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It seems like the whole couples-making-music thing is in full swing and I don't mean the boy and girl combos like She & Him. I'm talking about the real couples, like Trent Reznor's How To Destroy Angels project, or Jack White producing his wife Karen Elson's debut album. Now indie wonder girl Jenny Lewis has partnered with her real life partner Jonathan Rice for the inventively named Jenny and Johnny.

The duo just announced a bunch of stuff including some tour dates, album details, and even their first tune, which is available for the price of a functioning email address. There is no official release date for the debut album titled I'm Having Fun Now, but if the pre-order page is any indication you can expect the album to ship in "late summer". Starting September 1st in Santa Cruz, the band will head up the west coast before seeing their tour head across the country, making a point to skip Arizona and all that insanity down there.

On top of all that goodness we have our first taste of what to expect from Jenny and Johnny, a guitar heavy pop number called "Scissor Runner" with both members trading off vocals.  Certainly a good start. The tune is streaming below and the download widget is available after the jump along with full tour dates. Tickets will be going on sale through the usual suspects later this week.   [via CoS]

Scissor Runner 

Are you ready for some Arcade Fire news fellow revelers of awesome? Looks like the rumors of a double album weren't totally made up as the tracklist was just revealed and it is sixteen songs deep. That's not even including some bonus disc or marketing gimmick, just an LP with sixteen tunes. Fantabulous. 

During my little internet sabbatical earlier this week there were also a couple new tunes from the album that made their way online, which are both apparently the lead singles from the album. The first "Ready To Start" is apparently the US single while BBC Radio debuted the first official UK single "We Used To Wait". You can check out streams of both tunes below.  [via CoS]

Ready To Start

We Used To Wait

The Suburbs Tracklist:

1. The Suburbs
2. Ready to Start
3. Modern Man
4. Rococo
5. Empty Room
6. City With No Children
7. Half Light 1
8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
9. Suburban War
10. Month of May
11. Wasted Hours
12. Deep Blue
13. We Used to Wait
14. Sprawl I (Flatland)
15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
16. The Suburbs (Continued)

Holy Caped Crusader this sounds fun. My Morning Jacket have just announced a run of shows in New York City where the band will play one of their studio albums in their entirety each night. Five is definitely the theme for this run as the band will play five shows, one for each studio album in their catalog, at Terminal 5 in New York City. The sorta-residency will kick off October 18th with the band's debut The Tennessee Fire.

Of added awesome, and to fill out the rest of the evening, the official wording states the band will play a full length album "along with additional songs and covers from each album’s time period." Well, that's an eleven year span if I can still do arithmetic so be prepared for some fun covers hijacking your memory lane. Tickets for the shows go on pre-sale starting June 14th with a general onsale on the 18th. For the more adventurous, and thereby awesome, five day packages will be available for $205, not too shabby. For more information on tickets head over to the Terminal 5 website.

10/18 – Terminal 5 – New York City, NY – The Tennessee Fire
10/19 – Terminal 5 – New York City, NY – At Dawn
10/21 – Terminal 5 – New York City, NY – It Still Moves
10/22 – Terminal 5 – New York City, NY – Z
10/23 – Terminal 5 – New York City, NY – Evil Urges and beyond!

AMC has released a whole bunch of promo material this week for the latest addition to their killer original programming, the Frank Daranbont produced adaptation of Robert Kirkman's zombie comic book series The Walking Dead.  The show officially started production this past Wednesday in Atlanta for what is currently set for a six episode season.  Just to get it out in the open I should admit I'm not much of a zombie guy, but AMC's track record with Daranbont behind the show are more than enough to get my hopes up, not to mention the stuff making the rounds looks pretty awesome.

To give you a quick rundown filled with enthusiasm you can check out this behind the scenes featurette where Daranbont explains that he wants to "do for zombies what Mad Men has done for advertising." Alrighty then.

As you probably assumed, the lead image is actually one of the titular Walkers and they look sufficiently creepy. Add to that this collection of some concept designs for the zombification process and you can start to get a real sense for the gritty tone they are going for. You can check out the individual stages here.

That's not all as Vulture recently sat down with series creator Robert Kirkman for an interview that amps up the excitement levels even further which you can check out here. For more info on the show, including more pictures of the Walkers like above, check out the official blog over at AMCTV.  The Walking Dead, starring Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Laurie Holden, is set to premiere in October.