Despite only just being out of their teens, Danish band Iceage has managed to craft an even more expansive, compelling, tense and emotional record with their forthcoming album, You're Nothing. Expanding upon the elements from their previous release, they have amped up the raw punk flecked with hardcore and incorporated post-punk and goth influences with extra ferocity too. Today we are streaming the album track "In Haze" in the replies or over on their AP.net Profile and next week we will have a full stream of the album to celebrate its release via Matador Records. Make sure you pre-order the album here and enjoy a taster of what's to come from this exciting album.

Iceage have signed to Matador Records. The band will release their new album on February 19th, 2013.

Ceremony will release a 6-song EP of covers on August 9 via Bridge Nine Records. Pre-orders are available on vinyl, CD and cassette here. The band has signed to Matador Records for their next album.

To celebrate Matador Records' 21st birthday, they are releasing a 6 CD boxset with 99 tracks covering the band's 21 years of release history on October 4th. You can order the boxset here (US) or here (UK) and all proceeds (including artist royalties) will go to charities chosen by the label's owners. Head to the replies for tracklisting and more details of this awesome release.

Interpol have rejoined Matador records and will release their new self-titled album on September 14th.

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Paul Banks of Interpol will be releasing Julian Plenti Is...Skyscraper, produced by Peter Katis (who produced the first two Interpol albums), on August 4th through Matador Records. It features guest appearances by members of Ratatat and The Occasion. You can download the song "Fun That We Have" for free here.

Tracklist
01) Only If You Run
02) Fun That We Have
03) Skyscraper
04) Games for Days
05) Madrid Song
06) No Chance of Survival
07) Unwind
08) Girl on the Sporting News
09) On the Esplanade
10) Fly as You Might
11) H

One of Matador Records' pressing plants tossed the label's vinyl masters after they declared bankruptcy.

Fucked Up have signed to Matador Records.

Matador Records is having a contest for aspiring designers to design their new t-shirts.

Message From The Label

Dear Friends,To commemorate Matador's barely legal status (ie. we're celebrating our 18th this year), we're commissioning a series of t-shirts. Though the garments are meant to be vaguely label/logo insipired, but we're hoping for something a bit more inspired that our previous designs (though that said, the Matador "that's italian" shirt still goes for crazy loot on eBay).

The shirts will be printed in a limited run of 200 per design, with each designer receiving $250.00 (USD) plus 20 shirts to be peddled or given away as he or she sees fit. In turn, Matador will flog the...

Matador Records has signed Australia's Love Of Diagrams. The trio will be releasing their Matador debut (produced by Bob Western [Shellac, Mission of Burma]) in early 2007 and will also most likely be putting out an EP sometime before then as well.