DOWNLOAD: Lambchop - "Gone Tomorrow" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Lambchop - "If Not I'll Just Die" (MP3)

Kurt Wagner's Nashville-based alt-country band Lambchop are set to release their first album since 2008's OH (Ohio); Mr. M, on February 21 via Merge. The album is dedicated to Vic Chestnutt, who passed away in 2009, and whose 1998 album The Salesman and Bernadette was recorded with Lambchop as his backing band. It includes the tracks "If Not I'll Just Die" and "Gone Tomorrow," which you can download above and stream below, along with a trailer video and the artwork and tracklist. You can pre-order the album at the Merge webstore as a CD or double LP, the latter of which includes 4 vinyl-only bonus tracks, one of which is a cover of Glen Campbell's "Guess I'm Dumb," co-written and produced by Brian Wilson. According to Merge, "While supplies last, preorders will include a poster (the first 150 of which will be signed!) featuring Kurt Wagner's original paintings used in Mr. M's liner notes and a Lambchop Mr. M coin purse."

Lambchop have a number of European dates scheduled in support of the release from February to April and are beginning to announce North American dates, including a NYC show happening on April 19 at Le Poisson Rouge. Tickets for the LPR show are on sale now.

All currently known dates, video, streams, and album info below...

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DOWNLOAD: Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & the Amorphous Strums - And How (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & the Amorphous Strums - Teddy Bear (MP3)

"Athens' musical mainstays Vic Chesnutt and Elephant 6 originals Elf Power will hit the road this fall in support of their collaborative release, Dark Developments on Orange Twin Records. In addition to performing songs together from Dark Developments, Elf Power will open each night playing tunes from its most recent release In A Cave released earlier this year by Rykodisc."

They are actually going out together on two separate tours. The first tour starts tonight (Oct 29) in Oxford, MS and runs through November 22nd. The second tour starts January 21, 2009, hits Bowery Ballroom in NYC two days later (tickets) and ends with a homecoming show in Athens on February 7th. All dates below...

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Vic Chesnutt @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC - May 20, 2008 (i mei)

tonight in NYC
* Cosmo Vitelli @ Love
* free Ra Ra Riot show
* Baby Dayliner @ Southpaw
* Flosstradamus @ Studio B
* Junkie XL @ Hiro Ballroom
* Alice Smith @ Highline Ballroom
* Thrones & Ocrilim @ Death By Audio
* Opeth & Dream Theater @ Terminal 5
* Laura Veirs & Liam Finn @ Bowery Ballroom
* Bear Hands, Action Painters, Saints and Lovers, Jaguar Club @ Mercury Lounge

What else?