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  1. Check out The Gay Blades

    September 3, 2010 by Steph

    The Gay BladesWinning the prize for one of the strangest band name circulating the music scene right now (next to Neon Dick and Nude Boy) is The Gay Blades. The duo will be releasing their sophomore album Savages on October 5th on Triple Crown Records/ILG. They’ve toured with bands like Cursive, MGMT, The Black Lips, Matt and Kim, Ra Ra Riot, Jack’s Mannequin, Juliette Lewis, and Electric Six and they’ve managed to build their following on “their side-stepping demeanor, their unpredictable live shows, and, of course, their unhinged manic sound.”

    To get a taste of what you can expect from The Gay Blades on their upcoming release, check out their single, “Try To Understand”

    [audio:http://addicted2shows.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/02.-Try-To-Understand.mp3|titles=Try To Understand|artists=The Gay Blades]

    Savages Track Listing:
    1. Rock N’ Roll (Part I)
    2. Try To Understand
    3. Puppy Mills Presents
    4. Mick Jagger
    5. Why Winter in Detroit?
    6. November Fight Song
    7. Too Cool To Quit
    8. Shadow’s Like A Ghost
    9. Burns and Shakes
    10. Wasted On The Youth
    11. Every Night Is Like A Revival

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  2. The Fearless Friends Tour

    August 30, 2010 by Steph

    Fearless Friends Tour

    The Fearless Friends Tour 2010 will be heading out across the U.S. this October and November, featuring Mayday Parade with Breathe Carolina, Every Avenue, Artist Vs Poet and Go Radio (plus The Victorious Secrets on select dates). Tickets are available now!

    10.13.10 – Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
    10.14.10 – New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
    10.15.10 – Sayreville, NY @ Starland Ballroom
    10.16.10 – Farmingdale, NY @ Crazy Donkey
    10.17.10 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
    10.19.10 – Williamsville, NY @ Infinity
    10.20.10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
    10.21.10 – Towson, MD @ Recher Theatre
    10.22.10 – Charlotte, NC @ Amos’ Southend
    10.23.10 – Jacksonville Beach, FL @ Freebird Live
    10.24.10 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
    10.26.10 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
    10.27.10 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
    10.28.10- Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
    10.29.10 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
    10.30.10 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
    10.31.10 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze
    11.2.10 – Des Moines, IA @ People’s Court
    11.3.10 – Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
    11.4.10 – Kansas City, MO @ Beaumont Club
    11.5.10 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
    11.6.10 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
    11.8.10 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
    11.9.10 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
    11.10.10 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
    11.11.10 – Orangevale, CA @ Boardwalk
    11.12.10 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
    11.13.10 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
    11.14.10 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
    11.16.10 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
    11.17.10 – Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
    11.18.10 – Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theatre
    11.19.10 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
    11.20.10 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
    11.21.10 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
    11.23.10 – San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
    11.24.10 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
    11.26.10 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
    11.27.10 – Tampa, FL @ State Theatre
    11.28.10 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution

    MAYDAY PARADE
    Current album: Anywhere But Here
    New single: “Kids In Love”
    Why they rock: Tallahassee-based infectious rockers, Mayday Parade just finished the Van’s Warped Tour for the duration of the summer to support their breakthrough major label debut Anywhere But Here. Produced by produced by David Bendeth (Paramore, All Time Low), the album made a stunning chart debut upon its release entering the Billboard 200 at #31. In addition, the band has been featured on the cover of Alternative Press Magazine and has received video support from MTV2 and mtvU.
    For more information: www.MaydayParade.com

    BREATHE CAROLINA
    Breathe CarolinaCurrent album: Hello Fascination Deluxe Edition
    New single: “I.D.G.A.F”
    Why they rock: Having turned Vans Warped Tour into a dance party for a second year in a row, dynamic Denver, CO duo Breathe Carolina is ready to continue the celebration on the Fearless Friends Tour this fall. Making waves worldwide with their unique blend of electro-pop rock, the band just premiered the video for summer anthem “I.D.G.A.F.” on MySpace Music, taken from acclaimed album Hello Fascination. Check it out here!
    For more information: www.MySpace.com/BreatheCarolina

    EVERY AVENUE
    Every AvenueCurrent album: Picture Perfect
    New single: “Tell Me I’m A Wreck”
    Why they rock: With the stunning video for new single “Tell Me I’m A Wreck” resonating with fans worldwide since it’s premiere on MTV2 last week, and the track picking up traction at pop radio, Michigan’s Every Avenue is rising to the top of the latest crop of hot pop-rock acts. Currently Kerrang! TV’s Video of The Week in the UK, the band has gained international acclaim, touring with Boys Like Girls, Metro Station, Hey Monday and The Maine. Having already wowed crowds on the Alternative Press Spring Tour with Never Shout Never, get set for this euphoric pop-rock quintet to slay you this fall!
    For more information: www.MySpace.com/EveryAvenue

    ARTIST VS POET
    Artist Vs PoetCurrent album: Damn Rough Night
    New single: “Adorable”
    Why they rock: Emerging from a whole summer on Vans Warped Tour with a whole new legion of fans, Artist Vs Poet has proved just why this Dallas, TX power pop-punk quintet is one of the most talked about bands in the scene. Taken from new album Favorite Fix, produced by Mike Green (Paramore, Breathe Carolina), Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (All Time Low, Mayday Parade, Cartel), new single “Adorable” is the perfect song to take the sunshine of summer straight on into the fall. Look out for the video soon!
    For more information: www.MySpace.com/ArtistVsPoet

    GO RADIO
    Go RadioCurrent EP: Do Overs And Second Chances
    New single: “Goodnight Moon”
    Why they rock: Having played dates with Secondhand Serenade this summer, and A Day To Remember this spring, Go Radio is ready to win over fans this fall with their stunning musicianship and impressive collection of honest, melodic songs. The Tallahassee quartet features ex-Mayday Parade singer/gutarist Jason Lancaster, and is one of the most exciting new bands to emerge from Florida’s hotbed of rock n’ roll talent. Signing to Fearless Records at the start of the year, the band’s new EP Do Overs And Second Chances is the perfect showcase for this awesome new band, who head into the studio this month to record their debut album, set for release early 2011.
    For more information: www.MySpace.com/GoRadio

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  3. Margaret Cho collaborates with Andrew Bird

    August 12, 2010 by Steph

    Funny-lady Margaret Cho is releasing her album Cho Dependent on August 24th. The songs are all writen by an adeptly-chosen indie rock cast including Tegan & Sara, Ben Lee, Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, Jon Brion, and Andrew Bird. All of the songs are hysterical and skip over any “tongue-in-cheek” and go straight for the money with songs like “Intervention,” “Your Dick,” “My Puss,” “Gimme Your Seed,” and “Captain Cameltoe.”

    For “I’m sorry,” she collaborated with Andrew Bird on a country “murder ballad” in the vein of Loretta Lynn. She’s oh so apologetic about killing her lover and the sarcasm is as comical as her dancing around with her zombie-lover Bird in the video. It is somewhat eerie that there’s a real backstory to this song… for the Huffington Post, Cho explained that the story stemmed from a 17-year-old unrequited crush she had, who she was afraid to look up for fear he’d have a perfect life. Come to find out, when she caved and looked him up, his wikipedia page said that in”2007 was convicted of the murder of his wife. He bludgeoned her to death and then stuffed her body in the attic of their house for a month until it had partially mummified.” WEIRD!

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  4. Lost in the Trees played at Spaceland!

    August 10, 2010 by Steph

    Lost in the Trees press image from http://www.lostinthetrees.com/Lost in the Trees was the opening band at Spaceland in Los Angeles last night and they are hands down one of the best live act I’ve seen in a while. With a violin, two cellos, a drum set, an acoustic guitar, accordion, french horn, glockenspiel, xylophone, gorgeous male lead vocals and a haunting soprano harmony how could you possibly resist?

    I managed to capture a great video of the “Song for the Painter” and while it’s amazing, it wasn’t even chose to my favorite of the night. Check out “Walk Around the Lake” and the title track off their new CD “All Alone In An Empty House.” Their new CD All Alone In An Empty House was released today so check it out!

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  5. WTF, Weezer?

    August 10, 2010 by Steph

    Hurley to be released September 14, 2010

    About this new album cover, frontman Rives Cuomo explains to Pitchfork, “We just wanted to use that picture of Jorge Garcia’s face on the cover. It’s such an amazing album cover, and we didn’t want to have any other words on it, so we just figured everyone was going to call it Hurley, so that’s what we call it.”

    Ok….

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  6. New Album from Chiodos – October 5th

    August 10, 2010 by Steph

    Chiodos-IlluminaudioIlluminaudio

    Available October 5th

    This will be the first Chiodos record with the new vocalist Brandon Bolmer(formerly of Yesterday’s Rising) and drummer Tanner Wayne (formerly of Underminded and Scary Kids Scaring Kids). It’ll be interesting seeing the fan reaction to the replacement of such distinct vocals.

    Bradley Bell (keys) responds to this potential criticism, “Even if the lineup had stayed the same, I feel that the direction of sound would’ve turned out similar. We don’t feel like our vision was lost or compromised in any way throughout the writing process.”

    Bell adds, “We put an incredible amount of thought, time, sacrifice, emotion, and stress into the process of making this beautiful monster. I believe all of that will shine through the music as soon as people press play.”

    Illuminaudio was written over the course of 15 months and was recorded just outside of New York City at The Machine Shop, with producer Machine [Lamb Of God, Every Time I Die, Cobra Starship].

    Pre-order packages for the album will be available on MerchNow next week. The complete tracklisting for Illuminaudio can be seen below:

    1. Illuminaudio
    2. Caves
    3. Love Is A Cat From Hell
    4. Modern Wolf Hair
    5. Notes In Constellations
    6. Scaremonger
    7. His Story Repeats Itself
    8. Let Us Burn One
    9. Hey Zeus! The Dungeon
    10. Stratovolcano Mouth
    11. Those Who Slay Together, Stay Together
    12. Closed Eyes Still Look Forward

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  7. The Posies’ single from upcoming release Blood/Candy

    August 7, 2010 by Steph

    The Posies, a 23-year-old Seattle-based rock band, are accompanied by a “star-studded cast” on their upcoming record Blood/Candy to be released on September 28th on Ryko. The new single “Licenses to Hide” features the vocals of Lisa Lobsinger (lead singer of Reverie Sound Revue and vocalist of Broken Social Scene) and other guest vocalists include Kay Hanley (Letters To Cleo) on “The Glitter Prize,” Hugh Cornwell (Stranglers) on “Plastic Paperbacks,”  and Paco Loco (Australian Blonde and Paco Loco Trio) on “Enewetak.” You will also hear strings on the record, which are arranged by the Grammy-nominated Phil Peterson, who has played on recent albums for Owl City and Nada Surf.

    Of the single “Licenses to Hide,” Posies’ principles Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow said this in a recent Spin interview:

    Ayer: ” ‘License to Hide’ is one of two songs on the record that I think is so completely out of left field for us. I always thought that the Posies should have something that resembles a showtune in our canon… On a certain day, it could be in one of the Muppet movies — and I mean that in a good way.”

    Stringfellow: “It’s just about shedding the inhibitions to be yourself. So many people present themselves as the people they want to be seen as — and there’s something noble about that. As you grow older, you might earn the right to be that person, having tried other things, and maybe that person isn’t so bad.”

    Beginning on the US album release date (Sept. 28), the band will launch their European tour, starting in Spain. Tour dates are yet to be released.

    Listen to: “Licenses to Hide”

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  8. The Lonely Forest to release an EP

    August 7, 2010 by Steph

    The Lonely Forest EP

    Hey! I was just listening to them!

    That’s what I said when I received a press release today for The Lonely Forest’s digital-only EP to be released on Chris Walla’s (of Death Cab for Cutie) label Trans on September 14th. This Washinton-based band has taken to writing “brilliant pop songs featuring lyrics about spiritual longing wedded to an almost prog-rock sensibility.” In essence, they’re fantastic.

    The EP is just a taste of what we’ll be getting in 2011 with their upcoming full-length Arrows and if this is any indication, you can count me in for that $9.99 on opening week!

    Listen to:”Live There”

    [audio:http://addicted2shows.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/The-Lonely-Forest-Live-There.mp3|titles= Live There|artists=The Lonely Forrest]

    The Lonely Forest EP Track listing:
    1. Turn Off This Song

    2. Ramshackle House

    3. Live There

    4. Let It Go

    5. Turn Off This Song (Acoustic)

    Tour Dates:

    Aug 13 – Mount Vernon, WA Skagit County Fair

    Aug 14 – Seattle, WA – KEXP BBQ – Free Show (Mural Lawn on Seattle Center Grounds)

    w/Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s

    Sept 17 – Minneapolis, MN         7th St Entry

    Sept 18 – Milwaukee, WI            Mad Planet

    Sept 19 – Chicago, IL                 Lincoln Hall

    Sept 21 – Ann Arbor, MI             The Blind Pig

    Sept 22 – Columbus, OH            The Circus

    Sept 23 – Newport, KY               The Southgate House

    Sept 24 – Akron, OH                  Musica

    Sept 25 – Pittsburgh, PA            Brillobox

    Sept 26 – New York, NY             Bowery Ballroom

    Sept 27 – Cambridge, MA           Middle East Downstairs

    Sept 29 – Brooklyn, NY              Music Hall of Williamsburg

    Sept 30 – Philadelphia, PA         First Unitarian Church

    Oct 1 – Washington, DC             Black Cat

    Oct 2 – Asheville, NC                 Stella Blue

    Oct 3 – Chapel Hill, NC              Local 506

    Oct 5 – Tallahassee, FL             Club Downunder

    Oct 6 – Gainesville, FL               Common Grounds

    Oct 7 – Orlando, FL                   Backbooth

    Oct 8 – Tampa, FL                     Crowbar

    Oct 9 – Atlanta, GA                   Drunken Unicorn

    Oct 10 – Birmingham, AL           The Bottletree

    Oct 11 – Nashville, TN                Exit/In

    Oct 13 – St Louis, MO               Firebird

    Oct 14 – Bloomington, IN            The Bishop

    w/Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

    Nov 3 – Minneapolis, MN            7th St Entry

    Nov 4 – Ames, IA                       Maintenance Shop

    Nov 5 – Lawrence, KS                Jackpot Saloon

    Nov 6 – Denver, CO                    Hi Dive

    Nov 7 – Salt Lake City, UT          Kilby Court

    Nov 10 – Nampa, ID                   Flying M Coffee

    Nov 11 – Seattle, WA                 Neumos

    Nov 12 – Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Cabaret

    Nov 13 – Portland, OR                Doug Fir Lounge

    Nov 15 – San Francisco, CA       Bottom of the Hill

    Nov 16 – Los Angeles, CA          SpaceLAnd

    Nov 19 – La Jolla, CA                 UCSD – The Loft

    Nov 20 – Phoenix, AZ                 The Trunk Space

    Nov 22 – Austin, TX                    The Mohawk

    Nov 23 – Dallas, TX                    House of Blues – Pontiac Garage

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  9. Miniature Tigers

    July 19, 2010 by Steph

    Miniature Tigers, Fortress

    F O R T R E S S out July 27th on Modern Art Records/ILG

    When I first heard the single “Gold Skull featuring Neon Indian” from Miniature Tigers’ sophomore album FORTRESS it was right about the time MGMT’s Congratulations was released and I thought, “now this is what MGMT’s sophomore album should have sounded like.” It opens with a catchy electronic melody, quickly joined by a slow and simple electronic drum beat. The hollow sound of the vocals and the experimental synthesized harmonies create an ethereal sound, sending the listener into a dream-like state.

    While hopeful that the rest of the album would carry through with this electro pop, upon listening to the other tracks I was completely caught off guard. That’s not to say the rest of the album isn’t great, but none of the tracks quite matched up to the potential of the single. The feeling of this dream-like state carries through on the album FORTRESS, however, many of the other tracks lack the catchy-ness of “Gold Skull.” Many of the songs have a heavy Beatles-influence, slathering the tracks with surf-rock guitarMiniature Tigers, but layered with a certain hauntedness. Not suprising since they recorded the album at Dreamland, a converted 19th century house deep in the woods of Upstate New York.

    Overall, I really enjoyed the record. The single is definitely my favorite and a major stand-out track. However, if you pop the CD in your player, you won’t be disappointed.

    (4/5)

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