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May 28, 2014

Milo Greene Touring With Bombay Bicycle Club

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.

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May 28, 2014

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Streams “Only Run” On NPR’s First Listen

Clap 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.

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May 28, 2014

Matt Harlan’s Raven Hotel Available June 24th

The 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.

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May 28, 2014

The Pines Cover Jimmy Webb’s “Highwayman” And Join Bon Iver For Tour, Prep New Album

The 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.

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May 28, 2014

Morgan James Debuts “I Want You” From Hunter

Morgan 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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