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I was nearly stunned into cardiac arrest when I overheared the Glenn Beck Program the other morning.  After a commercial break the intro music was none other than Tokyo Police Club’s “Graves.”  However, my elation was cut short by Glenn Beck’s barking voice a couple of seconds later.  He didn’t mention the band of course, and he probably had nothing to do with the choice to air it.  The contrast between the programming and the music was almost too much.

Afterward, I dug around the internet trying to find “Graves.”  Instead I found some important news.  Tokyo Police Club is working on their new album named Masterworks In The Key Of Mastery, Feat. Baron von Fantastic and the Even More Simon Express.   The guys are finishing recording their record in LA right now.  So far there isn’t an official release date but their blog allows adoring fans to follow their every move.  They’ve even posted a video of a hockey game with some of their fellow rockers.  Tokyo Police Club can skate.  They certainly aren’t putting Canada to shame.

Who knows, next time you listen to an obnoxious talk show you just might hear some of your favorite music.  If you want to listen to radio that has nothing to do with Glenn Beck but has everything to do with awesome bands like Tokyo Police Club, listen to Your Mom on Sundays from 3-5pm starting January 24th.

~itchy

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Itchy and Kreig are coming back to the airwaves January 24th to kick off the last season of Your Mom.  We’re going to have oodles of new music to share.  We also plan to make this the best season of Your Mom.  That is, if you’re up to it.

January also means many many of our favorite bands are unleashing new records.  Your Mom has waited years for some of these CDs.  We’ve cried over tantalizingly delicious singles.  Beyond January, there’s a slew of Your Mom’s favorite bands who are looking to release new albums in 2010.

On January 12th, both OK Go’s CD, Of the Blue Color of the Sky, and Vampire Weekend’s Contra will be in stores.  OK Go’s last release, Oh No, came out in 2006 so it’s been a pretty hearty wait.  Ok Go were also one of the bands that pulled the creative geniuses of Itchy and Kreig together, so they have some history with Your Mom.  This CD was produced by Dave Fridmann, the same guy that produced MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular.  Frontman Damian Kulash says of the album, “I think it sounds more like us than anything else we’ve done.”

Vampire Weekend’s wild crazy popularity meant that they churned out Contra in better time than OK Go.  Their first CD, Vampire Weekend came out January of 2008 and went gold.  After their adoption by MTV, they became relatively popular in the US.  In the UK they became even more popular and broke through the top 100 on the UK singles chart with A-Punk and Oxford Comma.  Rolling Stone review of Contra gave it four stars, if their opinion matters anymore.  If that doesn’t win you over, listen to this remix of their single “Cousins”.

Of Montreal, among the most fantastic of the Georgian rockers, are planning to release their next album either titled False Priest or The Controller Sphere in August or September.  Kevin Barnes, of Montreal front man and David Bowie’s spiritual son, says that he worked on this record alone and drunk in the studio.  The result?  “Some of the stuff is wild and bizarre and terrible.  And some of it is wild and bizarre and kind of good,” said Barnes to stereogum this January.

Speaking of MGMT, their sophomore album Congratulations is coming out this Spring.  Los Campesinos!, soulful  Brit rockers, will release their Romance is Boring  on January 26th.  Adding to the list: Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, The Thermals, Free Energy, Gorillaz and even The Strokes are releasing albums in 2010.

Will this be the best year of your life?  It just might.

~itchy