The band has previously released two eps. You can find out more about them at their very artsy website. I am linking directly to their “news” page where you will find a link to their label and a free download from the new CD. Check it out HERE…Maps & Atlases!
Maps & Atlases first full length CD, Perch Patchwork, is due for release from Barsuk Records June 29. The band’s tour begins three days before the release in Chicago. The babd is also releasing a limited edition three-track single that will only be available at shows on this tour. The band has previously released two eps. You can find out more about them at their very artsy website. I am linking directly to their “news” page where you will find a link to their label and a free download from the new CD. Check it out HERE…Maps & Atlases!
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The Bridges, appearing in 2010 at Hotel Carolina This summer the Hotel Carolina, once again, takes on a meaning mercifully beyond its superficial proximity to The Eagles song and a place I stayed at once somewhere in Central California where I think a hobo died in the bathroom. Singer-songwriters will gather on August 27 and 28 at the Windjammer in Isle of Palms, South Carolina for the second Hotel Carolina Festival. The line-up includes Todd Carey, The Bridges, Curtis Peoples, Joe Firstman, Josh Hoge, Sequoyah Prep School, Tony Lucca , Jim Bianco, Jay Nash, Sun Domingo, Matt Duke, Keaton Simons, Benjy Davis Projectand Ernie Halter. The Fest is put on by Rock Ridge Music and tickets will set you back $79.99 until July 31st (after that they get to $89.99) Tickets at www.hotelcarolinatickets.com Tickets include evening shows, a Saturday afternoon jam session with lunch and beer (they do not specify how much beer), and participation in Camp Carolina, where artists and fans come together and compete in a variety of events. There is an age restriction. You have to be 18. Sorry youngsters. Floridians Boyce Avenue’s first major label effort, All We Have Left, is due for release June 15 on Universal Republic Records. Unsurprisingly the band also has a tour in the works that begins two days after the record release. The first single for the band, Every Breath, is available for purchase as is the video. Apparently the band first came to prominence after posting acoustic live performances on Youtube. These homemade videos went viral.Sometimes you HEAR “viral” and it means 3000 hits. The Boyce Avenue video for a cover of Rihanna’s Umbrella, had over seven million hits and another cover, Justin Timberlake’s Love Stoned has over four million. Find out more dates at the Boyce Avenue Website. Halifax-based (really? Halifax? Don’t other Canadians make fun of Halifax?)
Wintersleep’s latest effort, New Inheritors, is slated to come out June 1st. The was mixed by Tony Doogan (whose production/mixing credits run from Belle & Sebastian to Davis Byrne to Mogwai..etc etc) The music is described in the press release as “dark” and “courageous” and I cannot disagree with that, but I am not a reviewer. You can download the title track and see for yourself. The Wintersleep Website has the title track for free. Don’t you wish movie theaters would let you watch 15 minutes of a movie to see if it sucked? They don’t but bands like Wintersleep do. The band commences a month-long North American tour in Philadelphia on June 4th . The rest of the tour will be with Matt Pond. Detroit’s Andre Williams, aka The Black Godfather, is just about to release his latest CD, That's All I Need, on Bloodshot. The CD hits the streets May 18 and there will be a record release party in Chicago (at Schubas) May 29.
They are billing this as Williams’ first “clean” record. He did it sober without the aid of booze or drugs. Really? You can do that? Among the folks helping out on this record are the multi-talented producer/guitarist Matthew Smith and Motown backing-band guitarist Dennis Coffey. That is some pretty high powered studio help right there. To read more and hear some music from Andre Williams head to the Bloodshot Records website. Fans of Savannah Jo Lack take note! Her debut record comes out July 27. You can download the records from most of the usual suspects but why not go buy a real copy from the artist at the Savanah Jo Lack Website. She plays violin and sings, at the same time and is a native of Brisbane, Australia (insert Paul Hogan reference here). Her first foray into the world of music was with instrumental act, Trickets. Her roots are in the world of improvisational jazz. She has played the world with a variety of acts too numerous to list and is an artist to keep a close eye on. Chhom Nimol, Zac Holtzman, Ethan Holtzman, Senon Williams,Paul Smith and David Ralicke make up Los Angeles-based Dengue Fever. The band is a blend of Western and Cambodian pop music and have also released a collection of Cambodian classics. Think Southeast Asian pop running headlong into alterno-rock. The band will be touring the world but dates of particular significance include a performance in Phnom Penh on Thursday May 13 at the Cambodian Vietnamese-Friendship Park. The show will be sponsored by the U.S. Embassy as part of celebrations by the U.S. Embassy celebrating the 60th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the USA and Cambodia. Dengue Fever will play other Asian dates including two in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam. They will also play a benefit performance working with Cambodian Living Arts, at a screening of the band’s documentary Sleepwalking Through the Mekong which will include a panel discussion with other Khmer bands. The documentary is about the bands’s first trip, the first ever by a Western rock act, to play in Cambodia. Engine Room Recordings will release Masts of Manhattan, which was produced by Bonham and engineered by Tchad Blake. The backing band on the recording is Smokey's Roundup. This is the first full length since 2005’s Blink the Brightest. Bonham continues her residency at Cornelia Street Café and will have a show May 5th with Rhett Miller of Old 97s. She will also be part of the Soundout for Scholarships—a benefit concert for Woodstock Day School on May 28 and will also appear , for free at the Beacon RiverFest 2010 in Beacon, NY on June 26. If you want to hear some new tracks go to the Tracy Bonham website. For those not familiar with Tracy Bonham...Live in LA. The second release from San Diego’s Pierce The Veil comes out June 22, two days before the band heads out on the Warped Tour.Selfish Machines was produced by Mike Green, who also produced Paramore and Set Your Goals. For those who cannot wait, the bad is streaming the song The Boy Who Could Fly on their myspace page. You can pre-order the CD and there will be a deluxe version with all sorts of neat extras too. Check out the Pierce The Veil Website for details.
The band will also do a few radio festivals before the Warped Tour. |
Constantly Consuming Culture--The Waterfront show crowdfunding effort now live. Shows in Miami and Chicago. Help us out. You can own the painting above.
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