"City Farm: Roots", Alpha Rev's new EP, is available NOW!
You can preview all the songs on their facebook page and download the opening track for free here. And from what I heard, I can say that "City Farm" is a lovely, back to the roots 5-track mini-album.

As stated before on weChameleon, Alpha Rev raised money to record and promote this EP through a PledgeMusic campaign. This is what the texans said about it: "To everyone who pledged to make this EP a reality, from all of us at Alpha Rev, thank you for being a part of making this record come true, and we hope that it does for you what it is already doing for us - bringin' us back to our roots."

In addition to the new EP, Alpha Rev have re-released their brilliant last full-length album "New Morning" with 10 previously unreleased b-sides from the "New Morning" sessions. You can preview it on facebook. And don't forget to visit their store to buy the music!

American alternative/psychedelic rockers Portugal. The Man have a new video out: it's for the single "So American", off their recently released Atlantic record "In The Mountain In The Cloud". Watch the video clicking on the image on the left.

Hurricane Bells will release their new, PledgeMusic financed, album on October, 25th. It's titled "Tides And Tales" and you can download the track "Possibilities" for free, here.

Tennessee rockstars Paramore have just released a new song called "Renegade": preview it here. The band is currently working on their fourth studio album, that they hope to release early next year.

Well, the guys are in a studio in Nashville working on the follow up to the highly successful "Day & Age" with super-famed producer Brendan O'Brien. The new album is tentatively titled "Battle Born" and will see the light of day early next year. According to Brandon, the sound will be more guitar oriented, "real rock music". Can't wait!

The Killers will be featured on a U2 cover cd, assembled by Q Magazine to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the release of "Achtung Baby". The song chosen by Flowers & Co. is "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)". The album, also featuring Snow Patrol, Depeche Mode, Damien Rice, The Fray, Patti Smith and more, is titled "AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered" and will be included free in the magazine's October 25th issue.

You can find a shinny new biography in the "Band" section of the official Manic Street Preachers' site  for the forthcoming album "National Treasures – The Complete Singles". Each single has been individually addressed by many interesting people with their thoughts on the singles. Head on to the bio now clicking on the image on the left.

Also, if you're in the UK you can download a free MP3 of an acoustic blue version of "Love's Sweet Exile" from Amazon from today onwards. Click here.

To find more info on "National Treasures", out on October 31st, and the brand new single/video "This Is The Day", released a few weeks ago, follow this link and this one.

And remember that last week's NME edition has a special feature on the 25th Anniversary of the Manics. A number you can't miss!

Rooney's frontman Robert Schwartzman will release his first solo album, "Double Capricorn", on October 25, 2011.

100% of the profits from the sale of "Double Capricorn" will be donated to the Tibetan Healing Fund, a not-for-profit humanitarian organization established to improve primary healthcare and education for rural Tibetan women and children.

You can pre-order your own physical or digital copy on Robert's brand new website, RobertSchwartzman.com.

I will update you as soon as I find a preview of the songs on the album. Stay tuned.

As said, Daughtry, the american rock band from North Carolina fronted by former American Idol season 5 finalist Chris Daughtry, will release their third studio album on November 21st through RCA Records.

The title of the album is "Break The Spell" and today the band has finally published the official cover (click on the left image to enlarge).

The first singles off the new album are called "Crawling Back To You" (hear it here) and "Renegade" (follow this link for a full preview).

Daughtry have also a new track out now on "Batman Arkham City - The Album", the musical companion to the new game based on Gotham's Dark Knight. The track is called "Drown In You" and here is where you can listen to it.

"All Hours" is New York pop trio Ivy's new studio album, the first after more than six years from the acclaimed "In The Clear".

Ivy was formed in 1994 by multi instrumentalists Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne, Tinted Windows) and Andy Chase and parisian-born singer Dominique Durand. The band's first album, "Realistic", debuted in the February of 1995. Since then, Adam & co. have spawned five full-length records, an all-covers collection and a number of EPs and singles, with critics hailing their music as a "distinctive brand of evocative, bittersweet pop".

Ivy have already released two singles off "All Hours": "Distant Lights" and "Fascinated". Download the first for free here (right-click and save) and listen to the second here.

"Shake It Out" is the lead single from the new and much anticipated record for english indie pop/art rock act Florence + The Machine.

The album, titled "Ceremonials" and produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Primal Scream) will be released on October 31st in UK on Island Records.

The music video for "Shake It Out" (watch it clicking on the frame here on the side) is set inside a house where a masquerade ball is taking place and where we can see three different Florence Welchs. Enjoy it.