Archive for June, 2011
The Wooden Birds Premiere Tour Diary And Hit The Road
Tour diaries generally only interest die hard fans; the casual listener doesn’t necessarily care about what kind of pranks band members pull on each other or what their favorite food is. The Wooden Birds just released one of their own tour diaries to celebrate the beginning of the summer tour they kicked off in Phoenix, AZ on June 16th, but everyone can find something in it for themselves. Directed and narrated by front Andrew Kenny, this tour diary isn’t just a quick montage of random and silly video; it’s a story. And it’s told so well that Crawdaddy called Kenny “the indie rock Ira Glass.” Watch the video below:
But even better than just hearing about what tour life is like for The Wooden Birds would be to just catch them live supporting their album Two Matchsticks! Check the dates below to see if they’re coming near you in their summer-long trip around North America.
Here are their upcoming tour dates:
7/8 – Chicago, IL @ The Hideout (21+)
7/9 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Founders Brewery (21+)
7/10 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake (all ages)
7/11 – Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo (all ages)
7/12 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott (18+)
7/14 – New York, NY @ Mercury (21+)
7/15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rock Shop (21+)
7/16 – Washington, DC @ DC9 (all ages)
7/17 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl (21+)
7/20 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk (all ages)
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This Week in NYC Shows!
MONDAY
The Kooks, Smoke Signal @ The Bowery Ballroom
Jump Into The Gospel, Your 33 Black Angels, Hospitality (FREE SHOW)
@ The Rock Shop
Golden Animals, Sky Picnic, Twin Killers @ Cameo Gallery
TUESDAY
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players @ Bowery Electric
The Present, People Get Ready, Man Forever (Guitar Quintet) @ Union Pool
WEDNESDAY
Sloan, Hotkid @ Bowery Ballroom
Seefeel @ Brooklyn Bowl CANCELED
Greg Laswell, Elizabeth Ziman (of Elizabeth and The Catapult) @ City Winery
Hussle Club, Jump Into The Gospel, Fort Lean, The Stationary Set (FREE)
@ Pianos
Matt & Kim, The Thermals, Autobot (from Flosstradomus) @ Terminal 5
THURSDAY
Sloan, Hotkid @ Knitting Factory
Sean Bones, New Moods, Keelay, Popular Music @ Cameo Gallery
ArpLine, Bad Girlfriend, Hard Nips, Huntronik @ Coco66
No Age, HEALTH, Cults, Ceremony @ House of Vans
RSVP HERE
I’m Turning Into, Clouder, Quiet Loudly, EULA, Little Racer @ Silent Barn
Josiah Wolf, First Nature, Prussia, ohnomoon @ The Rock Shop
FRIDAY
Ceremony, Veins, Give, Wet Witch @ Death by Audio
Memory Tapes, New Moods @ Mercury Lounge
Dinowalrus, Total Slacker, Soft Black, Life Size Maps
@ Monster Island Basement
Lower Dens, Dirty Beaches @ South Street Seaport
The Thermals, Big Troubles, EULA @ The Bell House
Jack White and Stephen Colbert Release Single
Jack White has apparently been trying to fill his idle time lately, especially since disbanding The White Stripes. For better or for worse, White teamed up with news funny man, Stephen Colbert to record and release a 7″ single. Called “Charlene II (I’m Over You)”, with backing band the Black Belles, it features the b-side “Charlene (I’m Right Behind You).” You can buy the single at itunes or Third Man Records, which White owns. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Listen below.
Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird and More Cover The Muppets
Reunited, and it feels so good...
What does Weezer, My Morning Jacket and Andrew Bird all have in common? Apparently The Muppets. The bands, along with others including OK Go, Sondre Lerche, Rachael Yamagata and more, will be featured on the upcoming Muppets tribute called Muppets: The Green Album. This coincides with the new Muppets movie coming out this fall, but the record will be out on August 23rd. Weezer teams up with Paramore’s Haley Williams to sing “The Rainbow Connection,” as OK Go takes over “The Muppet Show Theme.” Oh God let there be a music video for that. The tracklisting is below, in case you wanted to get all Gonzo about it.
Muppets: The Green Album
01 OK Go: “Muppet Show Theme”
02 Weezer and Paramore’s Hayley Williams: “Rainbow Connection”
03 The Fray: “Mahna Mahna”
04 Alkaline Trio: “Moving Right Along”
05 My Morning Jacket: “Our World”
06 Amy Lee: “Halfway Down the Stairs”
07 Sondre Lerche: “Mr. Bassman”
08 The Airborne Toxic Event: “Wishing Song”
09 Atreyu’s Brandon Saller and Good Charlotte’s Billy Martin: “Night Life”
10 Andrew Bird: “Bein’ Green”
11 Matt Nathanson: “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along”
12 Rachael Yamagata: “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday”
Brendan Benson Re-Releases “Lapalco”
When Brendan Benson released his sophomore album, Lapalco, in 2002, the album was met with a flood of critical praise. NPR called it “terrific,” Rolling Stone proclaimed it “as universal as the late night, semi-drunken answering machine message or the love note you never quite had the guts to send,” and The Onion said it was an “almost overwhelmingly assured sophomore effort.”
Now, nearly a decade later, Benson has decided to re-release the record via his website. Digital and Limited Edition Vinyl versions of the remastered Lapalco paired with bonus tracks are available at brendanbenson.com
In addition to overseeing the re-release of Lapalco, Benson is recording and self-producing his fifth full-length album at Nashville’s Welcome to 1979 studios. More on that as it comes.
Hunx and His Punx Take Their Act on the Road
Hunx and His Punx is like a modern gay Everly Brother with an entourage of three hot vixens singing raunchy doo-wop back up vocals. Whatever it is these punk darlings featuring Seth Bogart as Hunx, and four lovely ladies – or “punkettes – are doing comes together in a reckless display of playful lamentation. Their first album release, Too Young to be In Love offers 10 oldies style songs about heartbreak masked by the freedom of youth. The music and their stage antics as seen in the video for “Bad Boy” begs for a sweaty house show or a dingy dive bar small enough so as to gyrate on your neighbor. There’s a chance to do just that at one of the shows listed below, so go, dance, and find an angsty Johnny Angel of your very own.
05/13 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore !
06/22 Seattle, WA Crocodile $
06/24 – 06/25 Calgary, AB – Sled Island
06/27 Vancouver, BC – Waldorf Cabaret $*
06/28 Portland, OR – Doug Fir $
! = w/ Of Montreal
$ = w/ Shannon and the Clams
* = w/ Sonny and the Sunsets
Holiday Shores Reveal Release Date
Holiday Shores have finally given the release date for their anxiously awaited sophomore album.
The band’s second album, New Masses for Squaw Peak, will be available September 13th, via twosyllable records. The album has the band exploring new directions and new themes, further expanding their sound while honing their melodies and lyrics.
To celebrate the revelation of a set release date, the band is offering a sneak peak of their first single, “Spells” which you can listen to here.
Furthermore, the band just played a couple shows in Brooklyn this weekend, playing the Woods and Public Assembly, June 18th and 19th, respectively.
The Trews Head North With The American Badass
Hard-rocking Canadians The Trews have just kicked off a foot-stomping tour of Canada with fellow rocker (and Bourbon conniesseuer) Kid Rock.
The band recently released their fourth full-length album, Hope & Ruin on Bumstead Records, and now will be melting faces throughout the Great White North.
The group is rapidly drawing attention for their subtle balance between catchy pop and gruff hard rock. Besides a Canadian conquest, the group will also be tearing up (sonically) New York, playing a batch of shows near the end of June.
Listen to their song “One by One” right here…
and to check out the Trews live, head North (or NE) right about…
June 22 – Syracuse, NY – Wescott Theatre
June 23 – Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall
June 24 – Watertown, NY – Watertown Fairgrounds w/ The Tragically Hip
June 25 – Bobcaygeon, ON – Bobcaygeon w/The Tragically Hip and Sam Roberts
June 28 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
July 1 – Darthmouth, ND – Alderney Landing
July 6 – Buffalo, NY – Art Park
July 8 – Sarnia, ON – Bayfest @ Centennial Park
Digitalism Release First Track Off ‘I Love You, Dude’
For those that have been waiting since 2007 for a new album from Germany’s Digitalism, wait no more…well maybe a little longer. The Deutchlanders are set to release their first album in four years on June 21st, titled I Love You, Dude. On the new record, the Hamburg duo further merge their blend of rock & electronic dance music. To listen and download the single, “2 Hearts” go here.
I Love You, Dude Tracklisting
Stratosphere
2 Hearts
Circles
Blitz
Forrest Gump
Reeperbahn
Antibiotics
Just Gazin’
Miami Showdown
Encore
Sam Roberts Band – “Collider”
Brace yourself, this is the start of a new brand of music; this is groundbreaking. That was sarcasm. Collider sounds just like original Sam Roberts material, so Sam Roberts fans rest at ease. With the growing recognition of Sam Roberts work, it is a smart idea that Sam Roberts Band did not stem too far from normality. Fortunately, to avoid being banal, there are new worldly sounds on this album that will give a new texture to the music you have come accustomed to.
“The Last Crusade” is a funky bass-driven groove with fun intentions. Unintentionally or intentionally inspired by afro-beat, “The Last Crusade” is an ethnic rumpus that skillfully avoids being corny. Imagine this: you are bobbing your head to a firm beat when all of a sudden the Star Wars Cantina Band comes in with blistering horns. I kid you not, the horns mimic the jam band from Tatooine. Oddly enough, it fits. The song is a funky, fun, and cool little hymn. “The Last Crusade” has the Sam Roberts feel but the newly added funk gives it a little flare.
Sam Roberts knows how to make rock songs. Each song has something distinctive that makes you crave for a relisten. The soothing progression of “No Arrows”, the vocal harmonies on “Longitude”, and the dancey chorus of “Sang Froid” all make the album frequently worth an entire run-through. Not one song is bad which makes it an easy choice for a great unabridged listen. Even the single, “I Feel You”, which sometimes is a band’s weakest tune, has an explosive chorus and true passion. The tone is beyond powerful.
Collider is not going to blow you away with something you have never heard before. It is the same old style but that is good. Why change the style of an artist that is just now rightfully getting recognized? This album will leave a smile on your face, even if it is only for a short period. It is not a rehash, it is simply a Sam Roberts redux or now the newly formed Sam Roberts Band.
Cassettes Won’t Listen Release ‘Evinspacey’ June 21st
Cassettes Won’t Listen, the one-man project of Jason Drake (partner and former director of marketing at the famed indie hip hop label Definitive Jux) announced the release of his full-length album Evinspacey. Known best for the single “Cutting Balloons” and official remixes of notable artists such as Aesop Rock, El-P, Midlake, Mr. Lif, Morcheeba and others, Drake’s track “The Echoes” mixes futuristic hip hop beats with his melodic vocals. The album itself is Drake’s nod to his new address (LA from Brooklyn) as well a musing on despair in the city. Summer and Fall tour dates for Cassettes Won’t Listen will be announced soon. Meanwhile, listen to “The Echoes” while meandering down the street and you will find yourself transported into a completely new world. A world you won’t need much convincing to explore.
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