Back in April, we were totally stoked to let you all know about this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. We might have only been doing it for our buddy “Salty” then, but now, we’ve got incentive. Well, now we’ve been offered a pretty great opportunity for you all: we’ve got two (2) great lawn tickets for the winners of Radio Exile’s great Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Tour. These winners gets to specify the venue of their choosing from the dates “after the jump”

Please make sure that you note that all tickets being given away are LAWN ONLY. You WILL be allowed to pick the venue of your choice (transportation not included)

To enter, leave a comment telling us, me, whomever, as to why YOU should win tix. Make sure to leave your valid email so that we can contact you should you be chosen as a winner.

So, again, leave a comment, tell us why you deserve the tickets and two lucky readers will win (2) lawn seats at the tour stop of their choice.

Gnarly?

(Glad we could give you something for free!)

The two (2) winners will be picked at 11 AM ET on Monday, 8/2, so comment before then to be eligible!

Get more info “after the jump”

8/3 Raleigh, NC
Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek

8/4 Virginia Beach, VA
Virginia Beach Amphitheatre

8/6 Detroit, MI
DTE Energy Music Theatre

8/7 Burgettstown, PA
First Niagara Pavilion

8/8 Washington, DC
Jiffy Lube Live

8/10 Tampa, FL
Ford Amphitheatre

8/11 West Palm Beach, FL
Cruzan Amphitheatre

8/13 Dallas, TX
Superpages.com Center

8/14 Oklahoma City, OK
Zoo Amphitheatre

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With the release of “Sleep Forever” (the band’s sophomore release), Crocodiles will be on the road a great deal over the next few months. They’ve just released some tourdates in support of the release (including at stop at NYC’s Mercury Lounge on Sept. 22nd), but check out some tunes “after the jump” and see what you think.

[mp3] Crocodiles – “Sleep Forever”

CROCODILES TOUR DATES
Aug 16 Los Angeles @ Echo
Aug 19 San Francisco @ Pop Scene
Aug 20 San diego @ Casbah
Aug 23 Los Angeles @ Echo
Sept 20 Chicago @ Empty Bottle
Sept 22 New York @ Mercury Lounge

Crocodiles are pleased to announce several US tour dates in support of their upcoming full-length Sleep Forever. Fat Possum will release the album, the duo’s sophomore effort, on September 14th.

Last year Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell released Summer of Hate, their acclaimed debut album as Crocodiles. The album garnered them endless blog buzz and tours across the US and Europe supporting bands like Holy Fuck and The Horrors. The New York Times described them as “a compact blast of post-post-punk” and Rolling Stone declared, “Welcome to the art-punk renaissance.”

Significantly, Summer of Hate also caught the ear of one James Ford – Simian Mobile Disco man and producer of Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons and Florence and the Machine amongst others. Together, all three headed into the desert in early 2010 to create Summer Of Hate’s psychedelic, hypnotic and anthemic follow-up. An album that would later be christened Sleep Forever.

“More krauty, more dub” are the watch words that Brandon and Charles use to describe Sleep Forever. “James was really great,” says Brandon of its producer. “I guess there was a small fear that because he is someone who produces hit records that he’d clean us up a lot, but he did a great job of keeping it raw.”

Raw it may be, but Sleep Forever is still an unmistakably more refined beast than its predecessor. Drums and organ whirls envelope you on tracks like “Mirrors” and “Sleep Forever”, which nod to Ladies and Gentlemen… era Spiritualized as much as they do Neu! and The Velvet Underground. Meanwhile, Brandon’s tough Cali sneer gives its most emotional performance to date in “All My Hate and My Hexes Are For You”.

Back with a full five-piece live band – including drummer Alianna Kalaba, bassist Marco Gonzalez and keyboardist Robin Eisenberg – and a summer of open roads ahead of them, it seems unlikely that Crocodiles will ever have to do anything more mundane than soundcheck again.”
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Remember when we first brought Parades into your lives a few months back? (Damn, that video for “Loserspeak in New Tongue” was awesome!) Now, the band are readying their debut, which will be coming out on Dot Dash, and we’ve got a preview at one of the great new tracks.

Check out a sample of what the band’s been up to “after the jump”

Parades are a young art-rock band from Sydney, signed to the independent label, Dot Dash and have wisely chosen to produce their debut album in band member Jonathan Boulet’s garage. Jonathan has had considerable success in his own right as a solo artist signed to the Modular label.

The results are ambitious and undeniably refreshing. The new material chases the expansive and grandiose leanings hinted at on their early radio-favorite “Dead Nationale”. The young band effortlessly achieves a dynamic whitewash of pop harmonies, post- rock guitars and electronic meanderings. Somewhere amidst the blog hype it has been described as “the results of unhinged jam session”.

Parades recently toured with Seabellies, headlined a national album launch tour of Australia and will shortly tour with Sally Seltmann and Passion Pit:

Upcoming Dates
July 23, 2010 Oxford Art Factory
July 24, 2010 The Heritage Hotel
Aug 2, 2010 The Forum

[mp3] Parades – “Past Lives”
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Uh oh, I am swamped so it’s “cut-and-paste” news time!

“With a rousing new collection of songs and an inspirational live show that has captivated audiences and critics worldwide, Wintersleep are proud to extend their US touring schedule and join The Hold Steady for a three-week tour. Beginning September 20th in Richmond, VA and including a performance at The Beacon Theatre in New York City, this tour will see the band playing songs from their latest album, NEW INHERITORS, an intoxicating album full of meticulously crafted rock songs released this June.”

Get more info about the tour “after the jump”

STREAM THE NEW WINTERSLEEP TRACK “TRACE DECAY” NOW!
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Praised by The Wall Street Journal, Paste Magazine, Alternative Press, Pitchfork, NME and Q Magazine, among others, Wintersleep have continually won over fans with soaring arrangements, accessible melodies and an epic sophistication that has made them one of the most important bands to watch in 2010.

NEW INHERITORS is the follow up to the critically acclaimed album, WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY, which saw the band win a Juno Award for “Best New Band” and open for Pearl Jam, Paul McCartney, Metric and Wolf Parade, among others.

WINTERSLEEP TOUR DATES WITH THE HOLD STEADY
9.20: Richmond, VA – The National
9.21: Nashville, TN – Exit/In
9.22: Oxford, MS – The Lyric Oxford
9.23: Little Rock, AR – Revolution Music Room
9.24. New Orleans, LA – Republic
9.25: Birmingham, AL – WorkPlay Theatre
9.27: Charleston, SC – Music Farm
9.28: Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
9.29: Lexington, KY – Busters and Billiards
9.30: Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
10.1: Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre
10.2: Newport, KY – Southgate House
10.4: Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
10.5: Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero
10.6: Boston, MA – Royale Boston
10.7: New York, NY – Beacon Theatre

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For Conor Oberst fans like myself who own every piece of material that the dude has ever put out (I know, it’s an unexpected development, right?) but Omaha, Nebraska’s own Desaparecidos have announced a reunion show, July 31st at the Concert For Equality.

[mp3] Desaparecidos – “Mall of America”

[A big ol' hat tip to MPLS EFN RCKS on this one]
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After quick examination, one might think we’re falling in love with Pitchfork TV. Truth-be-told, we’ve never been offered a video premiere and since these guys have them all, we tend to post those. Ha. About this clip:

“Fang Island began, oddly enough, as an art school project while the band members were attending the prodigious Rhode Island School of Design (also the foundation for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Les Savvy Fav, Six Finger Satellite, Lightning Bolt and some band called the Talking Heads.)

Today, Pitchfork premieres the quintet’s latest video, “Careful Crossers” which was shot in Los Angeles in the storied Glassroom at Sargent House. This marks the band’s third video to debut via the popular site which previously featured the quirky videos for “Daisy” and “Life Coach“.

“Careful Crossers” is the third single off their self-titled debut (out now via Sargent House)

Check out the video and some mp3s“after the jump”

[mp3] Fang Island – “Life Coach”
[mp3] Fang Island – “Daisy”

Tour Dates

07/04 Atlantic City, NJ @ Showboat Casino *
07/05 Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall //
07/07 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis *
07/08 Toronto, ON @ Molson Ampitheater ^
07/11 Brookyln, NY @ Williamsburg Waterfront =
07/20 Pittsburgh, PA @ Ampitheater at Station Square *
07/22 Lewistown, NY @ Artpark *
07/23 Canadaigua, NY @ Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center ##
07/24 Holyoke, MA @ Mountain Park *
07/27 New York, NY @ Terminal 5 *

08/13 Saint Paul, MN @ Roy Wilkins Auditorium >
08/17 Columbus, OH @ The LC Pavilion Outdoor Amphitheater +
08/19 Grand Rapids, MI @ Deltaplex +
08/20 Chicago, IL @ Charter One Pavilion >
08/22 Cleveland, OH @ Time Warner Cable Amphitheater +
08/25 Cincinnati, OH @ PNC Pavilion at Riverbend +
08/26 Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre +
08/28 Burgettstown, PA @ First Niagara Pavilion +

09/04 Dublin, IE @ Electric Picnic Music Festival
09/05 Glasgow, UK @ Captains Rest
09/06 Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny 2
09/07 London, UK @ Madame Jo Jo’s
09/08 London, UK @ Old Blue Last
09/10 Paris, FR @ Fleche d’Or
09/11 Berlin, DE @ TBA
09/12 Hamburg, DE @ TBA
09/13 Gent, BE @ Café Video
09/14 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
09/15 Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje

09/23 Urbana, IL @ Pygmalion Music Festival
09/24 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival

* with The Flaming Lips
// with Minus the Bear
^ with The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Tokyo Police Club
= with Why?, Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu
## with The Flaming Lips, The Black Keys
> with Stone Temple Pilots
+ with Stone Temple Pilots, Cage the Elephant

Fang Island is clearly not an immobile landmass. This weekend, the Brooklyn based high-fiving guitar-anthem optimists kick off dates supporting indie-rock legends the Flaming Lips. In August, Fang Island support the reunited Stone Temple Pilots. Soon thereafter, the band embarks on their first headlining tour of the UK and Europe in September, starting in Dublin at the Electric Picnic. As if that weren’t enough, Fang Island has also added the Pygmalian Music Festival and Midpoint Music Festival, as well as a Williamsburg Waterfront performance to its busy itinerary. Please see below for complete dates.

Today, Pitchfork premieres the quintet’s latest video, “Careful Crossers” which was shot in Los Angeles in the storied Glassroom at Sargent House. This marks the band’s third video to debut via the popular site which previously featured the quirky videos for “Daisy” and “Life Coach”.

Fang Island’s self-titled debut album hit shelves on February 23rd via Sargent House amid a wealth of praise from press, with many writers declaring it one of the Best of 2010, just two months into the new year. A digital EP featuring the popular album track “Daisy” backed with Chris Keating of Yeasayer’s remix of “Absolute Place” off their Sky Gardens EP preceded the full length in January.

Fang Island’s finger-tapping guitar lines, chanted vocals, triumphant harmonies and overall perky songs hearken to the sort of “Total Music” of Jay Reatard, Ponytail, Kraftwerk, Marnie Stern, Thin Lizzy, et al. But, perhaps more so, its songs are like the music in your head at that moment when everything feels just right: that first kiss, that high score on the video game, buying your first small nation in cash… you know, good stuff. Check out MP3s for two tracks, “Daisy” (MP3 HERE) and “Life Coach” (MP3 HERE).

Fang Island began, oddly enough, as an art school project while the band members were attending the prodigious Rhode Island School of Design (also the foundation for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Les Savvy Fav, Six Finger Satellite, Lightning Bolt and some band called the Talking Heads.) According to guitarist Jason Bartell, the goal was to “make music for people who like music.” That is, music without irony that harnesses its uplifting qualities. Just like a classic rock song or classical symphony can stir us emotionally, Fang Island exists to unlock that spirit.

Fang Island is guitarist Jason Bartell, bassist Michael Jacober, guitarist Chris Georges, guitarist Nicholas Andrew Sadler, and drummer Marc St. Sauveur. They all share collective group vocal harmonies and the occasional hand claps. While Sadler is also known for his role in the debauched rock band Daughters, it is only his fretboard skill that translates between the two groups.

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Check out the great new clip for “White Night” off the EP of the same name. Having seen them a while back at the Taste of Williamsburg after-party, we’re big fans. This song is incredible and we’re glad to share with you guys. Pick up a free MP3 download of the single at http://thepostelles.com.

U.S. Tour Dates:
7/28 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
7/30 Allston, MA – Great Scott
9/18 Washington, DC – DC Nine
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Turns out that there is news in the Wavves camp. This new clip (courtesy of YoursTruly) is a live performance from Origami Vinyl in Los Angeles with some discussion on the direction of the new album. It’s pretty neat. Their release, King of the Beach, will see it’s digital release on July 1st.

Get the mp3 of “Post Acid” and watch a live performance by the band “after the jump”

Tour Dates
Fri-Aug-06 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
Sat-Aug-07 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle / Lollapalooza afterparty #
Thu-Aug-12 San Diego, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego +

* = w/ Cloud Nothings
# = w/ Harlem
+ = w/ Shepard Fairey (DJ Set)

King of The Beach, originally slated for an Aug. 3 release date, will now be available via iTunes exclusively on July 1, all other digital outlets on July 13 and the physical street date (CD / LP) remains Aug. 3.

Bio:

In the life of Nathan Williams, the year of 2009 will go down as both a highlight reel and a total shit show. Meteorically, feverishly and somewhat improbably, two albums worth of naïve punk rock he recorded behind his parents’ San Diego home as Wavves became a sensation in the world of indie music. As a result, passports got filled, capers got pulled off and lots of good things got said about the music in both print and digital ink, plus in actual human voices. At the same time, fights got fought, situations got hairy and people got indignant and mean.

Oh well. Fuck it. All of it.

What’s important now is that, in the beginning of 2010, Williams made King of the Beach, the new Wavves album. King of the Beach is an adventurous and ambitious record. It cuts deeper into the bleeding throat catharsis and ’60s sunshine soul that Wavves is known for. It also unexpectedly flips out with elements of primitive electronics and psychedelic studio experimentation.

“There was a conscious effort going into this that I didn’t want to make the same record again. I already made the same record twice, with the same fucking cover art,” says Williams. “It wasn’t overbearing, but I didn’t want to recreate something I’d done. I wanted to make something bigger, something stronger.”

Unlike Wavves’ previously released material, recorded in haphazard bursts on Williams’ laptop, King of the Beach was toiled over for three months at Sweet Tea Recording, a world-renown studio in Oxford, Mississippi. Sweet Tea is also the home of Dennis Herring, producer of the last two Modest Mouse albums, and the man who dismantled and re-assembled the sound on this record.

All the rumors are true: Herring is a studio perfectionist. Williams is not. “There were some definite ‘I want to wring you neck’-type moments,” Williams says of the sessions, but he also understood that, with the resources he had available to him, he’d be stupid not to make the album sound exactly how he wanted it. “When you’re not watering it down with a load of shit and reverb, it’s a lot harder to make a record, because you know every part is going to be heard perfectly. You can’t half-ass anything,” says Williams. “A lot more effort went into this than with previous Wavves records.”

Another marked difference in the making of King of the Beach was that Williams wrote and recorded two songs with bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes, the duo who became his touring band at the end of 2009. Pope and Hayes formerly backed recently departed garage rock force of nature Jay Reatard. Williams met the two after his infamously disastrous performance at the Primavera Sound Festival in Spain. “I think we all agree that they squeegeed me up, because I melted down,” says Williams.

Though there is a confidence in the scope of the album-from the title track’s denim on sand anthem-baiting to the tweaked pop of “Convertable Balloon” to the unabashed prettiness of “When Will You Come”-Williams’ usual lyrical themes of self-loathing are still impossible to ignore. “I think everybody feels that way sometimes. I know everybody feels that way sometimes. You’re a fucking liar if you don’t,” says Williams. “It wouldn’t make sense if I’m feeling a certain way to not write about it. There are songs about hating myself, but there are also songs about driving in a car with a balloon and playing Nintendo too.”

In the end, though, King of the Beach is not an album for the miserable. While the verses of “Take on the World” enumerate the things Williams hates (his writing, his music, his self) the chorus resolves into a simple, bold repeated phrase: “To take on the world would be something.”

The album title King of the Beach isn’t meant to be ironic or a self-deprecating joke. It’s a declaration. “Without sounding cheesy, we all wanted to make something inspiring,” says Williams. “It’s the type of thing where you have this much, but you could have more, so go get it.”

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Radio Exile were lucky enough to be present to see Darwin Deez back home for their first show since NME’s Radar Tour. They’ve been described as “near-genius” pop and that’s what we heard and saw on Monday night; something worth taking lots of rad photos of. I am glad I was wearing shorts because my pants WERE charmed off.

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[mp3] Darwin Deez – “Up In The Clouds” (Jack Bullitt Remix)

We’ve been swamped at RE the past week or so (if you couldn’t tell) but I want to let you know that we’re still working our butts off. Just want to finish some stuff to make this place more fun for you guys as well. In the mean time, here’s Woods’ new video. Well, actually, here’s a bit about their new album, At Echo Lake:

“With a title like At Echo Lake, the fifth album from New York’s Woods intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant feel for the specifics of time and place. The distance between 2007′s At Rear House and 2010′s At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing.”

See, now you want to check it out, right? I know that I do.

Check out the video “after the jump”

[mp3] Woods – “I Was Gone”

Upcoming Shows

06/25 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (Northside Fest / Woodsist Showcase) %^

% = w/ Real Estate
^ = w/ The Fresh and Onlys, Moon Duo and Sic Alps

Over the past few years Woods have established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outré company of vocalist/guitarist/label owner Jeremy Earl’s Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Recent live shows have seen them best confuse the two, playing beautifully-constructed songs torn apart by fuzztone jams and odd electronics.

At Echo Lake feels like a diamond-sharp distillation of the turbulent power of their live shows, in much the same way that The Grateful Dead’s “Dark Star” single amplified and engulfed the planetary aspect of their improvised takes. Some of the material here – the opening “Blood Dries Darker”, the euphoric “Mornin’ Time” – is so lush that lesser brains would’ve succumbed to the appeal of strings and horns but At Echo Lake is more Fifth Dimension than Notorious Byrd Brothers, nowhere more so than on “From The Horn”, a track that is as beautiful in its assault on form as “Eight Miles High” or Swell Maps’ “Midget Submarines”. But despite the instrumental innovation that the album heralds – G. Lucas Cranes’ psychedelic tapework on “Suffering Season”, guest musician Matthew Valentine’s harmonica and modified banjo/sitar on “Time Fading Lines” – At Echo Lake is all about the vocals.

Woods’ secret weapon is the quality of Earl’s voice, osmosing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while re-thinking it as a discipline and a tradition. Here he is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style that is bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. At Echo Lake feels like the transmission point for teenage garage from the past to the future. Deformed by contemporary experiments, bolstered by magical traditions from the past, it’s the sound of now, right here, At Echo Lake.
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MGMT introduce “It’s Working,” the latest video from their critically acclaimed sophomore album Congratulations. The band are currently on tour.

[mp3] MGMT – “Flash Delirium”

Tourdates

06/15/10 COLUMBUS, OH-LC PAVILION
06/16/10 DETROIT, MI -THE FILLMORE
06/18/10 CHICAGO, IL -RIVIERA THEATER SOLD OUT
06/19/10 MINNEAPOLIS, MN -WALKER ARTS CENTER SOLD OUT
06/20/10 MILWAUKEE, WI -RIVERSIDE THEATER
06/27/10 PILTON, UK –GLASTONBURY
07/15/10 SAN DIEGO, CA – SDSU OPEN AIR THEATRE
07/16/10 LOS ANGELES, CA -GREEK THEATRE-LA
07/18/10 POMONA, CA -FOX THEATRE
07/21/10 OAKLAND, CA – FOX THEATRE
07/24/10 VANCOUVER -COMMODORE BALLROOM SOLD OUT
08/04/10 MONTREAL –METROPOLIS SOLD OUT
08/05/10 TORONTO -KOOL HAUS SOLD OUT
08/08/10 CHICAGO, IL –LOLLAPALOOZA
08/10/10 BOSTON, MA-BANK OF AMERICA PAVILION
08/11/10 HOLYOKE, MA- MOUNTAIN PARK
08/12/10 BURLINGTON, VT – LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME FESTIVAL
08/14/10 COLUMBIA, MD- MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILLION
08/15/10 PHILADELPHIA, PA-MANN CENTER
08/17/10 NEW YORK, NY -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
08/18/10 NEW YORK, NY -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
08/21/10 ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – BORGATA
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The Static Jacks may write about escaping their home state. But while you can take the band out of New Jersey, you can’t take the New Jersey out of the band. And boy, do they have that Garden State attitude with songs like ‘Parties and Friends (And Bullshit)’ and ‘My Parents Lied’. Their music is best described as the raw energy of a garage band… but with soul. Sure you can compare them to Morrissey or the Strokes… but only because they’re that good. Their anthem of ‘Woah Woah Woah’ was a perfect start to the nights festivities.

On the surface, The Like – with their mod-type clothing straight out of an Austin Powers flick or any given episode of Laugh In – could be taken for a sexy eye catching gimmick. But don’t let their looks fool you as it perfectly compliments their brand of 60′s girl group meets alt-pop. The Ronettes meet The Bangles. While Lead singer Elizabeth ‘Z’ Berg sings about a cheating boyfriend who is going to regret being untrue in a big way, a sultry Annie Monroe plays the organ and provides groovy background harmonies while Laena Geronimo’s bass is up front and personal. And let’s not forget Tennessee Thomas, who’s not only a kickass drummer, but is also appearing in Scott Pilgrim vs the World (due in theaters August 13th). Seriously, it’s the first time I’ve ever had a crush on an entire band.

Look out for The Like’s second album (which was produced by Mark Ronson) upon it’s release June 15th.

THE LIKE SET LIST

Catch Me
He’s Not Boy
Release Me
Walk of Shame
Narcissus In A Red Dress
Fair Game
Wishing He Was Dead
Square One
In The End
Trouble in Paradise
Don’t Make a Sound
Why When Love?

Headlining were The Futureheads. Sounding like a post-hardcore Fugazi meets the Killers meets English Beat, the band brought the house down with many a track from their new album, ‘The Chaos’. But the absolute highlight was when, Futureheads lead singer Barry Hyde was replaced by a member of the audience (for one song). Barry, having previously announced to the crowd that he was having issues with his singing voice (issues that almost cancelled the show!) and asked a member of the audience to sing lead vocals for their next song and picked audience member Tiernan Browne out of the crowd and on to the stage to sing their biggest hit, ‘Hounds of Love’! And he turned out to be excellent behind the mic. After the show, as “Barry” Tiernan posed for pics, Barry called their new lead singer “My Hero.”

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THE FUTUREHEADS SETLIST

The Chaos
Decent Days
Heartfelt Song
Meantime
StruckDumb
I Can Do That
First Day
Work
Back to the Sea
Sun Goes Down
Twist
Carnival Kids
Hounds of Love
Jupiter
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Illinois-makers (ha!) Elsinore have put together an immaculate track here with the tune “Yes Yes Yes” (which you can grab in a minute, bear with us). With the announcement that the Yes Yes Yes full length will be dropping August 10th, we’re salivating. Or, we’re at least very happy. The band are a blast of fresh air, not a breath; knocking the wind from our lungs with fun, energetic melodies and tunes of “the simplistic bliss of life in the Midwest”.

More info and tour dates “after the jump”

[mp3] Elsinore – “Yes Yes Yes”

Summer Tour Dates (more to come):

06.12 Taste of Champaign-Urbana (Champaign, IL)
06.12 Independent Music and Arts Festival (Indianapolis, IN)
06.24 Summerfest (Milwaukee, WI)
07.13 Mike N’ Molly’s (Champaign, IL)
08.13 Firebird (St Louis, MO)
08.14 Canopy Club (Champaign, IL)
08.20 Black Sparrow (Lafayette, IN)
08.21 Radio Radio (Indianapolis, IN)
08.26 Blind Pig (Ann Arbor, MI)
08.27 The Strutt (Kalamazoo, MI)
08.28 Mulligan’s (Grand Rapids, MI)
09.02 Lemon Grove (Youngstown, OH)
09.03 Howler’s Cafe (Pittsburgh, PA)
09.04 Labyrinth Press Co. – early show (Jamestown, NY)
09.04 Mojo’s – late show (Jamestown, NY)
09.05 Bug Jar (Rochester, NY)

Recorded over two years and a thousand studio hours, Yes Yes Yes is a textured and dynamic song-scape. The album flows organically through epic, passionate rockers (Landlocked, Gasoline), hushed and intimate confessions (Body of Water, Breathing Light), and playful accounts of legendary locals (Chemicals). Groff’s unmistakable voice elicits moods of vulnerability and positivity, and pulls from the entire spectrum of love itself.

The album was co-produced with Adam Schmitt (HUM, Headlights) and Anthony Gravino, and was mastered by Jon Pines (Billy Bragg & Wilco, Jay Bennett, Braid) in Champaign-Urbana, IL.

Yes Yes Yes is much more than a statement of positivity. It’s an enthusiastic realization; an honest and autobiographical display of humanism. These are stories of self-examination, sacrifice, compromise, and lessons learned, all leading to the avoidance of a quarter-life crisis.

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Small Black are currently busy with their first tour of Europe, but that hasn’t stopped them from releasing a video for “Bad Lover”. The clip was direct by Nick Bentgen and comes from their self-titled EP, which you can get here. The band will also have a string of U.S. tour dates starting in July, including a stop at West Fest in Chicago and will be finishing their full-length (*hopefully).

Check out the video and more “after the jump”

[mp3] Small Black – “Despicable Dogs”

TOUR DATES:
05/27 Leeds, England- Nation of Shopkeepers
05/28 Glasgow, Scotland- Stereo w/ Washed Out, Dam Mantle
05/29 Bristol, England- Dot to Dot Festival
05/30 Nottingham, England- Dot to Dot Festival
05/31 Manchester, England- Dot to Dot Festival
06/01 London, England- Cargo
06/02 Brighton, England- Freebutt
06/03 Amsterdam, The Netherland- Trouw w/ Washed Out
06/04 Hamburg, Germany- Indra
06/05 Gent, Belgium- Charlatan
06/07 Paris, France- Point Ephemere w/ Scout Niblett

07/08 Cleveland, OH- Grog Shop w/ Beach Fossils
07/09 Bloomington, IN- The Bishop w/ Beach Fossils
07/10 Chicago, IL- Empty Bottle w/ Beach Fossils
07/11 Chicago, IL- West Fest
07/13 Rochester, NY- Bug Jar w/ Beach Fossils
07/14 New York, NY- Mercury Lounge
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Very few artists have attracted the sizable following that moe. has without the big budget rock label backing. They’re unique, they’re fun and they’ve never pretended to do anything other than create music that they would enjoy listening to themselves.

On June 1st , moe. will release Smash Hits, Volume 1 on the band’s Fatboy Records label. The album celebrates moe.’s 20th anniversary and includes newly recorded fan favorites that encompass the band’s entire career.

To celebrate the occasion, the band are giving away a ton of free stuff and touring like mad (*which isn’t all that unusual for them as it is) which you can check out “after the jump”

[mp3] moe. – “Spine of a Dog”

MOE. ON TOUR
May 28 – Summer Camp Festival 2010 – Chillicothe, IL
May 29 – Summer Camp Festival 2010 – Chillicothe, IL
May 30 – Summer Camp Festival 2010 – Chillicothe, IL
May 31 – Time Warner Cable Ampitheater – Cleveland, OH
June 2 – Innsbrook Pavilion – Glen Allen, VA
June 3 – Rams Head Live! – Baltimore, MD
June 4 – Saranac Brewery – Utica, NY
June 5 – Saranac Brewery – Utica, NY
June 25 – Buffalo Place Rocks The Harbor – Buffalo, NY
June 26 – Buffalo Place Rocks The Harbor – Buffalo, NY
June 27 – Mountain Park – Holyoke, MA
June 30 – Paramount Center For The Arts – Peekskill, NY
July 1 – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom – Hampton Beach, NH
July 2 – Nateva Music & Camping Festival – Oxford, ME
July 3 – Theatre At Westbury – Westbury, NY
July 4 – Stone Pony Summerstage – Asbury Park, NJ
July 7 – Centennial Terrace – Toledo, OH
July 8 – LC Outdoor Pavilion – Columbus, OH
July 10 – Simon Estes Amphitheater – Des Moines, IA
July 12 – Weesner Amphitheater – Apple Valley, MN
July 13 – Sioux Falls Orpheum Theater – Sioux Falls, SD
July 15 – Babcock Theatre – Billings, MT
July 16 – 6th Annual Targhee Festival – Alta, WY
July 17 – Northwest String Summit – North Plains, OR
August 1 – Fuji Rock Festival – Niigata, Japan
September 3 – MOE.DOWN 11 Gelston Castle Estate – Mohawk, NY
September 4 – MOE.DOWN 11 Gelston Castle Estate – Mohawk, NY
September 5 – MOE.DOWN 11 Gelston Castle Estate – Mohawk, NY

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On their latest LP, the forthcoming covers album if i had a hi-fi, Nada Surf deliver a solid experience of covers from front-to-back. This clip features the band walking us through the four seasons of the year to highlight the universality (*just kidding, I have no idea) of “Electrocution,” which was written by Cleveland musician Bill Fox. if i had a hi-fi is in stores June 8th via the band’s label Mardev Records, but fans may purchase the album in CD and Vinyl format exclusively at their upcoming US tour dates.

Check out Nada Surf’s “Electrocution” clip and upcoming tour dates “after the jump”

Tour Dates

MAY
24 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
25 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
26 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
27 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
29 – George, WA – Sasquatch Festival
30 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
31 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile Café

JULY
08 – Palma de Mallorca, ES – Cultura Club
09 – Santa Pola, ES – Camelot Club
10 – Liege, BE – Les Ardentes
12 – Holland, US – Effenaar Eindhoven
13 – Luxembourg, US – Rockhal Club
14 – Amsterdam, US – Melkweg Max
16 – France, FR – La Guerre du Son
17 – Stuttgart, Germany – Tubingen Lauscht
19 – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie
20 – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie
22 – Luzern, Switzerland – Schuur
23 – Eberndorf Osterreich, AT – Acoustic Lakeside Festival
24 – Feldkirch Vorarlberg, AT – Poolbar Festival
26 – Aschaffenburg, DE – Colos saal
27 – Numberg, DE – Hirsch
28 – Munich, DE – Backstage
30 – Grossenfehn, DE – Omas Teich

AUGUST
07 – Messe, Japan – Summer Sonic ( Marine Stadium)
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One of my all-time favorite bands, Murder by Death, just released a new video for their song “White Noise”. The video for was created by the Australian animator/design team of MaricorMaricar (Architecture in Helsinki, The Living End) and is “based on a treatment by the band’s cellist, Sarah Balliet, and explores the “ominous undercurrent” of the song”.

I can’t express more eloquently how much I love the new album, Good Morning, Magpie, so I will let the clip and mp3s speak for themselves.

Check out the video, treats and more “after the jump”

[mp3] Murder by Death – “Foxglove”
[mp3] Murder by Death – “The Killer In You” (Smashing Pumpkins Cover) [h/t The Cover Lovers]

The Bloomington, Indiana quartet recently made their debut appearance on the Billboard Top 200 Chart with the release of their fifth full-length, Good Morning, Magpie (4/6/10, Vagrant) and also debuted at #5 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. The San Francisco Chronicle said Good Morning, Magpie, “sports a textural Americana tone, with strings and horns punctuating Turla’s stories. It’s probably the band’s most accessible album to date,’ while The New Yorker said, “…the result is the four-piece’s most accomplished work to date. The eleven new songs find Turla’s deep and arid bass-baritone pitted against a tumbledown bricolage of dark vaudeville hysterics and Southern gothicism.”

MURDER BY DEATH on tour:

May 22 – Chemnitz, Germany @ Fuego a la Isla Festival
May 23 – Beverungen, Germany @ Orange Blossom Festival
May 24 – Berlin, Germany @ Festsaal
May 25 – Cologne, Germany @ Gebaude 9
May 26 – Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow
May 27 – Munster, Germany @ Gleis 22
May 28 – Heidelberg, Germany @ Karlstorbahnhof
May 29 – Munchen, Germany @ Ampere
May 30 – Prague, Czech @ Matrix
June 1 – Amsterdam, Holland @ Paradiso
June 2 – Paris, France @ Le Scopitone
Jun 4 – Leicester, UK @ The Musician i
Jun 5 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy 2
Jun 6 – Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts
Jun 7 – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute
Jun 8 – London, UK @ Luminaire
Jun 9 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy 2
Jun 10 – Exeter, UK @ Cavern
Jun 12 – Cardiff, UK @ Barfly
Jun 14 – Cork, Ireland @ Crane Lane Theatre
Jun 15 – Dublin, Ireland @ Academy 2
Jun 17 – Barcelona, Spain @ Sidecar
Jun 18 – Madrid, Spain @ La Boite
Jun 19 – Mallorca, Spain @ Theatre Lloseta
Jul 23-25 – Jackson, MI @ Land of Nod Experiment
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Matthew Houck and the Phosphorescent crew [Pride, To Willie Reviews] have announced their upcoming North American tour dates, keeping them on the road for the majority of the summer and mid-September.

The currently scheduled European dates will come to a close June 6 and the quintet will kick off the Stateside tour July 8 at Hudson River Park.

Check out more info “after the jump”

[mp3] Phosphorescent – “Los Angeles”
[mp3] Phosphorescent – “Mermaid Parade”

Tour Dates:

May
10 – New York, N.Y. @ Other Music (free in-store performance)
11 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Union Pool
12 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Blockley
13 – New York, N.Y. @ Mercury Lounge
17 – Leuven, Belgium @ STUK
19 – Gent, Belgium @ Vooruit
20 – Antwerpen, Belgium @ Trix
22 – Ottersum, Netherlands @ Roepaen
23 – Den Haag, Netherlands @ Paard
24 – Zwolle, Netherlands @ Eureka
25 – Berlin, Germany @ Roter Salon
27 – Nürnberg, Germany @ K4
28 – Vienna, Austria @ Fluc
29 – Freiburg, Germany @ E-werk

June
1 – Paris, France @ L’Espace B
2 – London, UK @ ICA
3 – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute
4 – Glasgow, UK @ Captain’s Rest
5 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
6 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso

July
8 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Hudson River Park Pier 54
10 – Toronto, Ontario @ The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
12 – Buffalo, N.Y. @ Soundlab
13 – Columbus, Ohio @ The Summit
14 – Newport, Ky. @ Southgate House
15 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Exit/In
17 – Birmingham, Ala. @ The Bottletree
21 – Houston, Texas @ House of Blues
22 – Austin, Texas @ The Independent
23 – Dallas, Texas @ Kessler Theatre
24 – Lubbock, Texas @ The Foundation
26 – Tucson, Ariz. @ Plush
27 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Troubadour
28 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Bottom of the Hill
30 – Portland, Ore. @ Doug Fir Lounge
31 – Seattle, Wash. @ Crocodile Cafe

August
3 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Cedar Cultural Center
4 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Mad Planet
5 – Chicago, Ill. @ Empty Bottle
6 – Indianapolis, Ind. @ Radio Radio
7 – Cleveland, Ohio @ The Grog Shop
9 – Washington, D.C. @ Black Cat
10 – Baltimore, Md. @ Sonar Club Stage
11 – Philadelphia, Penn. @ Rittenhouse Square Park
12 – Providence, R.I. @ Jerky’s Live Music Hall
15 – Cambridge, Mass. @ Middle East (Downstairs)

September
10 – Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
11 – Isle of Wight, UK @ Bestival
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Today, Free Energy debuted a rad new video for “Bang Pop” at MySpace (which for the uninformed was a place many of us used to go until all the glittery, self-created pages and spam comments got to be too much for our liking). The video was directed by Josh Nussbaum (Disney, MTV’s “Made”) and produced by Ben Nabors, and shot in a middle school just outside of the band’s homebase of Philadelphia.

Produced by DFA’s James Murphy, Free Energy’s debut album, Stuck On Nothing, is out now on Astralwerks/DFA Records.

Check out the video and more info “after the jump”

Free Energy US Tour Dates

05/26: Boston, MA @ The Middle East Downstairs + ^
05/27: Hamden, CT @ Space + ^
05/28: Philadelphia, PA @ The First Unitarian Church + ^
05/29: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom + ^
05/30: Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel ^
06/01: Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 + ^
06/02: Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor + ^
06/03: Atlanta, GA @ The Star Community Bar + ^
06/04: Jacksonville, FL @ Jackrabbits + #
06/06: St. Paul, MN @ The Grand Old Day Festival
06/08: Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree + #
06/09: Nashville, TN @ The Exit In + #
06/10: Bloomington, IN @ The Bluebird + #
06/11: Ithaca, NY @ Castaways + * #
06/12: Providence, RI @ Jerky’s + * #

Tour with Mates of State

06/15: Northampton, MA @ IronHorse ~
06/16: Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall ~

NXNE Shows (2 shows, 1 day):

06/17: Toronto, ON @ NXNE ealy show @ Yonge Dundas Square w/ Mudhoney, X, Brant Bjork, and Icarus Line (6pm)
06/17: Toronto, ON @ NXNE late show @ Horseshoe Tavern – KEXP Night w/ Warpaint and Elliott Brood (10pm)

More Shows with Mates Of State

06/18: Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls ~
06/19: Cleveland, OH @ Grop Shop ~
06/21: Cincinnati, OH @ 20th Century ~
06/22: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall ~
06/23: Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
06/24: Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
06/26: Denver, CO @ Bluebird
06/28: Salt Lake City @ In the Venue
06/30: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall >
07/1: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall >
07/2: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex >
07/3: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex >
07/4: Tucscon, AZ @ Club Congress
07/6: Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s
07/7: Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
07/8: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
07/9: Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
07/10: Birmingham, AL @ Workplay
07/12: Athens, GA @ 40 Watt >
07/13: Ashville, NC @ Orange Peel
07/14: Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar

* = Daytrotter Presents: Barnstormer III
+ = w/ Jukebox The Ghost
# = w/ Drink Up Buttercup
^ = w/ Miniature Tigers
$ = w/ Blood Feathers & Elder Brother
~ = w/ Todd Barry
> = w/ Nick Thune
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LA quintet Local Natives unveiled the brand new video for Gorilla Manor highlight “World News” today on Pitchfork. There’s a lot to love (and be creeped-the-eff-out by), so check it out for yourself.

The video was shot in LA on some ridiculously gorgeous mountain beach and was directed by “Stillness Is The Move” helmsmen Matthew Lessner.

Tour dates and schizz “after the jump”

Tour Dates:

05-10 Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig #
05-11 Cleveland Heights, OH – Beachland Tavern #
05-12 Columbus, OH – The Basement #
05-14 Chicago, IL – Schubas – 7:00PM – ALL AGES # SOLD OUT
05-14 Chicago, IL – Schubas – 10:30PM – 18+ # SOLD OUT
05-15 Rock Island, IL – Rock Island Brewing Company #
05-17 Minneapolis, MN – 400 Bar # SOLD OUT
05-18 Iowa City, IA – The Mill #
05-19 Columbia, MO – Mojo’s #
05-21 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge #
05-22 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court #
05-25 Spokane, WA – Empyrean Coffee House #
05-26 Boise, ID – Neurolux #
05-27 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios #
05-28 Vancouver, BC – Media Club #
05-30 Quincy, WA – Sasquatch
06-02 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop # SOLD OUT
06-03 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill # SOLD OUT
06-04 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour # SOLD OUT
06-05 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg heater (w/Voxhaul Broadcast) #SOLD OUT
06-10 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo
06-13 Isle of Wight, UK – Isle of Wight Festival
06-15 Longon, UK – Shepherds Bush Empire
06-17 Groningen, NL – Vera
06-18 Tuttlingen, DE – Southside
06-19 Scheebel, DE – Hurricane
06-23 Amsterdam, NL – Melweg
06-24 Glastonbury, GB – Glastonbury Old Queen’s Head
06-25 Glastonbury, UK – Glastonbury Festival
06-27 Paris, FR – Solidays Festival
06-29 Ravenna, IT – Ravenna Hana Bi
06-30 Ancona, IT – Ancona Mole Vanvitelliana
07-02 Herouville Saint Clair, FR – Beauregard Festival
07-04 Roskilde, DK – Roskilde Festival
07-11 Pinchestown Racecourse, IE – Oxygen Festival
07-18 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Festival
08-05 Boston, MA – The Middle East
08-06 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
08-07 New York City, NY – The Beach @ Governor’s Island
08-11 Cannes, FR – Pantiero Festival
08-12 Haldern, DE – Haldern Festival
08-13 Gothenburg, SE – Way Out West Festival
08-14 Oslo, NO – Oya Festival
08-15 Leicester, GB – Summer Sundae Weekender
08-20 Hasselt-Kiewit, BE – Pukkelpop
08-27 Zurich, CH – Open Air Festival

# w/Suckers

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