Iron & Wine will have their new album, Around The Well, out on Sub Pop on May 19th. They will embark on tour in May as well. If you live in the five US cities that matter and like sleepy beard-y folk, you’re stoked. Iron and Wine Spring 2009 US Tour Dates Monday, May 4, [...]
It turns out the rest of my incompetent coworkers aren’t as stoked on this as I am, but hey, they’re a bunch of mouth-breathing swine entitled to their opinions. Death Cab announced a slew of dates spanning across the U.S. with Ra Ra Riot as direct support. Cold War Kids will be taking over the [...]
The brainchild of former Sherwood guitarist turned wandering minstrel of the West Coast, Chris Armstrong, O Vesicae and the Found Mountain also includes production genius Chris Keene of Surrogate
Former Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor and Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley (pictured) are stepping out for a couple weeks worth of solo touring. If this tour isn’t called the “Party Like It’s 1999 Tour” someone at Vagrant is BLOWING IT! Here’s the press release: Matt Pryor (ex. The Get Up Kids, The [...]
Katt Williams It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’ Exclusive Preview Tour 2008: 6/11 Omaha, NE 6/12 Wichita, KS 6/13 Kansas City, MO 6/18 Little Rock, AR 6/19 Dallas, TX 6/20 Beaumont, TX 6/21 Houston, TX 6/22 San Antonio, TX 6/26 Los Angeles, CA 6/27 Los Angeles, CA 7/4 Los Vegas, NV More dates announced soon on www.kattwilliams.com This [...]
On the heels of the rerelease of their quintessential Bleed American CD (which was retitled Jimmy Eat World shortly after 2001′s terrorist attacks for some idiotic reason) Jimmy Eat World have annouced a string of North American tour dates, which will doubtlessly feature thousands of screaming post-teens trying to relive their high school years shouting [...]
It’s been 13 years coming, but Connor Oberst will finally be releasing another solo album. The Bright Eyes front man teamed up with long time friend/engineer Andy LeMaster in Tepoztlán, Morelos, México (a mysterious city known for Aztec Magic among other strange phenomenons) to record the self-titled release, set to hit stores August 5th 2008, [...]
I didn’t like At the Drive-In. The Mars Volta makes me ill most of the time, and Sparta puts me to sleep. So, when I went to go see Jim Ward at this year’s SXSW with his new band Sleepercar, I wasn’t too brimming with anticipation. I ended up being very pleasantly surprised, and as [...]
I don’t know if this is indicative of all their songs, but after checking out the “Echoes” video, Set Your Goals is okay in my book. I usually don’t listen to this sort of thing, because I don’t wear eyeliner, but I do like the fact that the band isn’t afraid to be pop-y. They [...]
Last summer or something I tried to go down to UC Berkeley to see Dethklok of Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse perform a free show. We got there so early, there was no one online. That’s when we found out Berkeley is the best university ever, because it’s got a bar right there on campus. We [...]
