Beach House Trade In Lakefront Property for Tour Bus, Change Name to “Moving Vehicle”
Apparently the housing crisis effects musicians, too! In a public statement tinged with defeat, dream-poppers Beach House announced that they plan to sell their $1.3 million lakefront estate in Maryland and move into a tour bus for the duration of the economic downturn.
“We thought our band’s name and corresponding lifestyle were a little excessive for the current economy,” said vocalist Victoria Legrand. “So, in solidarity with our fans, we plan to tour indefinitely and rename ourselves to fit our new living situation.”
Guitarist and keyboardist Alex Scally had little to comment, adding only that the band would be supporting Grizzly Bear in October, because “their tour bus is way nicer than ours, and it’s going to be a hard adjustment not living in a mansion anymore.”
The band only has dates planned through the end of October, though, so it will be interesting to see if another name change will be in the works. Look out for a new album from "Makeshift Shack" in the coming months! For now, the band formerly known as Beach House may be coming to a city near you..
08.14.09 - Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08.15.09 - Malmo, Sweden - Malmo Festival
08.16.09 - Berlin, Germany - Magnet Club*
08.17.09 - Hamburg, Germany - Knust*
08.18.09 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso*
08.19.09 - Paris, France - Nouveau Casino*
08.21.09 - London, UK - Union Chapel*
08.22.09 - Brecon Beacons, UK - Green Man Festival
08.30.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Waterfront+
09.06.09 - Portlaoise, IE - Electric Picnic
09.19.09 - Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan^
09.20.09 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
09.22.09- Anacortes, WA - Dept. of Safety
09.23.09 - Bellingham, WA - Nightlight Lounge
09.24.09 - Victoria, BC - Rifflandia
09.26.09 - Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater+
09.27.09 - Chicago, IL - Metro+
09.30.09 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue+
10.01.09 - Columbia, MO - Blue Note+
10.05.09 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse+
10.06.09 - Norfolk, VA - Norva+
10.07.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory+
10.08.09 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre+
10.20.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium+
10.21.09 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern+
* Vetiver
+ Grizzly Bear
^ John Vanderslice
A Hawk And A Hacksaw To Release Délivrance in August
Despite what The Minutemen say (the vigilantes, not the band), we're all immigrants here. For some, the need for outside input is superficial, while others yearn to expatriate themselves and experience the world far from America. I don't think I'm jumping the gun to say that A Hawk And A Hacksaw fall into the latter camp.
Délivrance, their new album on The Leaf Label, finds the duo of ex-E6er Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost completely enveloped in the world of Eastern European folk. The Baltic World saw the duo, welcomed them in with open arms, and then started dancing in the streets. Now they return to The States with a slight Transylvainian accent, musically of course.
Look for the album to be released in The New World August 25.
Délivrance tracklist:
1. Foni Tu Argile
2. Kertész
3. The Man Who Sold His Beard
4. Hummingbirds
5. Raggle Taggle
6. I Am Not A Gambling Man
7. Turkiye
8. Zibiciu
9. Vasalisa Carries A Flaming Skull Through The Forest
10. Lassü
Acuarela Records Starts 7-inch Singles Club with Mount Eerie, Jamie Stewart, and Tara Jane O'Neil
Si puedes leer español y te gustan los vinilos de 7”, debes registrar para el nuevo “Club de Singles” de Acuarela Records. La etiqueta, de Madrid, tiene muchos müsicos excelentes, y -- wait, they have an English translation of their website! Let’s try this again...
Madrid’s Acuarela Records is starting a totally bangin’ 7-inch club! The label, which has launched the careers of multiple Spanish artists as well as released music from the likes of Destroyer, Xiu Xiu, Julie Doiron, and more, has decided to release vinyl for the first time in years. Each single include exclusive tracks and is limited to 1000 copies, with no CD copies made.
So far Jamie Stewart, Tara Jane O'Neil, Mount Eerie, and many other artists have been confirmed, and the first two records -- from Agent Ribbons and The Wave Pictures -- are available on the Acuarela website. You can read about the club in English here o, si prefieres español, puedes leer sobre el club aquÃ.
Pictureplane Releases Dark Rift on Lovepump United, Tours in Van, Eats in Alleyways
Remember that old Nintendo 64 game Dark Rift? No, of course you don’t. It was this terrible fighting game from 1997 that only three people played: one of them was me, one was someone else, and one was Pictureplane, a.k.a. 24-year-old performance artist Travis Egedy, who just titled his new album Dark Rift.
I'm lying. Dark Rift (the album) is almost certainly not inspired by Dark Rift (the video game) at all. But there are a lot of actual facts about Dark Rift. Like the fact that Dark Rift will be out August 4. Or the fact that Dark Rift will be Pictureplane’s first release for Lovepump United. These are facts worth knowing.
The Lovepump party line on Dark Rift is that “grimy synths, broken beats, and bucolic vocals collide somewhere between early 90s house music and the gnarly soundscapes of Black Dice to forge a sound that's wholly unique and endlessly exciting.”
Sounds pretty good, but Egedy himself makes it sound even better: “Once every 26,000 years our planet crosses through the elliptical plane at the center of our galaxy known as the dark rift. The songs on dark rift lyrically deal with humanity entering a new age or next phase of our existence.” Far out!
More songs about ages and phases:
1. Solid Gold
2. Trance Doll
3. Boys in Blush
4. Gang Signs
5. 5th Sun
6. Goth Star
7. Cyclical Cyclical (Atlantis)
8. Time Teens
9. Dark Rift
10. New Mind
11. Transparent Now (Thin Veil)
12. Dimensional Rip III
13. True Ruin
Pictureplane will hit the road with HEALTH this September to determine who is the number one Nintendo 64 master. Also, they will be playing some shows. Dates:
09.09.09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
09.10.09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
09.11.09 - Portland, OR - The Works (Time-Based Art Festival)
09.12.09 - Seattle, WA - Vera Project
09.17.09 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
09.18.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09.19.09 - Toronto, ON - Wrong Bar
09.20.09 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa
09.21.09 - Providence ,RI - Club Hell
09.22.09 - Allston, MA - Harper’s Ferry
09.24.09 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09.25.09 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
09.26.09 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar
Gimme My WAND Before I Get All Merlin On Your Ass! James Toth Tour Starts Tonight
Literary heavyweight and confounding soul Graham Greene differentiated between his more serious work and his "entertainments" (mainly his suspense novels), which he wrote for widespread consumption. While Greene might have downplayed what he thought of as lighter fare, I’ve always enjoyed his “entertainments” as much as his supposedly more important religion/political/morality tales. Whenever a musical artist decides to release skeleton songs from their past, they invariably seem to pardon themselves and make excuses much like Greene did in his writing days with his “entertainments.”
For his latest record, Hard Knox (Ecstatic Peace!), James Jackson Toth, a.k.a WAND (formerly Wooden Wand), explains in notes written about the album that this collection of tracks was recorded between 2002-2007 in Knoxville, TN, but he thankfully doesn’t apologize or belittle his old ways with such derogatory terms like “entertainments” but sees them rather as flawed but enjoyable "snapshots." Of course, Toth is in the enviable position of not needing pet names for lesser work because he doesn’t write lesser work, at least none that we’ve heard. Toth is a fan’s wet dream when it comes to releasing records, because his entire expanding oeuvre is worth investigating and digesting, be it regarded as serious prose and poetry or mere “entertainments” by its creator.
We touched upon the latest WAND tour here -- and also mentioned his recent signing to Michael Gira's Young God Records -- but we’re such big boosters of the man that we thought a Toth-only story wouldn’t hurt yas too much. Toth will no doubt play a varied selection of songs taken from his impressive back catalogue when he takes to the stage tonight in his former home of Knoxville. Whether he plays any of Hard Knox in Knoxville is anyone’s guess, but you can bet it will be “entertaining” as always
07.22.09 - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
07.23.09 - Fairmont, WV - River City Grill
07.24.09 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery !
07.25.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Issue Project Room “
07.26.09 - New York, NY - Webster Hall Studio $
07.28.09 - Northampton, MA - Artifacts of the 20th Century
07.29.09 - Albany, NY - Valentine’s
07.30.09 - Portland, ME - The Apohadian Theatre %
07.31.09 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club &
08.02.09 - Columbus, OH - Rhumba
08.03.09 - Bloomington, IN - Russian Recording
08.05.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
08.06.09 - Rock Island, IL - Huckleberry’s, Daytrotter Session (
08.07.09 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
08.08.09 - Toronto, ON - Sneaky Dee’s *
08.09.09 - Montréal, Green Room
08.11.09 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel ,
08.12.09 - Carrboro, NC - Akron Family ,
08.13.09 - Atlanta, GA - The EARL ,
08.14.09 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree ,
! Crazy Dreams Band
“ Michael Gira
$ Larkin Grimm
% Fire on Fire, Seymore, South China
& Destroyer
( Poison Control Center and Light Pollution
* Woods
, Akron/Family
Modest Mouse Release No One's First, And You're Next EP, Taps Grandaddy's Fairchild to Play Guitar on Upcoming Tour
As we mentioned last month (TMT News), Granddaddy’s Jim Fairchild has joined Modest Mouse on the road this summer as their new touring guitarist. He isn’t officially replacing Johnny Marr (meaning that Marr could pop back in at some point and tour with the band), but he has started working with Isaac Brock and Co. on new Modest Mouse songs, so it at least seems like things are going well. But before Fairchild was chosen to play with Modest Mouse, he was up against some stiff competition. TMT has obtained a secret list of Fairchild’s former competitors, with Isaac Brock’s audition notes included:
- Mark Tremonti: Shockingly, he totally shredded, but then stopped halfway through when Scott Stapp called and told him Creed were reuniting because "Jesus would have wanted it that way."
- Zakk Wylde: I like metal and everything, but I don’t think someone with a studded black leather vest and a Flying V guitar would crossover into the indie world that well. Sorry, dude.
- Frank Black: He took off running before he could even play one chord. I think I might have freaked him out when I asked him to autograph my chest.
Meanwhile, Modest Mouse have a new EP due August 4 from Sony called No One’s First, And You’re Next, with a vinyl version coming August 18. According to the publicist, "This new EP contains eight songs, six of which were recently released as limited edition 7” vinyl singles. Also included on the EP is ‘King Rat’ which was a limited promo-only 7” single free with the purchase of We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank in 2007 and ‘I’ve Got It All (Most)’ which was the b-side to the ‘Float On’ single in 2004 and is currently out of print."
No One’s First, And You’re Next tracklisting:
1. Satellite Skin
2. Guilty Cocker Spaniels
3. Autumn Beds
4. The Whale Song
5. Perpetual Motion Machine
6. History Sticks To Your Feet
7. King Rat
8. I've Got It All (Most)
08.17.09 – Halifax, NS – Forum Multipurpose Room &
08.19.09 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis &
08.20.09 – Kingston, ON – Ale House &
08.21.09 – Toronto, ON – Sound Academy &
08.22.09 – Toronto, ON – Sound Academy &
08.24.09 –Columbus, OH – Lifestyle Communities Pavilion &
08.25.09 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom &
08.28.09 – San Francisco, CA – Street Scene Festival
08.30.09 – San Francisco, CA – Outer Lands Festival
09.01.09 – Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue $
09.02.09 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium $
09.03.09 – Billings, MT – Alberta Blair Theater $
09.04.09 – Missoula, MT – Wilma Theater $
09.05.09 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory $
09.07.09 – Seattle, WA – Bumbershoot
09.09.09 – Honolulu, HI – Pipeline Café
09.20.09 – Portland, OR - Glacial Pace night, NorthWest Music Fest #
09.21.09 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
09.22.09 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
09.23.09 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
& The Dutchess and The Duke
$ The Night Marchers
# Love As Laughter, Mimicking Birds, Morning Teleportation
Chairlift Are Going On A Big-Ass Tour With Phoenix And Micachu & The Shapes
Brooklyn trio Chairlift are heading out on an extensive late-summer/early-fall tour throughout North America and Europe with Phoenix and Micachu & The Shapes. Their tour kicks off August 1 in Jersey City at All Points West and ends October 28 in London. Along the way, they will play a show with TV On The Radio in Chicago, various music festivals in Europe and the US, and the [Venus Zine] Lollapalooza party in Chicago.
To get yourself excited, catch Chairlift's late-June performance of their iPod Nano jam “Bruises” on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson here
08.01.09 – Jersey City, NJ – All Points West (Liberty State Park)
08.05.09 – Cleveland, OH – Rock N Rock Hall Of Fame Show
08.07.09 – Chicago, IL – Double Door #
08.08.09 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08.08.09 – Chicago, IL – Chopin Theater (Venus Zine Party)
08.13.09 – Oslo, NO – Oya Festival
08.14.09 – Gothenburg, SE – Way Out West Festival
08.16.09 – Leicester, UK – Summer Sundae Weekender
09.05.09 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom *
09.06.09 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church *
09.07.09 – Washington DC – Black Cat *
09.08.09 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 *
09.09.09 – Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn *
09.10.09 – Baton Rouge, LA – Chelseas *
09.11.09 – Austin, TX – Emos *
09.12.09 – Denton, TX – Hailey’s *
09.14.09 – Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room *
09.15.09 – La Jolla, CA – The Loft (UC San Diego) *
09.16.09 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubador *
09.17.09 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill *
09.18.09 – Portland, OR – Holocene *
09.19.09 – Seattle WA – The Vera Project *
09.22.09 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue *
09.23.09 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre ^
09.24.09 – Madison, WI – UW Madison Memorial Terrace ^
09.25.09 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern *
09.26.09 – Cincinnati, OH – Midpoint Music Festival *
09.27.09 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club ^
09.28.09 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory ^
09.30.09 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse ^
10.01.09 – New Orleans, LA – Tipitinas ^
10.13.09 – Montpellier, FR – Le Rockstore ^
10.14.09 – Lyon, FR – Le Transbordeur ^
10.15.09 – Strassbourg, FR – La Laiterie ^
10.16.09 – Lille, FR – L’ Aronef ^
10.17.09 – Caen, FR – Le Cargo ^
10.19.09 – Paris, FR – Zenith ^
10.20.09 – Bourdoux, FR – Rock School Barbey ^
10.21.09 – Touloues, FR – Le Bekini ^
10.22.09 – Nantes, FR – L’ Olympic ^
10.24.09 – Birmingham, UK – Academy 2 ^
10.25.09 – Glasgow, UK – Arches ^
10.26.09 – Bristol, UK – Academy UK ^
10.27.09 – Manchester, UK – Academy 2 ^
10.28.09 – London, UK – Brixton Academy ^
# TV On The Radio
* Micachu & The Shapes
^ Phoenix
WHY? To Tour and Release Eskimo Snow; “Tsk, Tsk,” Say the Politically Correct Police
To steal and mangle a line from Gilbert and Sullivan originally about policemen: a TMT news writer’s lot is not a happy one. Constantly constructing stories that are disturbingly light on actual quotes or relevant info can take its toll on the untalented. So it came as a shocking and life-affirming surprise when word came in that WHY? had good news on two fronts to report. No Cup-a-Soup, half-finished Sudoku, and Reba rerun tonight! This news might even postpone this scratcher’s bi-monthly suicide attempt (read: unanswered call for attention) and just may be enough to get me out of my parents’ basement for the first time in a decade! Why? Well, two reasons, that’s why? A new album and a tour are imminent!
By all accounts, WHY? will reveal a cosmic folk cowboy influence in their work when their fourth full-length album and follow-up to the very-well-received Alopecia (TMT Review) is released on September 22. The record will be called Eskimo Snow (a version of the title track can be found on our benefit compilation), will come out on anticon., and features 10 tracks recorded by the trio (Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf, Doug McDiarmid) around the same time as Alopecia, with help from Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson (both from Fog), and Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Silver Jews, Bonnie Prince Billy, Calexico) and Eli Crews (Alopecia’s engineer) on tha knobs.
Are you Inuit or are you out?
1. These Hands
2. January Twenty Something
3. Against Me
4. Even the Good Wood Gone
5. Into the Shadows of My Embrace
6. One Rose
7. On Rose Walk, Insomniac
8. Berkeley By Hearseback
9. This Blackest Purse
10. Eskimo Snow
Word about the new album has been out for awhile, but tourdates are so spanking new they should be in cellophane. WHY? will embark on a lengthy tour with an eye-popping group of talented acts starting in the Wolfs’ birthplace of Cincinnati on September 24. So many great acts that they had to use the tilde (~), Qwerty’s loneliest symbol, in the legend that we have so lovingly cut and pasted below
09.24.09 - Cincinnati, OH - Northside Tavern *
09.26.09 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge, Wordless Music Series +
10.01.09 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East #%
10.02.09 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church #%
10.03.09 - Pittsburgh, PA - Assembly Room, William Pitt Union (free show) #%
10.04.09 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Blind Pig #%
10.05.09 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge #%
10.06.09 - Madison, WI - UW Madison Terrace #%
10.07.09 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock #%
10.09.09 - Denver, CO - Bluebird #%
10.10.09 - Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue #%
10.13.09 - Annacortes, WA - Department of Safety &$
10.14.09 - Seattle, WA - The Vera Project &$
10.15.09 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom &$
10.17.09 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *%$
10.20.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *%
10.23.09 - Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts *%
10.24.09 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *%
10.26.09 - Denton, TX - Hailey's *%
10.28.09 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree *%
10.29.09 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle *%
10.30.09 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *%
10.31.09 - Atlanta, GA - Lenny's %^@
11.02.09 - Orlando, FL - The Social %!
11.03.09 - Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds %!
11.04.09 - Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder %!
11.06.09 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon %(
11.07.09 - Houston, TX - Walter's On Washington %~
11.08.09 - Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
11.10.09 - Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Music Hall %~
11.11.09 - St. Louis, MO - Firebird %~
11.13.09 - Bloomington, IN - Rhino's Youth Center ~
* Serengeti and Polyphonic
# Dark Dark Dark
% AU
& No Kids
$ Mount Eerie
^ Jemina Pearl
@ Islands
! James Husband
~ The Moore Brothers
+ Owen Weaver with Flexible Music
Thurston Moore, Robert Pollard, Jad Fair, Roger Miller Contribute to Third Penny-Ante Book, Three; Phil Elverum, Growing, Lucky Dragons on Complimentary CD
On September 15, LA publishing crew Penny-Ante will see the release of its third and largest anthology, Three. Limited to 2000, this square-bound, softcover mag/book features a 320-page collection of personal writings and visual work from just about every other person you could possibly name drop, including Billy Childish (Thee Headcoats), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices), Jad Fair (Half Japanese), Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs, Toy Love, The Nothing), Roger Miller (Mission of Burma), Thee Oh Sees' John Dwyer, Vivian Girls' Cassie Ramone, Matt Valentine (MV/EE), Valet's Honey Owens, New York's Growing's Joe DeNardo, plus interviews with Billy Bragg (conducted by Jim Smith, union organizer by day, owner and operator of Los Angeles' DIY venue The Smell by night) and Ian MacKaye as well as much, much more.
Purchasers of Three will also receive a complimentary poster and CD full of new and unreleased music by Jad Fair, Robert Pollard, Phil Elverum, Billy Childish, Chris Knox (The Nothing), Growing, Bettina Koster, Shades, Naked On the Vague, Robedoor, Lucky Dragons, Loto Ball Show, TV Ghost, Arrington De Dionyso, and Adam Payne.
That's a lot of guests. Here are some Three highlights, according to Penny-Ante:
- Full page 70s/80s punk photography by ANN SUMMA: Black Flag, The Adolescents, Exene Cervenka (X), The Bags + much more.
- Poetry by THURSTON MOORE
- MARTIN PHILLIPS (THE CHILLS) explains early Chills artwork on Flying Nun Records
- Polaroid of JOHN DWYER (THEE OH SEES) as a child + artwork
- Various random photographs from touring, by Cassie Ramone (VIVIAN GIRLS)
- Lyrics and artwork from MATT VALENTINE (MV/EE)
- "INSECT FUTURES" a short story by ROGER MILLER (MISSION OF BURMA)
- HONEY OWENS (VALET) interviews Portland-based artist, Maria Joan Dixon
- ALLISON WOLFE contributes a funny comic
- BETTINA KOSTER contributes notes + photos (new & old from Malaria!) for her upcoming album, Queen of Noise
- A string of new drawings from New York artist, TERENCE KOH titled "the forest is in my heart"
- URINALS' Rob Roberge submits URINAL TOUR DIARY: A week on the road with the most polite and punctual band in punk
- The wit and wisdom of thee Chris Knox (drawings/comics)
- 8 full pages pages of Jad Fair’s artwork
- Robert Pollard interview + four pages of collage works
- A collection of past works from DAWN KASPER + interview on "DIY"
On August 1, Penny-Ante will be having a Three release party in LA with music by Jad Fair and Lumberob, Urinals, and Man's Assassination Man, as well as readings from Mick Farren (The Deviants), and Larry Fondation. Guests will each recieve a copy of Three upon arrival.
For more information or if you'd like to pre-order Three, click here. Orders will begin shipping August 15.
Amy Millan to Release Masters of the Burial on Arts & Crafts, Plans Fall Tour
The student has outgrown the teacher. The disciple has surpassed the master. The teapot has overtaken the studded wristband. And so on. Whichever famous or fabricated catchphrase you use, it's irrelevant. Amy Millan, permanent Stars member and frequent Broken Social Scene helper, is hardly an amateur in the music biz. And apologies to her bandmates in the Can-conglomerates above, but anyone who has seen either Stars or BSS knows that Millan has been regularly stealing the show for years. To further showcase her varied talents, the gifted singer and player will once again show off her songwriting chops when she releases Masters of the Burial September 8 through Arts & Crafts. Masters of the Burial comes after her well-received Honey From the Tombs debut from 2006.
1. Bruised Ghosts
2. Low Sail
3. Old Perfume
4. Towers
5. Day to Day
6. Bury This
7. Finish Line
8. Run for Me
9. I Will Follow You Into Dark
10. Lost Compass
11. Bound
One free show in Toronto is the extent of Millan's summer show itinerary but look further below and you will see a recently announced fall tour. Look even further and you may see through to a 3-D magic eye pattern concealing a virgin viking astride a snowflaked spaceship
07.25.09 - Toronto, ON - Harbourfront Centre *
08.21.09 - Ottawa, ON - Ottawa Folk Festival
09.30.09 - Montréal, QC - Ukrainian Federation/Pop Montréal #
10.01.09 - Peterborough, ON - Montréal House #
10.03.09 - Kingston, ON - The Grad Club #
10.14.09 - Toronto, ON - The Mod Club #
10.15.09 - Detroit , MI - Pike Room @ The Crofoot #
10.16.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle #
10.17.09 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club #
10.18.09 - Winnipeg, MB - West End Cultural Centre #
10.19.09 - Saskatoon, SK - Amigos #
10.20.09 - Calgary, AB - The Marquee Room #
10.21.09 - Edmonton, AB - Myer Horowitz Cabaret #
10.24.09 - Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore Cabaret #
10.25.09 - Seattle, WA - Triple Door #
10.26.09 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir #
10.28.09 - San Francisco, CA - Café du Nord #
10.30.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland #
10.04.09 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East (upstairs)
11.05.09 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
11.06.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Bell House
11.07.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
11.08.09 - Washington, DC - DC9
* free show w/Gentlemen Reg
# Bahamas
Weezer's New LP Almost Done, Pinkerton Deluxe Reissue Forthcoming, Sugar Ray LP to Include Weezer Song (YES YES YES!!)
According to a rather lengthy update from Weezer, their as-yet untitled seventh album is "pretty close to a wrap now (after a mild false alarm back in the spring)." The band expects to announce the release date and title in the coming months, as well as the album's first single and video, as long as they can keep the in-fighting to a minimum.
Weezer also briefly mention plans to release a deluxe reissue of Pinkerton. Unfortunately, they didn't provide any details except for this limp line: "at last -- if all goes as planned."
Yes, pretty slim on the meat. Instead, the lengthy post primarily discusses Guitar Center, an 8-bit Weezer album, their mailing list, Michael Cera in Paper Heart, a tribute show, The Rentals, Twitter, and... Sugar Ray:
Upcoming new Sugar Ray album Music For Cougars includes their cover of a song recorded but never released by Weezer, "Love Is The Answer". The original Weezer version of the song remains in the Make Believe era vaults, but now Sugar Ray's version will be available as of July 21, when their album drops.
Now that I've spared you from reading the lengthy post yourself, please do me a favor and go listen to whatever it is the kids are listening to these days and enjoy life to its fullest! I want all of you to have the opportunities that I didn't have since I wasted so much of my life reading that post.
