New EP: Wire! - 10.03.2007



This is exciting! This is very, very exciting! I am excited! The seminal punk band known as Wire (responsible for the brilliant Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154) have announced a brand spankin' new EP. Entitled Read & Burn 3 (obviously the third in the Read & Burn series), the EP is set for release on November 12th via Wire's own Pinkflag label:

01. 23 Years Too Late
02. Our Time
03. No Warning Given
04. Desert Driving

This simply screams future news of future new albums. Like I said - very, very exciting!!

Nicole Atkins goes to Neptune City on debut LP - 10.03.2007



Singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins is now officially part of the club due to her involvement with the Feist/Grizzly Bear/Mates of State/A.C. Newman mishmosh performance on Letterman awhile back, and now she's come even farther by releasing her debut full-length album.

Entitled Neptune City, the album's music is rooted in NYC's anti-folk scene and takes elements of vaudeville/cabaret paired with dreamy country-pop. The album will be out October 30th - in the meantime, you can preview some of her stuff, right here, right now:



mp3: "Party's Over"
mp3: "The Way It Is"
video: "The Way It Is"

Miss Atkins will also be on tour starting October 10th with the Raveonettes:

10/10 Southpaw – Brooklyn, NY
10/11 Maxwell’s – Hoboken NJ
10/12 Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
10/13 Mohawk Place – Buffalo, NY
10/16 Magic Stick – Detroit, MI
10/17 The Basement – Columbus, OH
10/18 Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
10/19 Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL
10/20 Mad Planet – Milwaukee, WI
10/21 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN

Pass the Hatchet, I think there's another Yo La Tengo tour - 10.03.2007



This time around, the Yo La Tengo tour is not just for the album-du-jour (like the 2006 I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass showcase), but instead will feature the band in acoustic, storytelling-style. Entitled "The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo Tour," the shows will be interactive, almost entirely acoustic sets from the band's extensive catalog. The tour is meant to serve as a way of gaining more insight into the life of Yo La Tengo through both audience interaction and a dive into the band's musical history:

10/06 Brooklyn Lyceum - Brooklyn, NY
10/09 Andy Warhol Museum - Pittsburgh, PA
10/10 Buskirk-Chumley Theater - Bloomington, IN
10/11 Lakeshore Theater - Chicago, IL
10/12 Discovery World At Pier Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI
10/13 Fine Arts Center (Calvin College) Grand - Rapids, MI
10/19 Jeanne Rimsky Theater Port - Washington, NY
10/20 Colony Cafe & Arts Center - Woodstock, NY
10/22 First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA
10/23 Birchmere - Alexandria, VA
10/27 ManiFest - Mexico City, MX
10/29 Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR
10/30 Town Hall - Seattle, WA
11/01 The Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA
11/04 Museum of Contemporary Art - San Diego, CA
11/10 Mass MoCA - North Adams, MA
11/11 Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
11/15 Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA

Division Day video + tour - 10.03.2007
Division Day's Beartrap Island was officially released just yesterday via Eenie Meenie Records, and now the L.A. band has a video to share as well. "Tigers" features not only the band members but a slew of zombie tigers:



Peep the band's tour dates as well - they're heading East after a record release party in San Francisco tomorrow night:

10/04 San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
10/05 Reno, NV - Satellite Lounge
10/06 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
10/07 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
10/09 Chicago, IL - Subterranean
10/10 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
10/11 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
10/12 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club
10/13 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwells
10/14 Boston, MA - Middle East upstairs
10/17 New York, NY - Canal Room
10/18 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
10/19 New York, NY - Pianos
10/19 Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber
10/20 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
10/22 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
10/23 Washington, DC - DC Nine
10/25 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall