Proggy warriors Yeasayer spent much of the past year recording the follow up to All Hour Cymbals. The first tune to hit the Inter-streets is “Ambling Alp,” which, if you try to say it five times fast, will have your tongue wrapped around your hangy ball. Not to be confused with a nut, your hangy ball will, in turn, be triggering samples on the MPC in your tonsils. Ok, enough dental imagery.  As is usually the case with Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” is a worldly, tripped out affair unafraid of twisting itself up in all sorts of sound found hieroglyphics and Aboriginal beats. Oh, now you wanna hear it? Well, in order to do that you gotta sign up for the Yeasayer Clinic’s Free Dental Service, aka their list serv, through which an exclusive MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 will be delivered to your inbox. Brilliant! Peep Yeasayer’s new alliteration of a web site for more info on the limited edition 12″ single, super heady tri-color T-shirt and some other new Yeasayer swag.

Shamanic psych-pop trio Yeasayer have announced that their highly-anticipated follow-up to 2007’s All Hour Cymbals will be released February 9th through Secretly Canadian. Mute will take up releasing the record outside of North America. It’s name? Odd Blood. That would have read better had we typed it out in caps. The band is planning on playing an extra-special, rotunda-illuminating show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York next Friday, October 30th.  Just after that, an appearance at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin is scheduled for November 7th. Do you guys have any idea what this means?! New music.

The fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest will hit Austin, Texas’ Waterloo Park for two days packed with music on November 7 and 8. The full lineup for the 2009 festival was just announced, and includes Ratatat, Of Montreal, Crystal Castles, Les Savy Fav, Yeasayer, Mission of Burma, Broadcast, Atlas Sound, No Age, Shonen Knife, Fuck Buttons, Times New Viking, Crystal Antlers, Jesus Lizard, Kid Sister, HEALTH, Neon Indian, and Alaska in Winter, among many others. Tickets go on sale today on the Fun Fest’s website, with early bird tickets going for $67.50 and early bird pip tickets selling for $135. The entire lineup is available for your viewing pleasure here.

As announced through their myspace, Yeasayer is hitting the road for a few dates with Ponytail to and from the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago this weekend. See the dates below and make sure you open your ears as wide as possible because Yeasayer will be jamming out some new songs “in one shape or form.”

07.17.09 Madison, WI @ UW Madison Memorial Terrace
07.20.09 Columbus, OH @ Skullys Music Diner
07.21.09 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale

Snagging the top narrative feature award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the film “Wah Do Dem (What They Do)” has been catching the eyes and ears of indie snobs and music nerds alike. The film follows the journey of a Brooklyn teen (folk bro Sean Bones) to Jamaica after being dumped by his girlfriend, played by none other than pesky Norah Jones. Jones and Bones perform a duet of “Turn Them,” a track which will be featured on Rings, Sean Bones’ forthcoming album. Other musician cameos include three quarters of Brooklyn, including Ira Tuton of Yeasayer and Simon O’Connor of nascent scuzz-rockers Amazing Baby.

—Meryl Natow