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Low Kheng Huat posts 41.3% rise in 2Q net profit to $28.4m

September 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Builder Low Kheng Huat says it posted a 41.3% increase in net profit attributable to shareholders to $28.4 million in 2Q ended July 31 compared to $20.1 million in the same period in the previous year despite a 49% fall in revenue to $81.9 million.

2Q net profit before tax & minority interests by 404.5% y-o-y to $22.2 million from $4.4 million due to higher contributions from Nex at Serangoon Central Mall and decrease in accruals for the Meritus Mandarin Hotel and Hard Rock Hotel at Sentosa projects which were completed.

Construction revenue decreased 54.1% y-o-y to $68.9 million from $150.2 million due to the completion of Meritus Mandarin Hotel and Hard Rock Hotel at Sentosa.

MGMT: Congratulations 4/13

February 9th, 2010 | No Comments

COLUMBIA RECORDS PROUD TO RELEASE CONGRATULATIONS,  THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM FROM MGMT

Congratulations Available In The U.S. and Canada, Tuesday, April 13

MGMT

Columbia Records has announced the North American release of Congratulations, the keenly awaited new studio album from MGMT, on Tuesday, April 13.

One of 2010′s most eagerly anticipated new releases, Congratulations is the successor to MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular, the 2008 debut album which established the band’s potential as a visionary force in pop music.

Congratulations is a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence: “It’s Working,” “Song for Dan Treacy,” “Someone’s Missing,” “Flash Delirium,” “I Found a Whistle,” “Siberian Breaks,” “Brian Eno,” “Lady Dada’s Nightmare,” and “Congratulations.”

Produced by MGMT and Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, E.A.R., Spectrum), Congratulations was recorded throughout 2009 in upstate New York, Malibu, and Brooklyn and features Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, MGMT’s core duo, performing with Matt Asti (bass, backing vocals), Will Berman (drums, backing vocals), and James Richardson (guitar, backing vocals), the band’s live lineup.

Congratulations offered MGMT the opportunity to work with a couple of their musical idols and influences including album co-producer Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) and Royal Trux front-woman Jennifer Herrema, who contributed guest vocals. “We’ve been lucky enough to meet and work with some of our all-time musical heroes,” Andrew says, marveling at MGMT’s good collaborative karma. “It’s so great to be around such amazing and unusual musical minds.”

Ben and Andrew first met the mythic Sonic Boom at a Spectrum show in London in February 2009 and wound up onstage jamming with the band on “Suicide,” a vintage Spacemen 3 track paying homage to another light in MGMT’s musical pantheon.

MGMT has become an international festival favorite with performances at South By Southwest, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo in the states and the Glastonbury extravaganza in the U.K. The band has toured with Beck, Yeasayer and Of Montreal, among others, while becoming a headline concert attraction in its own right. MGMT is confirmed to appear at the 2010 Coachella and Bamboozle festivals.

With Congratulations, MGMT unlock a new musical world whirling in its own space/time grid infused with hints of music from the past five decades. Soulful and complex, Congratulations is a surprising and delightful quantum step forward in MGMT’s ongoing pop revolution.

Congratulations will be available for pre-order on the band’s website: whoismgmt.com.

Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow 4/13

February 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment

COHEED AND CAMBRIA SET TO RELEASE YEAR OF THE BLAK RAINBOW APRIL 13

Coheed and Cambria

Coheed and Cambria have confirmed April 13 as the release date for Year of the Black Rainbow, their heavily anticipated fifth studio album. The eagerly awaited prequel to The Amory Wars tetralogy, Year of the Black Rainbow will be released by Columbia Records in both a standard format and a deluxe edition including a 352-page Year of the Black Rainbow novel, penned by the band’s Claudio Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling author Peter David.

Presale orders for the deluxe edition of Year of the Black Rainbow can be placed here.

In addition to the CD and novel, the deluxe edition will include a “Making Of” DVD featuring studio and interview footage as well as a Coheed and Cambria Black Card, which will allow fans early entrance to shows, discounts on band merchandise and exclusive downloads and offers. Sneak peeks at the new album’s artwork and other exclusive visuals can be seen here.

Year of the Black Rainbow is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to Sanchez, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.”

The new record also features the studio debut of Coheed and Cambria drummer Chris Pennie, who has been playing alongside Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Robert Todd since 2007, and was featured on Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition, the CD/DVD box set documentation of the fall/winter 2008 four-night stands during which the band played its catalogue in its entirety, one album per night, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London.

Year Of The Black Rainbow‘s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs on the Northeastern U.S., four of which are already sold out. Earl Greyhound supports.

Year Of The Black Rainbow Track Listing

1. One
2. The Broken
3. Guns of Summer
4. Here We Are Juggernaut
5. Far
6. The Shattered Symphony
7. World of Lines
8. Made Out of Nothing
9. Pearl of the Stars
10. In the Flame of Error
11. When Skeletons Live
12. The Black Rainbow

Coheed and Cambria Tour Dates

03/23/10 Tue Harro East Ballroom Rochester, NY

03/24/10 Wed The Westcott Theater Syracuse, NY

03/25/10 Thu Northern Lights Clifton Park, NY

03/26/10 Fri Higher Ground (Ballroom) Burlington, VT

03/28/10 Sun Port City Music Hall Portland, ME

03/29/10 Mon The Webster Hartford, CT

03/30/10 Tue Hardware Bar Wilkes Barre, PA

03/31/10 Wed Music Hall Of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

04/17/10 Sat Coachella Music Festival (Empire Polo Grounds) Indio, CA

05/11/10 Tue Ogden Theatre Denver, CO

Willie Nelson: Country Music 4/13

January 28th, 2010 | No Comments

WILLIE NELSON SIGNS WITH ROUNDER RECORDS
NEW ALBUM COUNTRY MUSIC OUT APRIL 13

Willie Nelson

Rounder Records has announced the signing of American legend, songwriter, actor, and social activist, Willie Nelson. He will release his Rounder debut, Country Music, April 13.

Nelson’s prolific career has spanned six decades and more than 200 albums. He is the President and one of the founding members of Farm Aid, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land.

Produced by T Bone Burnett, Country Music features old-time banjo master Riley Baugus, double bassist Dennis Crouch, and T Bone himself, all musicians featured on Raising Sand, the 2009 Grammy award-winning Album of the Year by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

Country Music Track Listing

1. Man With The Blues

2. Seaman’s Blues

3. Dark As A Dungeon

4. Gotta Walk Alone

5. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down

6. My Baby’s Gone

7. Freight Train Boogie

8. Satisfied Mind

9. You Done Me Wrong

10. Pistol Packin’ Mama

11. Ocean Of Diamonds

12. Drinking Champagne

13. I Am A Pilgrim

14. House of Gold

15. Nobody’s Fault But Mine

Willie Nelson tour dates available here.

Dosh To Release Tommy 4/13

January 28th, 2010 | No Comments

DOSH SET TO RELEASE FIFTH ALBUM, TOMMY, APRIL 13

Dosh

On April 13 Dosh (Martin Dosh) will release his fifth album on Anticon Records, titled Tommy.

In setting out to create this album Dosh had two goals in mind. First: Get loose. 2008′s Wolves & Wishes took a step in this direction by way of its guests – freewheelers like Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Odd Nosdam – but Dosh records are well-known for their impeccable arrangements. So much so that Andrew Bird used Wolves‘ “First Impossible” as the rhythmic backbone for a song on last year’s critically acclaimed Noble Beast LP.

Dosh’s second goal seemed to be in direct conflict with the first: To conceive yet thicker terrain for his already seething soundscapes. More drums. More vocals. And new to the Dosh catalog, lots of low end. Against all odds, Tommy skirts critical mass but stays organic, is never overwrought, and miraculously avoids becoming cluttered. Instead, this unique brand of maximalist, rhythm-driven post-rock sweeps lilting beauty, serious beats and even airy moments into its comely whirlwind.

Tommy Track Listing

1. Subtractions
2. Yer Face
3. Number 41
4. Town Mouse
5. Loud
6. Airlift
7. Country Road X
8. Call The Kettle
9. Nevermet
10. Gare de Lyon

Dosh is on tour now with Eyedea and Abilities; complete Dosh tour dates available here.

Kaki King: Junior Out 4/13 Signs To Rounder

January 28th, 2010 | No Comments

KAKI KING SIGNS TO ROUNDER RECORDS, JUNIOR OUT APRIL 13

Kaki King

Singer & guitarist extraordinaire Kaki King has signed with Rounder Records. Named a “Guitar God” by Rolling Stone, King has spent the past decade gathering critical acclaim and fan admiration. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her contribution to the musical score of the 2007 film Into the Wild, and also performed on the Foo Fighters‘ 2007 Grammy winning album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.

As with her previous album, 2008′s Dreaming of Revenge, Junior was produced by Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Patti Smith), but unlike each of King’s previous efforts – where she recorded all the instruments herself – for Junior she enlisted help from multi-instrumentalist Dan Brantigan and drummer Jordan Perlson. King wrote each of the album’s 11 songs.

Following her previously announced European dates, King will spend the Spring in the U.S., hitting New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Chicago and Los Angeles, among many others.

Kaki King Tour Dates

03/07/10 Sun Manchester Academy Manchester, GB

03/10/10 Wed The Scala London, GB

03/13/10 Sat Auditorium Il Parco Della Musica Rome, IT

03/14/10 Sun Conservatorio Milan, IT

03/15/10 Mon L’Usine Geneva, SWI

03/18/10 Thu Universum Stuttgart, GER

03/19/10 Fri Jazzhaus Freiburg, GER

03/21/10 Sun Ampere Munich, GER

03/22/10 Mon Beatpol Dresden, GER

03/24/10 Wed Kulturkirche Cologne, GER

03/25/10 Thu Lagerhaus Bremen, GER

03/26/10 Fri Musikzentrum Hannover, GER

03/27/10 Sat Gleis 22 Munster, GER

03/28/10 Sun Knust Hamburg, GER

03/30/10 Tue Cafe Mono Oslo, NO

04/01/10 Thu Loppen Copenhagen, DK

04/03/10 Sat Lido Berlin, GER

04/04/10 Sun Zeche Bochum, GER

04/05/10 Mon Tivoli Utrecht, NL

04/07/10 Wed Lux Theater Nijmegen, NL

04/08/10 Thu Vera Groningen, NL

04/09/10 Fri Melkweg Amsterdam, NL

04/11/10 Sun Nouveau Casino Paris, FRA

04/15/10 Thu Music Hall Of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

04/16/10 Fri Bowery Ballroom New York, NY

04/17/10 Sat The Middle East Cambridge, MA

04/19/10 Mon Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, MA

04/20/10 Tue Port City Music Hall Portland, ME

04/21/10 Wed Higher Ground (Showcase Lounge) Burlington, VT

04/28/10 Wed Theatre of Living Arts (TLA) Philadelphia, PA

04/29/10 Thu 9:30 Club Washington, DC

04/30/10 Fri Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC

05/01/10 Sat Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA

05/04/10 Tue Beachland Ballroom/Tavern Cleveland, OH

05/05/10 Wed The Ark Ann Arbor, MI

05/06/10 Thu Park West Chicago, IL

05/07/10 Fri High Noon Saloon Madison, WI

05/08/10 Sat Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN

05/09/10 Sun The Waiting Room Omaha, NE

05/11/10 Tue Fox Theatre Boulder, CO

05/12/10 Wed Belly Up Aspen, CO

05/14/10 Fri Neumos Seattle, WA

05/15/10 Sat Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR

05/16/10 Sun WOW Hall Eugene, OR

05/19/10 Wed Knitting Factory Reno, NV

05/20/10 Thu Mystic Theatre Petaluma, CA

05/21/10 Fri The Fillmore San Francisco, CA

05/22/10 Sat El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, CA

05/23/10 Sun Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, CA

05/25/10 Tue Glass House Pomona, CA