Clare and the Reasons will be heading out for a UK tour, book-ending the circuit with two of the nation’s most popular festivals. Starting in Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival, and ending appropriately at the End of the Road Festival where they’ll be playing with Akron/Family, American Music Club, Bowerbirds, British Sea Power, Calexico, Dead Meadow, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Mountain Goats, Sun Kil Moon, and more!
Fri 20 June - Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA
Fri 27 June - Joe’s Pub, New York NY
Mon 25 August - Cabaret Voltaire/Fringe Festival, Edinburgh UK
Tuurs 28 August - Café Drummonds, Abberdeen UK
Fri 29 August - Hootanannys, Inverness UK
Sun 31 August - Fat Sams, Dundee UK
Tues 2 September - King Tuts, Glasgow UK
Wed 3 September - Fibbers, York UK
Thurs 4 September - Night & Day, Manchester UK
Fri 5 September - Glee Club Studio, Birmingham UK
Sat 6 September - Bodega Social, Nottingham
Mon 8 September - Arts Centre, Norwich UK
Wed 9 September - Borderline, London UK
Thurs 10 September - Louisianna, Bristol, UK
Fri 11 September - Bullington Arms, Oxford UK
Sat 12 September - End of the Road Festival, Dorset UK
Laura Marling will perform two intimate side shows when she visits Australia in August to play the Splendour In The Grass Festival. It will be a unique opportunity to catch this chanteuse up close and personal.
With numerous tours now under her belt – from SXSW in Austin, Texas, to shows in New York, and extensive European tours and festivals, Laura Marling has graduated from teenage talent to professional musician. This is the first time Laura Marling will entertain Australian crowds; it’s sure to be a captivating experience.
Tickets on sale 9am Fri 23 May
Dates:
Tues 5 August - The Factory Theatre, Sydney NSW
Wed 6 August - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne VIC
There's an old saying that every human cell in the body is changed over a period of seven years, thus every seven years we become a new person. If this is the case My Morning Jacket has defied this idiom by collectively shedding its skin innumerable times since its inception a decade ago.
Now ready to once again shake things up, the band have just announced that their new album Evil Urges will be released Saturday 7 June.
Very soon, Love Of Diagrams head back to America to record the follow up to their 2007 album Mosaic, to be recorded in New York by legendary producer Don Fleming (Teenage Fanclub, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jnr).
In the meantime, they play a rare headline show at the Tote on Sun 25 May. St Helens, who have just completed their debut record, also come out of hiding for this show, and new group, Lee Memorial, featuring members of Sodastream, Ninety Nine, and Gaslight Radio make their debut.
Great news for old school indie rockers! The streets can’t wait any longer, Weezer’s new self-titled album has had its release set in the US at 3rd June and in Australia on the 7th. The album will be released by Geffen.
The latest single 'Pork and Beans' produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.) has been embraced by US Modern Rock radio making it the quickest journey to #1 that any Weezer single has found in its illustrious history.
The new album which is the third eponymous in the band’s catalogue and is being referred as The Red Album, (Which will look nice next to my Blue Album and Green Album) was produced by the band, Rick Rubin, and the aforementioned Lee.
Broken Social Scene will take to the road in this May for the 'Impregnate The Skies' tour, which will see the band performing in nine countries beginning Fri 9 May in Istanbul, Turkey and finishing Mon 26 May in Helsinki, Finland. Line-up for the tour will consist of Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Sam Goldberg, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley. The tour includes numerous markets that Broken Social Scene will be performing in for the first time. The band will be performing songs from 2003’s You Forgot It In People , 2005’s Broken Social Scene , 2007’s Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew Spirit If... , and will debut songs from the upcoming Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning album, Something For All Of Us...
Fri 9 May - Babylon Bar, Istanbul, Turkey
Sat 10 May - Babylon Bar, Istanbul, Turkey
Mon 12 May - Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Tues 13 May - Maxx at Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wed 14 May - Elysee Montmartre, Paris, France
Thurs 15 May - Den Atelier, Luxemborg, Luxemborg
Fri 16 May - Festival Do Norte, Vilagarcia De Arousa, Spain
Sun 18 May - All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead @ Butlins, UK
Tues 20 May - Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland
Wed 21 May - Leadmill, Sheffield, UK
Thurs 22 May - Carling Academy, Oxford, UK
Fri 23 May - Shepards Bush Empire, London, UK
Sun 25 May - IKRA Club, Moscow, Russia
Mon 26 May - Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland
The Siren Music Festival 2008 is a free, all day, all ages music festival which will feature international, national and local bands and DJs performing on two outdoor stages in historic Coney Island. Now in its 8th year, the Village Voice Siren Music Festival has solidified its status as a leading New York City outdoor music festival, drawing over 100,000 music fans by showcasing indie rock veterans and emerging artists.
In exciting news, the initial lineup has just been announced!
Siren Music Festival Sat 19 July, 2008 from 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Broken Social Scene
The Helio Sequence
Beach House
Times New Viking
Jaguar Love
The Dodos
Annuals
Film School
Parts & Labor
Dragons Of Zynth
These Are Powers
The rumours have been "officially" confirmed in that Melbourne WB favourite Augie March have packed up their gear and sauntered off into the studio to work on the follow-up to commercially-sucessful-band-mark-misser Moo You Bloody Choir. The man behind records from The Shins, Beck and The White Stripes Joe Chiccarelli (no that's not one of WB's top writers) has been recruited in to join the lads in Neil Finn's Roundhead Studio in Auckland to help work on the album.
The band will be locked away from May 26 and the album which is as yet untitled will be released later in 2008.
Bon Iver is creeping into the eardrums across the world! In exciting news one of WB's favoruites Bon Iver, is about to have his heralded debut For Emma, Forever Ago released in the UK and throughout Europe on Mon 19 May. In support of this release, Justin and the boys are kicking off a UK/European tour by playing ATP and continuing on in an opening slot for Iron & Wine. They’ll be finishing up the tour (after making stops on the Jools Holland show) at the much-loved Primavera Sound in Barcelona. You can also catch the band at this year’s Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, Fri 18 July to Sun 20 July. More details soon on what will be another tour of North America in August.
On Tues 22 July, the debut solo album from Brendan Canning, co-founder of the internationally acclaimed, Toronto-based rock collective, Broken Social Scene. Something For All Of Us..., is the second album in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series, following the release of Kevin Drew's Spirit If... last September.
Recorded and produced in Toronto by Canning along with Ryan Kondrat and John La Magna, the album features an assortment of guest musicians.
Naturally, fellow BSS band-mates make up a large portion of the accompaniment, as well, contributions from Kevin Hearn (BNL, Lou Reed), Liz Powell (Land Of Talk) and Liam O'Neil (The Stills).
Brendan has spent the past two years between and during BSS tours, contributing music and scoring feature films such as The Tracey Fragments (starring Ellen Page) the Oscar nominated Half Nelson, as well as the upcoming, Time Travelers Wife. He is also the subject of a forthcoming Bruce McDonald documentary.
The Dandy Warhols are back and ushering in a rockin’ return to form with Earth To The Dandy Warhols, the band’s debut album as masters of their own destiny. Pulling together the diverse sounds and influences that have always characterized their music, it’s quintessential Dandys, and it's being released this year via the Dandys’ newly minted Beat The World Records.
