Ezra Furman & The Harpoons Announce New LP

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Ezra Furman & The Harpoons are set to release their third studio album, Mysterious Power, on April 5th. The Boston band’s first release for Red Parlor Records, Mysterious Power boasts the production power of Doug Boehm (French Kicks, Starsailor). Additionally, the band is looking forward to hitting the road in the spring- making an appearance at SXSW before embarking on a U.S. tour thereafter.

A familiar staple on critic’s year-end lists, Ezra Furman & The Harpoons gained acclaim for their 2008 album, Inside The Human Body, being lauded by NPR’s “All Songs Considered,’ Paste, and the Chicago Tribune. The foursome soon found themselves performing their mix of folk-punk alongside the likes of Lou Reed, Matisyahu, The Walkmen, Delta Spirit, and Spoon.

On Mysterious Power, Furman employs the same open-chest honesty that drew ire for Ginsberg’s Howl and spawned speculation of Cohen’s Chelsea Hotel, as Furman pines for his “Wild Rosemarie” in the opening track- recounting bouts of transience he experienced while making the album.  The Harpoons- Job Mukkada (bass), Adam Abrutyn (drums), and Andrew Langer (guitar)- deftly toy with dynamics, soldering rockabilly rhythm and love-struck doo-wop sensibility with punk rock ferocity.

Mysterious Power tracklist:

1.    Wild Rosemarie

2.    I Killed Myself But I Didn’t Die

3.    Hard Time in a Terrible Land

4.    Mysterious Power

5.    Teenage Wasteland

6.    Bloodsucking Whore

7.    Don’t Turn Your Back On Love

8.    Portrait of Maud

9.    Fall In Love With My World

10.Too Strung Out

11.Heaven at the Drive-In

12.Wild Feeling

STRFKR to Embark on a Coast to Coast tour

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Starfucker, also known as STRFKR, are about to embark on a nationwide tour to promote their latest record, Reptilia. Their explosive new album is fronted by Bury Us Alive, which you can download for free here. STRFKR are set to play a show in San Francisco the day their sophomore record debuts, later passing SXSW, and touring all over the US of A. The quartet will be playing alongside Casiokids, Brahms and We Have Hooks for Hands. Check out the full tour date list below.

03/08 – San Francisco, CA – Independent *
03/09 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop *
03/11 – W. Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour *
03/12 – Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar *$
03/13 – Phoenix, AZ – The Trunk Space *
03/14 – Santa Fe, NM – VFW *
03/15-03/19 – SXSW
03/20 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs #
03/22 – Birmingham, AL – Bottletree Cafe #
03/23 – Atlanta, GA – The Drunken Unicorn #
03/25 – Tampa, FL – Crowbar #
03/26 – Orlando, FL – Backbooth #
03/27 – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits #
03/29 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 #
03/30 – Washington DC – Rock and Roll Hotel #
03/31 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s #
04/01 – Plains, PA – River Street Jazz Cafe #
04/02 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom #
04/05 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
04/06 – Portland, ME – Space Gallery
04/07 – Ithaca, NY – Delilah’s @ Ithaca College
04/08 – S. Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
04/09 – Rochester, NY – The Bug Jar
04/10 – Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
04/11 – Columbus, OH – Skully’s
04/12 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
04/14 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
04/15 – Sioux Falls, SD – Orpheum ^
04/16 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
04/17 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
04/19 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court – Early Show
04/19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge – Late Show
04/21 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
04/22 – Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret
04/23 – Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
04/26 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
04/28 – Portland, OR – Holocene
4/29 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
4/30 Portland, OR – MS Studios

* w/ Unknown Mortal
$ – w/ Brahms
# w/ Casiokids
^ w/ We All Have Hooks For Hands

Panda Bear Announces Release Date for ‘Tomboy’


The highly anticipated fourth studio release from Panda Bear (Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox)  will release in the U.S. on April 19th, 2011 on Lennox’s own label, Paw Tracks.

Several of the tracks have already been released over the last few months on other labels, and Tomboy will compile those tracks along with a slew of others.  So grab yourself a fresh stack of bamboo, sit back and listen to this NPR story on Panda Bear.


Antony and the Johnsons to Perform At TED

 

Antony and the Johnsons have announced they will be performing at the prestigious TED Conference in Long Beach on March 1st.

TED is a non-profit that is dedicated to the spread of ideas and the conference aims to bring people from the fields of technology, entertainment and design together to discuss new ideas.

Antony and the Johnsons have a new EP (and video) due out sometime this spring for Secretly Canadian. The record company released Antony and the Johnsons’ latest album Swanlights last October, including a special edition that came inside a 144-page hardcover book that featured a collection of Antony’s paintings, photography and writing.

Like many of his earlier works, Swanlights and the accompanying book were focused on exploring Antony’s connection with the natural world.