We're not going to make any announcements about the new Cat Power album until there is complete silence in the auditorium.

We can wait all day if that's what you want.

Chan Marshall's new album is called 'You Are Free' and it will be released in February 2003 on CD and LP. Much as we'd love to divulge full details about where and how it was made, you've proved yourself to be such an unruly mob, perhaps it is better to wait until things have calmed down a bit.

Neko Case - newly licensed to Matador in Europe.

Matador has licensed the 3rd album from vocalist neko case, 'Blacklisted', coming out in late October. this stunning recording is licensed from our friends at mint records of vancouver, british columbia, ...

Once again, Case cast a wide net among her talented friends for musicians to play on her new album. Joining her are longtime Neko collaborators Jon Rauhouse and Tom V. Ray, and Dallas Good (The Sadies). She also asked Joey Burns and John Convertino (Calexico), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Brian Connelly (Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Atomic 7), Kelly Hogan, and Mary Margaret O'Hara to lend their talents and exuberantly describes the recording process as "the best time in the studio ever."...

Neko is currently in Europe on a promotional visit ; live dates are planned for January 2003....

Yo La Tengo - (writing sales notes for "nuclear) war" is hell

as mentioned briefly last time, the new Yo La Tengo 12"/CD single (coming in November) consists of 4 different versions of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" : one features many young children (you're never too young to learn profanity), another featuring guest contributions from Susie Ibarra, Josh Madell (Antietam), Roy Campbell Jr., Daniel Carter and Sabir Mateen. there's also a remix by Mike Ladd

Yo La Tengo are currently in Nashville, TN working on their new album, schedule for release during the first half of 2003. In the meantime, you can entertain and enlighten yourself by visiting the mind-wrenching Q&A section at Yo La Tengo's official site. There's no such thing as an innocent question.