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A Place to Bury Strangers to Tour with This Will Destroy You This June
You can’t go wrong with this double bill of visceral bands, sharp and dark in both name and sound. NYC’s A Place To Bury Strangers will take on the roads of Europe starting this month and then join Suicide Squeeze artists This Will Destroy You on a west coast tour this June.
Billy Corgan’s New Band: The Smashing Pumpkins
Dmitri and Joshua discuss the Smashing Pumpkin’s latest press release at work…
oOoOO’s “NoWayBack” MP3 Single Released from Upcoming EP
oOoOO, who introduced some elusive new sounds during the midst of a hit-laden set at his recent PopGun/S!CK party appearance at Brooklyn’s Glasslands, continues to expand his intense range on the upcoming 5-track release with the crushingly honest title, Our Loving Is Hurting Us, due April 10th on Tri Angle Records.
Jack White’s “Love Interruption” Streams Free today, ‘Blunderbuss’ Album Out April 24
Four, three, two… The countdown begins now. “Love Interruption” is the first track to be revealed off of the mighty Jack White’s forthcoming debut album, Blunderbuss. It will be exclusively available for Third Man Records’ Vault members to hear immediately, but not to worry, it will also be given to the public as a free stream at www.jackwhiteIII.com in a few minutes.
A Place to Bury Stranger Announces Tour Dates with The Joy Formidable
A Place To Bury Strangers have announced their upcoming US tour with The Joy Formidable, kicking off on the West Coast in March. The tour will follow the Dead Oceans label release of APTBS’s Onwards To The Wall 5-song EP, out February 7th.
White Rabbits Announce ‘Milk Famous,’ Confirm Tour
Borne of that state without region, Missouri, White Rabbits moved to Brooklyn to find some footing. Following up on their 2009 (“sophomore”) release It’s Frightening, they dropped “Heavy Metal” to announce a third album, Milk Famous (out March 6)…
Elizaveta Moves East to Tour Upcoming ‘Beatrix Runs’
The upcoming album is more in line with my fantasy of what tween girls see as beauty, anyway. Not only is she re-inventing tween girl standards, she’s also re-inventing Burt Bacharach with her cover of “What The World Needs Now Is Love.” In her heart-melting vocal purity, she makes me wonder if she actually believes these words…
XL Recordings signs Willis Earl Beal, Listen to “Evening’s Kiss”
Per the above sketch, immersed in American folk art and Harlem Renaissance ether, I expected something a little more jazzy or bluesy than what followed. After hearing his “Evening’s Kiss,” Beal’s softly sad, underspoken, and minimally-ranging voice felt less about grander statements and more about experiences…
The Maccabees Unveil Latest Video, “Feel to Follow”, from Third Studio Album, Out January 9 in the UK
The Maccabees give us a more soulful, bittersweet side with “Feel to Follow”, with their latest moody video, from their upcoming release Given to the Wild. The Brighton-based band’s third studio album, with which guitarist Felix White promises to have captured what they “really wanted The Maccabees to sound like”, reports NME, will be released January 9 in the UK.
Howler to Play NYC Shows and Release ‘America Give Up’ on Rough Trade in January
Howler, Minneapolis’s harmony-laden, surf-punk quintet (with a touch of Libertines’ spunk), conjured up by rollicking 19-year-old Jordan Gatesmith, just got off a UK tour with the Vaccines and now they’re back, getting ready to release America Give Up, their debut album, on Rough Trade Records this January 17.
