The drummer and producer had his name on four April releases, including “Thr!!!ler” by !!! and “Nuestro Camino” by Austin’s Dupree, which Eno put out on his own. But Spoon is also hard at work on their eighth record.

The most important thing to read out of this besides all the great stuff that Jim’s been up to:

I feel like now we’re like, super-psyched to get back together. We’re gonna be going pretty hard into it. That is all of our focus.

Austin American-Statesman: Spoon drummer and producer Jim Eno adds ‘label owner’ to his résumé 

From today’s Spoon mailing list email:

SPOON LPVIII PROGRESS

Amigos — a few announcements: first, we are totally in the process of making a new Spoon record. We’ve all been hanging out at Jim’s a lot the past couple months and we’re still in the writing stages, but the shit is sounding good.

Some of the songs in progress:
The Rent I Pay
Naff Bag
Millionaires
Let Me Be Mine
Modern Girls
I Ain’t The One
Fresh From Your Pages
Give Me It

Meanwhile, Britt just finished a new 2-song single with Divine Fits which should be out soon and there will be a bunch of Divine Fits shows over the next few months:

For tickets: www.divinefits.com/tour
New Britt Daniel facebook page: facebook.com/brittdaniel

And in other news, Jim Eno has started a record label! Named after his studio in Austin, TX, Public Hi-Fi Records is officially launching this week with the release of Nuestro Camino, the debut album from Austin-based B3 organ trio Dupree. The label will be entirely curated by Jim as an outlet for music he loves, for the unsigned artists he’s recorded, and as a place to issue special pressings of previously unreleased tracks from his array of artist sessions. He will produce and engineer each release, and all music will be released on limited-edition 12-inch vinyl with accompanying high quality digital downloads. You can visit Public Hi-Fi’s brand-new website to learn more about the project, the label and the studio here. And order Nuestro Camino here.

Also meanwhile, Eric has been living in Dallas, working on a follow-up to his solo record, producing bands, making art, and spending time with his fiancé and their dog. You can see what he’s been up to at http://www.ericharvey.com. His solo record is available on itunes and bandcamp. And if your band wants to record with him in Dallas you can email him at info@ericharvey.com.

And since the last album Rob has quit smoking again, mastered the NYC subway system, and is opening a bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn named Lake Street in the very near future.

thimphudavid:

Divine Fits at Coachella 2013, weekend 2

From the Britt Daniel Facebook page:

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Huxley Britt Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother’s cousin, Gussie Daniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Huxley Daniel. In 1981, the Daniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Huxley and became known as Britt Daniel. In Chicago, he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the latter for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18. Daniel was more impressed, however, by the pulsating rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentacostal Church, as well as an interest in The Cure.

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