October 13th, 2010

Claudia Deheza, one half of School Of Seven Bells’ identical twin sisters, has announced her departure from the band via Facebook, citing ‘personal reasons’ for her decision.

Not long after using Facebook to inform fans work on their second album had all but finished, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold has returned to the site today to do a spot of backtracking, and has said the new record actually ‘still has a ways to go’.

One of the greatest albums in rock history gets even better with the November 9 release on Backstreet/Geffen/UMe of the expanded and remastered Deluxe Edition of Damn The Torpedoes from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The Deluxe Edition release will be available with a choice of four formats (1) on two-CDs, (2) on one audiophile quality Blu-ray disc, (3) on 2 180-gram vinyl LPs and (4) as an iTunes LP.

Little over a year after releasing their debut album “Nothing Gold Can Stay“, The Duke & The King, the band lead by Simone Felice and Bobbie Bird Burke, have released their second album “Long Live The Duke & The King” on Loose Music/ Silva Oak.

There’s more good news for Mumford & Sons today as it has been announced they have received nominations in all but one of the Artist categories for this year’s UK Festival awards.

Cold War Kids have unveiled details of their forthcoming third studio album, their first since 2008′s ‘Loyalty To Loyalty‘.