Black Lips - Bad Kids (Live at McCarren Park Pool Party)

Holly Golightly Album Out October 14! New Tour Announced!

Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, the London-based duo of Holly and Lawyer Dave, will cross the Atlantic soon after the October 14 release of their new album, Dirt Don’t Hurt (Transdreamer Records). In addition to preparing for their 27-city U.S. tour, which starts on November 6 in the Washington, DC area and runs through a December 11 finale in Atlanta. The full list of dates is below…

TOUR DATES:
11/6 - IOTA Club, Arlington VA (Washington DC area)
11/7 - Mercury Lounge, NY NY
11/8 - M Room, Philadelphia PA
11/10 - Middle East, Cambridge MA
11/11 - La Sala Rossa, Montreal CANADA
11/12 - Legendary Horseshoe, Toronto CANADA
11/13 - Magic Stick, Detroit MI
11/14 - Beachland Tavern, Cleveland OH
11/15 - Subterranean, Chicago IL
11/16 - Cafe Montmartre, Madison WI
11/17 - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis MN
11/18 - Jackpot Saloon, Lawrence KS
11/19 - Larimer Lounge, Denver CO
11/21 - Kilby Court, Salt Lake City UT
11/22 - Neurolux, Boise ID
11/23 - Chop Suey, Seattle WA
11/24 - Red Room, Kennewick WA
11/25 - Biltmore, Vancouver BC CANADA
11/26 - Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR
11/28 - Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco CA
11/29 - Spaceland, Los Angeles CA
12/01 - Casbah, San Diego CA
12/03 - Plush Tucson AZ
12/05 - House Of Blues/Pontiac Garage, Dallas TX
12/06 - Emo’s, Austin TX
12/07 - House Of Blues, Houston TX
12/09 - Hi-Tone Cafe, Memphis TN
12/10 - The End, Nashville TN
12/11 - The Earl, Atlanta GA

Jennifer O’Connor - Here With Me

Just a smattering of Alanis Morrisette in this lady’s voice,rather mellower and less angsty however,than she.Poppy and melodic,this is a nice easy album to listen to.As always with indie music,there is more under the top layer,so to speak,than first appears,and this album is no exception.With mostly acoustic guitar accompaniment,this collection of songs is a mixed bag,songs of love and extreme loss,honesty and dishonesty…..

The Church And The River is rather moving,sung against organ,drums and electric guitar,somewhat ponderous,but a very direct and simple song.

Always In Your Mind is a favourite of mine,a folky wistful ballad,with some pleasant keyboards sewn in to the song and some harmonica too.A cool song to play in the car,as is Daylight Out,which could be a great single release,if anyone from Jennifer’s record label is reading this?

I can recommend this lovely album,but there is a slightly depressing air somewhere in it.Don’t let that put you off,it is worth a place in the music scene.

There is a powerful personal message in all these songs.

by Juliet Robertson

School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms

School Of Seven Bells was found by Benjamin Curtis in 2007. Benjamin was in Secret Machines but he left the band focus solely on this project. The rest of the band is made up Alejandra and Claudia Deheza. The ladies were previously in On! Air! Library! So, the band has a lot of indie pedigree to work with so they already have a leg up. They released a single a single back last summer that we really enjoyed around here but not to many things followed after that. The album reminded me a lot of A Sunny Day In Glasgow’s record “A Mundane Phonecall to Jack Parsons” but School of Seven Bells does tend to play with a little more song structure.

The record gets off to a strong start with “Iamundernodisguise.” The track features a dueling/repeating vocal behind a delicate and subdued wall of Ben Curtis guitars. They just play in the background and let all the attention go to the vocals. “Face To Face On High Places” has this very tribal intro to the track that sets up this perfect mood. The song develops into a lofty and surreal track with some of the most tender and beautiful vocals you will hear all year. “Half Asleep” is another track that follows on the appeal of the previous but with a little more structure. The track will close out a lot of mix CDs this year, well its probably more playlists now. “Wired For Light” is a welcomed change of pace on the album. The band shake things up with a track that has a tighter beat behind it with that shows incremental growth to a finish that just slowly fades away and you never really want to see it end.

“Connjur” is another track that sounds so familiar at times it is oddly comforting to listen to. The Deheza sisters both have a very gorgeous delivery and styles to their sound. It is another one of those tracks that when you listen you immediately get lost it and it could go on. “Sempiternal/Amaranth” is an eleven minute plus monster that I was happy to see the song not placed as the last track on the album.

“Alpinisms” is an album that goes along at such a fast pace that you really get lost in the mix. The songs flow between each other. The record has a lot of high moments that will be remembered for a long time here. As the year is starting to twiddle on down this is making a strong case for some end of the year notice.

By John Siwicki

Division of Laura Lee make return to the US in October

Division of Laura Lee will be returning to the US for the first time in years this week. The American release date is TBD, but they will be debuting songs off their forthcoming album “Violence Is Timeless.”

DIVISION OF LAURA LEE live:

10/1- Philadelphia/ Khyber
10/2- Baltimore/ Fletcher’s
10/4- Brooklyn/ Union Pool
10/5- NYC / Mercury Lounge
10/7- LA/ Spaceland

George Pringle - LCD I Love You…

Minus The Bear release new EP and plan Fall tour

Minus The Bear is excited to announce the release of ACOUSTICS, an exclusive seven track EP available this fall. The self-released EP via Tigre Blanco Records will be available in two formats and feature newly recorded acoustic versions of fan favorites from the Seattle quintet’s prolific career and one new track entitled “Guns & Ammo.” Beginning October 7th, ACOUSTICS will be sold digitally via online outlets such as iTunes, Amazon and Emusic. Physical copies of the EP will be sold exclusively on the bands headlining tour beginning in Spokane, WA on October 8th.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Guns & Ammo (new track)
2. We Are Not a Football Team (from the album, Highly Refined Pirates)
3. Burying Luck (from the album, Planet of Ice)
4. Knights (from the album, Planet of Ice)
5. Pachuca Sunrise (from the album, Menos El Oso)
6. Throwin’ Shapes (from the album, Planet of Ice)
7. Ice Monster (from the album, Planet of Ice)

TOUR DATES:

October 8th Service Station Spokane, WA
October 9th The Other Side Missoula, MT
October 10th American Legion Hall Casper, WY
October 11th Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
October 12th Slowdown Omaha, NE
October 13th The Picador Iowa City, IA
October 15th Varsity Theatre Minneapolis, MN
October 16th Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
October 17th Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
October 18th Newport Music Hall Columbus, OH
October 19th The Majestic Detroit, MI
October 20th Grog Shop Cleveland, OH
October 21st Wilbur Theatre Boston, MA
October 22nd 9:30 Club Washington, DC
October 23rd TLA Philadelphia, PA
October 24th Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel Providence, RI
October 25th Webster Hall New York, NY
October 26th Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ
October 28th The National Richmond, VA
October 29th Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
October 30th Orange Peel Asheville, NC
October 31st Bijou Theatre Knoxville, TN
November 1st Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
November 2nd Rion Ballroom Gainesville, FL
November 3rd Revolution Fort Lauderdale, FL
November 4th House of Blues Lake Buena Vista, FL
November 5th Freebird Live Jacksonville, FL
November 7th House of Blues New Orleans, LA
November 8th House of Blues Houston, TX
November 9th Waterloo Park Austin, TX **
November 10th House of Blues Dallas, TX
November 12th Warehouse 21 Santa Fe, NM
November 13th The Marquee Tempe, AZ
November 14th SOMA San Diego San Diego, CA
November 15th Glass House Pomona, CA
November 16th Music Box @ Fonda Los Angeles, CA
November 18th Empire Events Center Sacramento, CA
November 19th Bimbo’s 365 Club San Francisco, CA
November 20th Standford University Palo Alto, CA
November 21st Lewis & Clark College Portland, OR
November 22nd Showbox at the Market Seattle, WA

Tobacco- Street Trash

“Street Trash” is the great new video from the forth coming solo album of Black Moth Super Rainbow member.

O’death - Broken Hymns Limbs and Skin

Now on their third album, this Greg Jamie driven New York quartet continues to add more concrete to their foundation as the Bet Lynch of country and folk. They tease the traditionalists by starting off quite conventionally, before shooting off into goth, anti-folk and indie directions, at times, mingling together the sort of frivolity that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Brer Brian, Will Oldham and Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers are now famed for. This is best illustrated through ‘Grey Sun’, as it sets off with a sorrowful acoustic based stroll that will have you reaching for some sticks to get the campfire going, but then suddenly a tug of angst pulls on Jamie’s vocals and a rougher edge is shown;

“Hang the hardship baby, Hang the hardship baby, Hang the hardship baby.

We go to sleep and then we die.”

A free-spirited Gaelic punk strut bears out the adventure and spirit through ‘Fire On Peshtigo’, espousing religious imagery and slowly uncovering a hint of desperation in this punchy track. A deft spindling guitar intro’ to ‘Legs To Sin’ highlights the vocal eccentricity of the Cameron Bird ilk (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah). That brings out the nimbleness and yokel skirting approach of the versatile Greg. It certainly seems like he’s been drinking a lot of Baileys from a shoe. Through the frantic pop push of ‘Vacant Moan’, to the metal touching ‘A Light That Does Not Dim’. O’death keep you in a state of alert readiness, as at times you need to switch from contemplative to ready to mosh, quicker than the time it takes Girls Aloud to undertake a costume change at one of their highly praised gigs.

In order to show that they haven’t entirely desecrated the purity of country and folk, ‘Lean-To’ lobs slowly and mournfully around an acoustic base and the vocals are wistful and thoughtful. A tambourine jangle hugs the number, as though to say; “it’ll be all right”. Before a bold country ballad is unfurled. O’death has produced an album that is eccentric, adventurous and textured. It is going to be difficult to ignore them from now on, no matter how much the traditionalists try.

By Dave Adair

Oasis announce US tour for December

Oasis announce today the American leg of their ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ world tour. The tour, the band’s first US tour in 3 years, kicks off on December 3 in Oakland, CA and includes the band’s triumphant return to NYC’s Madison Sq. Garden on December 17th. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals will once again be Special Guests on all dates.

12-03 Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
12-04 Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
12-06 Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
12-08 Denver, CO - Broomfield Events Center
12-10 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
12-12 Chicago, IL - Allstate Arena
12-13 Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
12-15 London, Ontario - John LaBatt Centre
12-17 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
12-19 Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Center
12-20 Washington, DC - GMU Patriot Center

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