Two New Albums! And One Is Absolutely Free.

Mercury Rev is set to appear as the featured guest on National Public Radio’s World Café with David Dye, Wednesday Dec. 17. The band will perform on the exclusive Lillywhite Sessions with influential producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, Dave Matthews Band, Peter Gabriel). 

The performance will be broadcast on nearly 200 NPR affiliate stations.  Click here to find your local NPR station, or stream it live on Philadelphia’s WXPN at 2 p.m. (EST) Dec. 17. You can also listen to the archived session after the initial broadcast at the Lillywhite Sessions Web site.

The band is scheduled to appear on KCRW’s popular “Morning Becomes Eclectic” broadcast Tuesday, December 16 at 11:15 a.m. PST. Listeners can stream the band’s appearance live from KCRW’s Web Site.

To listen to Mercury Rev’s appearance archived on the KCRW website, click here.

Both MOJO & UNCUT concur… Snowflake Midnight lands at #50 in Uncut’s Best Albums of 2008, while MOJO ranks Mercury Rev’s latest release at #22. Read more right HERE.

Go to the Album Exclusives  or  Media page and check out two fantastic new re-mixes of “Butterfly’s Wing”… Isan’s “Alien Adoption” mix and Carlos Anthony Molina’s “Four On The Flux Mix” are loaded up and ready to go in the Mercury Rev player right now. 12″ vinyl versions of these re-mixes, as well as “Senses On Fire” re-mixes by Holden and Fujiya & Miyagi are available in select UK record shops now!

Prices on all single CD’s, VINYL and Digital Formats have been reduced for the holidays… You’re just one click away, go on then…  click HERE.

For UK listeners, tune your radios to BBC Radio 2 tonight at 8:00 pm (GMT). The band will be performing 3 new songs in studio with Mark Radcliffe. For all of you outside the UK, click HERE to listen on-line.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the show originally slated for the Brighton Corn Exchange has been moved to Concorde 2 instead. Show date & time remain the same… Tuesday November 11 at 7:30 pm. Tickets purchased in advance will still be valid.

It’s true, The Duke Spirit will support Mercury Rev on the second half of the upcoming U.S. tour, starting on December 10 in Detroit and concluding December 18 in San Francisco… Except for Los Angeles that is. You can see all the upcoming dates if you click HERE.

The next single to come from Snowflake Midnight is Butterfly’s Wing. It will be released in the UK on the 17th of November by digital download. The video for the Butterfly’s Wing fuses Japanese watercolor with a winged cat & elephant floating through an animated landscape… directed by Dirty UK. Check it out here!

We can now confirm two final shows for the upcoming U.S. tour… they are Thursday December 4 in Woodstock, NY and Wednesday December 10 in Detroit, MI. Tickets are on sale now, go the the TOUR page to purchase tickets for these or other shows.