Monthly Archives: June 2011

06.08.11
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Black Lips Extend Their Tour

Punk-rockers Black Lips have doubled down on their touring.

The group will now be hitting up Lollapalooza and the Hopscotch Festival in a string of East Coast dates that lead up to the release of their new full-length album Arabia Mountain, which will be out on June 7th.

This new leg of the tour follows a stretch of shows with Cerebral Ballzy that they had already scheduled for June.

The band’s full tour schedule looks like this:

(all June dates w/ Cerebal Ballzy)

6/9/11                          San Diego, CA                  The Casbah

6/10/11                        Santa Barbara, CA            Velvet Jones

6/11 & 12                    San Francisco, CA            Great American Music Hall

6/14/11                        Portland, OR                     Wonder Ballroom

6/15/11                        Vancouver,BC                   Commodore Ballroom

6/16/11                        Seattle, WA                        Neumos

6/17/11                        Boise, ID                            Knitting Factory Concert House

6/18/11                        Salt Lake City, UT             Urban Lounge

6/19/11                        Denver, CO                       Bluebird Theater

6/21/11                        Tucson, AZ                         Plush

6/22/11                        Phoenix, AZ                       Rhythm Room

6/23/11                        Costa Mesa, CA                The Detroit Bar

6/24/11                        Los Angeles, CA                The Music Box

6/25/11                        Pomona, CA                       The Glass House

7/27/11                 Charlotte , N.C.               Neighborhood Theatre

7/28/11                 Baltimore , MD                Ottobar .

7/29/11                  NewYork , NY.              Bowery Ballroom

7/30/11                 Hoboken , NJ                  Maxwell’s .

8/01/11                  Pittsburgh , PA               Mr. Small’s Theatre

8/02/11                  Lexington , KY                Buster’s Billiards & Backroom

8/04/11                  St. Louis, MO                  The Firebird

8/5 – 8/7/11            Chicago , IL                    Lollapalooza

9/08/11                  Raleigh, NC                   Hopscotch Festival

06.08.11
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The Cool Kids Set to Release Album

Chicago duo The Cool Kids are set to release their highly anticipated full-length album on July 12th!  Called When Fish Ride Bicycles, the album features 11 brand new songs and finds the duo working with Asher Roth, Travis Barker, and many more guests.  The Cool Kids started working on their album in December 2010 with Pharrell Williams at the helm.  Here is the track listing:

1.  Rush Hour Traffic
2.  GMC
3.  Boomin’ (featuring Tennille)
4.  Sour Apples (featuring Travis Barker)
5.  Penny Hardaway (featuring Ghostface Killah)
6.  Bundle Up
7.  Gas Station (featuring Bun B)
8.  Get Right
9.  Swimsuits (featuring Mayer Hawthorne)
10. Roll Call (featuring Asher Roth, Chip Tha Ripper, Boldy James)
11.Summer Jam (featuring Maxine Ashley), Produced by Pharrell Williams

 

06.06.11
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Tom Vek Premieres New Video

As June 7th approaches and the moment when Tom Vek’s new album Leisure Seizure is available digitally gets closer, we get a second preview of this very promising album. The song is called “World of Doubt,” and the video features two ladies dancing in front of very loud speakers and television sets. Don’t expect rap video dancing on here; what they do goes barely beyond head-bobbing and a little leg-shaking to the beat. But they’re in the zone even as their hair gets blown in their face by the sound waves because of the song’s hard-hitting beats and ominous riffs.

As the video’s first image states, this song has the best effect if watched with headphones on. Although if you have access to the same kind of amplifier set-up that the girls have in the video, I’m sure that’s equally efficient.

Watch the video for “World of Doubt” below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

06.05.11
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#Winning Sundays! : Company of Thieves & The Gift in NYC!


Sundays are for winning, right? Yea, we thought so. Modern Mystery is giving away some free show tickets for your listening pleasure. If you are in the New York City area (or are willing to travel to it), check out the TWO CONTESTS that we have in store for you. To enter, just send an e-mail to ModernMysteryBlog@yahoo.com with your name and phone number. Please put in the title the contest you would like to be submitted for. This will end on June 9th, Thursday.

The winner will recieve two tickets to the show of their choice.

So….here is what we are bringing to the plate.

Company of Thieves at the Bowery Ballroom – June 13th
(they have toured with OK Go and the Hold Steady)

or

The Gift with Xylos at the Bowery Ballroom – June 14th
(Portuguese psych-pop group is making a rare U.S. appearance)

06.02.11
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Jonathan Mann’s” Song-A-Day: The Album” with Nick and Tom from The Spinto Band


Yesterday Jonathan Mann started his collaboration with The Spinto Band’s Nick and Tom, on a month long journey of music fun. With a few musician friends in tow, Mann and Co. recorded their first track yesterday, as well as the video to go with it. Titled “The Song A Day Welcome Song,” featuring a good ole’ ukelele and is only the start of something great. Keep up to date as it’s recorded on on Songatron.com.

You can watch the video from yesterday’s session below:

Or take a listen!

06.02.11
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Teen Daze Travels To A Silent Planet


In February of 2008, Teen Daze, spent seven weeks studying philosophy in a somewhat remote village in the Swiss Alps. His engulfed himself in books, filling his mind with the teachings of great thinkers who had passed long before he was born and fiction novelists such as C.S. Lewis. In fact, it was Lewis’ Out Of The Silent Planet that served as the inspiration for Daze’s new EP, A Silent Planet. 

The six songs that appear on the EP are the result of many musical experiments, auditory accompaniments, and an attempt at a re-creation of Daze’s experiences with this novel. A Silent Planet is set for release on August 9th, but you can pre-order your copy HERE. Below, we’ve included the EP’s lead single “Surface” for free download.