Tender Forever turns a new leaf with new album, No Snare, in June
By Jon Lorenz on Apr 21 2010
Tender Forever’s Melanie Valera has made some of the funnest, tender-ist, dancey-ist keyboard pop songs to ever come out of Pacific Northwest. But times change. People change. That said, Melanie can’t stay “Tender” forever. With her new record, No Snare, due in stores June 8 on K Records, she doesn’t seem so tender anymore, as she reportedly “moves away from some of the more exuberant dance oriented songs of past years into a darker and more melancholy direction. Maybe it’s her current residence in the damp and dirty Pacific Northwest, maybe its a little adulthood.” Times change, readers. Forever maybe isn’t forever?
No Snare tracklisting
01. Got To Let Go
02. Like the Snare That’s Gone
03. Only the Sounds That You Made
04. Nothing At All
05. Day Number
06. But The Shape Is Wide
07. Nowhere Good Enough
08. Unfortunate Friends
09. When I’m in the Dark and You Take the Light
• Tender Forever: http://www.myspace.com/tenderforever
• K Records: http://www.krecs.com
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Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney to release solo album this October
By Harold Shueberg on Apr 21 2010
As a sort of post-script to some of the hype that has been floating around lately in regards to the honorable Sleater-Kinney, Kill Rock Stars has just announced that it will be releasing the debut solo album from Corin Tucker. Tucker has been no stranger to the KRS fam, having released material on the label with previous bands Heavens to Betsy, Cadallaca, and of course the highly notable band mentioned previous.
Also making additional noise on the album will be drummer Sara Lund (Unwound, Hungry Ghost) and Seth Lorinczi (Golden Bears). No mention from the label as far as an exact release date or album title, but we do know it’s expected for release in October this year. Stay tuned for more details.
• Kill Rock Stars: http://www.killrockstars.com
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Fuck Buttons fuck around North America this Spring, new 12-inch features remixes by J. Spaceman and Alan Vega
By A Chugg on Apr 21 2010
There are a lot of music groups out there with two guys leaning over a table, tweaking and shrieking and beating and bouncing around. Fuck Buttons are two dudes with such a table. Theirs is usually made of wood! They will be heaving their wood table and backache electronica around America and Canada this spring. Now THAT’S heavy. The band’s currently on tour in Europe, so check out the remaining dates at their MySpace.
Also, be sure to snag a copy of their new 12-inch featuring “Olympians” off last year’s Tarot Sport. It features remixes from J. Spaceman (Spiritualized) and Alan Vega (Suicide).
05.11.10 - Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
05.12.10 - San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
05.13.10 - Portland, OR – Doug Fir
05.14.10 - Vancouver, BC – Biltmore
05.15.10 - Victoria, BC – Sugar
05.16.10 - Seattle, WA – Chop Suey
05.19.10 - Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
05.20.10 - Montreal, QC – Il Motore
05.21.10 - Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
05.22.10 - New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
05.27.10 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival
06.06.10 - Paris, France - Villette Sonique Fest
06.11.10 - Rijeka, Croatia - Hartera Festival
06.18.10 - Coruna, Spain - Sonar Fest
06.19.10 - Barcelona, Spai - Sonar Fest
08.20.10 - Crickhowell, Wales - Green Man Festival
09.04.10 - Monticello, New York - Kutshers Country Club (ATP)
• Fuck Buttons: http://www.myspace.com/fuckbuttons
• ATP Recordings: http://www.atpfestival.com/recordings.php
Broken Social Scene to release 10-track bonus EP, Lo-Fi For the Dividing Nights
By Chris Bosman on Apr 20 2010
Not only is Forgiveness Rock Record, the first new Broken Social Scene record to come out in five years, hitting shelves in a few short weeks and currently streaming over at NPR, but now the Canadian collective is tacking on a 10-track addendum to the new LP, an EP entitled Lo-Fi For the Dividing Nights.
The EP is made up of soundscapes that various band members created as experiments during the Forgiveness Rock Record sessions in an adjacent studio. One soundscape became the new record’s closing track, “Me & My Hand,” while the rest will be included on Lo-Fi. The EP will be made freely available with purchases from independent record stores in North America or if you pre-order the new album, which is a pretty bitchin’ incentive to actually buy the record.
But you’ve only got a short time available; Forgiveness Rock Record sees release May 4 in North America on Arts&Crafts and May 3 in Europe on City Slang/Cooperative Music.
Lo-Fi For the Dividing Nights tracklist:
01. New Instructions
02. Sudden Foot Loss
03. Shabba Lights
04. Song For Dee
05. Eling’s Haus
06. Professor Sambo
07. Never Felt Alive
08. Paperweight Room
09. Turbo Mouse
10. Far Out
• Broken Social Scene: http://www.brokensocialscene.ca
• Arts&Crafts: http://www.arts-crafts.ca
Cop cars, hold on to your bumpers: Modest Mouse announce summer tour
By Nobodaddy on Apr 20 2010
Despite Isaac Brock’s longtime insistence that if you go straight long enough, you end up where you were, he apparently has no reservations about going all kinds of places with his band. This of course makes him a liar. Luckily, here at the TMT offices, we stir deceit and subversion right into our coffee. I mean, We don’t really have an office, do we? And my name’s not really Nobodaddy, is it? Heck, maybe I’m Isaac Brock? (See how exciting tour news can be? Let’s read on!)
Modest Mouse, everyone’s favorite hit-makers-that-shouldn’t-have, have recently announced a pack of new tourdates that will take the band clear across the US this summer. Also included on the itinerary are stops at this year’s Pitchfork Festival in Chicago and appearances at the UK’s Leeds and Reading Festivals. All of this comes on the heels of the recent 10-year anniversary of the Mouse’s landmark major label debut The Moon and Antarctica, which I trust everyone here picked-up dutifully on Record Store Day this past weekend. (Even though everyone knows that 10 years is the Tin anniversary, Brock and co. decided it’d be a bit more “traditional” to cut the album to vinyl instead, so they’ve reissued the out-of-print double 12-inch, using the original 2004 vinyl master.) Come to think of it, I guess Brock isn’t a liar after all. After 10 years of going places, you do end up exactly where you were.
Modest Mouse Tour:
07.02.10 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Theater
07.03.10 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
07.06.10 - Kansas City, MO - Crossroads KC @ Grinders
07.09.10 - Santa Fe, NM - Paolo Soleri Amphitheatre
07.10.10 - Broomfield, CO - 1ST BANK Center
07.12.10 - Sioux Falls, SD - Ramkota Exhibit Hall
07.13.10 - Fargo, ND - Hub at the Venue
07.14.10 - Minneapolis, MN - The Orpheum Theatre
07.16.10 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Festival
07.17.10 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
07.18.10 - Knoxville, TN - The Valarium
07.19.10 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
07.20.10 - Charleston, SC - Music Farm
07.22.10 - Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theater
07.23.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Waterfront
07.25.10 - Boston, MA - House Of Blues Boston
08.27.10 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Festival
08.28.10 - Reading, UK - Reading Festival
08.31.10 - Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
09.01.10 - Liverpool, UK - O2 Academy
09.03.10 - Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic Art and Music Festival
The Moon and Antarctica
Side 1
01. 3rd Planet
02. Gravity Rides Everything
03. Dark Center Of The Universe
04. Perfect Disguise
Side: 2
01. Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
02. A Different City
03. The Cold Part
04. Alone Down There
Side: 3
01. The Stars Are Projectors
02. Wild Packs Of Family Dogs
03. Paper Thin Walls
Side: 4
01. I Came As A Rat
02. Lives
03. Life Like Weeds
04. What People Are Made Of
• Modest Mouse: http://www.modestmousemusic.com
[Photo: Michael Morel]
