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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The new Sonic Youth album, Rather Ripped is out today. Hear live versions of their new songs as Mike D of the Beastie Boys talks to The Youth about the new album, the wonders of Mark Ibold, octopus sandwiches, Axl Rose in a unitard, and which actors should play Sonic Youth in a movie.
US Tour Dates:
June 13th New York, NY CBGBs
June 14th Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom
June 15th Washington, DC 9:30 Club – 6:30pm & 10pm show
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The instant track 1 begins (or at least 4 chords in), Silversun Pickups are in trouble. They’re walking on this beam high up in the air, right? All four of them. On one side of the line – let’s call it the left side – is mediocrity. A huge-ass pasture of it. Upon landing in this pasture, bands are forced to sit in the coarse dry grass, poked by prickers, as huge projection screens show sweetly edited films of their particular names and album titles dissolving completely into the rotated letters running downwards on cd racks in the homes of their target demographic. On the other side of this beam, though, on the right side, is the elevated side: let’s call it the field of coolness. You don’t fall as far as you do on the pasture side. Over in the field you get to chill out on the freshly imported sod and watch proudly as your album rises to the top rows of CD racks all over (in the same bedrooms of your intended audience).
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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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