Robin Allender’s debut album The Bird and the Word finally has a release date: 9th July 2007. Thanks to the BBC, you’ll have a chance to hear an awful lot of whole album in the next week.

Firstly, Jon Richardson on 6 Music (currently sitting in for Russell Howard) will be playing “The Green Wound” at 10am on Sunday 22nd May. You’ll be able to listen to the show again for a week after it is broadcast.

Secondly, Fine Tuned on BBC Bristol spoke to Allender, and played clips from “Winter” and “The Bower” on 14th April. You can listen again on the BBC website right now.

Finally, you can have a look at the artwork, read the lyrics and download MP3s of “The School Field” and “Black Wave Part One” on this website.

As you’ll know if you subscribe to our mailing list, after a long hiatus, Azalea City Penis Club will be making a very brief, noisy return for the release of their debut and final album The Coffin Years.

The Coffin Years is 45 minutes of noise-metal-kraut-prog-rock recorded in the summer of 2006, best enjoyed without the encumbrance of trousers. The album will be available only as a download from Bleep.com and iTunes. It will be released on May 21st, 2007. In the meantime, you can download MP3s of two of the tracks from our website, stream two more on ACPC’s MySpace, and read the lyrics.

If you like what you hear, don’t forget to sign up to the mailing list to get a reminder and links to Bleep and iTunes when it is released.