Brooklyn’s Bird of Youth want you to step back and relax from the escalating madness that makes up the week after SXSW, free from all the band announcements, venue-hunting and other insanity.
If SXSW had gotten you overwhelmed, take a breather from the constant barrage of information and instead enjoy a nice, relaxing acoustic performance of Bird of Youth’s song “The Great Defender” right here.
The song is off of the band’s upcoming debut, Defender, which will be available March 24th.
If you’re a fan of Le Tigre, this is for you. Oscilloscope Laboratories will release the film Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour on DVD on June 7! Directed by Kerthy Fix, the cameras followed the electronic feminists during their This Island tour and includes never before seen live performances, archival interviews, and revealing backstage footage.
Watch a clip from the film below. Here’s Le Tigre performing “Deceptacon:”
The film will premiere at South By South West next week and will be screened in various cinemas around the world after that. Check out the dates below.
Here are the following movie screenings:
03/27: Melbourne, VIC, Australia @ Melbourne Queer Film Festival
4/4: New York, NY @ MoMA, 7 PM (Q&A feat. Johanna Fateman & Kathleen Hanna to follow screening)
04/12: Cologne, Germany @ International Women’s Film Festival
04/16: Orlando, FL @ Florida Film Festival
04/27: Boston, MA @ Independent Film Festival Boston
05/06: Vancouver, BC @ DOXA
05/27: Mexico City, Mexico @ Distrital Film Festival (Q&A feat. Kerthy Fix to follow screening)
06/28: Barcelona, Spain @ Barcelona Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Despite releasing their latest full-length in February, Asobi Seksu (which translated means “playful sex”) have just premiered a new song courtesy of RCRD LBL. The single “Perfectly Crystal” can be heard right here.
Besides a new song, less than a month after releasing the full-length Fluorescence, Asobi Seksu is out on the road right now. The band is sharing the stage with Brahms, Braids, and Cults. Look below for their entire tour schedule.
3/24/2011 – Strange Matter – Richmond, VA****
3/25/2011 – Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, D.C.****
3/26/2011 – Johnny Brendas – Philadelphia, PA****
4/7/2011 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
**w/ BRAHMS
***w/ BRAIDS
****w/ Cults
What happens when you tell all of SXSW in Austin that The Strokes are playing a free show? Well 30,000 people show up and riot and break down the gates when you don’t let them in. It was a peaceful riot where no one seemed to get hurt. Hell, they just wanted to see The Strokes. When did this happen? Strokes riots? Selling out Madison Square Garden’s 20,000 seats? Congratulations fellas, you are bigger than The Beatles. We are loving it.
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