Joywave is pleased to announce the release of their new single "Ridge." The track is available as a free download on Facebook and in a 7" vinyl version which comes with the B-Side "Traveling at the Speed of Light" from Joywave's 77777 Mixtape. Pre-order the 7" single through Tympanogram Records by clicking here.
Saves The Day's Chris Conley featured in Paste for Father's Day
Check out Paste Magazine's Father's Day piece on musical dads, featuring Saves The Day's own Chris Conley and his daughter. Click here to access the article.
Bodega Girls win Best Live Act at the 2011 Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll Awards!
Yesterday Bodega Girls took home a Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll Award for Best Live Act! The award was the result of an online poll as voted on by readers of the Boston Phoenix. Bodega Girls received their BMPA last night at Brighton Music Hall where they also played as the resident house band for the awards ceremony. They were joined by a myriad of musical heroes including Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom, Dom, Amanda Palmer and the one and only, Peter Wolf of J. Geils Band for a series of classic Beantown covers. Click here for the official award announcement.
MGMT adds two more shows in California
MGMT will be playing in Santa Margarita and Big Sur in August, leading up to their appearance at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco on August 12th! Show Information:
08/07/11 Pozo Saloon, 90 W. Pozo Rd., Santa Margarita, CA
08/10/11 Henry Miller Library, Highway One, Big Sur, CA
Tickets for Santa Margarita & Big Sur go on sale Wednesday (6/15) at 9AM PST and can be purchased for presale here.
New interview with Saves the Day released on Musicremedy.com
Click here to access Save the Day's latest interview on Musicremedy.com.
Joywave postpones two summer shows
Joywave has announced that shows in New York on June 15th and Rochester on July 9th have been postponed. Information on rescheduled dates will be released soon.
Faces on Film to release new song "Manitoba"
A brand new song called "Manitoba" will be on Faces on Films' upcoming digital re-release of "Some Weather," out July 19th on Nice Music.
Mission of Burma Add New Show: Granada Theater, Dallas TX - 7/24/11
Mission of Burma have just added another show during their visit to the Lone Star state next month when, on Sunday, July 24th, the band hits Dallas' Granada Theater. Support will come from Dallas-based Tre Orsi. Tickets for this show are on sale, now. Get them HERE.
MGMT Video Directors Ray Tintori & Tom Kuntz Make the Creativity 50 List
MGMT music video directors Ray Tintori (Kids, Time to Pretent, Electric Feel) and Tom Kuntz (Congratulations) have both made the Creativity 50 List for 2011. Check out this story in Advertising Age on "innovators who have helped shape and redefine the landscape of marketing -- and culture as a whole."
IVY to Release New Album, "All Hours" Sept. 20; First Single, "Distant Lights" Out Now
IVY is excited to announce that All Hours, the band’s fifth studio album, will be released Tuesday, September 20th on Nettwerk Records. The album was written, produced and mixed entirely in the band’s Manhattan studio, and is IVY’s first release since 2005’s In The Clear.
All Hours' lead off track, “Distant Lights,” is available now in the iTunes store, and is streaming on the band’s Facebook page. In its exclusive review of the track, Rolling Stone notes that IVY “make melancholy sound chic.” "Like" IVY on Facebook to listen to the track, HERE, and then get the song for yourself on iTunes, HERE. The full album is also available for pre-order through iTunes, HERE.
All Hours track listing:
Distant Lights
Fascinated
How’s Never
Suspicious
You Make it So Hard
World Without You
I Still want You
Everybody Knows
Lost In The Sun
She Really Got To You
The Conversation
Listen to Doves' Jimi Goodwin sit in for The BBC Radio 6's Guy Garvey
Doves' Jimi Goodwin sat in for Guy Garvey on his BBC Radio 6 show, Guy Garvey's Finest Hour, yesterday. Listen to the full show, including an exclusive airing of the original Bird Effect demo track, HERE.
The Cribs Announce First Ever Show in Brazil
Francis and the Lights record with INC, "Eiffel Tower" and "The Things That I Would Do"
Co-written and co-produced with INC (Andrew and Daniel Aged), Download Songs Here
Doves' Jimi Goodwin to be on BBC 6 Music Sunday June 5th
Jimi Goodwin will be sitting in for Guy Garvey on his 6 Music show a week on Sunday June 5th. Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour starts at 10pm through til midnight.
DAYBREAK, Saves The Day's New Album Will Be Out Sept. 13, Available for Preorder Today!
DAYBREAK, the third and final album in the Saves The Day trilogy that began with Sound The Alarm and followed with Under The Boards, will be released on Tuesday, September 13 via Razor & Tie Records.
Daybreak is the culmination not only of the trilogy, but also of years of hard work and personal evolution for Saves The Day, and it is available for pre-order starting today. Any version of the pre-order comes with an instant download of two album tracks: "Living Without Love" and "Undress Me." The full list of pre-order options is below.
"Living Without Love," is also streaming now at savestheday.com, and you can get a free download of it just by entering your email.
Preorder Daybreak HERE:
Daybreak Preorder Options:
Daybreak Standard Edition Package:
CD & Digital Download (delivered on 9/13) + Instant Download of "Living Without Love" and "Undress Me"
Daybreak Special Edition Package:
Everything above + 12" Vinyl and Daybreak Patch
Daybreak Deluxe Edition Package:
Everything in the Special Edition + Daybreak T-Shirt and VIP Soundcheck Pass
Daybreak Limited Collector's Edition Package: SOLD OUT
Everything in the Deluxe Edition, + Handwritten Lyrics to a song off Daybreak by Chris Conley
The Cribs to be Honored With Commemorative Pavement Plaque in their Hometown of Wakefield, England
The council of The Cribs' home town of Wakefield, West Yorkshire announced that the band would be honoured with a commemorative plaque. The plaque is to be installed in the pavement of the town center, and will be located near the city's cathedral.This award is said to recognize the contribution of a band that the Wakefield Express newspaper dubbed "Wakefield's greatest ambassadors," having galvanized the now-thriving music scene in the area, and their overall contribution to the cultural regeneration of the city, which this week also saw the opening of the new Hepworth Gallery. The award ceremony will take place on June 8th, in the form of a meet and greet with fans at a location yet to be determined, then a photo shoot with the plaque at the Hepworth Gallery.
Saves The Day release single, "Living Without Love" available for free download
Single "Living Without Love" from forthcoming album Day Break, released and available for free download on savestheday.com
Faces on Film to Digitally Re-Release "Some Weather" July 19th; Announce Tour w/ Marissa Nadler
Already a favorite amongst Boston critics and fans upon its limited release late last year, Boston-based Faces on Film’s hauntingly beautiful sophomore album, Some Weather, will receive the proper release it deserves when it is re-released digitally by Nice Music Group (Ed Harcourt, Idlewild) on July 19. The reissue, which will also include several previously unreleased songs, will coincide with a tour with dream-folk songstress Marissa Nadler. The two-week jaunt, which will kick off in Montreal on July 18, will zig-zag across the east coast and mid-west with shows in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Chicago, where Faces on Film, the musical alias of multi-instrumentalist Mike Fiore, will be accompanied by a full band to bring his sepia-toned songs to life. Following the tour, he will play a hometown show with Mirah at Calderwood Courtyard at the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston on August 17. FACES ON FILM ON TOUR WITH MARISSA NADLER July 18 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
July 19 - Toronto, ON @ Supermarket
July 21 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
July 22 - Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
July 23 - Madison, WI @ Frequency
July 25 - Pontiac, MI @ Pike
July 27 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
July 28 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Chapel
July 29 - Washington, DC @ Red Palace
July 30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Littlefield
August 17 - Boston, MA @ Calderwood Courtyard at the MFA Boston w/ Mirah * *without Marissa Nadler
IVY Set to Release New Album This Fall; First Single, "Distant Lights" Out Jun. 7
IVY will release their long-awaited fifth studio album this fall, title/release date TBA, on Nettwerk Records. The upcoming release -- written, produced and mixed by the band in their own Manhattan studio -- is their first in six years and the follow up to 2005’s critically acclaimed In The Clear. Fans will get a taste of the new album when Ivy releases their first single, “Distant Lights,” on June 7, 2011. A slow-building, hypnotic and danceable track, “Distant Lights” manages to sound simultaneously like classic Ivy and like nothing they've ever quite done before. Singer Dominique Durand says, "This record feels like a new beginning for Ivy. We have never been as excited about one of our records as we are about this one."
Faces on Film play the MFA in Boston with Mirah on 8/17
August 17th, Faces on Film will be performing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston along with Mirah. More information on the event can be found on the MFA website.