Bella Union recording artist Midlake officially release their long-awaited 2010 album today, The Courage of Others. The band kicked off a three-month tour last week, and played to a sold out crowd Saturday night at Liverpool's The Willamson Tunnels. Midlake's tour will take them from the UK and throughout Europe through Feb. 18th.

On March 1st, after a little more than a week off, the band will resume their 2010 winter tour in Tucson and jaunt up the west coast of the U.S. to Canada, then through the heartland with a final stop in their homebase of Denton, Texas on March 13th. After a month hiatus, Midlake will set out for a two-week long tour of Europe. No official word if the band will perform at SXSW, but it's possible, since they will not be out on tour during the south's biggest music event that takes place in Austin from March 17-21st.

"Acts of Man" - Midlake from The Courage of Others
Midlake official website

Brooklyn band Bottle Up & Go have been rising on the indie rock radars in recent months, and no wonder. The band's 2009 EP, These Bones, is magnificent, and we're thrilled to share a new single with you all, produced and engineered by Jake Aron (Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer) and mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, Black Dice, Obits) with Bear Hands' Val Loper on bass.

Other new releases this week include new albums from The Album Leaf, King of Prussia, Seth Augustus, The Heligoats, and tracks from January releases that we missed, including LPs from Los Campesinos, The Tenant, Worker Bee and Oh No Ono.

"Rather Be Dead" - Bottle Up & Go, single
Bottle Up & Go on MySpace

"Falling from the Sun" - The Album Leaf from A Chorus of Storytellers
The Album Leaf official website

"Waitin for Somethin'" - King of Prussia from The Time Of Great Forgetting
King of Prussia on MySpace

"Tiny Little Head" - Seth Augustus from To the Pouring Rain
Seth Augustus official website

"Fish Sticks" - The Heligoats from Goodness Gracious
The Heligoats on MySpace


January Releases We Missed:

"The Sea is a Good Place to Think about the Future" - Los Campesinos from Romance is Boring - Jan. 26, 2010
Los Campesinos official website

"The Stranger" - The Tenant from Listening/Visitors - Jan. 5, 2010
The Tenant on MySpace

"No Dreams" - Worker Bee from Tangler - DIY on Jan. 11, 2010
Worker Bee on MySpace

"Old Soul" - Giant Cloud from Old Books EP - Jan. 19, 2010
Giant Cloud on MySpace

"Internet Warrior" - Oh No Ono from Eggs - Jan. 15, 2010
Oh No Ono on MySpace

Labels: Midlake, New Releases