If you manage to live in a major metropolitan area you are probably inundated with tour dates. Don't let these new Royksopp dates get you down.. just appreciate them coming to North America in support of The Understanding.
Catbirdseat gives the heads up on a new Rogue Wave mp3 being hosted at Sub Pop. You can download "10:1" right here. The track is a nice teaser for the forthcoming Descended Like Vultures disc to be released on October 25th. You'll be able to get the preview EP, 10:1, on August 23rd featuring 3 exclusive new songs.
We told you we'd get you more details on the new Metric album, Live It Out, and now we have! We've got the tracklisting and know that the band is shooting a video for "Monster Hospital" the first single from the disc.
Check out the Equal Vision Records digital sampler over here for a new song from Circa Survive as well as exclusive tracks from Armor For Sleep, Fivespeed, Versus The Mirror, and Fear Before The March of Flames. The download code is "circavid".
If you find yourself bored on Thursday night (August 4th) you may want to check in on Late Night with Conan O'Brien to see the performance of Dressy Bessy. The band had quite a writeup on NPR about their new album, Electrified.
Broken Social Scene fans get a bit of a double dose of pleasure on October 4th when collective members Metric release their next album, Live It Out. In support of this release the band will be touring.. a lot. So mark your calendar and look for more details about the album in the coming days.
Silent Uproar enjoys the sounds of the Maximo Park record, A Certain Trigger. We may even enjoy them in a live environment but there is only one way to find out. Fortunately, the band has complied with this request and will be touring North America starting in September.
In support of Carousel Waltz, The Robot Ate Me continue to pound the pavement bringing the sounds of bizarre pop-songs across the nation. If you see them tell them I asked them to play "Jesus and Hitler."
If you've got some spare time and a love of Autolux, you may want to head over to XFM to check out the band playing "Asleep at the Trigger", "Plant Life", and "Blanket."
The forthcoming Franz Ferdinand album was supposed to be entitled Franz Ferdinand and feature the same cover artwork as their debut album but with a different color scheme. Turns out the boys couldn't commit and now they are calling the album You Could Have it So Much Better... With Franz Ferdinand and will feature new artwork. Weak! Check out the tour dates and yell at them for not going through with the original plan...
The Exit will re-release their album Home For an Island on October 11th via a major label. The band reports that they are going to make the album have more of a live feel and for those of you that already own the album a few new songs will be tacked on.
Just as a healthy reminder Sleater-Kinney are still on tour, still adding dates to their itinerary, and still promoting The Woods - their latest release via Sub Pop.
The Deftones upcoming b-sides and rarities disc we told you about is tenatively set for a September 27th release.
The only good part about a band touring Europe extensively is that they usually come back to North America and do a good bit of touring here. Let's hope that these new Wintersleep dates make a bunch of Europeans really happy and get the band to actually play a crapload of dates here.
Sons and Daughters are going on tour with the The Decemberists in support of The Repulsion Box (due August 24th via Rough Trade).
The Calexico with Iron & Wine tour that we told you about (in support of their collaborative EP In The Reins) has been expanded a bit. Check the more for the October dates.
In support of their forthcoming August 8th release, The Life and Times are hitting the road. If you have somehow forgotten, details about their debut full-length Suburban Hymns can be seen here.
We told you about a bunch of Dredg live dates and we told you about their acoustic shows but the band has announced even more dates this time along with The Blood Brothers and Coheed & Cambria.
While there is no tracklisting, no album art, no title, and the thing may not even be done being mixed yet the new album from The Strokes will hit shelves on January 24, 2006.
Sometimes you just wish that a band would form an imprint and release records of their favorite bands or similar sounding bands. Oneida shares this wish and have formed Brah Records as an imprint of JagJaguwar Records. You can read more about this label here and the first split 7" they will be releasing featuring Oneida and Plastic Crimewave Sound.
