Author name: Tero Heikkinen

1. Introducing Palace Players (4:46) 2. Repeater Beater (2:31) 3. Owl (B-side) (1:18) 4. Start (B-side) (2:00) 5. Swimmer’s Chant (B-side) (3:25) Total length is only about 14 minutes and the EP will be released on June 29th. Amazon has 30-second audio clips from the songs.

Introducing Palace Players has been chosen as contender for this week’s Soundvenue High 5 and you should vote for it. Mew are up against Dúné, Wilco (feat. Feist), Wave Machines and Regina Spektor. You must register before voting, but they only ask for your name and email address, so it will only take a few

It’s an invasion! Run for your lives! No, seriously. Mew have created a new MySpace-page which looks pretty wonderful with lots of features. Now they are also at Twitter which was expected sooner or later. It’s only a matter of time when Mewsite has a new look.

Pitchfork has it already!!! Just about 12 hours before it was supposed to be aired for the first time, the Americans posted the link. Listen to the song that quite obviously evolved from the intro they used to play a few times two years ago. Still, you should listen to the show tomorrow morning, it

Mew have announced on their MySpace blog that they will play in Taiwan on August 5th, two days before the first scheduled Japanese show. This is their first time in Taiwan and the gig is held in its largest city Taipei. The area has a humid subtropical climate and is known for strong hurricanes (the

This is the week when we get to hear the first single of Mew. As we’ve told before, Introducing Palace Players will get its world premiere on Finnish radio channel YleX next friday (May 29th). Make sure you access the radio channel’s live internet radio at 09:10am local time (08:10 Central European Time). You should

Mew will support Kings of Leon in Germany next month – right before the first scheduled Nine Inch Nails-gigs. The first gig is in Cologne on June 25th (Lanxess Arena) and the second show will be played in Berlin on June 27th (02 World). Kings of Leon told MTV at Roskilde Festival last year that

Have you still not bought the dvd of the live show held in Copenhagen three years ago? Directed by Theis Molin, Live In Copenhagen was shot with almost 20 cameras and it was one of the last shows that had Johan Wohlert as the bass player of Mew. At the time of release, the dvd

In the previous post you saw the very long album title, you saw the weird-looking cover and you saw the track listings (two of them being pictures rather than written words). We posted some of the information earlier on this site, but were told to take it off and we know now why… there were

No more stories / Are told today / I’m sorry / They washed away / No more stories / The world is grey / I’m tired / Let’s wash away / No More Stories 1. New Terrain 2. Introducing Palace Players 3. Beach 4. Repeater Beater 5. Silas the Magic Car 6. Cartoons and Macramé