Alone will also be re-releasing .Moneen.’s 2xLP The Red Tree, which includes a unreleased 7”, as well as vinyl from Wool, The Civil Wars, and a new Monster Truck/DZ Deathrays split.

Happy Record Store Day everyone!

Great Lakes Brewery will be holding their ever so popular Project X event at The Dominion On Queen tonight. We are celebrating International Women’s Day with all proceeds going to Women’s Habitat of Etobicoke.

This month, the women from Great Lakes made the featured beer, which is an “Apple Macintosh Carmel Ale.” Sounds delicious. There will be live music and food provided by The Dominion On Queen. Can’t miss this.

Project X runs from 6:30-9:30. Make sure you get there early because last time the event was held outside the brewery (Movember party at The Rhino) there was a line up of people itching to get in.

The Dominion On Queen is located at 500 Queen St E. See you there.

In the January 2012 issue of SPIN, Toronto’s Fucked Up recieved Album of the Year honours for their “rock opera” David Comes to Life.

In the final pages of the issue, a feature article by David Marchese gave the readers an insight into the unconventional band. In that feature, fans of the band and record nerds alike were given some insight to some interesting information how the band will ultimately call it quits.

“[Mike] Haliechuk doesn’t know when Fucked Up will stop for good. Nor does he know why they would stop. But he does know how. Fucked Up’s first five seven-inches had a code on their respective covers. The back covers contained they key to that code. The band’s final seven-inch will contain the information needed to complete the code which, once deciphered, will reveal itself as a poem specifying a date, place, and time. “We’ll be there,” says Haliechuk. “We’ll hit the destruct button.”

Fucked Up’s first five seven-inches were (in order) No Pasaran, Police, Baiting The Public, Dance of Death, and Litany. No Pasaran had a “F, A, I, C, N, T” on the back cover. Police has the number “71” placed on the shoulders of the officer. The other three have no obvious letters or numbers that jump out.

Is Haliechk fucking with us? It is very possible.

But of course we won’t know until that final seven-inch is released. Let’s hope that won’t be for quite some time.

If you have any insight or guesses about this, drop something into my ask box.