Happy New Year!

We're starting 2011 with the release of our iTunes Originals Session! When we were in LA playing the Jimmy Kimmel show in December, we spent a day at East West Studios recording off the cuff and live off the floor. We captured for the first time on tape (not a camera phone) the extended versions of a few of our live concert classics as well as a couple acoustic numbers accompanied by a string quartet led by Todor Kobakov. The result is an exclusive iTunes live album which includes 8 songs and a serious 30 minute interview with the band:

1. Twilight Galaxy

2. Help I'm Alive

3. Hustle Rose

4. Gold Guns Girls

5. Gimme Sympathy

6. Expecting to Fly

7. Eclipse (All Yours)

8. Empty

9. iTunes Session Metric Interview






The album is available in the U.S. iTunes store today. 

You can get it here! 

We’re working with iTunes in other countries to look at releasing the album everywhere as soon as possible but it's going to take a minute so please stand by for release dates! In the meantime, you can sample two full songs here:

AND THIS HAPPENED...

Over the holidays, our talented pal Christopher Mills, who previously created a short film for our song "Collect Call", continued the narrative with his gorgeous video for our cover of Neil Young / Buffalo Springfield’s "Expecting to Fly" which will premier next week. The audio was made exclusively available yesterday on Rolling Stone.

We're really excited about these new recordings and want to thank everyone at Apple for making the session happen despite holiday schedule madness; especially Suzanne and Wally and our new fave photog Matt Beard. Here are a few shots from the photo shoot we did at the studio on the day with Matt:

Much love + much respect to the people of tomorrow!