Chorus.fm — Check the cover for *Spoon* (http://www.myspace.com/spoon)'s new album, Transference, in the replies. more info

Stereogum — We've talked a bit about Spoon's anticipated seventh album Transference , the band's followup to 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: You've seen the 11-song tracklist, heard some of its sounds via earlier live and later studio takes, and may have watched a te... more info

Guardian Music — Paul Morley introduces his alternative view of the decade that wasI don't know about you – and I'll just get this out of my system before the ghost of Christmas past comes to give me what for – but if there's one thing worse than a care... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I normally move away quickly to the opposite corner of the record shop as fast as I can if someone points in the direction of a charity record, for almost without exception they are well-meaning but crap.But not Dark Was The Night, a 2CD release fro... more info

NME — 'Transference' will now be released on January 18 2010 more info

Chorus.fm — *Spoon's (http://myspace.com/spoon)* new album Transference will be coming out a week earlier on January 19th. more info

Live Daily — Alt-rockers Spoon [ tickets ] have lined up a few December dates ahead of the January release of the band's new studio album, "Transference." The Austin, TX-based outfit will kick off the slate with a Dec. 3 appearance at a radio-station show in K... more info

Guardian Music — From Hip Hop Weekly to the Source, urban music magazines offer a mixed approach to covering rap's inner conflictsWhat was I thinking? After two and a half years of striving to inspire a heated debate with an outmoded combination of impassioned polemi... more info

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