First Week Sales + New Releases (COLD WAR KIDS!)

The Decemberists new album - The Crane Wife debuted at #35 selling just over 26K Copies. 1st Week Totals Evanescence - Open Door - 447,342 (#1) The Killers - Sam's Town - 314,788 (#2) BECK - The Information - 99,481 (#7) JET - Shine On - 51,104 (#17) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife - 26,226 (#35) The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America - 8,323 (#124) Sean Lennon - 6,688 - (#152) The Dears - Gang of Losers - 1,485 NEW RELEASES: DANIEL HUTCHENS Justin (aka The Aquarium Drunkard) just started a new record label called Autumn Tone. His first release from Daniel Hutchens - Love Songs for Losers hit stores yesterday. Congrats Justin! Read more about the release and download MP3s at Aquarium Drunkard. MICHAEL BASSETT My friends from NYC also started a new label called Eschatone. Their first release from singer/songwriter modern folk existentialist Michael Bassett entitled Puddleskinwaving is in stores now [amazon] [iTUNES] Michael Basset is heading out on tour. Click here for dates. Great classic folk songs. Cold War Kids' Downtown Recording debut Robbers and Coward is now officially on shelves (WOOOOOOOT!!!). The album combines the band's previous EP plus a few new tracks. Try and get in to Cold War Kids CD Release Show TONIGHT at Club Spaceland with Delta Spirit if you can. Both bands are bananas. Purchase Robbers & Cowards Now [BUY] COOL ON THE INTER-NERD: Absolut Noise has an interview with I'm From Barcelona [READ] IN THE NEWS: A small plane just flew into a 50 story high rise apartment building in Manhattan's Upper East Side [STORY] TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES: Kasabian, Mew @ Henry Fonda Meric Long/Dodo Bird @ Little Pedro's Cold War Kids CD RELEASE SHOW w/ Delta Spirit @ Club Spaceland The National, Baby Dayliner, Mobius Band @ Troubadour Jesse Syjes and The Sweet Hereafter, The Shore, Starlight Frequency, Junia May & The Hymns @ Silverlake Lounge Red Sparowes, These Arms Are Snakes, Planes Mistaken For Stars @ Knitting Factory, Main Stage Silentist, Valet, Terrors, Neil Patrick Hardcore, Bobby Sandova @ The Smell Silent Treatment, Worldwide Spies, Drugscene, Aerodrone, Cash 4 Cars @ The Viper Room Missy Higgins, Quincy Coleman, Brandi Shearer, Courtney Jaye @ Hotel Cafe Red Letter Band, Rick Hromadka, Zach Broocke @ Genghis Cohen The Hot IQs, Lyra, Solare @ The Scene Bar, Glendale Dub Club @ The Echo JAX - The Rock Insider