It turns out that Beck featured "Can You Do That Dance?" from PINK MOUNTAINTOPS' self titled debut on his "Planned Obsolescence" DJ mix series.

Beck describes the mix, entitled "Autobahn Hologram" in total Beck fashion: "[Autobahn Hologram is] a laminated miasma colliding on the bavarian trans expressway with american analog and voicemail emeritus... alabama nukes, rhineland jukes, pony tailed arch dukes, and the anatomically correct scapegoat..."

Give it a listenHERE.

Just yesterday, the Polaris Music Prize announced their initial long list of the 40 albums, by Canadian bands, nominated to win the 2009 prize and "Outside Love" is among them. The list will be shortened to 10 bands on July 7th who will be up for the $20,000 prize. The winner will be announced on September 21st in Toronto.

For more information on Polaris, head over to their site HERE.

We're not sure who did this, but we're sure as hell glad they did it:

PINK MOUNTAINTOPS are about to wrap up their current US tour here in a few days. No worries, though, as the band has just announced their plans for a west coast tour this fall.

Here are the dates:
09/15/09 Vancouver, BC, Canada - Richard's on Richards
09/17/09 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe w/ John Vanderslice
09/20/09 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
09/21/09 Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place
09/22/09 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
09/25/09 Bellingham, WA - The Wild Buffalo

If you can't wait until next Tuesday to own "Outside Love," you can now download the record via iTunes a week before it will be in stores.

Download the album HERE.

From Jagjaguwar:

To pre-order the Pink Mountaintops "Outside Love" CD/LP (out 05/05, 05/04 in the U.K.), go here:
Jagjaguwar mailorder

After your payment for the pre-order is received and processed, you will receive via email a digital download code, enabling you to download MP3s of the full album immediately.

From Jagjaguwar:

Myspace is now streaming Pink Mountaintops' upcoming release, "Outside Love," in it's entirety on the band's Myspace page.

Head to the Myspace Music page (HERE) or straight to the band's Myspace page (HERE) to give it a listen.

Also, Pitchfork has been kind to premiere a second free mp3 from "Outside Love". The new song is called "While We Were Dreaming", and it features the beautiful vocals of Ashley Webber, also known for her duet with Bonnie Prince Billy on his acclaimed 2008 album "Lie Down In The Light". You can download it HERE. You can also download it from the Jagjaguwar site HERE.

From Jagjaguwar:

Oh hello, internet. It's us, Jagjaguwar. We've been hanging out down by the fire, sipping brandy and anticipating sharing some Outside Love with you. The new song is called "Vampire", and we think it'll send shivers under your dress. Just don't take our word for it. Download it HERE and post at your leisure. We love leisure.

You can't kill the heart of Steve McBean's love, and you can't stop him from touring. Creatures of the night, come out! Come out to the show!

PINK MOUNTAINTOPS, AKA Stephen McBean, will be joined on tour by Black Mountain bandmate Matthew Camirand as well as Sophie Trudeau, Sar Friedman, Chad Ross, and Mike Maxymuik. The band tours Europe beginning May 5, and then embarks on a North American tour the very beginning of June.

See a listing of Pink Mountaintops tour dates HERE.

From Jagjaguwar:

Jagjaguwar is proud to announce the upcoming release of "Outside Love" by PINK MOUNTAINTOPS, ten songs of love and hate that read like a Danielle Steele romance novel, but that would probably make for bad television.

"Outside Love" is the third album by Pink Mountaintops, AKA Stephen McBean, who has slowly emerged as a distinctive voice and a very special contributor to the North American songbook. A veteran of the Vancouver/Victoria punk rock scene, McBean is best known for his contributions to acclaimed rock band Black Mountain, as principal songwriter, guitarist and co-vocalist.

The ten songs on "Outside Love" are about or influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, Christmas albums, that one Exile song and that one Echo and the Bunnymen song, the Bermuda Triangle, being depressed in the sunshine, people who haven't made out yet but will in the future, The Everly Brothers, clowns in the ceilings, and bedrooms where skinheads used to live.