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RollingStone.com has an exclusive free download of "Second Television," the next track off the band's forthcoming LP, Unsound. Get it here. You can also listen to "Second Television" streaming now on Pitchfork.
Unsound, is also available for pre-order on iTunes. Get it Here, and have the album as soon as it comes out on Fire Records on July 9 in the UK and July 10 in the US.
Mission of Burma's forthcoming album, Unsound, is now available for pre-order from iTunes. Order today to have the album first thing when it comes out on Fire Records on July 10 (US) and July 9 (UK). Pre-order Unsound HERE.
On Thursday, June 7, from 6-7pm EST, Fenway Recordings Founder Mark Kates will join other music industry experts for a live, interactive online event to preview this year's New Music Seminar, happening in New York City from June 17th-20th. During the event, participants can talk to panelists and speakers from this year's conference about topics ranging from the future of A&R to the relationships between booking agents and developing artists, to the current music subscription service business model. The event is free, and requires a simple registration at this link to join. Also participating will be Tom Silverman (Tommy Boy Entertainment/CEO of the New Music Seminar) Ron Fair (Ron Fair Music/Frontline Management), Jay Frank (DigSin), Tom Jackson (Tom Jackson Productions), Artist on the Verge Finalist Maren Morris, Ralph Simon (Mobilium Globul) and Jeremy Weld (Marketing for Makers Studio). For more info on this year's NMS, check out newmusicseminar.com.
The Fenway Recordings Sessions today announced the latest addition to its summer lineup. On Tuesday, July 10th, UK indie rock post-punk revivalists The Foxes will be at Brighton Music Hall for Sessions #176. Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm, 18+. Tickets will be on sale here beginning at 12pm on Thursday, May 24th. Go here for a full list of upcoming sessions.
The Cribs' fifth studio album, In The Belly Of the Brazen Bull, is out today on Wichita Recordings. The album, which has been widely acclaimed, debuted in the Top 10 on the UK charts, receiving fantastic reviews in Pitchfork, Filter, Consequence of Sound and Spin to name just a few. The band will return to the US for a headline tour in support of ITBOTBB that begins June 5th at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia. Check out their tour dates page for full details.
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9/10 - NME 9/10 - Drowned In Sound 85% - Filter **** - Q **** - BBC **** - The Fly 7.3 - Pitchfork
Saves The Day will play this year's Reading & Leeds festival, and have announced a UK tour to bookend the band's appearances at the massive annual UK concert. The tour includes stops at Portsmouth's Wedgwood Rooms, Kingston's The Peel, London's Rhythm Factory and Glasgow's King Tut's. Full details can be found at the band's tour dates page; stay tuned for more to come.
Dan Keyes is featured in this month's Vice Magazine. The article by Rocco Castoro takes you through Keyes' career, from his early days in Recover to his work on Young Love to his current work as a songwriter in LA. Read the piece, HERE.
Mission of Burma today revealed the cover artwork and track listing for their forthcoming fifth studio album, Unsound, on The A.V. Club online. Head here to read the piece and view the art. Unsound will be released July 9th on Fire Records.
After sold out UK and US Spring Tours, culminating with a packed house at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, The Cribs will be returning to North America this June. The band will be playing a string of headlining dates, starting on the East Coast and making their way across the country. Tickets are on sale now, head over to The Cribs website to grab your tickets while they last. In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull is the fifth studio album from Wakefield trio The Cribs. The recording process for this album saw the band split their time between Abbey Road in London, Steve Albini’s EAR studio in Chicago, and David Fridmann’s Tarbox Road studio in Upstate New York.
Tour Dates:
06/05 - Johnny Brendas - Philadelphia, PA 06/06 - Irving Plaza - New York, NY 06/07 - Black Cat - Washington DC 06/08 - Motorco Music Hall - Durham, NC 06/09 - Masquerade: Hell Stage - Atlanta, GA 06/11 - Fitzgerald's: Upstairs - Houston, TX 06/12 - The Parish - Austin, TX 06/15 - El Rey Theater - LA 06/16 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA 06/18 - Venue - Vancouver CA
Faces on Film's Mike Fiore announced he will be going back on the road with frequent collaborator and touring partner, Marissa Nadler, this June. Beginning June 1st in Somerville, MA the pair will travel south and make stops in Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York before the run is over. Head to Faces on Film's website for the full list of dates. Fiore and Nadler most recently collaborated on a session for Weathervane Music's Shaking Through series. The session was curated by Nadler and features the previously unreleased track, "Waiting for G.A." and a gorgeous behind the scenes video of the making of the session. Check it out, here.
Faces on Film on tour with Marissa Nadler:
June 1 / Arts at the Armory / Somerville, MA
June 2 / Cafe 9 / New Haven , CT
June 13 / Johnny Brenda's / Philadelphia, PA
June 14 / DC9 / Washington, DC
June 15 / Union Hall / Brooklyn, NY
June 16 / Joe's Pub / New York, NY
††† will perform a special in-store DJ set at Amoeba Music in LA on Saturday, April 21st as part of Record Store Day. The band's set begins at 3pm, and their exclusive Double A-Side 7" featuring tracks "Op†ion" and "†elepa†hy" will be available in-store. Get all the details here.
MGMT and ††† performed at this year's Lollapalooza Chile and Quilmes Rock in Buenos Aires, Argentina. These shows marked only the 6th and 7th live shows for ††† ever, and the band's first outside of the US. MGMT also played the Estereo Picnic festival in Bogota, Columbia and are currently playing shows in Mexico and will play Indie Fest in Puerto Rico before wrapping up their first shows of 2012. Check out pictures from the road from MGMT here, and from ††† here.
The Cribs, whose fifth album, In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull, comes out in the US on May 15 on Wichita (May 7 in the UK), are in the middle of a two-week North American headlining tour that began in Portland, OR and will wrap up in Boston, MA on Saturday, 14. View the video for the album's first single, "Come On, Be A No-One," featuring live footage from a handful of small shows they played earlier this year in the UK here, and catch them on the road if you can. All tour dates are listed here.
Mission of Burma today announced that their upcoming LP will be called Unsound, and its release date is set for July 9, 2012. Pitchfork.com exclusively premiered a stream of album track, "Dust Devil," which you can listen to HERE. The band has 3 dates coming up in Missouri in April, as well as an appearance at Territorios Seville in Spain this May. The Missouri dates are the band's first in that state in more than 10 years. Visit their tour dates page for full info.
Earlier this year, Faces on Film traveled to Philadelphia to record a Shaking Through session with Weathervane Music, which was produced by Weathervane Music's Brian McTear and curated by frequent Faces on Film collaborator, Marissa Nadler. The session, featuring the previously unreleased track "Waiting for G.A." is out today, and you can check it out HERE. Follow the link to view behind the scenes footage and photographs from the session, and to download the hauntingly beautiful version of this new song. See Faces on Film live this Thursday, March 22nd when the band plays TT The Bear's in Cambridge. Get tickets HERE. Also on the bill are Marconi, The Needy Visions and Babydriver.
The Fenway Recordings Sessions is excited to announce a new collaboration with MTV Hive which will launch this Sunday, March 25 at Brighton Music Hall with Cleveland indie rockers Cloud Nothings. 'Live in Boston' is an expansion of MTV Hive's NYC-based series, 'Live from Webster Hall,' and will feature a live stream of Cloud Nothings' set, which will begin at 11pm. Also on the bill are A Classic Education and Dirty Dishes. Tickets are available here. The 'Live from Webster Hall' series has previously featured The Black Keys, The National, St. Vincent and Theophilus London.
The Fenway Recordings Sessions is excited to announce three new additions to its spring 2012 lineup. BLACK BOX REVELATION on Monday, March 5 at Great Scott, ALCOHOLIC FAITH MISSION on Saturday, April 28 for the series’ first ever show at TT the Bear’s, and LE BLORR on Monday, May 21 at Great Scott. The full lineup follows below.
On March 5th, Belgian garage rock band Black Box Revelation will play Fenway Recordings Session #155 at Great Scott as a part of their winter/spring 2012 tour. Boston noise rockers the New Highway Hymnal will support on this show. Black Box Revelation was formed by vocalist and guitarist Jan Paternoster and drummer Dries Van Dijck in 2005, and since forming, they released Set Your Head On Fire (2007) and second album Silver Threats (2010), both on T Tunes before releasing My Perception (2011) on Merovee Records in the US and PIAS in Europe. For My Perception, the band worked with musician/producer Alain Johannes of Queens of the Stone Age to create a record that has received wide acclaim. AltSounds' Nuno Saque Ferreira calls the band's style "a cross between R&B-inflected garage-band rock that takes its cues from mid-’60s Stones and The Kinks to the most gut-bucket, electric delta blues evocative of Led Zeppelin…a musical revelation that can’t be boxed into a single category," while the UK's Rock Sound praises their "scuzzy guitars, crashing drums, unabashed energy and depth of soul." iHeartRadio recently named My Perception’s "Bitter" #1 on its "New! Discover & Uncover Top 20 Rock Chart". Black Box Revelation have toured with dEUS, The Raveonettes, Eagles Of Death Metal, Iggy Pop, Dead Weather, Jane’s Addiction, Meat Puppets and others.
Next up, Alcoholic Faith Mission will play Fenway Recordings Session #164 at TT the Bear’s on April 28th. The band will be supporting their fourth album, Ask Me This, which was released in Europe and Asia on Feb. 24, and on which they collaborated for the first time with producer Tom McFall (R.E.M., Weezer, Stars). The album will be out in the US and Canada March 27. Formed in 2006 by friends Thorben Seierø Jensen and Sune Sølund, Alcoholic Faith Mission released their debut album, Misery Loves Company via Cope Records just six months into the project, and since then have released 421 Wyeth Avenue and Let This Be The Night We Care, gaining additional members Kristine Permild, Gustav Rasmussen, Anders Hjord and Morten Hyldahl to create the collective as it is today. Over their career, Alcoholic Faith Mission have toured extensively, playing European festivals including Roskilde in Denmark, Peace & Love and SIESTA! in Sweden and Positivus in Latvia, as well as CMJ, Canadian Music Week and SXSW in North America. Lithium Magazine’s Myles LaCavera has described AFM as having a “refreshing approach to indie, attacking from unsuspecting angles, sneaking up behind you, and is frustratingly indefinable,” and MTV, Brooklyn Vegan, Esquire and The New York Times have all highlighted the band as a “standout act.”
Finally, New York’s Le Blorr will perform Fenway Recordings Session #170 at Great Scott on May 21st. Boston based psychadelic blues rock band Sand Reckoner will support. The eccentric duo of Chris “Cookie Sugarhips” Hess and Adam “Hot Damn Sweet Huckleberry” Winn make up Le Blorr, which for the uninitiated, stands for Bastard Love Child of Rock and Roll. Self-proclaimed producers of “booty shakin’ rock ‘n roll,” Hess and Winn describe their sound as “psychedelic rock n' roll with a sense of grit and beauty that captures the hearts of their listeners.” The band self-released their Bim Bom EP in October 2010, earning praise from Consequence of Sound’s E. N. May, who observed, “Le Blorr have figured out a way to cram every corner of rock into their sound. Influences from Zeppelin to T. Rex and relative new comers The Black Angels are thrown into a dirty rock stew that holds nothing back. On the EP, it’s all tied together by Bossanova interludes that piece together a story of forbidden love. Ambitious much?” Of the band’s video for “Boy You Need Jesus,” Filter Magazine notes that “from torch carrying to book burning, Le Blorr bring a good dose of ‘je ne sais quoi’...and we like it.” 2012 looks to be a breakout year for the duo, as they have appearances lined up for SXSW, Identity Festival, Black Water Festival, Miami Art Basel and Bamboozle before hitting Great Scott in May.
Mission of Burma have announced they will be releasing their fifth studio album this July. One of their most ambitious, progressive and vibrant albums to date, the record will receive a worldwide release on Fire Records. Stay tuned to missionofburma.com for more info to come soon.
The Cribs are set to release In the Belly of the Brazen Bull on May 8th with Wichita Recordings. This will be the band’s fifth album following 2009’s UK Top Ten album, Ignore the Ignorant. The Cribs, returning to their three-piece status, recorded in New York with Dave Fridmann of Tarbox Road at the helm, in London’s storied Abbey Road, and in Chicago with Steve Albini. In April, The Cribs will kick off their North American Tour in Portland. After wrapping up in Boston, the band will head to the UK in May. You can download “Chi-Town,” track #7 from the forthcoming LP, here.