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Last week Placebo played an exclusive gig for fans and competition winners at the iTunes Festival ’09. An EP of 6 professionally recorded live tracks has now been released for purchase via iTunes.

PRICE: £3.49 €3.99 $4.99USD $8.99AUD

The tracks include:

1. Ashtray Heart
2. Battle For The Sun
3. For What It’s Worth
4. The Never-Ending Why
5. Devil in the Details
6. Happy You’re Gone

+ Exclusive Digital Booklet (PDF)

Go here to download the EP on iTunes

When you’re done there watch the band perform Special K (above) and visit the iTunes Festival Facebook page for an exclusive interview with Brian, Stefan and Steve.

Placebo have announced the title(s!) of the next single from Battle for the Sun. Similar to their actions in releasing Song To Say Goodbye worldwide and Because I Want You in the UK another split single has been issued for the band’s sixth album.

In a recent interview with XFM Brian Molko confirmed that the UK would be receiving The Never-Ending Why as their second Battle For the Sun single, whilst Ashtray Heart (though not officially confirmed) is set for release across the rest of the globe.

The Never-Ending Why will be released September 7th in the UK.

You can listen to Brian’s full interview on XFM HERE.

Placebo’s music AND the band themselves have recently featured in a new Motorola™ phone commercial.

View ‘the making of…’, go behind the scenes for three minutes with the band and then watch the advertisement itself set to the song ‘Ashtray Heart’.

To everyone who purchased the Deluxe Edition of Battle For the Sun, you can now head to Placeboworld via this link and register your box set. This will allow you to have notifications emailed to you when mp3 downloads become available, ready to burn on your special live BFTS blank CD!

While you’re waiting for your audio to arrive, for all the latest Official Placebo videos, be sure to follow the Official Placebo YouTube channel. More will be updated in the future, right now they’re working on adding all the official music videos.

As always be sure to visit the press section at Placeboworld, they’ve provided some great new scans, in particular from Kerrang!

Kerrang have featured our boys in their magazine because Placebo have made the shortlist in these categories at the Kerrang Awards!
BEST SINGLE: For What It’s Worth
BEST ALBUM: Battle For The Sun
BEST VIDEO: For What It’s Worth

VOTE NOW!

On June 5th French tv show Taratata had Placebo as their guests for an interview and to play a few songs:

An english translation of the above interview can be found here at Placebo Wordz

Stefan and Brian also featured on a request segment, My Taratata:

If you’re looking for more multimedia, check out this exclusive photo collection and video from Placebo’s latest show in Bucharest, Romania thanks to Spinearth.tv.