Kansas’ own Rooftop Vigilantes just performed at last weekend’s free Scion Garage Festival on Saturday. The event, taking place at Liberty Hall, sawthe band playing alongside Times New Viking, Best Coast, The Raveonettes, The Oblivians, The Clean among others.
This month the four-piece will pony up with friends Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk for a short jaunt that will bring both bands to the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC. Check out the specifics of that show and more, down below.
ROOFTOP VIGILANTES TOUR DATES:
10/09 @ The Ghost Parlor, Manhattan, KS *
10/14 @ Replay Lounge, Lawrence, KS
10/15 @ White Lightning Wherehouse, Iowa City, IA *
10/16 @ Cal’s Bar, Chicago, IL * (w/ Blasted Diplomats)
10/17 @ Contemporary Art Institute, Detroit, MI * (w/ Swimsuit, Lord Scrummage)
10/18 @ The Happy Dog, Cleveland, OH *
10/19 @ SMOG @ BARD College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY * (w/ The Great Valley)
10/20 @ Butcher Shoppe, Boston, MA * (w/ Girlfriends, Free Pizza)
10/22 @ Cake Shop (CMJ Day Party), New York, NY
10/23 @ Bruar Falls (CMJ Day Party), Brooklyn, NY
10/23 @ Cake Shop (CMJ), New York, NY
* with Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk
CFCF (aka Michael Silver) has released a second mixtape into the wild.
Do U Like Night Bus? is out now via The FADER. What is a night bus?
“night bus is a silly little term that originated on Hipinion that describes not a certain genre but a certain feeling of music,” Silver Explains. “Can’t quite describe what it is but Eno, G-Side, David Sylvian, DJ Screw, Angelo Badalamenti, Lil B, and the Akira soundtrack, are all super night bus.”
Silver predicts that his music will be part of a much larger trend.
“We could imagine this mix as a zeitgeist as far as what might happen in music in certain circles in the next 365 days aka people are probably gonna be REAL INTO slowing shit down and kind of already are.”
At the onset of the summer, The Henry Clay People put out their second record, Somewhere on the Golden Coast, which has garnered comparisons to Pavement, The Replacements, and The Hold Steady — not bad company. They are taking their own style of 70s barrock on the road this October in a mostly headlining tour that will see them open a date or two for the Drive-By Truckers. If you think you have them figured out by now, I bet you couldn’t guess the band will be appearing on the October 5th episode of NBC’s Parenthood, called “Date Night.” Don’t get too excited, it’s probably going to be one of those 3-second intro shots of a bar after commercial, but hey, it’s national television. Good for them.
Tame Impala just released the video for their song “Lucidity,” off their debut album InnerSpeaker, out on Modular Recordings. In the song’s lyrics, lead vocalist Kevin Parker sings about reaching the sky; the video’s director Robert Hales took that idea to the extreme. Shot about 300 miles from Melbourne, the video was shot by a camera launched into space with a weather balloon packed with a GPS unit, which returned to Earth once it popped at its summit 14 miles high in the air. The effect is quite impressive with the image flipping and turning, slowly getting further and further from the ground into space. Preparation was strenuous: numerous authorizations had to be obtained from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the first cameras launched fogged up, or ran into clouds that obscured the view. But the result is beautiful and you can watch it right HERE.
Watch the video below:
If they put so much effort in their videos, imagine the dedication that could go into their live shows! They will be embarking on 10-week international tour next week that will bring them to the United States in November so definitely check them out.
Here are their upcoming tour dates:
October 7th || HQ || Adelaide, SA
October 8th || Uni Bar || Hobart, TAS
October 9th || ANU || Canberra, ACT
October 14th || The Enmore Theatre || Sydney, NSW
October 15th || The Palace || Melbourne, VIC
October 16th || The Tivoli || Brisbane, QLD
October 22nd || Astor Theatre || Perth, WA
October 23rd || Fat As Butter Festival || Newcastle, NSW
October 26th || O2 Academy 3 || Birmingham, UK
October 27th || Ruby Lounge || Manchester, UK
October 28th || Heaven || London, UK
October 30th || Le Grand Mix || Tourcoing, France
October 31st || Lieu Unique || Nantes, France
November 1st || La Marioquinerie || Paris, France
November 3rd || Botanique || Brussels, Belguim
November 4th || Gebaude 9 || Cologne, Germany
November 5th || Mascotte || Zurich, Switzerland
November 6th || Le Romandie || Lausanne, Switzerland
November 8th || B72 || Vienna, Austria
November 9th || 59 to 1 || Munich, Germany
November 11th || Beatlemania || Hamburg. Germany
November 12th || Rolling Stone Weekender Festival ||Schleswig, Germany
November 13th || London Calling at The Paradiso || Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 16th || Black Cat || Washington, DC (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 18th || Bowery Ballroom || New York, NY (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 21st || First Unitarian Church || Philadelphia, PA (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 22nd || Paradise Rock Club || Boston, MA (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 23rd || La Sala Rossa || Montreal, QC (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 24th || The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern || Toronto, ONT (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 26th || Double Door || Chicago, IL (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 27th || 7th Street Entry || Minneapolis, MN (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
November 29th || Jackpot Music Hall || Lawrence, KS (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
December 1st || Emo’s Alternative Lounge || Austin, TX (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)December 2nd || The Loft || Dallas, TX (with Stardeath, White Dwarfs and Kuroma)
December 4th || Bluebird Theater || Denver, CO (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 6th || Urban Lounge || Salt Lake City, UT (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 7th || Neurolux || Boise, ID (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 9th || The Biltmore Cabaret || Vancouver, BC (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 10th || Neumos || Seattle, WA (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 11th || Doug Fir Lounge || Portland, OR (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 13th || The Independent || San Francisco, CA (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 14th || Echoplex || Los Angeles, CA (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
December 30th || Falls Festival Marion Bay || Hobart, TAS
December 31st || Falls Festival Lorne || Lorne, VIC
January 1st || Field Day || Sydney, NSW
January 2nd || Southbound Festival || Busselton, WA
Although initially tagged as a disappointment upon release in 1996, Weezer’s Pinkerton has enjoyed an almost unanimous change of heart.
Rolling Stone felt obligated to go back and re-review the CD in 2004, upping the initial 3-star review (out of a possible 5) to…5 stars. Meanwhile, Spin ranked it in the top hundred albums of 1985-2000 and Guitar World ranks it in the top hundred guitar albums of all time.
So you could say the second opinion of the album has been a little more favorable.
Now Weezer has decided to re-release this suddenly popular album with a complete second disc’s worth of unreleased material, out on November 2nd.
The Pinkerton-Deluxe set is a two-disc set with B-sides, unreleased tracks, live tracks and (duh) the original album itself. A Weezer fan could not ask for more.
Greg Cartwright(the Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers) and Coco Hames (the Ettes, Coco Motion) had an idea. They would each record a song and release it as a split-45.
That idea has blossomed into a whole album, featuring guest spots by members of the Black Keys and the Raconteurs.
“”I thought, I’d write a song, Greg would write a song, we’d record them together, and that would be that,” says Hames. “Luckily Greg’s prolific awesome switch was on, and we got this whole record instead.”
Recorded under the name the Parting Gifts, the album (TheStrychnine Dandelion) features contributions by Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys) and Patrick Keeler (the Raconteurs, the Greenhornes).
You can find it on store shelves and online (of course) November 9th. Luckily for you, we also have one of the tracks available right now! You can hear “Keep Walkin” right here.
The track listing for the full album looks like this:
1 Keep Walkin’
2 Bound To Let Me Down
3 Strange Disposition
4 My Mind’s Made Up
5 Shine
6 Born To Be Blue
7 Staring
8 Don’t Stop
9 My Baby Tonight
10 (Walking Through The) Sleepy City
11 Don’t Hurt Me Now
12 Hanna
13 I Don’t Want To Be Like This
14 Strychnine Dandelion
15 This House Ain’t A Hom
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