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Elektra recording group Milo Greene has unveiled details for their much-anticipated fall tour. The cross-country trek will see the Los Angeles-based quintet supporting English indie-rock band Bombay Bicycle Club and kick off on October 1 at Soma in San Diego, CA. Other tour highlights include stops at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles (October 3), the Warfield in San Francisco (October 5), and Terminal 5 in New York City (October 22) – see attached for full itinerary.
Continue readingThis Summer, Glass Cloud and Scale The Summit will co-headline a US/Canadian tour, with support from Erra, Reflections, and Monuments.
Continue readingClap Your Hands Say Yeah’s new album Only Run is now streaming in its entirety via NPR’s First Listen. “The factors that made Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s mid-’00s success seem fleeting – its indifference to the label system, its embrace of the Internet – helped inoculate the group against obsolescence,” said NPR. “For every briskly grabby, right-up-the-middle rush the band concocts, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah also finds a new way to deepen and vary its approach, in ways that reflect a relentless pursuit of invention and reinvention.” Only Run comes out next week on June 3.
Continue readingThe 12 guests of Raven Hotel are songs that celebrate the bright sides of dark places. Like a tapestry hung in a flophouse window, they reveal the ordinary splendor of optimism and second chances. In the first three tracks alone we see a glitter-skinned dancer find salvation in a haze of fiddles and exhaust fumes, a drunken troubadour quoting T.S. Eliot to justify his wandering, and an absent father finally teaching his kid drive. Throughout this album, Matt Harlan makes the mundane magical.
Continue readingThe So So Glos will embark on a summer tour next month with Say Anything. Also be on the lookout for some corndogs, kayaking, and other team-building exercises The So So Glos will do during Wild Honey Pie’s Welcome Campers music session series (June 6 through June 8).
Continue readingThe Pines, currently recording their follow-up to their acclaimed Red House album Dark So Gold, will join friend and fellow Midwesterner S. Carey of Bon Iver on a 17-city North American tour kicking off in late June behind Carey’s new album, Range of Light (scroll down for complete dates). The Pines’ sound, starkly poetic and “quietly gripping” (Rolling Stone), has brought them a loyal cult following. Having performed together many times around the Midwest, the Pines are excited to join in this natural pairing and bring this great show to West Coast and Canadian audiences.
Continue readingAtlantic Records’ “THE FAULT IN OUR STARS – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE” is fast proving the soundtrack success of the season. The musical companion to 20th Century Fox’s upcoming film entered the SoundScan/Billboard 200 at #8. The album also entered at #2 on the Billboard Top Soundtracks chart.
Continue readingMorgan James casts an unbreakable spell with a powerhouse voice equally inspired by smoky soul, swaggering R&B, theatrical swing, and a virtuosic classical poise on her eponymous full-length debut album “Hunter” for Epic Records. The New-York based singer and songwriter can make you fall in love at first listen, elicit tears, and bring you back to a different era altogether.
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