Toro Y Moi Shares New Single

South Carolina native Chaz Bundick, a.k.a. Toro Y Moi, has offered up a new single from his latest album, Underneath the Pine.  “New Beat” is right here:

http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F9888963Toro Y Moi “New Beat” by carparkrecords

Tour dates are here as well:

03/11 Athens, GA – 40 Watt *
03/12 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn *
03/13 New Orleans, LA – The Saturn Bar *
03/14 Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds *
03/15 McAllen, TX – M.P.M. Fest @ Ambiente *$
03/16-18 Austin, TX – SXSW
03/19 Dallas, TX – Club Dada *
03/20 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace *^
03/21 Tempe, AZ – Sail Inn *^$
03/22 Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar *
03/23 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *
03/24 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
03/25 Portland, OR – Doug Fir *
03/26 Kennewick, WA – The Red Room *^
03/27 Seattle, WA – Crocodile *
03/28 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore ^
03/30 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge #
03/31 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge #
04/01 Kansas City, MO – Riot Room #
04/02 Omaha, NE – Slowdown Jr. #
04/03 Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry #
04/05 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle #
04/06 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop #^
04/07 Toronto, Ontario – Wrongbar #
04/08 Montreal, Quebec – La Sala Rossa #
04/09 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall #
04/10 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg #
04/11 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom #
04/12 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church #
04/13 Baltimore, MD – Talking Head #^
04/14 Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel #
04/15 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 #^
04/16 Columbia, SC – Indie Grits Film Festival
04/23 Honolulu, HI – Next Door

* = w/ Cloud Nothings
^ = w/ Braids
# = w/ Adventure
$ = w/ Nite Jewel

A Classic Education Shares New Track and Tour Dates

Italian indie pop band A Classic Education is following up their 2010 CMJ appearance by releasing a few tracks.  Here is one of them called “I Lost Time:”
A Classic Education – I Lost Time by A Classic Education

The band is also supporting British Sea Power after their SXSW appearance.  Dates are listed below.

Mar-16-20    SXSW
Tue-Mar-22    Brooklyn, NY    Music Hall of Williamburg
Thu-Mar-24    Toronto, ONT    Lees Palace
Fri-Mar-25    Cleveland, OH    Grog Shop
Sun-Mar-27    Chicago, IL    Lincoln Hall
Tue-Mar-29    Minneapolis, MN    Cedar Cultural Center
Fri-Apr-01    Vancouver, BC    Biltmore
Sat-Apr-02    Seattle, WA    Neumo’s
Sun-Apr-03    Portland, OR    Doug Fir
Tue-Apr-05    San Francisco, CA    Independent
Wed-Apr-06    Brookdale, CA    Brookroom @ The Historic Brookdale Lodge
Thu-Apr-07    Los Angeles, CA    Troubadour
Fri-Apr-08    San Diego, CA    Casbah
Sat-Apr-09    Tempe, AZ    Clubhouse
Mon-Apr-11    Marfa, TX    Padres
Wed-Apr-13    Austin, TX    Mohawk
Thu-Apr-14    Dallas, TX    The Loft
Sun-Apr-17    Atlanta, GA    The Earl
Mon-Apr-18    Carrboro, NC    Cats Cradle
Tue-Apr-19    Washington, DC    Black Cat
Wed-Apr-20    Philadelphia, PA    Johnny Brendas

“The Indie Rock Poster Book” Gets A Release Date

Yellow Bird Project, a Montreal-based non-profit organization, and illustrator Andy J. Miller have teamed up once again to find a way to celebrate indie rock while benefiting charities of those same indie rock artists.  After the success of 2009’s The Indie Rock Coloring Book, the team is set to release The Indie Rock Poster Book on May 7th.  This book will feature 30 different full color posters inspired by indie rock songs such as Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” and Iron & Wine’s “The Trapeze Swinger.”  The book will be available at www.yellowbirdproject.com.

My Cousin, The Emperor Announces EPs

Brooklyn’s My Cousin, The Emperor has announced they will be releasing two EPs on March 29th.  Volume I – Prospect Park West and Volume II – Broadway-Lafayette are being called “mini-soundtracks of the city” by the band.  Here’s a track called “Nothing Left for Us to Find”:

Nothing Left For Us to Find by My Cousin, The Emperor