Toro Y Moi Sets Spring Tour


Toro Y Moi has a busy March and April planned. The singer-songwriter, whose sophomore album was released last month, has announced a nationwide tour that will saw him making stops at SXSW and appearing at the SC Indie Grits Film Festival. A full list can be found below.

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, BC 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 #

04/04 Northfield, MN The Cave ^

04/05 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle #

04/06 Bloomington, IN The Bishop #^

04/07 Toronto, ON Wrongbar #

04/08 Montreal, QC 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

Arctic Monkeys Plot Return To The US


It’s been over a year since they’ve set foot on US soil but this spring English quartet Arctic Monkeys will embark on a nationwide tour. Kicking off in our nation’s capitol on May 17th and wrapping up at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on June 3rd, the tour includes a return to New York City’s renowned Summer Stage in Central Park on May 24th. Ticket info can be found on the band’s website, but we have a full list of dates down below.

 

Spring Tour Dates

5/17 Washington, DC 930 Club

5/18 Philadelphia, PA Knitting Factory

5/19 Boston, MA House Of Blues

5/21 Toronto, ON Kool Haus

5/22 Montreal, QC L’Olympia

5/24 New York, NY Summer Stage

5/26 Detroit, MI Clutch Cargoes

5/27 Milwaukee, WI The Rave

5/28 Minneapolis, MN First Ave

5/30 Denver, CO The Ogden Theatre

5/31 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue

6/3 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium

Crystal Stilts Show Off Tracks from New Album

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Crystal Stilts have released a couple new songs from their upcoming album In Love With Oblivion.

The songs “Through The Floor” and “Shake the Shackles” have both been released for public consumption.

“Through The Floor”

“Shake the Shackles”

If you happen to live in New York or Austin, you’ll be happy to know the Crystal Stilts will be heading over in April. You can see them:

 

04/16 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge #

04/17 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg #

04/29 Austin, TX Austin Psych Fest

 

# = w/ Spectrum

 

A New How-To from Make Out


Make Out is a new exciting pop collaboration consisting of former Junior Senior member Jesper Mortensen and step daughter of New York Dolls’ David Johansen: Leah Hennessey along with Portland, Oregon native/music veteran Olivia Alminiana on drums and Anders Christiansen on bass.

Make Out is a refreshing diversion from today and recent years’ music trends. Instead of experimental soundscapes or conceptual lyrics it’s just fast, sexy punk and pop rants. The new video for their first single “I Don’t Want Anybody That Wants Me” is nothing but four young, hot, colorfully clad guys and gals rocking out behind vibrant floral images, harkening an early 90’s MTV aesthetic.

Make Out just played the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan on March 16th and 17th with The New York Dolls, sure to be a raunchy, high energy rock show. Their debut EP, How To, was just released February 22.

The Strokes on the Cover of Spin Magazine


In case you’ve missed seeing their glowing faces on your newstand, The Strokes issue of Spin recently came out last week. In a special feature called “Behind the Comeback,” the magazine talks to the guys, seperately, getting a glimpse into all of their personalities and the problems the band have been having as a whole. It’s a good insight for the diehard fans or those just wanting to know more about the guys. Spin covers everything from Albert’s drug addiction to the great and not so great side projects of the past five years. You can also take a peak at the issue online, HERE at Spin Magazine.