Two Shoes

Fantastic London-based indie group Good Shoes announced today that they will be releasing "No Hope, No Future" on January 18th. The disc is their follow-up to 2007's "Think Before You Speak".

The single is Under Control, listen on myspace!
Free second single, The Way My Heart Beats, here.

Tracklisting:

01 The Way My Heart Beats
02 Everything You Do
03 I Know
04 Under Control
05 Do You Remember
06 Our Loving Mother In A Pink Diamond
07 Times Change
08 Thousand Miles An Hour
09 Then She Walks Away
10 City By The Sea

VIDEO: John Mayer - "Who Says" + Personal

Once upon a time in the early part of this decade, I was a die-hard John Mayer fan. Then I started listening to The Strokes.

And now with the news of Battle Studies, JM's first album since Continuum in 2006, I've dug up all of the CDs that comprise his back catalog and had quite a trip.
He's probably the guitarist of this generation.
However, this doesn't really come through on this new single Who Says. First of all, he knocked off his own song Stop This Train on the opening riff and the lyrics are underwhelming and topical (pretty much emotionless) compared to his older work. No doubt it'll sell, and the fiscal prospects are probably the reason why he went back to the studio, but it seems like a step backward.

Let's give Battle Studies a chance anyway.
It's slated for November 17.

Vampire Weekend Sophomore Album Revealed

There they are! The album art and tracklisting for Contra, the
Vamp's follow-up LP.

It's slated for January 12, 2010.