Royal Baths prep debut album for Woodsist, announce tour w/ The Fresh & Onlys

New releases from Winter gloves, PS I love you & You say party

Emil & Friends Release Debut Single “Josephine” /”Downed Economy” EP Out Sept 28th On Cantora Records/ Video Teaser Out Now, Remix Passion Pit

Field Music announce new tour dates

Shy Child Sign To Gigantic Records / 3rd LP “Liquid Love” Out November 16th

SURROUNDED – Oppenheimer & Woodstock, released 11th October

The Acorn Releases “No Ghost” Today on Bella Union

Peter Kernel w Tour dates

Rachel Grimes w Tour dates

FYF Fest announces FINAL schedule, plus pre-parties, after parties and FYF Fan Fest.

Kings of Leon announce “Radioactive” single.

The Depreciation Guild Premiere Video For “My Chariot” On Stereogum / On European Tour NOW, Fall Tour With Film School Kicks Off 9.28 / Sophomore LP Spirit Youth Out NOW On Kanine Records.

Oberhofer Announces US Tour With Morning Benders & Twin Sister / To Play Pop Montreal / US Dates With The Soft Pack, Bear In Heaven & Indian Jewelry Debut 7″ Out Now.

Brad Laner shares new video, Baths’ remix of Natural Selections track “Crawl Back In”.

The Intelligence drops new album, Males, on In The Red, tours.

Neon Indian/Anoraak ‘Psychic Chasms’ - something for the holiday weekend…

USA tour, live album for Clare and the reasons

Maps & Atlases ‘Perch Patchwork’ (FatCat, 4th October 2010) + UK Dates Announced for October.

Berlin Festival, Sept. 10-11, Partners with Berlin Music Week (check out Berlin fest. post)

Fences announce debut album and north American tour.

Bettie Serveert Announce Fall North American Tour.

The Luyas Launch Kick Starter Appeal For Special Pop Montreal Collaboration Featuring Vincent Moon, Derrick Belcham, Ruby Kato Attwood & More / Look Out For Debut LP 2011.

Paper Garden records Launches New Collaborations with Frequency.com & Indyish.com!

Violens “Amoral” + Live Dates.

Men (fronted by Le Tigre¹s JD Samson) Announce Nationwide Tour

Absynthe Minded release single ‘Envoi’ on 25th October 2010 (AZ (Universal)) and play one off London show!

Oluf Arnalds – New album ‘Innundir skinni’ (OLI, 13th September) & UK tour dates

Trentem?ller Debuts “… Even Though You’re With Another Girl” Video, Releases Single

Harper Simon Debuts Video for ‘Berkeley Girl’ ; Starring Jena Malone

Parlovr Premieres “Pen To The Paper” Video On Consequence Of Sound / Premieres Take Away Show On La Blogotheque / Look Out For New EP To Be Released This Fall / Self Titled Debut LP Out Now On Dine Alone Records.

Morr music news: Tomorrow, on September 1st, Seabear will kick off their next tour leg in Munich.

Telekinesis : Dirty Thing – digital release, tour & video! The Clean annonuce live dates in the US! Tape-Release by FS Blumm! Sin Fang Bous in Brazil!

Ok Go Launches Fall North American Tour, Remix Contest Of OK Go’s New Single, “White Knuckles” Curated by Producer David Fridmann.

Grandchildren Announce U.S. Tour With Sea Bear/CD Release Party October 8th In Philly, September Dates With No Age, Explosions In The Sky & Dum Dum Girls/  “Saturn Returns” Single Out Now, Everlasting LP Out September 28th On Green Owl.

The Chap Reveal their Day Jobs in New Video, Release Teengirl Fantasy Remix

Lightning Bolt & Dan Deacon Ensemble announce tour dates together in October…
Delicate Steve Announces US Tour With Fang Island To Play Four NYC Union Pool Residencies.
Aligning Early Support From Yeasayer And Bear In Heaven, Look Out For Debut LP In Early 2010…
URB Premiers New Free “Summer of SAADI” Mixtape!  Featuring Janka Nabay + Pupa Baja + Lemonade + Douster + Lazy Flow + more!….
Wavves adds more tour dates with Phoenix, premiere video for “Post Acid”
Working For A Nuclear Free City`s Sophomore Double LP The Jojo Burger Tempest Out 12th On Melodic Records.
Terrible Records Releases Twin Shadow’s Debut Album Forget Digitally In North America, Available For A Limited Time For $1.00 here US Fall Tour With Jamie Lidell, Play Glasslands On Sept 11th & Le Poisson Rouge On Sept 18th  w/ Holy Fuck & Indian Jewelry.
Miami horror announces debut album Illumination, plans US tour..
Radiohead`s Philip Selway`s solo record Familial will be released next week on the 30th August (31st in USA & Canada).
‘The extraordinary ordinary life of Jose Gonzales’ begins festival cicuit. Documentary on Gonzales shot over the last three years

The Acorn Camps Out with Megafaun, Four Tet and Others, Prepares for Extensive Fall Tour.

Blood Red Shoes Announce U.S. Fall Tour, Play CMJ, Fire Like This Out October 5th On V2 Records/Nice Music Group.

Craig Wedren of Shudder To Think Confirms Inaugural One-Man Solo Tour with Greg Dulli This Fall

DD/MM/YYYY sign to Geoff Barrow’s Invada Records for Europe, announce tour with Women + Daytrotter Session.

Houses preps debut full length for Lefse, premieres music video & collaborates with Teen Daze.

Karen Elson Video for “The Truth Is In The Dirt” To Premiere on VanityFair.com from Midnight Tonight.

Dead confederate premiers video for “runfrom the gun”.

FYF Fest announces schedule, plus Back To School Special & Matador 21 raffle.

The Acorn go on tour, release remix record.

Motorifik’s Phil Kay Reveals Exclusive Detailed Tracklisting For Secret Things, Debut Side Project From Working For A Nuclear Free City’s Phil Kay, Out November 9th On Modern Language Recordings.

Beats Antique Reveal Blind Threshold LP Details, Featuring Guest Artists John Popper, Lynx, Eva Salina, Out October 12th On Antique Records, On US Tour Now, Play 4 US Festivals This Fall! Austin City Limits, Earthdance, Decibel, & Harvest Fest.

Katie Costello Set To Release “The City In Me” EP.

Exit Calm to release brand new EP ‘Don’t Look Down’ on 4th October 2010.

Chocolate Genius Inc. Performs On WNYC NPR Soundcheck, Look Out For Studio 360 Performance With Kurt Anderson, Swansongs Out September 14th On One Little Indian, U.S. Tour To Come.

Dominant Legs share new MP3, live video, debut EP out now.

Miami horror releases surreal video for “I look to you” featuring Kimbra.

Pete Yorn launches new album with New York and LA headlining and appearance at Austin city limits festival

Deer Tick announces Fall tour dates, shares  new MP3

Cymbals Eat Guitars Extend US Dates With The Thermals, Premiere AV Club Live Video Covering Superchunk, Why There Are Mountains Out Now On Sister’s Den Records

Bjork: ‘The comet song’, available September 6th 2010

Starfucker signs to Polyvinyl, plans tour with the Octopus project and releases “Julius” single

‘What It Means To Be Left-Handed’, Mice parade new album was mostly recorded at Adam’s home studio in upstate New York, a cozy place at the edge of a forest which over the last two years has also served Animal Collective, Frightened Rabbit, Tom Brosseau, Ensemble and others in various capacities. Peter Katis (The National, Frightened Rabbit) mixed “In Between Times” and “Even,” and Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers) engineered and assisted Pierce in mixing the rest. Check out  Tokyo_Late_Night

Women To Release Limited Edition 7″ -

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Ukrainian-born, NYC-based songstress Lana Mir’s song “I Wanna Be Adored” was featured as KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune today Wednesday, August 11, 2010, and you should check it out, it’s a cute song.

Frankie Rose has a reputation around Brooklyn. By reputation, we mean her minimal, Maureen Tucker-like beats and iconic presence in such buzz-stirring bands as Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, and Vivian Girls. Those groups spearheaded a scene that mixed the sounds of lo-fi garage, big reverb-drenched Phil Spector-produced 60s girl groups, the noise aesthetic of the Jesus And Mary Chain with a touch of Velvet Underground and a strong DIY ethic to create a sound that’s influenced a new generation of bands around the world.

At least that’s what she’s been known for up until now. As you’re about to hear on her new group’s self-titled Slumberland Records debut, Frankie Rose and the Outs have their heads in the clouds a bit more than Rose’s previous projects. Listening to the ghostly golden-oldie grooves of songs like “Girlfriend Island,” “Candy” and the pedal-pounding “That’s What People Told Me,” it’s as if the Cocteau Twins and Shangri-Las tracked a split LP with the help of a time machine and a freshly-acquitted Phil Spector. Listen to Little Brown haired girls

Like the eardrum-shattering noise pop icons that came before them, Woven Bones blaze their own trail of lascivious loudness and controlled snarl that’s just what the world needs right now, and the perfect soundtrack to your screwed-up summer. The debut album, In and Out and Back Again delivers nine heart-stabbing hits that just keep hitting back, so without further hesitation, we give you the debut album that explodes heads on contact, by your new favorite band, Woven Bones. 

Woven Bones – Your Way With My Life

-Todd Killings – HoZac Records

WOVEN BONES

06/26 – Chicago, IL Reckless Records Wicker Park In-Store 5pm

06/26 – Chicago, IL Empty Bottle

06/27 – Indianapolis, IN Vollrath Tavern (My Old Kentucky Blog Presents) ^

06/28 – Fort Wayne, IN The Brass Rail

06/29 – Cleveland, OH Now That’s Class

06/30 – Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox

07/01 – Brooklyn, NY Bruar Falls ~

07/02 – New York, NY Pier 17 / South Street Seaport (

07/03 – Baltimore, MD The Ottobar @

07/06 – Athens, GA Caledonia Lounge

07/08 – New Orleans, LA Circle Bar

08/06 – Austin, TX, United States Art Authority /

08/07 – Dallas, TX, The Nightmare +

08/10 – Denver, CO, Hi Dive -

08/11 – Salt Lake City, UT, Kilby Court TBA

08/12 – Boise, ID, Neurolux TBA

08/13 – Portland, OR, Plan B

08/14 – Seattle, WA, Wildrose >

08/15 – Olympia, WA, Northern }

08/17 – Reno, NV, Lincoln Lounge [

08/18 – San Francisco, CA, Bottom of the Hill <

08/19 – Los Angeles, CA, Spaceland

08/20 – San Diego, CA, Casbah

08/22 – Phoenix, AZ, Rhythm Room

08/24 – Albuquerque, NM, Launchpad

08/25 – Lubbock, TX, Bash Riprock’s

^ = w/ We Are Hex

~ = w/ Beach Fossils

( = w/ YellowFever

@ = w/ Reading Rainbow

/ = w/ Residual Echoes and Happy Birthday

+ = w/ Bipolar Express and Nervous Curtains

- = w/ Woodsman

> = w/ Idle Times

} = w/ Christmas

[ = w/ The Madanna Bangers and The Humans

< = w/ The Splinters and Sandwitches

Active Child will be bringing his inimitable live show to the following US venues throughout parts of June and July with Islands and Steel Phantoms:

June:

18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bootleg Theater

27 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg *

28 – Allston, MA – Harpers Ferry *

29 – Providence, RI – Jerky’s Live Music Hall *

30 – Philadelphia, PA – The Barbary *

July:

01 – Washington, DC – Black Cat *

02 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle *

03 – Atlanta, GA – Eyedrum *

04 – Mobile, AL – Alabama Music Box *

05 – Houston, TX – Mango’s *

06 – Austin, TX – The Parish *

07 – Dallas, TX – The Loft *

08 – Norman, OK – Opolis Productions *

09 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird *

10 – Madison, WI – University of Wisconsin (The Terrace) *

* = w/ Islands & Steel Phantoms

Active Child online

FILTER US Recordings online

Montreal-based DJ and electronic artist CFCF (aka Michael Silver) is carrying on from the success of his debut album, Continent, with the release of Drifts. The six-track, remix EP will be released by Paper Bag Digital on June 29th. CFCF has been keeping himself busy since the release of Continent, recently remixing critically-acclaimed artists Owen Pallett and HEALTH. The Montreal native has been creating tracks since his pre-teens and has only begun to present his music publicly in the last couple of years. CFCF’s career began to take off with his contest winning remix of Crystal Castles “Air War” and has followed up with a chain reaction of official remixes for talents such as Sally Shapiro, The Presets, The Teenagers and Hearts Revolution, among many others.

Drifts Tracklisting:

1. Big Love (Junior Boys Remix)

2. Come Closer (Nacho Lovers Remix)

3. Come Closer (Azari & III Remix)

4. Letters Home (Memoryhouse Remix)

5. Big Love (Mathemagic Remix)

6. Snake Charmer (Young Galaxy Remix)

Raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida, educated at art school in Boston, and now making noise and living in Brooklyn, Prince Rama are the latest addition to the Paw Tracks roster. Their new album Shadow Temple is an epic shrine of swirling synths, pulsing guitars, and thunder drums. An ethereal chorus of voices and anthemic melodies create a reverb-washed mine of sonic artifacts drawing from southeast Asian rituals, krautrock legacies, chopped and screwed homages, hallucinatory operas, and dance hall psychedelia. Recorded in Kurt Vonnegut’s grandson’s cabin and a 135-year-old haunted church with the help of Animal Collective members Avey Tare and Deakin, Shadow Temple offers itself as a sincere porthole into a mysterious realm that defies material understanding.

PRINCE RAMA

06/12 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands (Early show)

06/13 New York, NY Pianos

07/01 Brooklyn, NY Walt Whitman Fest at Brooklyn Bridge Park

07/11 East Moline, IL Nitetrotter Fest

07/25 Baltimore, MD Whartscape

08/14 New York, NY Studio at Webster Hall

Having recently returned to the states after a European tour, Copenhagen-via-NYC musician CALLmeKAT will be performing several dates in June, including a set of dates at NXNE in Toronto.  Known for her distinctly Scandinavian sound: melancholic, dreamy pop, CALLmeKAT is the moniker of Danish singer, keyboardista and composer Katrine Ottosen. Throughout Europe and Scandinavia, CALLmeKAT has toured as solo headliner as well as opening for notable artists such as Sebastien Tellier, Au Revoir Simone, Okkervil River, The Dø and Nouvelle Vague, amongst others.
 In 2009, CALLmeKAT played numerous critically-acclaimed shows, received an Underground Music Award for “Best Alternative Act,” and was granted one of the Danish Art Council’s prestigious grants for young, talented artists with international ambition and potential. She then made an appearance at the 2010 SXSW Festival, where she was asked to perform a “Tiny Desk SXSW Concert” on NPR’s All Things Considered. This was followed by a pick on both Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton’s (NPR) “Who We Liked-list” from this year’s SxSW. During the festival, she was also filmed by Yours Tru.ly for an intimate parking lot performance. 
 Living in New York since early 2010, she recently collaborated with Joe Magistro (Prophet Omega) on finishing her international debut When Owls Are Out, which consists of reworked and remixed material from her Scandinavian 2008 release Fall Down, and also brand new recordings.

Check out CALLmeKAT’s video for the single “My Sea,” directed by D.R. Kelley and filmed on location in Los Angeles.

Listen to Flower In The Night

CALLmeKAT Tour Dates:

Thu 6/17: Toronto, ON – Official NXNE showcase @ NOW Lounge

Fri 6/18: Toronto, ON – Official NXNE showcase @ Czehoski

Sat 6/19: Toronto, ON – 5th annual João Carvalho Mastering NXNE BBQ
Mon 6/21: New York, NY – Scandinavia House
Thu 6/24: Brooklyn, NY – Northside Festival @ Warsaw w/ Au Revoir Simone
Tue 6/29: New York, NY – Mercury Lounge w/ Alexa Wilding

Glass Ghost represents the birth of a new musical force distilled from myriad influences, from J. Dilla to Deerhoof. The result is something completely refreshing, and fittingly, a little scary. It’s the pairing of Eliot Krimsky’s fragile and haunting falsetto with the group’s bottom-heavy, hip-hop influenced rhythm section that yields the crystalline world propelled by Mike Johnson’s ass-shakin’ beats found on their debut Idol Omen.

The unique world they’ve crafted serves as the perfect vehicle for the album’s paranoid narrative, loosely following the metamorphosis of a modern businessman into some mysterious new form.

The arc of Idol Omen’s tale is revealed in fragments as the detached protagonist wanders, observes, and occasionally interacts, with his surreal, often threatening, environment. While fear, anxiety and delusion effervesce from tracks like “Mechanical Life” and “The Same” the album ebbs and flows from frenzied to fatigued. Alternately, the beautiful and unforgettable “Like a Diamond” invokes reflections of resolute melancholy, while “Divisions” holds listeners captive in the bizarre images of a fever dream. The final track “Ending” provides a sense of release, as an unexplained confluence of events triggers the central character’s eventual mutation and transcendence.

Nathan Williams and his sensational band Wavves is coming out with ‘King of the Beach’, a new album. King of the Beach is an adventurous and ambitious record. It cuts deeper into the bleeding throat catharsis and ’60s sunshine soul that Wavves is known for. It also unexpectedly flips out with elements of primitive electronics and psychedelic studio experimentation.

Unlike Wavves’ previously released material, recorded in haphazard bursts on Williams’ laptop, King of the Beach was toiled over for three months at Sweet Tea Recording, a world-renown studio in Oxford, Mississippi. Sweet Tea is also the home of Dennis Herring, producer of the last two Modest Mouse albums, and the man who dismantled and re-assembled the sound on this record. Listen to   Mickey Mouse

WAVVES

06/18 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace / NXNE

06/19 – Toronto, ON – Yonge-Dundas Square / NXNE

06/20 – Montreal, QC – Il Motare %

06/21 – Burlington, VT – Club Metronome %

06/22 – Boston, MA – Great Scott %

06/24 – New York, NY – Knitting Factory %

06/25 – Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel %

06/26 – Philadelphia, PA – The Barbary %

08/06-08 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza

% = w/ Cloud Nothings

Los Angeles-based electronic-pop artist Active Child releases his debut EP titled Curtis Lane on FILTER US Recordings today. The EP can be purchased digitally through the iTunes music store HERE or on 10″ white vinyl, which is available through his official Web site.

Active Child is the new project from choirboy-turned-indie pop musician Pat Grossi. The influence of chorale singing, along with the sensibility of non-secular music, is as apparent in Active Child’s work as the influence of cherished pop bands like New Order, Joy Division and Tears for Fears. Active Child has already garnered complimentary critical praise from the likes of notable outlets such as NME, The Guardian, LA Weekly, Pitchfork, Stereogum and many others.

Little Tybee is a small but enchanting Barrier island off of the coast of Savannah, GA, whose tidal beaches are said to delicately blanket a scuttled atomic bomb that has been missing for over 60 years.  Little Tybee is also a band from Atlanta, GA that was formed in the winter of 2009 By Brock Scott, Josh Martin and Ryan Gregory.

 With a brand new music video created from the most brilliant artistic minds at Savannah College of Art & Design as well as the non-chalant yo-yo talent of Mark Montgomery, Little Tybee is releasing this gem to the world in support of their upcoming June tour and leading into their Fall album release.

 Starting off in their home town of Savannah on June 4th, Little Tybee will make their way North, hitting up Athens, Atlanta, Asheville, Brooklyn and Philadelphia before they return home on June 15th.

Denmark’s heavily atmospheric and strikingly beautiful septet Under Byen recently released their video for “Kapitel 1” (available on Vimeo), along with the mp3 download for the song (available for posting). 
Directed once again by visual artist Sidse Carstens, who was behind their video for “Alt Er Tabt” (All is lost), the clip focuses on a few dramatically coiffed characters, each enacting individualized, powerful gestures, collectively focusing on their hair. As the director states, “I’ve decided to do this as a piece of art, not a music video in the common sense of the word. I often work with different characters in my movies.”

“Kapitel 1″ (Chapter 1) is taken from Under Byen’s recently released fourth album, Alt Er Tabt, available now on Paper Bag Records.