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Because one is never enough for these gals, Tegan and Sara are set to embark on two tours in the coming months, both in further support of 2007's The Con.

They'll grace U.S. shores beginning April 16 in Bellingham, Washington, but first they must conquer that great land mass across the ocean known as Europe. Germany, in particular, should be an easy victory, as The Con arrives there just days before the sisters do, on February 28. The campaign kicks off tomorrow night (February 22) in Brighton, England. [MORE...]

Video: Tegan and Sara: The Con [from the The Con LP]

Posted by Paul Thompson and Matthew Solarski in tour on Thu: 02-21-08: 04:05 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Charlie Daniels, .38 Special, Little Feat... Sonic Youth?!
Sorry Coachella, THIS is the festival lineup of the year

No, we are not making this up.

To quote reader Jason Springman, who tipped us off (via the Fayetteville Flyer): ".38 Special and Sonic Youth, finally together and not just in my dreams!"

Posted by Amy Phillips in wtf, festival on Thu: 02-21-08: 04:01 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Disfear Head to North America This Spring

Awww, another fucking Swedish band? Gee, Pitchfork, let me guess: despite their "ironically tuff" name, Disfear sing gauzy little ditties about first crushes and sweet kisses and their friggin' hairdressers, occasionally employing a ukelele or a glockenspiel for an extra dash of twee.

Oh wait, they're a D-beat band with a dude who used to be in At the Gates on vocals? Somebody from Converge produced their recent Pitchfork Recommended album Live the Storm? And they're touring?! Sign me up! Right after I cozy up with my tea and this Sambassadeur LP, that is...

Yep, Disfear are taking that other strain of Swedish rock to North America in April. There's a lone date way back at the end of May, too, meaning either Disfear are coming back around then, or don't plan to leave. They may not nab the politeness award from some of their more delicate countryfolks, but they'll more than make up for their lack of hospitality with a fuckton of awesomeness. [MORE...]

MP3: Disfear: Get It Off [from the Live the Storm LP]

Posted by Paul Thompson in tour on Thu: 02-21-08: 03:45 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Photos: Blood on the Wall [New York, NY; 02/20/08]

Photos by Jason Bergman

From awesome to Awesomer to awesomeness Liferz, Brooklyn's Blood on the Wall know how to tear shit up. Luckily they didn't do too much damage when they rolled through record shop Other Music in New York City last night, although singer/guitarist Brad Shanks did manage to fry an amp before the performance was over. Whoops!

At least their tour travels are just about wrapped up (for now), with only a gig in Boston tonight and a homecoming showcase on Friday remaining.

BLOOD ON THE WALL

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The Breeders Announce First Mountain Single

Photo by Chris Glass

Mountain Battles and a heap of tour dates await the Breeders this spring, and the band has just sweetened the pot of post-hiatus goodies with the announcement of the album's first single.

"We're Gonna Rise" will come out in the UK March 17 via 4AD. It will be available as a 7" and a download, with the non-album B-side "German Demonstration". You might remember "We're Gonna Rise" from when it was available on the band's MySpace for about five seconds.

Then, of course, it's onto the album release on April 8 (the day before in the UK) and the aforementioned big ol' tour. [MORE...]

Video: The Breeders: Cannonball [from the Last Splash LP]

Posted by Dave Maher in single on Thu: 02-21-08: 03:09 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Cat Power Adds Even More Dates

Photo by William Kirk

Portugal! Spain! France! Jay Leno! WXPN! KCRW! Each and every one of those European locales/radio stations/jovial comedians can expect a visit from Cat Power in the coming months, as Chan Marshall and her Dirty Delta Blues have added live appearances in three countries, on popular radio programs, and on a late night show of some repute to their already jam-packed itinerary.

First up is "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno", on which Cat Power will appear February the 28th. Then it's off to L.A., where Chan will perform on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" program and then that night in concert at the Wiltern, before heading to New Zealand and Australia for a brief March tour. In the midst of Marshall's duties Down Under, she'll magically also appear on WXPN's "World Café" on March 6.

Come April, there's more North American dates, to be followed by the aforementioned journey to parts east in late May. There's plenty of room to stuff new dates in the cracks there, we'd like to note, which means plenty more chances for we stalwart Pitchfork news sorts to tell you about 'em should they arise. [MORE...]

Video: Cat Power: New York / Lost Someone [live on Later... With Jools Holland LP]

Posted by Paul Thompson in tour on Thu: 02-21-08: 02:30 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Pete Rock Enlists Raekwon, Masta Killa for NY's Finest
With Papoose, Styles P, Sheek Louch, Jim Jones, Redman, Little Brother

In this current climate of cold polyphonic hip-hop soundscapes, it's easy to reminisce about the funky, sweater-warm soul the unstoppable production/sampling legend Pete Rock cranks out. Rock's never quit doing the thing he does best, but a new full-length album showcasing his deft organic touch is always a welcome treat.

So there's much to look forward to come February 26, when Nature Sounds and Soul Survivor Records issue NY's Finest, Pete's latest solo LP. Of course, you knew the notoriously collaboration-friendly Rock couldn't do it alone, and the disc sports guest turns by Raekwon, Masta Killa, Redman, Papoose, Jim Jones, Sheek Louch, Styles P, and Little Brother. Little Brother? Hey, they're not from New York!

A single for the Jim Jones-laced "We Roll" is out now, while Rock has a handful of shows lined up in the coming weeks, with the next happening tonight (February 21) in DC. [MORE...]

MP3: Pete Rock [ft. Dipset (Jim Jones & Max B]: We Roll [single; from the forthcoming NY's Finest LP]

Posted by Paul Thompson in album, collaboration, tour on Thu: 02-21-08: 01:40 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Luaka Bop Bundles Brazil Classics Highlights on Comp

Those with a jones for all sounds innovative and exotic have found much to love in Luaka Bop's "Brazil Classics" series, which unleashed its seventh and latest volume, What's Happening in Pernambuco: New Sounds of the Brazilian Northeast, upon U.S. audiences earlier this month.

Seven volumes translates to a whole mess of music from the nation that birthed bossa nova and Tropicália, so if you're feeling a wee bit overwhelmed by it all, Luaka Bop has just the thing for you. Come this April, the David Byrne-spawned label will unleash Brazil Classics at 20: Anti-Aging Solutions Revealed, a 10-track vinyl compilation of crucial cuts from the long-running series. Not just an ideal primer for the Brazil Classics curious, it's also the perfect gift for the aspiring DJ in your life.

And if you've yet to warm to vinyl, don't sweat it: the iTunes edition of Brazil Classics at 20, boasting a slightly different tracklist and three extra tunes, lurks just around the corner. Look for it online February 26. [MORE...]

MP3: Mombojo: Cabidela [from the What's Happening in Pernambuco: New Sounds of the Brazilian Northeast compilation]

Posted by Matthew Solarski in compilation on Thu: 02-21-08: 01:01 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

New Spiritualized Album: Song's in A&E;
Television network, Goldfrapp: "Hey, wait a second..."

Photo by William Kirk

Song's in A&E, the first LP in half a decade from J. Spaceman and his Spiritualized, will be released May 19 in the UK and Europe on Universal/Spaceman (as previously reported). The band revealed the disc's title and tracklist via a MySpace bulletin today, and from the looks of it, there's some kind of recurring "Harmony" theme running throughout the proceedings. Sounds, y'know, harmonious!

Still no info about a North American release for the set, though we're assured that's on the way.

After a previously reported stop at the iTunes Live thing in London, the band will make their way to California in April for a trio of dates (including Coachella) before heading back to the UK and Europe around the release of A&E. (No, not the new Goldfrapp single).

In other Spiritualized news, bandleader J. Spaceman will provide the score for the forthcoming Harmony Korine film Mister Lonely. [MORE...]

Stream: Ono / Spiritualized: Walking on Thin Ice [from the Yes I'm a Witch LP]

Posted by Paul Thompson in album, tour on Thu: 02-21-08: 12:48 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Minus the Bear Announce Tour, Dates with the Big Sleep

Photo by Sara Sanger

From the Planet of Ice to this planet of Earth, Minus the Bear will bring the hits (and those hits' unwieldy titles) on a continent-spanning North American tour they've scheduled for the months of March and April.

Along the way the Seattle quintet will meet up with Frenchkissers the Big Sleep, whose Sleep Forever somnambulated into our lives just this week, and Portugal. The Man, who hail from the ice planet of sorts known as Alaska. I hear they use weird punctuation up there.

Speaking of non-contiguous U.S. States, the next Minus the Bear date is February 23 in Honolulu, Hawaii, although the tour proper won't kick off until March 24. That gives you plenty of time to scheme to steal their beloved white tiger. Just kidding, you shouldn't do that. That would be mean.

Ooh, and the Big Sleep have dates minus Minus the Bear too. Catch all the hottt tour date listing action below. [MORE...]

MP3: Minus the Bear: Fulfill the Dream (Old Italy Remix by Tyondai Braxton) [from the Interpretaciones del Oso LP]

MP3: The Big Sleep: Bad Blood [from the Sleep Forever LP]

Posted by Matthew Solarski in tour on Thu: 02-21-08: 12:40 PM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

M83 Announces North American Tour

We all know Saturdays = Youth, but what do Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and all those other days of the week equate to? For somebody somewhere this spring, they'll add up to an exhilarating live run-in with the one and only M83.

M83's Anthony Gonzalez will take his twentysomething symphonies to the cosmos across the North American continent beginning May 20 in Los Angeles. By the time he wraps up June 7 in DC, 2008 will come to know the wonder that inspired Gonzalez to craft Saturdays, the wonder that is the 1980s. M83 also has those three previously reported dates Down Under in March.

For the live setting, M83 will expand to a four-piece band featuring Gonzalez on vocals, keyboards, and guitars, Loic Maurin on drums, Pierre-Marie Maulini on bass and guitar, and frequent Saturdays vocalist Morgan Kibby (also of the Romanovs) doing her singing thing and playing keyboards.

Saturdays = Youth arrives April 15 in North America and April 14 elsewhere via Mute, while first single "Couleurs" lands digitally on February 26, backed by a Jori Hulkkonen remix. Stream it up below. [MORE...]

Stream: M83: Couleurs [single; from the forthcoming Saturdays = Youth LP]

Posted by Matthew Solarski in tour, single on Thu: 02-21-08: 11:35 AM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

Polvo Reunion Coming to America, Spain
Drawings be explodin' all over da world

Photo by Robert Weston

After over a decade of inactivity, beloved 90s indie rock band Polvo is breaking their silence in a big way. As previously reported, singer/guitarist Ash Bowie (also formerly of Helium), singer/guitarist Dave Brylawski, and bassist Steve Popson have reunited to play the Explosions in the Sky-curated May 16-18 edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival (former Cherry Valence drummer Brian ~~Quest~~ Quast is filling in for original drummer Eddie Watkins).

But now, it has been revealed that the reunion will continue with a performance on the ATP stage at the Primavera Sound Festival, taking place in Barcelona, Spain from May 29-31. AND Polvo is planning a U.S. tour, starting with a couple of May dates in Washington, DC and Carrboro, North Carolina. Look out for East Coast and Midwest runs this summer, and a West Coast trek this fall. [MORE...]

Stream: Polvo: Feather of Forgiveness [from the Exploded Drawing LP]

Posted by Amy Phillips in reunion, tour on Thu: 02-21-08: 10:45 AM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

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