Mika Miko Set To Release New Album And Tour With Every Hip Noisy Rock Band Ever
By Annapocalypse on Mar 2 2009
Imagine you’re a member of an up-and-coming Los Angeles punk/noise band and you’re on the cusp of releasing your long-awaited sophomore follow-up release. If the band you’re in just happens to be Mika Miko, you better step up your game. Before they release their new album, Mika Miko have decided to make sure their peers haven’t forgotten about them by touring with every single noisy rock band in existence (no exceptions!). The Mae Shi? Check. Abe Vigoda? Check. HEALTH? Check. Aids Wolf? Check. Clipd Beaks? Check. Etc.
After they’re done reminding the West Coast of their existence, the rest of the country can play catch-up by purchasing their new album, We Be Xuxa, due May 5 on PPM Records. The new album was recorded by Mike McHugh (no, not OUR Mike McHugh) at The Distillery in Costa Mesa (Black Lips, Lightning Bolt, Le Shok).
03.04.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Kerckhoff Grand Salon (UCLA) #
03.16.09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Smell %
03.17.09 - Phoenix, AZ - Trunk Space &
03.18.09 - El Paso, TX - Black Market $
03.19.09 - Austin, TX - Red 7 - SXSW PPM ^
03.21.09 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk - SXSW Panache Booking @
03.22.09 - Austin, TX - Panache Booking Day Party at Beerland $
03.23.09 - Odessa, TX – Roadhouse $
03.25.09 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress **
# The Mae Shi
% Lovvers, Clipd Beaks
& Health, Pictureplane, Clipd Beaks
$ Aids Wolf, Past Lives, and etc
^ Abe Vigoda, Gun Outfit, and etc
@ Health, Monotonix, Pre, and etc
** Aids Wolf, Monotonix, Crystal Antlers
Edie Sedgwick Announce Tour; Edith Minturn Sedgwick Is Still Dead
By Annapocalypse on Mar 2 2009
It can be really confusing when bands take their names from other famous people (I’m looking at you, Kevin Shields). In order to separate the band Edie Sedgwick from the famous Andy Warhol muse, I decided to consult my teenage little sister, who is pretty much a connoisseur of all things Edie (no, not the band). Here is her list of how to distinguish the band from the person:
Edie Sedgwick (the band):
- “Ohmygod, Anna, stop forcing me to finish your news story! I don’t care about some lame band on Dischord Records (whose latest album, by the way, is called Things Are Getting Sinister And Sinisterer). LOL I hate you. On the other hand, did you know that Conor Oberst is touring right now?! I LOVE HIM!!!”
Edie Sedgwick (the person):
- “AHHH!! EDIE!!!!!!” (incomprehensible screaming)
…Uhh, I guess she’s a tad biased.
Edie Sedgwick (the band):
03.12.09 - New York, NY - Cake Shop
03.13.09 - Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
03.14.09 - Chicago, IL - Ronny's
03.15.09 - Lexington, KY - Southgate House
03.16.09 - Nashville, TN - Springwater
03.17.09 - Dallas, TX - Lounge on Elm Street
03.18.09 - Austin, TX @ SXSW Showcase @ Wave (8 PM)
03.19.09 - Austin, TX Day Into Night Showcase (5 PM)
03.20.09 - Austin, TX - Salvage Vanguard Theater (early show 2:45 PM)
03.20.09 - San Antonio, TX - Artpace
03.22.09 - Lafayette, LA - Artmosphere
03.23.09 - Pensacola, FL - Sluggo's
03.24.09 - Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge
03.25.09 - Atlanta, GA - 529
03.26.09 - Raleigh, NC - Berkeley Cafe
03.27.09 - Richmond, VA - The Czar
03.29.09 - Washington, DC - Black Cat #
03.31.09 - Baltimore, MD - The Talking Head #
04.03.09 - Harrisonburg, VA - MACROCK
# Medications and Played Tomorrow
The Feelies Schedule Two (Sorta-Kinda Three) Reunion Shows for March
By Mike McHugh on Mar 2 2009
Last summer saw the return of one of punkdom’s spazzier bands, The Feelies. Best known for their jerky as Jack Links 1980 debut Crazy Rhythms and for more or less creating R.E.M. (yeah thanks a lot, fellas), The Feelies had been inactive since 1992 until, like so many other old punk bands these days, they saw the aughts as an opportunity to cash in on renewed interest and began playing shows again, including a New Year’s Eve rager with Yo La Tengo.
In anticipation of the reissues of their first two records -- the aforementioned Crazy Rhythms and 1986’s The Good Earth -- these New Jersey nerd royalty will be playing two headlining shows in mid-March. Before all that, though, The Feelies are playing one song at a Carnegie Hall tribute to their erstwhile progeny, R.E.M. Really, one measly song? I guess Michael Stipe doesn’t want the word to get out that The Feelies did everything he did three years earlier and three times better. Ingrate.
03.11.09 - New York, NY - Carnegie Hall (R.E.M. Tribute)
03.13.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
03.14.09 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
King Khan and The Shrines Expand Tour into the Ever-Expanding Universe
By Couscous on Feb 27 2009
Your favorite freaky, Indian-American, garage-psych-souler is set for a Spring U.S. tour. Which freaky, Indian-American, garage-psych-souler, you ask? Let me narrow it down for you -- it's King Khan! Yes, the King and his Shrines are set for a proper U.S. release of 2007's barn-burning full-length What Is?! on April 21 via Vice Records (TMT News). To support it, the crew is hitting the road on a tour that will take the band through March's SXSW conference in Austin and May's Sasquatch Festival in Quincy, WA.
Here's the full tour schedule:
03.06.09 - Elkton, FL - Harvest of Hope
03.07.09 - Miami, FL - The Vagabond
03.08.09 - Orlando, FL - Wills Pub
03.10.09 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
03.12.09 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
03.13.09 - Nashville, TN - Exit In
03.14.09 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Café
03.15.09 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
03.16.09 - Dallas, TX - Palladium Loft
03.17.09 - San Antonio, TX - The Warhol
03.20.09 - Austin, TX - Emo's - SXSW Vice
04.29.09 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
04.30.09 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
05.01.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Willamsburg
05.02.09 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
05.03.09 - New York, NY - Santos Partyhouse
05.07.09 - Boston, MA - Paradise
05.08.09 - Ottawa, ON - Babylon
05.09.09 - Montreal, PQ - La Sasa Rossa
05.12.09 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Theatre
05.13.09 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Theatre
05.14.09 - Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
05.15.09 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
05.16.09 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
05.19.09 - Calgary, AB - The Warehouse
05.20.09 - Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
05.22.09 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
05.23.09 - Quincy, WA - Sasquatch Festival
05.25.09 - Portland, OR - Dante's
05.28.09 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
05.29.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo
05.30.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo
By Jon Lorenz on Feb 27 2009
Now that The Flying Luttenbachers are no more (TMT News), Weasel Walter (XBXRX, Burmese, Lake of Drakula) is bustin a move on the free improv world, jammin' with anyone he can. He'll soon be hitting the road for the next few months, tearing out your ears with his brand of high-energy, brutal free-improv.
For the U.S. portion of the tour, Weasel will be cruising around, tapping into each town's free improv circle for each show, as well as doing one No Wave video lecture at Bard College. For the European portion, he'll join up with Sheik Anorak and Mario Rechtern for a week, Mary Halvorson and Peter Evens for another week, Marco Eneidi for a few dates, and then finishing up the tour with one date in London with Evan Parker and Peter Evans.
Tons of new releases on his ugEXPLODE label, so check them out. And check out Leveer's recent DeLorean review of The Flying Luttenbacher's 2007 release Incarceration by Abstraction here.
Here are the tourdates:
03.01.09 - Chicago - Hungry Brain - Weasel Walter/Mike Forbes/Andrew Scott Young + WW/Josh Berman/Jason Stein/a.o.
03.05.09 Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, Bard College - NO WAVE video lecture
03.07.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Zebulon - Mary Halvorson/Weasel Walter
03.08.09 - Providence, RI - The Dark Lady - Nondor Nevai Ensemble feat. Weasel Walter w/ Sioux City Pete and the Beggars, Made in Mexico a.o
03.09.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Art Alliance - Darius Jones/Evan Lipson/Weasel Walter
03.16.09 - Sacramento, CA - Java Lounge -Ava Mendoza/Devin Hoff/Weasel Walter
Weasel Walter / Sheik Anorak with guest Mario Rechtern:
04.30.09 - Paris - TBA
05.01.09 - Nantes - Festival venue TBA
05.02.09 - Bordeaux - La Centrale
05.03.09 - Clermont Ferrand - Raymond Bar
05.04.09 - Lyon - Grnd Zero
05.05.09 - Genève - Cave12
Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter Evans:
05.06.09 - Paris - Les Instants Chavires
05.07.09 - Berlin - Ausland
05.08.09 - Wurzburg - Cafe Cairo
05.09.09 - Graz - Lendwirbel Festival
05.10.09 - Vienna - The Rhiz
05.11.09 - Budapest - TBA
Weasel Walter / Marco Eneidi:
05.12.09 - Vienna - Celeste
05.13.09 - Zagreb - KSET
05.14.09 - need show Slovenia (need help)
Weasel Walter / Evan Parker / Peter Evans:
05.22.09 - London - Tufnel Park Dome
[Photo: Joe Tunis]
