Yo La Tengo are fantastic candidates for album title of the year. I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass is due out September 12th (September 4th in Europe). Matador Records were not afraid to post an early mp3 called Beanbag Chair for your trembling ass.
Trepidation Nation:
June 15 – Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero
July 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Prospect Park
August 13 – Saratoga, CA – Montalvo Center For The Arts
Download the new Razorlight single, In the Morning for all your fuzzy Brit-pop needs. Full-length should be released in August. Hopefully in time for Davey Crockettt’s 220-year-old birthday. Davey loved him some Razorlight. He was often found jamming out to the band’s last album Up All Night near the Alamo while helping Texas win independence from Mexico.
Tour Dates:
June 14 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Loppen
June 16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
June 23 – Evreux, France @ Le Rock Dans Tous Ses États
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Paris, France; at a streetside café on the wrong side of the river Seine, Kid Loco sips an aperitif while staring intently at his laptop screen, He is reviewing updates on the Decipher project from OCD HQ and he can’t believe what he’s reading. A planet destroyed by Dr. Octagon clones; fellow decipherers gone delusional and then cured by a mysterious cure; abducted hackers claiming to have met the real Dr. Octagon years ago; gorillas driving pick up trucks… How do all these events fit in with each other? What does it all mean?
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Like noisy fuzzed-out guitars and feedback? Darker My Love is an LA band that features former members of The Distillers and Nerve Agents, and 2 of the members are now playing in the touring version of The Fall who sometimes seem to get nailed on stage with banana peels. Here’s a new track appropriately titled Summer is Here.
Tour Dates:
June 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
June 15 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
July – 1 – San Francisco, CA – Cell Space
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OCD International HQ’s
A red light blinks on the machine. As play is pressed, a frantic message comes over sound system.
“I just got chased by a freakin’ gorilla in a pick up truck. What’s going on? Doesn’t feel right. I’m coming to L.A. to get to the bottom of this. Sonic out.”
The staff at OCD Headquarters had heard rumors that something was happening on the east coast and they had sent out a crack team of experts to investigate. Entrusted with the cure provided by The Money Fight, they knew they could be of great assistance. Gray Kid and Mike Relm were all but recovered and ready to get back to deciphering the strange messaged received from Dr. Oct.
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The London-based duo of Galia Durant and Carim Clasmann, known professionally as Psapp (pronounced “sap,”), will be releasing their new album, The Only Thing I Ever Wanted, on June 6th. Preview tracks Hi, Tricycle, and Wet Box thanks to our BFF’s at Domino Records.
On Tour with José González who we hear likes to party big time:
June 14 – KCRW in LA – Morning Becomes Eclectic 11 am PST
June 16 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theater
June 17 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s
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The Setting:
3 AM, A wet, but warm late night, or should we say early morn, in the Bronx. Def Jukie Rob Sonic finds himself, as he has many times, at his favorite joint, The Telicatessen. His head in his hands, elbows on the table, over a cup of the blackest cup of Joe this side of 110th Street, he recounts the events to the evening.
Earlier That Night:
A blowout party downtown was taking place in the honor of slain sucker MCs. Rob place at the bar was firmly in place when a hand drops on his left shoulder. As he turns to find no one there he returns face forward to a small box on the bar. “What the … “
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