It was a bitch attempting to buy tickets to the Judson Memorial Church shows in February to no avail, but this time around, I managed to get my hands on a ticket for the Arcade Fire‘s show at Radio City. Despite feeling intimidated by the woman standing beside me whose shoulder must have been at [...]

More than two years after their well-renowned release In Case We Die, Architecture in Helsinki is preparing for their third full-length, Places Like This, dropping in early August, under Polyvinyl Records. While doing so, they made a little music video, promoting its first single, “Heart it Races.” Right off the bat, one can agree that [...]

MAY 1st: Feist – The Reminder (Interscope) Frog Eyes – Tears of the Valedictorian (Absolutely Kosher) Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position (Low Altitude/Universal) MAY 8th: Björk – Volta (One Little Indian/Atlantic) Clientele – God Save the Clientele (Merge) Elliot Smith – New Moon (Kill Rock Stars) Sea and Cake – Everybody (Thrill Jockey) MAY [...]

We got home from BAM 07 (St Bonaventure’s Arts & Media Festival). It was a great festival, and twice as large as last years. It featured 2 venues, and more than twice as many bands. Despite the number of acts and distance between the two venues, we were able to catch most of bands on [...]

we are all packing out belongings and heading off to BAM 2007 expect a full report

It’s nice to know that there are artists out there who don’t take themselves too seriously, and Feist is certainly no exception. Her music video for “1 2 3 4″ recently popped up online, and fans far and wide are marveling over the feel-good choreography of Bitch Lap Lap herself and her dancing friends. Aside [...]

Today Modest Mouse announced that they are holding a music video contest for their soon to be next single “We’ve Got Everything”. “WIN A VIDEO PREMIERE ON MTVu! Plus a Sony Camcorder and more! Modest Mouse are calling on the most imaginative student filmmakers to be involved in an incredible opportunity. They’re asking you to [...]

Bright Eyes released Cassadaga, the 7th studio album from Conor Oberst’s band. Cassadaga has to be one of Bright Eyes‘ strongest releases yet, yielding a lot of maturity in songwriting. People who pre-ordered the album from Saddle Creek received a free 7” if they ordered the LP (CD’s got a 3” b-side cd) featuring the [...]

Panda Bear (otherwise known as Noah Lennox, from Animal Collective “fame”) has a new album, Person Pitch, which was released off of Paw Tracks on March 20th. There was much hesitation prior to getting my hands on it, because it was only over the past year or so that I acquired a taste to the [...]

You may be asking yourself, “Yet another release from the barely-adult, Albuquerque-native mastermind, Zach Condon?” although probably not using the same wording. Maybe, “Wait, um…didn’t Beirut just release an EP?” Well, either way, consider yourself correct. The guy is on a fucking roll, man. To drop a highly notable full length LP and two EPs [...]

I’m quite excited that The New Pornographers are working on a new album. The band has confirmed that album will most likely be titled Challengers, and that Neko Case and Dan Bejar will be appearing on the album. “We’re starting to ramp up for the release of our new album with some very special shows [...]

LCD Soundsystem played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC this past weekend. The band was amazing, I have never been to a concert that was so packed and had so many people dancing. I managed to get up front and dance my ass off the whole time. The whole crowd was singing along and shaking their [...]

Wilco has a new album coming out titled Sky Blue Sky (may 15 – Nonesuch) The band has now also added American dates to their upcoming world tour

The Icelandic string quartet Amiina headlined Good-Shepherd Faith Church last night The concert was #6 in the Wordless Music series. The concert was packed and the atmosphere was extremely intimate. A few hundred people were packed into the church, free wine was served (well a donation was recommended if you wanted wine). When Amiina took [...]

We saw it coming, Panda Bear‘s Person Pitch is the big cd this week. Old samples and loops swirling on and on and on with reverb heavy vocals done in that old school Beach Boys manner. The hype surrounding the album on blogs and forums at the moment may be rather heavy but that is [...]

03/19 Fargo, ND – Playmakers Pavilion * 03/21 Seattle, WA – South Lake Union Naval Reserve 04/15 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre 04/16 Vancouver, British Columbia – Pacific Coliseum 04/20 Minneapolis, MN – Orpheum Theatre 04/21 Minneapolis, MN – Orpheum Theatre 04/22 Chicago, IL – Auditorium Theatre 04/26 Rochester, NY – Main Street Armory * [...]

More dates have been added to their tour Plus April 12 on Conan O’Brien 03/22 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle * 03/23 Columbia, SC – Headliners * 03/24 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club * 03/29 Gainesville, FL – Abbey Road *# 03/30 Miami, FL – Studio A *# 03/31 Orlando, FL – Club at [...]

Yes, I know Frog Eyes has been mentioned a lot as of recently, but they have announced tour dates and their new album, Tears of the Valedictorian (May 1st Absolutely Kosher Records), is amazing. Frog Eyes – 2007 Tour Dates 3-16 – Austin, TX – SXSW Merge / Absolutely Kosher Day Party at Pok-e-Jo’s 3-17 [...]

Arctic Monkeys – 2007 Tour Dates 03-29 Tokyo, Japan – Zepp Club 04-27 Indio, CA – Empire Polo Field (Coachella) 05-01 San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre * 05-02 Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre * 05-03 Seattle, WA – Showbox * 05-04 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom * 05-07 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue [...]

DAFT PUNK Have announced they will be touring this summer (including a set Keyspan Park, NY). Opening acts will include The Rapture, SebasatiAn, KavinSky; thus a serious pre-robot dance party. Get ready because if any one saw them at Coachella or any of their more recent USA performances then you know all about gigantic spaceship-pyramids [...]