The Submarines have announced a short roundabout US tour including a couple stops in Canada with the French band, Nouvelle Vague. The Submarines also recently finished a video for their single, Peace & Hate (mp3) courtesy of Insound, that you should check out over on You Tube, and if you still haven’t picked up their album, Declare A New State, you can buy it at insound!
In other Subs news; they are also playing tonight (8/31) at the House of Blues in LA, releasing a digital album of remixes from Declare A New State (can we please put a nail in the coffin of remix albums at the end of ‘06), and are holding a T-Shirt design contest over at Threadless.
The Submarines on tour with Nouvelle Vague
09/05/06 Vancouver, BC @ Plaza Club
09/06/06 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
09/07/06 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
09/08/06 Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
09/11/06 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
09/13/06 Chicago, IL @ Metro/Smart Bar
09/15/06 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
09/16/06 Boston, MA @ The Paradise Rock Club
09/17/06 Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
09/19/06 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
09/21/06 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
09/21/06 Orlando, FL @ The Social
09/23/06 Miami, FL @ Studio A
Congradulations goes out today to The Brokedown who have signed a deal with indie powerhouse Merge Records, who will release their new album, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On, next year on January 23rd.
The Brokedown, who formed in the summer of 2004 in Los Angeles, CA, and make their homes in the Echo Park and Silverlake sections of LA, already have one critically acclaimed EP out now called The Dutchman’s Gold.
Download the track Down In The Valley (mp3), courtesy of The Brokedown, from their album, The Dutchman’s Gold.
Catch The Brokedown playing around Los Angeles in September before they goto New York in November for Merge’s CMJ Showcase.
9/05/06 Long Beach, CA @ Prospector
9/07/06 Los Angeles, CA @ Silverlake Lounge
9/14/06 Los Angeles @ Spaceland
Who: Sea Wolf
What: Free
Where: Spaceland
When: Every Monday in September
MP3: You’re A Wolf
Who: The Sharp Ease
What: Free
Where: The Echo
When: Every Monday in September except for 9/4
MP3: Peoplewich
Who: Something For Rockets
What: Free
Where: Key Club
When: Every Tuesday in September
MP3: The Line
Who: Maxx Femm
What: Free
Where: Spaceland
When: Every Sunday in September
MP3: Weak Condition
Who: Fangs On Fur
What: Free
Where: Mr. T’s Bowl
When: Every Monday in September
MP3: Fangs On Fur
Who: Drug Scene
What: $5
Where: Club Moscow @ Boardners
When: Every Wednesday in September
MP3: Coronation
Who: Lyra
What: Free
Where: Detroit Bar
When: Every Monday in September
MP3: Castles
Tall Birds, the new band from 3 of the 4 members of the Catheters, is; former singer Brian Standeford (guitar and vocals), former bass player Leo Gebhardt (guitar and vocals), former drummer Davey Brozowski (drums), and newcomer/non ex-Catheter Jiancarlo Cateriano (bass).
Making their way down south for what I think is their Southern California debut, the Tall Birds will be playing the Knitting Factory on September 22nd with Wires On Fire.
Download the track, Action (mp3), from the Tall Birds upcoming debut 7-inch, Internalize b/w The Sky Is Falling out on Sub Pop on September 12th. The Velvet Underground and Stooges comparisons are dead on with this song, hear more on the band’s MySpace page.
I love this band, they are some of my really good friends, and probably the most criminally overlooked band in music right now. They have been through the major label ringer and have managed to survive where many have given up before.
Vaux recently released their second full length album, Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice, which was originally supposed to be released on Lava/Atlantic last October. While not burning up the charts by any means, the album is doing pretty well for a band that was out of the public eye for nearly two years. Buy it at insound!
Slowly but surely Vaux are gaining some steam again as their single, ‘Are You With Me’ is currently featured on iTunes as the Single Of The Week. You can download it here, but you better do it fast as their week will be over on Monday (Aug. 28th).
West Coast tour dates with Epitaph’s I Am Ghost:
09/21/06 - San Diego, CA @ Soma
09/22/06 - Saratoga, CA @ Saratoga Rec Center
09/23/06 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
09/24/06 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
09/26/06 - Boise, ID @ The Venue
09/27/06 - Ogden, UT @ Club Boom Va
09/29/06 - Fort Collins, CO @ The Aggie Theatre
10/04/06 - Las Vegas, NV @ Neonopolis
10/05/06 - Temecula, CA @ Temeku Theatre
10/06/06 - Victorville, CA @ Trilogy Theatre
10/07/06 - Bakersfield, CA @ Jerry’s Pizza
It’s quite possible that you missed Don Caballero at Alex’s Bar last night, I almost did. Luckily some friends were in town that were hip to the show and we made it down there for a night of some heavy music from Don Caballero, The Days End, Zombi and The Valley Arena.
Don Caballero have a new album out now called World Class Listening Problem (their first in 5 years), that you can buy at insound. Download a couple new tracks from the album, Savage Composition and Mmmmm Acting, I Love Me Some Good Acting courtesy of Relapse.
And speaking of missing shows at Alex’s, make sure you are checking Alex’s MySpace page for show updates because their regular website has fallen way behind.
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Blackstrap - Steal My Horses and Run
Initially released in Europe in October 2006, Blackstrap’s second full length, Steal My Horses and Run, is finally seeing it’s official release in the U.S. via New York’s Tee Pee Records.
At first pass it would be easy to write off Steal My Horses and Run as just another retread of the JAMC and My Bloody Valentine catalogs, that is if it weren’t so well executed and/or if you weren’t able to make to the last quarter of the album where the band really opens things up with some more diversified song writing. Coming across much the same as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club did on their first album, Blackstrap wear their influences (Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Neu!, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stereolab and Suicide) on their sleeve, writing songs that would fit on any of the aforementioned bands’ albums, only with much better production.
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Triclops! - Out Of Africa
Made up of former and current members of Bottles and Skulls, Fleshies, Lower Forty-Eight and a drummer who is in too many other bands to list, San Francisco’s Triclops! are a veritable hybrid of the Bay Area underground punk/hardcore scene.
Triclops!’s “trademark” are their vocals, which for about half of Out Of Africa are run through broken solid state amps with a phaser explosion - achieving a sound that I can only describe as how the Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala would sound singing underwater. While slightly off-putting on first listen, the phasered vocals effects - delievered by Fleshies’ Johnny - become pretty aurally addictive over the course of the album, so much so that when the effect is not being used, I found myself anxiously awaiting it’s return.
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Princeton - Bloomsbury EP
Yes, basing songs upon classic literary works and-or their creators at first always seems pretentious, even ColinMeloyian, but hey, if it was good enough for the likes of Iron Maiden and David Axelrod who are we to disagree. Enter Bloomsbury, the new 4-song EP from Eagle Rock, CA’s own shaggy academes turned shaggy indie rockers, Princeton. All glib - borderline sarcastic introductions aside, Bloomsbury is well put together and accessible, surprisingly so when you consider the lyrical focus on early 20th century London intellectuals and the long list of instrumentation.
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Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul - Collectors Edition
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul is arguably one of Redding’s best albums, if not one of soul music’s best. It presents a cohesion beyond the usual collection of singles and b-sides common of the time, and it also set the stage for what would become his most recognizable and influential yet ultimately tragic song, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”. In many ways Otis Blue is the last Otis Redding album, not technically as there’s his duet album with Carla Thomas and the posthumous Dock of The Bay, but in terms of an album that’s Otis through and through, not to mention proof of what could have been to come from the young Georgian, this is the one.
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The Heavy - Great Vengeance Furious Fire
heav·y; Of great intensity, Having great power or force, Indulging to a great degree, Of great significance or profundity…
Not since the The Clash has a band’s name been as succinct and appropriate as The Heavy. These four guys and one gal hailing from the town of Bath (UK) have an arsenal of sweet baadasssss songs that transport you back to a time when blow was big, hair was bigger and Dracula was black. However you slice, dice, cut or sort it, their album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire, released in the UK last year and here in the states just a few weeks ago, is one goddamn heavy piece of work.
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The Black Keys - Attack and Release
It can be an all-too-common occurrence for those whose musical tastes extend beyond, or completely avoid, commercial radio, that a band who one champions as underappreciated gets the recognition they deserve… but for the wrong album! And then subsequently tours ad nauseam until releasing another album to a fickle public who may or may not care anymore. Too many examples spring to mind, but my elitist and ultimately meaningless point is that while I was worried the same fate laid waiting for The Black Keys with 2006’s Magic Potion, I was thankfully wrong. It’s not that MP wasn’t a good album, it just wasn’t the album (see; Rubber Factory), but now with their latest release I can rest calmly with the assurance that The Black Keys’ (Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney) upward trajectory is analogous with the mastery that is Attack and Release.
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