One of the greatest live bands in this solar system are gonna be back on the road very soon. (Actually, there’s always some cool shit going down on PSR 0329+54 Beta Pictoris which is actually in a different solar system. When there are clouds of gas occultating around from the debris left over from planetary formation, that always makes for an aesthetically kick-ass show.) Check out a full Dears concert from last year in Amsterdam here.

More tour dates on the way soon:
June 25 – London – Wireless Festival
June 26 – London – ICA
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English rock trio Muse will have a new album, Black Holes and Revelations, out July 11th on Warner Bros. New track “Supermassive Black Hole” can be heard on myspace.com.

186 thousand miles/second is maybe not fast enough to escape this tracklist:
1. Take A Bow
2. Starlight
3. Supermassive Black Hole
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Boston band Guster’s fifth studio album, Ganging Up On The Sun, will be out June 20th on Reprise. The perfect summer soundtrack, or the perfect soundtrack to that reality fishing show on the Discovery channel. Or, whatever.

Ganging Up On Assloads of Tour Dates:
June 18 – Detroit, Mi – State Theatre
July 7 – Minneapolis, MN – Basilica Block Party
July 8 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
July 11 – Baltimore, MD – The Pier Six Pavilion #
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Chapter 2: AL GREAZY

When we last left off, Mike Relm started the Decipher Series by breakin’ down the history of the infamous Dr Octagon. But still unclear on what this new material was intended to mean, OCD has gone to their list of interpreters to get to the root of it.

Meanwhile on the Left Coast…

A hot, gray Los Angeles afternoon finds Gray Kid chillin’ on Venice Beach. Mac on his lap, posting to his blog, the Kid is interrupted by a pop-up window. It’s OCD on the I.M.
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Mac McCaughan’s band Portastatic has been invited to play a live music score to the silent classic film The Unknown at this year’s SIFF on Friday June 13th. Highly recommended if you like dwarfs, amputation, the circus, and three-thumbed men.

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The Charlatans ninth studio album is said to be almost as tight as homeland security. (On Fox’s 24, not in real life. With the exception of last night’s episode when Graham knows that Jack has that recording on the plane he semi-hijacked and orders Logan to shoot the plane down. Also, Logan is kind of a douche.) Stream four new songs on The Charlatans MySpace page.

Tickets for North American tour dates are on sale now:
May 16 – New York – Webster Hall
May 17 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club
May 18 – Boston – Avalon
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According to their website, Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics is a 70 minute compilation drawn from 1996-2003, a Best-of, or Best-of-the-Worst, or…actually no one really knows. No song titles were provided but here is the rumored tracklist brought to us by some (probably wasted and hallucinating) dude from the Matador Records message board:

Tighten Up
The Night Chicago Died
Raw Power
Sea Cruise
Favorite Thing
Baseball Altamont
Meet The Mets
Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
Ding Dang / Interplanetary Music
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