Seattle psychedelic metal quartet Lesbian will release their debut Power Hör sometime this spring. The record was produced by Randall Dunn (who's worked with Sunn0))) and Boris), and will be out on the Holy Mountain label.
In the January/February issue of Magnet Magazine Kevin Shields reports that there will indeed be another record released from My Bloody Valentine and he didn't mean the fabled boxset. There is no title, no release date, and probably no songs even written for it yet but the notion is out there that the band will be recording another disc at some point in the future. Exciting some might say. Read on for the full quote from Kevin Sheilds.
Trans Am will release Sex Change through Thrill Jockey on February 20th. The record's release will be followed by a handful of shows, and a more lengthy tour is set to kick off in April with Zombi, Black Taj and Psychic Paramount.
NYC's retro-rock outfit Locksley will join The Rapture on a few dates in early February. The band's debut Don't Make Me Wait was released yesterday, and you can check out a couple of the songs in the Downloads.
The Octopus Project will soon be doing some touring in the West to support its latest release, an ambitious collaboration with Black Moth Super Rainbow entitled The House of Apples and Eyeballs. Check out the album ecard.
Division Day has about a week's worth of shows coming up with Great Northern up and down the West Coast. The band also plans on doing a Monday night residency throughout February at the Spaceland venue in Los Angeles--four shows for free!
Against Me! will embark on a nationwide tour starting next month in anticipation of a new record tentatively set for a spring release. The Riverboat Gamblers and Fake Problems will be accompanying the band on this stint.
Lost in the Trees, a new solo project from Ari Picker (of The Never) will see its debut on March 20 through the NC-based Trekky Records. You can grab the track "Tall Trees" in the Downloads.
Richard Buckner and Six Parts Seven will be courting one another on a lengthy tour starting a month from today. The former is pushing Meadow (Merge Records), the latter will release Casually Smashed to Pieces (Suicide Squeeze) next week. Grab "Stolen Moments" from the upcoming record in the Downloads.
The guys in Billy Talent are planning on a headlining tour in early spring; tourmates will include Cancer Bats and Drive By. The Canadian group is supporting its sophomore release Billy Talent: II, which was released this past fall.
In case you didn't know, Sea Wolf (the other project of Irving bassist Alex Church) recently signed a deal with Dangerbird Records. The band is looking to have an EP out sometime this spring, with a full-length tentatively set for a fall release. Check out some tracks on the band's Myspace page.
With the US release of their album Trompe-l’oeil, Malajube are set to dip down in the States on a run with Snowden from February 17th through March 13th. Grab "Pate Filo" from the album in the Downloads.
According to Matt Mahaffey's MySpace page a new Self album is "in the works, believe dat!." Yes, we've heard it many times before, but good news is good news. Hopefully, this effort won't go the way of Ornament & Crime.
It was announced today that ambient legend Brian Eno would be doing the musical score for the upcoming EA Games release Spore. Eno demonstrated some software entitled "The Shuffler" that takes elements of the Spore soundtrack and creates a dynamic score - never repeating itself twice.
We already told you that Annuals were going on tour with The Dears but now we've learned that they'll then be joining Aqueduct in another trek across the country. As if that weren't enough the band also plans to release a 5-song EP in the UK entitled Big Zeus, some of which you can already preview.
Grizzly Bear will be hitting the road starting in February and bringing the sounds of Yellow House to the masses. If the band doesn't happen to be hitting your town you may want to make due by downloading this mash of the song "The Knife" with the band The Knife. And if that's not enough we hear there are some other remixes floating around worth procuring.
We've got a few new dates for that tour from Rob Crow that we told you about. Added to that we've also heard that the new Pinback, Autumn of The Seraphs, will be released sometime this summer via Touch and Go.
Head over to pocket-symphony.com to listen to the new Air single "Once Upon A Time." The song is taken from the forthcoming album, Pocket Symphony, due March 6th. A tour in support of the album is expected in mid-March. Lastly, preview some of the album art with this ecard.
San Franciscan project Papercuts (aka Jason Quever) will release Can't Go Back through Devendra Banhart's Gnomonsong label on March 6. The disc's release will be prefaced by a tour supporting Grizzly Bear. Grab the track "John Brown" in the Downloads.
Slowcore trio Low will release Drums and Guns on March 20th via Sub Pop. The disc was produced by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Sleater Kinney) and is the first to feature new bassist Matt Livingston. The band will hit the road shortly after the albums release throughout the West and East coasts.
