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Beck’s ‘Modern Guilt’ Due July 7

Modern Guilt, Beck’s hotly-tipped collaboration with producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse, will arrive in stores July 7 via DGC Records (North America) and XL Recordings (UK and Europe). Boasting 10 new songs “that range in lyrical tone from introspection and social commentary to off the cuff wordplay and lighthearted humor…” Modern Guilt is said to “vacillate [...]

13 Jun 2008 | More
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Does It Offend You, Yeah? Announce Support for Nine Inch Nails and Bloc Party This Summer

Their debut album You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into was just released weeks ago on April 18, but the bandwagon for electro fuzzies Does It Offend You, Yeah? has been building for awhile with frothed-over live show reports from SXSW and Coachella by major media outlets and influential music blogs. And starting [...]

6 Jun 2008 | More
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Mars Volta Confirm Fall U.S. Tour Dates

The Mars Volta have just confirmed a run of U.S. tour dates in September, starting September 12 in Columbus, Ohio, a city they’ve had to cancel twice previously. In other Volta news, Omar Rodriguez appears on the latest cover of Rolling Stone along with Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen and B.B. King for the magazine’s [...]

3 Jun 2008 | More
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She & Him Announce Summer Tour Dates

Lil’ Miss Blue Eyes and M. Ward will hit the road for a brief North American summer trek in support of their recently-released and critically-adored debut album Volume 1 kicking off on July 23rd at Toronto’s Opera House until August 10th at V Fest in Washington, D.C. Let’s hope that Zooey and her pipes are [...]

28 May 2008 | More
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We Are Scientists Plot July ‘American’ Tour

Clever, clever Brooklynites We Are Scientists have claimed they are “bigger than Madonna,” — in height that is — and just off a tour of lectures, these witty brainiacs are hitting the road in July with the “American U.S. America” tour, kicking off July 1st and wrapping up in Newport, KY, on August 10. Brain [...]

28 May 2008 | More
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Sigur Ros to Release New Album and Tour in June

On June 24th via XL Recordings, Sigur Ros will release their fifth album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, which, translated for us English speakers, means “with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly.” Now that we all have that straight, you should also be made aware that the first single is called [...]

27 May 2008 | More
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Citysol Announces 2008 Lineup

Get ready to eco-rock with the Dirty Projectors! Citysol’s been running its free annual festival since 2005 at Solar One’s East River- side venue in Stuyvesant Cove Park. The next one, to be held June 26 through 29th, will include quite an artistic bunch of favorites from across the genre board: Dirty Projectors, Ecstatic Sunshine, [...]

19 May 2008 | More
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Thievery Corporation to Headline/Curate Outernational Music Tour

Beloved groovemasters Thievery Corporation have just announced the Outernational Music Tour, a six-gig roving cornucopia of “like-minded musicians and friends” such as Seu Jorge, Federico Aubele, Los Amigos Invisibles, Bebel Gilberto, Gnarls Barkley, and TV on the Radio among other reputable acts that will run from June 20-28. Seeking to educate concertgoers on global hunger, [...]

16 May 2008 | More
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Coldplay Confirm Extensive North American Tour

In case you don’t live in New York and/or London and are unable to attend one of Coldplay’s upcoming free shows during its promotional blitz for Viva La Vida (releasing June 17), find comfort in the fact that Chris Martin and co. have booked an extensive tour (produced by Live Nation) of North America, launching [...]

9 May 2008 | More
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Spiritualized Confirms North American Summer Trek

Spiritualized have confirmed the initial run of North American dates in support of its new album, Songs in A&E, due May 27. A gorgeously haunting record that was in fact, written before principle Jason Pierce fell gravely ill with double pneumonia several years ago, (but seems to eerily chronicle his struggle to be well again), [...]

9 May 2008 | More
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