Totally Fuzzy — Listen to The Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks before it arrives on June 7. And we got a little bonus for you as well... The Wooden Birds are a band from Austin, Texas (with members also in Brooklyn, NY), led by former American Analog Set frontman, A... more info

KEXP Seattle — The third and final day of Bumbershoot 2010 was just as exciting as the first! Sunday brought great indie bands (Surfer Blood, BOAT, The Clientele, Japandroids and The Thermals), vintage soul from Booker T., Canadian heavy metal from Anvil and a whol... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — The Clientele frontman Alasdair MacLean recorded this dreamy-sounding cover of the Byrds' "Draft Morning" with Argentinan post-rock outfit Hacia Dos Veranos, and you can stream it over at the band's Bandcamp page now. (via the Clientele's Twitter) St... more info

Silent Uproar — The Clientele will release a "mini-album" of eight new songs, Minotaur, on August 31st via Merge Records. The band also have some shows schedule in September. They released Bonfires on the Heath in 2009. [mergerecords.com] more info

Stereogum — The Clientele will release a new mini-album, called Minotaur, in August. It’ll precede their short U.S. tour in September. The first taste from the album is “Jerry” which gets surprisingly aggressive in parts. “Aggressive” for a Clientele s... more info

Pitchfork — Less than a year after the release of their latest LP, Bonfires on the Heath, British psych folkies the Clientele ready Minotaur, a 30-minute, 8-track mini album. It's due out September 6 in the UK via Pointy and a day later in the U.S. on Merge. Tha... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 07-17 Castellon, Spain - Benicàssim Festival 09-02 London, England - Bloomsbury Theatre 09-06 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Festival 09-07 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge 09-09 Oakland, CA - New Parish 09-10 San Francisco, CA - Independent 09-11 Los Ange... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Clientele Merge Records is offering a free 14-song digital sampler on Amazon. The compilation features tracks from Let’s Wrestle, The Clean, Radar Brothers, Wye Oak, Shout Out Louds, She & Him, Alec Bathgate, Lambchop, The Clientele, Lou Barlow... more info

Pitchfork — If anyone can make M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" sound like a willowy folk-rap song, it's the Clientele. And the UK band do just that in the latest episode of the A.V. Club's web series "Undercover". There are no gunshots, but they do interpolate a little ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The A.V. Club have a series called Undercover where they hand picked 25 songs for bands to cover and then allow bands to choose from the pre-selected songs. Once a song is covered, it is crossed off and a limited number of choices are available. The ... more info