Kings of Leon weren’t the only band that got sh*t on this past Friday night in St. Louis (but they’re definitely the most amusing). New York City band, The Postelles, also survived the “shit-storm” at the Verizon Amphitheatre as the openers for the show, supporting their recent White Night EP (co-produced by Albert Hammond, Jr.). [...]

Austin Texas’ The Strange Boys have mapped out a busy late summer/early fall schedule in support of their sophomore album, Be Brave. Fresh off of a head-turning set at this year’s Glastonbury (which included a cover of Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man”), the band kick off a two month North American [...]

I think his girlfriend might have the better album, but I still can’t wait to bring Wavves’ King of the Beach with me to go surfing in my mind, etc.
Stream: Wavves King of the Beach
US Tour Dates:
08-06 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle *
08-07 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08-12 San Diego, CA – Museum of Contemporary Art [...]

Ra Ra Riot were just a few blocks from my apartment last weekend at that Beach Ballyhoo festival, but I missed them because life (happens). My intro for this post, therefor, is shot! However, I’m 98% sure that they played new music from their upcoming sophomore album, The Orchard, and got everyone really excited for [...]

On a visit to Daytrotter this past February, The Dodos performed alternate versions of 3 songs from their 2008 breakthrough album, Visiter. The tracks were recorded in a studio in the basement of the Mosser Hotel in San Francisco with the Magik Magik Orchestra, a collective of classically trained Bay Area musicians. The biggest transformation [...]

Twin Tigers, an Athens, Georgia band with the words “DREAM NOISE” as the headline on their Myspace page, were recently announced as the opener for Interpol’s upcoming Carlos D-less tour (in support of their new, yet unnamed album feat. “Lights”). Above, check out Twin Tiger’s small budget video for “Red Fox Run”, the [via DREAM [...]

The internets doesn’t even remember the last time El Guincho played a show in the US (OK, it was 2 years ago). Luckily, the Spanish one-man-band announced that he’s bringing his Best of ‘08, obscure tropical sampling dance music back to the states in July for a handful of shows (dates below), including LA’s Spaceland [...]

Fresh off the release of their latest full length, the slightly disappointing yet still brilliant Forgiveness Rock Record, Broken Social Scene have announced additional North American tour dates after their very festival heavy summer sched. The band will play another set of shows through the fall, ending at LA’s Wiltern on October 19.
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MGMT are taking a few weeks off after this weekend’s Bamboozle performance (which included “Kids”) before setting out on a summer long North American tour in support of [the interesting, conversation sparking] Congratulations. Dates added to the list include Radio City in NYC, which will now be their final date in the US before heading [...]

Woods’ “I Was Gone” sounds like it was recorded through a trash can in someone’s basement in one take. And I like it a lot.
At Echo Lake, LP5 for the NYC band, is due next week on singer/guitarist Jeremy Earl’s label, Woodsist. The band will be touring in support of the record this spring, [...]