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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
Voxhaul Broadcast Release Video, Tour Dates
Silverlake’s Voxhaul Broadcast look to support their debut album, Timing is Everything, produced by Tom Biller (Silversun Pickups, Seawolf, Liars), by touring with Rooney. Following their dates with Rooney, Voxhaul Broadcast will be joined by The Airborne Toxic Event. The quartet have also released a video for the album opener, “Leaving on the Fifth.”
VOXHAUL BROADCAST TOUR DATES:
May 9 – Philadelphia, PA – The Trocadero – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 11 – Boston, MA – House Of Blues – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 12 – Montreal, QC – La Tulipe – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 13 – Toronto, ONT – The Opera House – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 14 – Cleveland, OH – House Of Blues Cleveland – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 15 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 17 – Minneapolis, MN – The Varsity Theater – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 18 – Chicago, IL – Metro – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 19 – Chicago, IL – Metro – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 20 – Kansas City, MO – The Beaumont Club – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 22 – Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 24 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 26 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
May 27 – Orlando, FL – The Social – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
June 1 – Salt Lake City, UT – Club Sound – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
June 2 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
June 15 – Reno, NV – Knitting Factory – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
June 16 – Sacramento, CA – Ace Of Spades – w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
Painted Palms Sign With Secretly Canadian, Release EP, Tour Dates
Secretly Canadian, that flag ship of good indie music, would like to welcome the newest addition to their lineup – Painted Palms. In celebration of their recent signing, the label has released their debut EP, Canopy, as a digital download (here) and will release the vinyl version June 21st. The cousin duo of Reese Donohue and Christopher Prudhomme, expand to a quintet for live shows, which they will be doing with Of Montreal and others. Catch them on the road, and download the first track off Canopy, All of Us.
Apr. 28 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club*
Apr. 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts*
Apr. 30 – New York, NY – Webster Hall*
May 01 – Boston, MA – Paradise*
May 02 – Montreal, QE – Metropolis*#
May 03 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix*#
May 04 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues*
May 05 – Chicago, IL – The Vic*
May 06 – Omaha, NE – The Slowdown*
May 07 – Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall*
May 08- Denver, CO – Bluebird*
May 09 – Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue*
May 11 – Seattle, WA – Showbox Market*^
May 12 – Portland, OR – Roseland*
May 13 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore*^^
May 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Avalon*##
May 15 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre*
May 17 – Austin, TX – Mohawk*
May 18 – Dallas, TX – South Side Music Hall*
May 19 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall*
May 20 – Atlanta, GA – The Buckhead Theatre*!
* with of Montreal
^ with Beat Connection
! with Modern Skirts
^^ with Hunx & His Punx
# with Braids
## with Nite Jewel
The Mynabirds Play With/Open For Bright Eyes, Release New Video, Plot New Record
While Mynabirds front woman, Laura Burhenn, has been touring with Conor Oberst and Company, The Mynabirds have been touring relentlessly the last month, adding singer-songwriter/producer Richard Swift to fill out the lineup. Filmmaker Shervin Lainez captured some beautiful black and white footage of the band behind the scenes, setting it to the song “LA Rain.” For those begging to hear new music from Burhenn, the front woman states she is hard at work on new songs in the midst of the Bright Eyes tour. The band is set to enter the studio in September, with Richard Swift set to helm the production once again.
Girls Names Premiere New Video, Release New Album April 26th
Belfast trio, Girls Names, owe a great deal of debt to 80′s and early 90′s goth-pop acts such as Black Tambourine, Felt and the Sound of Young Scotland. While not the first band to incorporate such influences, Girls Names still manage to carve out a sizable niche while sharing the stage with such notables as Times New Viking, Dum Dum Girls, and Abe Vigoda. Their new album, Dead To Me, was recorded in the latter half of 2010 and is set to be released April 26th on Slumberland Records. Check out the first single, “Bury Me.”
Girls Names
Dead To Me
(Slumberland Records)
Street Date: Apr. 26, 2011
1. Lawrence
2. I Could Die
3. When You Cry
4. No More Words
5. Nothing More To Say
6. I Lose
7. Cut Up
8. Bury Me
9. The Kiss Goodbye
10. Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Girls Names – Bury Me from stereogum on Vimeo.
The Wombats Release Sophomore Album April 26th
The Wombats, that other band from Liverpool not named The Beatles, are set to release their sophomore album, This Modern Glitch, April 26th through Bright Antenna/ILG/Warners. The album was recorded at Los Angeles’ NRG Recording Studios, with cover art done by legendary artist Storm Thorgerson (the man behind so many Pink Floyd covers). To pre-order the album, go here.
This Modern Glitch Track Listing:
1. Our Perfect Disease
2. Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves)
3. Jump Into The Fog
4. Anti-D
5. Last Night I Dreamt…
6. Techno Fan
7. 1996
8. Walking Disasters
9. Girls/Fast Cars
10. Schumacher The Champagne
Get the “Wombatizer”
The Beets Announce Tour With Eternal Summers, Release New Song
More and more bands from Queens have been popping up, hoping to unseat Brooklyn as the New York borough with the most happening scene. Jackson Heights natives, The Beets, are the brainchild of Uruguay born frontman Juan Wauters and best friend Jose Garcia, creating lo-fi pop songs more remniscient of a time lost than the current New York scene. With their second album, Stay Home, in stores already, the band have set up a tour with friends Eternal Summers. Look for them on the road the next two months and check out the new song “Time Brought Age.”
04/23 Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory $
05/18 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern *
05/19 Detroit, MI Magic Stick Lounge *
05/20 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle ~ *
05/21 Minneapolis, MN 7th St Entry *
05/22 Fargo, ND Aquarium *
05/24 Missoula, MT The Badlander *
05/25 Spokane, WA Craft House *
05/26 Vancouver, BC Media Club *
05/27 Seattle, WA Healthy Times Fun Club *
05/28 Portland, OR East End *
05/29 San Francisco, CA Hemlock/Popfest *
05/31 Los Angeles, CA Echo *
06/01 San Diego, CA Casbah *
06/04 Austin, TX Chaos in Tejas (Beerland) *
06/05 Houston, TX Free Press Summer Festival *
06/06 New Orleans, LA The Saint *
06/07 Birmingham, AL The Nick *
06/08 Atlanta, GA The Earl *
06/09 Charlotte, NC The Milestone # *
* = w/ Eternal Summers
^ = w/ Jeffrey Lewis
$ = w/ Davila 666, X-Ray Eyeballs
~ = w/ Crystal Stilts
# = w/ w/ Brilliant Colors
Sonny And The Sunsets Shares New B-Side, Festival Dates
Sonny Smith’s musical bio sounds a bit like Brian Wilson’s. Smith found his passion for music while a patient in a hospital in Texas. After being released to the care of his brother and wife (who would join the band), he moved to San Francisco, found himself back in psychiatric care, met a girl (Kelley Stoltz) who played drums, asked her to join the band with his brother and wife and voila! Back in 2009, while recording a triple album, a hurricane hit the area they were recording and destroyed most of the tapes. What survives of those tapes was released yesterday, April 12th, as the album Hit After Hit on Fat Possum. Their 7″ featuring the song “I Wanna Do It” comes with the surfy B-Side “Mr. Lucky.”
Sonny and The Sunsets
Hit After Hit
(Fat Possum)
Street Date: April 12, 2011
1. She Plays Yo-Yo With My Mind
2. I Wanna Do It
3. Home and Exile
4. Reflections on Youth
5. Girls Beware
6. The Bad Energy From LA Is Killing Me
7. Teen Age Thugs
8. Heart of Sadness
9. Don’t Act Dumb
10. Acres of Lust
11. Pretend You Love Me
06/04 Sonoma, CA Huichica Festival @ Gundlach
06/22 – 06/25 Calgary, ALB Sled Island Festival
08/05 – 08/07 Happy Valley, OR Pickathon
Efterklang’s ‘An Island’ Reaches 1,000 Private-Public Screenings Worldwide
Danish outfit Efterklang and director Vincent Moon released An Island, a 50 minute experimental music film, with the modest goal of creating a communal experience between music lovers. Never did they expect the film to take on such a life, traveling around the U.S., Europe, Africa, Japan and so on. The premise is simple for ‘An Island,’ the screening needs a minimum five viewers, free entry, and the host must sign up here. Once the screening has been approved, anyone in the area can request to be invited to the screening. A picture must be taken and sent to Efterklang of the screening party. To view over 200 photos, click here. To view possible screenings in your area, go here.
Hunx And His Punx Announce 2011 Tour, Release Single For Debut Album
Hunx and His Punx, that mixture of 50s teenage rock n roll, 60s girl groups and bubblegum pop, are finally releasing a proper album after 2009′s Gay Singles LP (Matador/True Panther Sounds), which was a collection of hard-to-find and out-of-print 7″ singles. The Album, Too Young To Be In Love, has a release date of March 29, 2011 through Hardly Art. The foursome will take their “Deliciously trashy homoerotic pop” (Pitchfork) on the road in April after a date at SXSW.
Hunx and His Punx – Lovers Lane by nmcollins
03/16 – 03/19 Austin, TX – SXSW
04/02 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill $
04/08 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo $
04/09 – San Diego, CA – Tin Can Ale House $
04/10 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress $
04/12 – Austin, TX – Emo’s (Indoor) $
04/13 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s (Downstairs) $
04/14 – New Orleans, LA – Spellcaster Lodge $
04/15 – Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Mess Around at The Earl
04/16 – Nashville, TN – The End #$
04/18 – Durham, NC – Duke Coffee House $
04/19 – Baltimore, MD – Golden West Cafe $
04/20 – New York, NY – Cake Shop $
04/21 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie $
04/22 – Swarthmore, PA – Olde Club $
04/23 – Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands $
04/24 – Cambridge, MA – T.T. the Bear’s $
04/26 – Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa $
04/27 – Toronto, ONT – The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern $
04/28 – Detroit, MI – The Old Miami $
04/29 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle $
04/30 – Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club $
05/01 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry $
05/03 – Fargo, ND – The Aquarium $
05/04 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown Jr. $
05/05 – Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar $
05/07 – Denver, Co – Hi Dive $
$ = w/ Shannon & The Clams
# = w/ Jeff The Brotherhood
Xray Eyeballs To Release Debut Album On Kanine Records
Xray Eyeballs, the lovechild of frontman O.J. San Felipe, look to April 19th as the day they drop their debut LP Not Nothing on the world. The Brooklyn fivesome want to make “every song sound like a lullaby...(but) not all happy lullabies either. I think people like songs they can relate to, with things like love, loss, dark vices, and sex,” says O.J. Drawing comparisons to the frantic pop of Jay Reatard and the Urinals, and the moodiness of Velvet Underground and Jesus and Mary Chain, Xray Eyeballs hope to render it all their own.
The Booze Announce New Album, Free MP3 and Tour
These days, it’s not enough to merely claim The Rolling Stones and The Kinks as influences. Everyone loves The Stones and Kinks, thanks to Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson films, respectively, just like every band claims to be influenced by such 60′s and 70′s music. Yet, The Booze make it all believable. Having toured as Muddy Waters Jr.’s backing band and opening act, this Southern Rock outfit have etched out their own sound “marrying a motherlode of 60s R&B/Mod with a Stonesy switchblade swagger.” My Old Kentucky Blog. The new album, At Maximum Volume, is slated to be released March 8th on Underrated Records. Look for them on tour with label-mates The Biters, along with a date at SXSW 2011.
AT MAXIMUM VOLUME Track List:
- Wild One
- Long Way Down
- Down On Your Luck
- Devil To Pay
- The Scene
- Kick Me Where It Hurts
- Straight To Hell
- New York City Women
- Rachel
- Derailed and Doublecrossed
- Borderline
THE BOOZE on tour!!!
Mar. 22 – Tempe, AZ – Yucca Tap Room*
Mar. 23 – San Diego, CA – Eleven*
Mar. 24 – Los Angeles, CA – Redwood Bar*
Mar. 25 – Fullerton, CA – Slidebar*
Mar. 26 – San Francisco, CA – Thee Parkside*
Mar. 27 – Sacramento, CA – The Hub*
Mar. 30 – San Jose, CA – Blank Club*
Apr. 01 – Portland, OR – East End*
Apr. 02 – Seattle, WA – The Comet Tavern*
Apr. 03 – Boise, ID – Gustos*
Apr. 05 – Fort Collins, CO – Surfside 7*
Apr. 06 – Denver, CO – 3 Kings Tavern*
Apr. 07 – Colorado Springs, CO – Triple Nickel Tavern*
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