Music News in Brief

March 18th 2008 by E..

The Raconteurs to release their new album, Consolers Of The Lonely, next week!!…I guess in the Thom and Trent school of music marketing, not promoting your new album is the new, um, promoting your new album…even us radio folks won’t be able to get our fader-sliding fingers on the record until it’s released to everyone…it’s better off that way, if only to avoid revisiting Jack White’s reaction to Icky Thump’s leak…

Robyn Hitchcock is going to record a collaborative album with Andy Partridge…I’m pretty sure that this record is being done just for me, but on the off chance you’re also excited for it, you can placate yourself by listening to their collaboration from 2006’s Ol