Albert Hammond, Jr. to release second solo album

ALBERT HAMMOND, JR.
¿Cómo Te Llama?
SOPHOMORE SOLO RECORD OUT JULY 8

¿Cómo Te Llama? is the new album from Albert Hammond, Jr. and cohorts Matt Romano, Marc Philippe Eskenazi and Josh Lattanzi, and will be released July 8th.

Following his feted 2007 solo debut Yours To Keep, Albert Hammond, Jr. and his merry men return with a new album ¿Cómo Te Llama? (or "What's Your Name?" if your Spanish is a little rusty). The title, rung out of casual conversation between Albert and Matt over some vino tinto, hints at the classic, summery music held within.

The record was recorded over 5 weeks at Electric Lady Studios and produced by Albert along with engineer Gus Oberg and drummer Romano. "I'm really proud of the power this record has," says Albert. "I feel like my melodies and song arrangements have matured. Lyrically, I tried to have the words flow out more freely and not try to write one song but many. I would just sing and sing and then arrange the words afterwards."

From the heavy riffage of "The Boss Americana", the woozy charm of lilting instrumental "Spooky Couch" to the bright, reggae-bounce of "Borrowed Time", it's clear that ¿Cómo Te Llama? is perhaps the boldest, most eclectic and ambitious record of Albert's career. "My favorite songs would be 'Borrowed Time', 'Victory At Monterey' and 'You Won't Be Fooled By This'" says Albert. "I love the whole record, but they change day by day, it's like deciding what you want to eat." "GfC" will be the first single from the album.

Musically, Albert's band played a much greater role in the creative process of the new record as he explains; "Every one of the band members brought his or her personality to the music. Even if they played a part I had written they made it their own, I'd get it back and arrange all these new ideas into a better song then we had before. Marc represents youth and curiosity. Josh represents age and wisdom and Matt is the best friend that helps me communicate the rhythm of the music. He's the spark. I love sharing my music with these tasty motherfuckers!"

Additional personnel were added to the record in the form of Sean Lennon's piano on "Spooky Couch" and the string quartet of Earl Maneein (violin), Matt Szemela (violin), Jon Weber (viola) and Jessie Reagen (cello) on multiple tracks. Also, the shadows of The Kinks, The Clash and Crazy Horse-era Neil Young were cast over Albert's songwriting on the record; "Not so much that the album sounds like any of those bands, its just they gave me a new way to express my songwriting."

With a tour penciled for summer, the band are in exuberant spirits, as Albert reveals; "Our goal is to tour this album every where we can, get into those cracks and fill them up with music!"

Track listing for ¿Cómo Te Llama? is below.

01 Bargain Of A Century
02 In My Room
03 Lisa
04 GfC
05 The Boss Americana
06 Rocket
07 Victory At Monterey
08 You Won't Be Fooled By This
09 Spooky Couch
10 Borrowed Time
11 G Up
12 Miss Myrtle
13. Feed Me Jack Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Peter Sellers

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Gets The Fader.com’s Freeload Of The Day Today

US Summer Tour With White Rabbits!

Tonight At Mercury Lounge April 30th With Langhorne Slim 9 PM Tomorrow At Union Hall With Anders Parker 9 PM.

Self Titled Debut Record Out July 1 Out On Say Hey Records

Recorded by Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) and Featuring Chris Bear & Daniel Rosen (Grizzly Bear) and Kyp Malone (TVOTR)

Click Here To Listen To “Woodfriend” On TheFader.com

Click Here To Download Debut Single “Buriedfed”

Up until now, Twenty-four year-old Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has been Brooklyn’s best-kept secret, but with the help of Kyp Malone (TVOTR), Chris Taylor & Christopher Bear (Grizzly Bear) and Say Hey Records, we are proud to introduce this stunning debut artist. In a recent interview with Another magazine Kyp Malone professed, "Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is my favorite songwriter right now." Miles’ brief yet inspirational life story already contains enough Gump-esque moments of cultural serendipity to make it a shoe in for a 2025 behind the music segment, if not a full blown overly- sentimental nostalgia piece about coming of age in downtown Manhattan and Williamsburg in the first decade of the millenium.

The eponymous long player to be issued by Say Hey Records is the first recorded document after years of false starts, self-sabotage , and amiable persistence in the face tragedy. Born in Oregon and raised in Portland and Eugene, Miles spent much of his youth on the road traveling with his comedian father as he played venues across the U.S. After completing high school, Miles gravitated eastward and was in New York by 2000. Immediately he immersed himself in the burgeoning music scene; going to shows and eventually forming a few bands. Miles recorded no less than 5 albums in various early projects like Jackson Plastic, Mud Cub, and Jesus Jackson but sadly ("fortunately" according to miles ) they never glimpsed the light of day.

Each incarnation met it’s demise from a combination of erratic behavior, venue banishment, and indiscreet drug use. Frustrated and fatigued, Miles descended further into addiction, leading to a stint in which he made his bed on the benches of Coney Island. But, throughout it all, Miles continued to distill from his shabby surroundings the inspiration and imagery that make up his debut record.

Recorded with the aid of Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear of Grizzly bear “Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson” (MBAR) began in 2006 in Miles’ apartment. Chris Bear did the drums in a single day and the basics were mixed immediately after the completion of Yellow House; later overdubs were added by Kyp Malone and Daniel Rosen (Grizzly Bear), and the record neared completion.

The album begins with the demented campfire sing-a-long, “Buriedfed”, a dirge disguised as a rave up, and it sets the pace for an album filled with unrepentant confessions played with abandon. MBAR takes the listener through a flawless sardonic narrative, detailing loss, excess, and blurred memories, all the while with an irresistible humor.

Look out for the MBAR sophomore LP in 2009, produced by Kyp Malone.

NYC Shows
4.30 Mercury Lounge W/ Langhorne Slim – NY, NY
5.1 Union Hall W/ Anders Parker – NY, NY
5.11 Cake Shop – NY, NY

US Tour With White Rabbits
5.20 - Schubas - Chicago, IL
5.21 - 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
5.23 - Caterina Winery - Spokane, WA
5.24 - Berbati’s Pan - Portland, OR
5.27 - Bottom Of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
5.28 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
5.29 - Beauty Bar - Las Vegas, NV
5.30 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
5.31 - Bluebird Theatre - Denver, CO
6.02 - The Bluebird - St. Louis, MO
6.04 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA
6.05 - Black Cat - Washington, DC

The Jealous Girlfriends To Release Debut Video for “How Now”

Self Titled LP On Good Fences June 17th!

Click Here To View Debut Video “How Now”

Click Here To Listen To Entire Album On AOL Spinner!

Billboard "...the Jealous Girlfriends have honed and refined their raw craft, a Spoon-like modern twist on guitar rock"

New York Times : "The Jealous Girlfriends, one of the best new bands in New York, float through soft and erotic clouds of guitar and keyboards that can turn grungy and turbulent"

The Jealous Girlfriends make it work. The Brooklyn four-piece pull together the tunefulness of Anglo New Wave and BritPop, the aggression and energy of Washingtonian indie rock – both district and state - and infuse it all with a little soul, working an alchemy that transforms these base musical elements into songs crackling with tension and excitement that are instantly memorable while revealing something new with every listen.

Overtop a rhythmic foundation laid down by drummer Michael Fadem, Josh Abbott and Holly Miranda's buzzsaw guitars carom and careen against Alex Lipsen's square wave synths as their voices duet and duel overtop in tones that are playful and plaintive, menacing and mesmerizing. It's this potent lineup that has crafted their eponymous album following a 2005 debut EP featuring only Miranda and Lipsen.

The Jealous Girlfriends have already achieved a tremendous amount for a wholly independent band, earning that blessing and curse of being one of the best-kept secrets in independent music. Now signed to Good Fences Records, they're set to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world.

Armed with hooks, barbs, and velvet-lined bludgeons, The Jealous Girlfriends – the album – makes a striking statement that reveals The Jealous Girlfriends – the band - as an outfit that bends and pushes against the boundaries of rock music not so much with the intent to break them, but simply to see what kind of shapes they can make.

May Tour With Sea Wolf

Thu May 22 '08 (9:00 PM) St. Louis, MO Bluebird
Fri May 23 '08 (9:00 PM) Nashville, TN Exit / In
Sat May 24 '08 (9:00 PM) Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
Sun May 25 – Wash, DC Rock & Roll Hotel
Fri May 30 – Boston, MA Paradise
Tue May 27 '08 (10:00 PM) New York, NY The Mercury Lounge
Wed May 28 '08 (8:00 PM) New York, NY The Mercury Lounge
Thu May 29 '08 (10:00 PM) Philadelphia, PA North Star
Sat May 31 '08 (TBA) Quebec, QC Le Cercle
Sun June 1 - Montreal , QC Le Divan Orange
Tue June 3 – Toronto, Ontario El Mocambo
Wed Jun 4 '08 (9:00 PM) Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
Thurs June 5 ‘08 (9 PM) Chicago IL Schuba's
Fri June 6 ‘08 (9 PM) Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
Sat Jun 7 '08 (8:00 PM) Winnipeg, MB Parkway Theatre
Mon Jun 9 '08 (TBA) Calgary, AB The Republik
Tue Jun 10 '08 (TBA) Edmonton, AB Velvet Underground
Thu Jun 12 '08 (9:00 PM) Vancouver, BC The Media Club
Fri Jun 13 '08 (9:30 PM) Victoria, BC Lucky Bar
Sat Jun 14 '08 (9;00 PM) Seattle, WA High Dive
Sun Jun 15 '08 (TBA) Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
Tue Jun 17 '08 (8:00 PM) San Francisco, CA The Independent
Thu Jun 19 '08 (TBA) Los Angeles, CA Echo Plex
Fri Jun 20 '08 (9:30 PM) San Diego, CA The Casba

Les Savy Fav Release “After The Balls Drop” This Week

First Digital Only Live Album On Frenchkiss Records. Coachella Faves / AOL Spinnner Streams Live Album All This Week

Click Here to Listen to Entire Live LP

Download and Share “Sweat Descends” From After The Balls Drop


This weekend, Les Savy Fav invaded Indio, California to perform alongside Portishead, The Racounters, The Breeders, and pretty much every other indie rock band known to man. As usual, the wild ‘n sweaty antics of shirtless leadsinger Tim Harrington won accolades (NME, Wired, Stereogum, Billboard) from anyone within eyeshot, and convinced the folks at Billboard to call the band’s performance Friday’s “most entertaining set.” Duh. Of course, most of us weren’t able to make the desert trek to watch guitarists Seth Jabour and Andrew Reuland, drummer Harrison Haynes, and bassist Syd Butler tear through renditions of “The Equestrian” and “Sweat Descends” while Tim called the scorching sun a “puss bag.”

But no big deal, right? Because today, Tuesday, April 29th, Les Savy Fav releases After The Balls Drop, the first ever live album from a band that built a decade-spanning career on the strength of its batshit-crazy stage presence. Documenting the Fav’s January 1st performance at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, only moments after the entire room rang in 2008, the record includes a ton of classics and a suitably cheery encore filled with a handful of cover songs from Nirvana, Love, Pixies, Misfits, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. You can read a bit about the performance (and the AC/DC track that didn’t make the record) at Rollingstone.com or stream the album in full over at AOL Spinner.

Of course, Harrington and company will be keeping fairly busy throughout the summer, too, playing a few shows in the UK this May, including a set at ATP vs. Pitchfork Festival in Camber on the 10th. Then they’ll head back to the states forNew York Mag’s indie rock trivia night (yay, Zach Galifianakis trading barbs with Tim Harrington!) at Highline on the 21st. After that, there’s a stop at Pitchfork Festival in Chicago on July 20th, and at Capitol Hill Black Party in Seattle on July 25th, before the Great White North gets its taste on the 26th with a show at Commodore Ballroom.

Upcoming Shows

05-08 Kingston on Thames, UK – New Slang @ The Works
05-09 Oxford, UK – ACD (Upstairs)
05-10 Camber, UK – ATP vs. Pitchfork Festival
05-21 New York, NY – Highline Ballroom w/ Zach Galifianakis
05-29-31 Barcelona, Spain - Parc del Fòrum (Primavera Sound)
06-23-27 Arendal, Norway - Hove Festival
07-20 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
07-25 Seattle, WA – Capitol Hill Block Party
07-26 Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom

Power trio Tab the Band announce their second release, the self produced Long Weekend, in August from North Street Records

Tab the Band joins up with Rose Hill Drive to tear the roof off the Mercury Lounge on May 8th!

Tune in on April 30th to Fox 25 in Boston for a live set from Tab performing old fave "Secretary's Day" and "Where She Was on Monday" from the forthcoming Long Weekend

Tab the Band will perform a four song acoustic set on DC's 101 Eliot in the Morning on May 16th

Listen to “Where She Was on Monday”

Rolling Stone gives debut Pulling Out Just Enough To Win three and a half stars

"...they play bluesy, sleazy, guitar raunch...one Boston power trio proudly schooled in the past..."

If you're tired of bands auto-tuning the character out of their music and making every snare hit fit into a grid, then check out TAB the Band.

More about Tab the Band's Long Weekend

Their sophomore release retains the same rough and tumble nature of the first one. It sounds like a real band using real instruments recorded in an organic way. On this second release, the guys stretched the spectrum, some songs heavier and some more poppy.

The album's theme is about a girl living in the ritzy outskirts of a big city, messing around with her absentee parents' rich friends, taking trips to the city on her own and living dangerously. The songs take on the perspectives of her, her middle-aged wealthy suitors, and the 'good guy' at her school who laments over her dalliances. Ultimately, it doesn't work out and she finds herself, once again, in the hands of another ne'er-do-well mid-life crisis fellow.

Recorded at the Boneyard in Duxbury, MA , Long Weekend was written, recorded, produced and engineered by brothers Adrian and Tony Perry. The boys also helped mix the album with Kevin Ennis (who also mixed "Pulling Out Just Enough To Win").

Upcoming Tour Dates:

April 30th- Fox 25 Boston Morning Show - Live TV appearance- Boston

May 1- O'Briens Boston, Massachusetts

May 8- Mercury Lounge (opening for Rose Hill Drive)- New York

May 16th- DC101 Eliot in the Morning - on air acoustic set - Washington, DC

May 16th- Hard Rock (benefits the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation)- Washington, DC

May 27th- Great Scott - Milkhouse Showcase – Boston

May 30th- The Khyber Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chicago’s Sybris Add Dates To Summer Tour With Unwed Sailor

Chicago’s Sybris Add Dates To Summer Tour With Unwed Sailor! Play Belly Up With Fiery Furnaces & Grand Ole Party!CD Release Party May 9th in Chicago at Subterranean! New York City June 21st / Austin City Limits Sept 28th!

Sophomore LP Out June 17th On Absolutely Kosher Records /Recorded By Engineer John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky/Mountain Goats)

Chicago Sun Times (Jim Derogatis): “The group decorates its anthemic, radio-ready choruses with a driving groove and plenty of swirling, atmospheric guitar noise resonant of the best of the shoegazers or Smashing Pumpkins, while generally avoiding any “woe-is-me” self-obsession.”

Pitchfork Media Previews Debut Single “Oh Man!”: “At a time when indie music seems unduly concerned with thwarting expectations, there's something to be said for a song that keeps the promises it makes.”

Click Here To Download “Oh Man”: Click Here!

Spin.com : “There's no such thing as too much reverb for Chicago's Sybris”

Chicago’s Sybris is a quartet of powerful grace, the sound of a battalion of Valkyries astride winged horses bound for Valhalla. The sweep of giant white wings in the wind, the creak of the saddle beneath the weight of warrior goddesses in full regalia, the dreamy, gauzy, glittery haze of the ghosts of the warrior dead behind them floating towards eternal glory. I mean, um, it’s not metal. Rock has got to reclaim all the cool Viking shit from metal. But Chicago winters can be as extreme as those in Nordic lands and Sybris carries all of that on their latest album, Into the Trees. Propelled forward by singer Angela Mullenhour's sugar coated knife-edge voice, a unique entity in itself, brimming with shattering potential and weighted with its own world-weariness, elegant, bruised but never defeated. In fact, the whole outfit is tough as shit, Chicago in a way nobody’s seen for awhile.

Into the Trees is the band’s second album, recorded with Grammy-nominated engineer John Congleton (Explosions in the Sky, Mountain Goats) in the backwoods of Minnesota at Pachyderm Studio. The supposedly haunted studio is the same one used to record Nirvana's In Utero and P J Harvey's Rid of Me. The album is also their first with new label Absolutely Kosher Records, following a 2003 self-released EP, A Time for Hollerin and their 2005 self-titled label debut on Flameshovel. Into the Trees explores themes of perception, relationships, and decay with a salt of the earth perspective that flows through the band both in demeanor, sound and appearance.

Sybris has spent the last three years bubbling under, touring with the likes of The Fiery Furnaces, The Walkmen and The Hold Steady as well as dates at Lollapalooza and Virgin Fest. An early posting of one of the album's songs, “Oh Man!”, received impressive reviews and prompted Pitchfork's Brian Howe to write the following: "they haven't tinkered with their style-- "Oh Man!" is of a piece with Sybris's "The Best Day in History Ever", from the blocky yet aerodynamic drums to the nervously chiming guitar lead. This is a good thing, since the band's anthemic indie rock was refreshing precisely for its unabashed classicism."

Summer Tour With Unwed Sailor

CD Release Party May 9th - Chicago, IL Subterranean

May 23-Lawrence, KS-Jackpot
May 24-Denver-Larimer Lounge
May 26-Seattle-Sunset Tavern
May 27-Portland-Someday Lounge
May 28-Reno-Satellite
May 29-San Francisco-Rickshaw Stop
May 31-Long Beach-Prospector

June 1-San Diego, CA - Belly Up w/ Fiery Furnaces, Grand Ole Party
June 2-Phoenix-Modified
June 5-Houston-Walter's
June 6 Austin, TX- Emo's
June 7-Denton, TX-Haileys
June 8th Norman, OK - Opolis
June 10-Memphis-Hi-Tone
June 12-Atlanta-The Earl
June 13-Tampa-The Orpheum
June 14-West Palm Beach-Respectable Street
June 15-Orlando-Social
June 16-Tallahassee-Beta Bar
June 17-Athens-Tasty World
June 18th Charleston, SC - Village Tavern
June 20-Philadelphia-Northstar
June 21- NYC, NY -Pianos
June 22-DC-DC9
June 25 PA, Pittsburgh - Garfield Artworks
June 26 OH, Cleveland- Grog Shop
June 27 MI, Detroit- Pike Room
Sept 28-Austin City Limits

Robin McKelle is a jazz singer who brings new life to some old standards.

Robin McKelle is a jazz singer who brings new life to some old standards. Inspired by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, this jazz singer sounds mature beyond her 30 years.

She comes out swinging on her second disc of big band jazz, Modern Antique with an approach that is just this side of naughty

The Boston bred singer has created a stylistically ambitious follow-up to her debut while still managing to evoke and honor the forties big-band sound she explored on the remarkable Introducing Robin McKelle.

Her debut release ...Introducing Robin McKelle
#6 Billboard Debut Charting Debut album
#5 on Amazon.com
#1 at barnesandnoble.com

Listen to Abracadabra

Listen to Go To Hell

The horn section enters first, as luxuriously cosmopolitan-sounding as the tuxedo-clad players from a black-and-white movie classic, and sets a lively pace before McKelle herself steps up to the mike. She delivers the playfully flirtatious lyrics, scatting confidently over the melody. The entire combo is having so much fun - and so are you - that the tune is almost over before you realize it's an ingenious re-arrangement of Steve Miller's seventies classic, "Abracadabra."

That opening gambit sets the tone for everything that follows: There are more rhythm and blues touches, revealing McKelle's torchy side, and she concludes the album with a self-penned ballad ("Remember") that fits in comfortably with the American Songbook gems that precede it. Modern Antique will impress the ever-growing audience who've already discovered McKelle -- via National Public Radio, her glowing press notices, or good old word of mouth -- and it should attract the even wider audience in the U.S. she clearly deserves. The Europeans are way ahead of us when it comes to McKelle; she's already a vocal jazz star in France.

The adventurous spirit McKelle brings to Modern Antique has distinguished her career from the start. For her debut disc, the Boston-based singer had such conviction about the jazz record she wanted to make that she was willing to risk her own finances to record it - no small feat, given the arrangements that needed to be commissioned, the top-notch players to be hired. Arranger-producer-trumpeter Willie Murillo (Brian Setzer Orchestra, Aimee Mann) shared her vision. Together they fashioned an album that balanced period authenticity with the present-tense thrill of hearing an artist eager to put her own stamp on songs like "Something's Got To Give" and "Night & Day."

On Modern Antique, McKelle - who's taught voice at her alma mater, Berklee, and sung with the Boston Pops -- allows herself more room to stretch artistically and "put more of my personality and my own touch on it." McKelle especially helped to shape smoldering ballads like "Save Your Love For Me," which boasts a sumptuous string arrangement, and the urbanely sexy "Lover Man."

As for that unlikely but utterly convincing cover of Steve Miller, it serendipitously fell into McKelle's lap as she was driving. McKelle says, "I was coming home from a gig one night, I heard that song, and the idea popped into my head. I turned up the radio and thought, this could be great as a swing tune. I called Willie right away. The thing is, I mostly never listen to the radio in the car, and if I do, it's usually talk radio."

The Morning Benders’ debut album ‘Talking Through Tin Cans’ out May 6th, online pre-sale live now!

The Morning Benders’ debut album ‘Talking Through Tin Cans’ out May 6th, online pre-sale live now!

LA & SF Record Release Shows on May 8th & 9th respectively, each presented By imeem
The First 300 People In Each City To Purchase The Album At Either +1 Records’ Online Pre-Sale Or At The LA/SF Virgin Megastore Will Gain Exclusive Entry Into The Show Of Their Choice.

It’s all happening… Right here: CLICK ME!

And look for the band on the road with The Kooks very shortly:

May 6: Virgin Megastore SF In-store @ 7PM. San Francisco, CA
May 8: LA CD Release Show @ The Echo. Los Angeles, CA
May 9: SF CD Release Show @ 330 Ritch. San Francisco, CA
May 18: House Of Blues San Diego, CA**
May 19: The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA**
May 24: Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia**
May 25: Sasquatch Festival Seattle, WA**
May 26: Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR**
May 29: Ogden Theatre. Denver, CO**
May 31: Fine Line Music Café. Minneapolis, MN**
June 1: Turner Hall Ballroom. Milwaukee, WI**
June 2: Vic Theatre. Chicago, IL. SOLD OUT**
June 4: Kool Haus. Toronto, Ontario SOLD OUT**
June 5: The Fillmore @ TLA. Philadelphia, PA**
June 9: Paradise Rock Club. Boston, MA SOLD OUT**
June 10: Terminal 5. New York, NY SOLD OUT**
June 11: Terminal 5. New York, NY SOLD OUT**
June 12: Union Pool. Brooklyn, NY
** - Main Support for The Kooks

NINE INCH NAILS THWARTS SCALPERS, HOLDS BEST TICKETS FOR FANS

UNIQUE TOUR FAN CLUB OFFERS Best Seats Available Exclusively via Limited NIN.com Personalized Pre-Sale.

Nine Inch Nails has secured extremely limited allotments of the guaranteed best possible seats to every headlining show on the band's upcoming tour and reserved them for pre-sale via NIN.com. Beginning roughly 72 hours prior to each general on-sale, Nine Inch Nails fans registering under their legal names at NIN.com will be offered exclusive advance access to these prime tickets.

Additionally, in an initiative to protect NIN fans from scalpers and ticket brokers, every pre-sale ticket will be personalized with the purchaser's legal name printed on the ticket. Tickets will not be available until night of show, at which point they will be waiting for the purchaser and his/her party at designated will calls at separate entrances to be used exclusively by NIN.com pre-sale ticket holders.

Government-issued ID matching the name printed on the ticket will be required for venue entry night of show. NO tickets will be mailed in advance.

Ticket quantities are extremely limited and available on a first come first served basis.

For further information regarding tour dates, pre-sales, on-sales and other major developments, keep checking back at NIN.com.

The Lady Tigra Is BACK!

The Lady Tigra, Please Mr Boombox, Out Now on High Score!

ALL OVER LA!
Thursday, May 1st- Viper room- LA
Friday, May 9- 10:00pm - The Knitting Factory- LA
Thursday- May 15th- Spaceland- during Jon Ruf’s residency
Wedensday, May 21st- Shortstop- LA
Saturday, June 14th- Art Mart- performing live at the Gallery


Check out her video for “Bass on the Bottom”

Listen to "Stole My Radio"

PRESS FLIP for TIGRA:

LA Times:
"The dance-party electro amalgamation is all about bass."

URB
“Lady Tigra delivers with a product that’s incredibly fresh without ignoring her roots.”

NY Times:
“Since the time seems ripe for underground, unquantifiable female M.C.’s, the Lady Tigra is hoping that pioneers will have a place too....Tigra’s aesthetic hasn’t changed much since the ‘80s. She raps in the same honeyed, high-pitched tone, and there are beefy low-end clicks, handclaps and electro synthesizers, all hallmarks of classic Miami bass music. But contrary to much music of that genre, there is little overt sex; she prefers coy comebacks.”

The Lady Tigra is one half of the Miami bass duo L’Trimm, one of hip-hop’s earliest, sassiest, and most influential female duos. The girls busted out of the Miami bass movement and are best known for the deliriously catchy track, “Cars That Go Boom”, an ode to subwoofers. So it’s no surprise that her latest is another ode to the bottom end.

Signed to High Score records in 2006, her new album, Please Mr Boom Box, is a vivid mashing of styles that helped pioneer her career... a total continuation of the bouncy, infections confections she is known for. On her new album, the Lady Tigra instictively brings a cultural hybrid of sonic motifs and collaborated with long time hero MC Lytle. The result, Please Mr Boom Box, showcases her cool as a cucumber, deadpan flow which is brilliantly layered over minimal old-school production.

The Dodos Extend Summer Tour

The Dodos Extend Summer Tour & Play Eight
North American And European Festivals! Pitchfork Festival, Capitol Hill Block Party, Siren Festival, Oya Festival, Sled Island Festival, Way Out West Feastival, Haldern Festival & Pop Montreal.

Click here to listen to Debut Single "Fools"

Click Here To View Video Of "Fools"

Visiter, by San Francisco band The Dodos, is their second full length and first for Frenchkiss. Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around SF playing folky guitar with a combination of loops and ambient keyboards. Having already studied West African Ewe drumming, Meric got turned onto country blues fingerpicking and sought to create a band where the drumming could be a center role and help bring out the syncopated rhythms coming out of the acoustic guitar. Through a chance introduction by a roommate, Meric met Santa Cruz transplant Logan Kroeber, who had also been experimenting with drumming, but in the area of progressive metal. Eventually the band changed their name to the Dodos, through constant harrowing from first tourmates Peter and the Wolf, and got a rehearsal studio where they'd spend long hours improvising the music that would become their first record& nbsp; Beware of the Maniacs. The band quit their day jobs as a line cook and a printer and hit the road in Oct. 2006.

The Dodos' principal concept behind Visiter was to reconnect with the energy and intensity of their live show. They decided to return to Type Foundry Studio where Beware of the Maniacs had been recorded. With producer/engineer John Askew back at the helm, they began expounding upon what they had learned since the previous record. The basic drum and guitar takes were recorded live simultaneously with very minimal post production. Type Foundry's warehouse-sized live room led to experimentation with mic placement, capturing a variety of ambient & natural sounds. At one point during tracking, the audible din of a thunderstorm inspired an impromptu horn session between Meric and guest trumpeter, Cory Gray. A small section of this can be heard between the songs "Fools" and "Joe's Waltz" on the record.

Visiter was completely written while on the road from the fall of 2006 to the summer of 2007.

The name of the record came from a drawing a kid did for them when they played for his special education class at Dorsey High in South Central on a road trip down to LA. With all of their time being spent on the road, Meric's lyrics drew heavily from his experiences while touring. They would come home for days at a time, and then leave for a month, always coming and going, which pretty much shaped every relationship the band had during that year.

The Dodos toured in 2007 with Les Savy Fav, Akron/Family, Jennifer Gentle, Wovenhand and Peter and the Wolf. 2008 will bring even more touring for them with stops at the Noise Pop, SXSW and Culture Shock festivals.

The Dodos Summer Tour US & Europe

Fri 5/2/08 Natural History Museum Los Angeles CA
Fri 5/9/08 Amoeba San Francisco CA
Thu 5/29/08 Louisiana Bristol UK
Fri 5/30/08 Red Room Nottingham UK
Sun 6/1/08 Point Ephemere Paris FR
Mon 6/2/08 Hoxton Bar and Kitchen London UK
Tue 6/3/08 Amersham Arms London UK
Wed 6/4/08 Doornroosje Nijmegen
Fri 6/6/08 4 AD Diksmuide Belg
Sat 6/7/08 Paradiso Amsterdam
Sun 6/8/08 Magnet Berlin GER
Mon 6/9/08 Luxor Cologne GER
Wed 6/11/08 Night and Day Manchester UK
Thu 6/12/08 Beat Club Glasgow SCOT
Fri 6/13/08 Crawdaddy Dublin UK
Thu 6/19/08 Independent San Francisco CA
Tue 6/24/08 Doug Fir Lounge Portland OR
Wed 6/25/08 KEXP Seattle WA
Wed 6/25/08 Neumo’s Seattle WA
Thu 6/26/08 The Bourbon Vancouver BC
Sat 6/28/08 Sled Island Festival Calgary AL
Wed 7/2/08 The Grove Plaza Boise ID
Fri 7/4/08 Filling Station Bozeman MT
Mon 7/7/08 The Aquarium Fargo ND
Tue 7/8/08 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis MN
Wed 7/9/08 The Wisconsin Union Madison WI
Fri 7/11/08 Division Ave Arts Cooperative Grand Rapids MI
Sat 7/19/08 Siren Music Festival Brooklyn NY
Sun 7/20/08 Pitchfork Festival Chicago IL
Fri 7/25/08 Capitol Hill Block Party Seattle, WA
Fri 8/1/08 Oya Festival NOR
Fri 8/8/08 Way Out West Festival Gothenburg SWE
Sun 8/10/08 Haldern Festival Haldern GER
Sun 9/28/08 Spiegeltent New York NY
Fri 10/3/08 Dartmouth College Hanover NH
Sat 10/4/08 Pop Montreal La Sala Rossa Montreal
Fri 10/10/08 Earlham University Richmond IN

Fri 10/17/08 Dickenson College Carlisle PA

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson & White Rabbits Announce US May Tour

Self Titled Debut Record Out July 1 Out On Say Hey Records! Recorded by Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) and Featuring Chris Bear & Daniel Rosen (Grizzly Bear) and Kyp Malone (TVOTR)

Pitchfork Media “Forkcast” Debuts “BuriedFed” : “ The album's first single, "Buriedfed", lives up to those impressive connections, pouring a woodsy, deceptively upbeat folk song through the damp, woozy atmospherics of Horn of Plenty. The proper setting could be a rowdy bar as easily as that record's quiet bedroom.”

Time Out New York : “ Local singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, whose sidemen have included members of Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio, plays garagey pop with winning psych-era melodies.”

Click Here To Download Debut Single “Buriedfed”

Up until now, Twenty-four year-old Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has been Brooklyn’s best-kept secret, but with the help of Kyp Malone (TVOTR), Chris Taylor & Christopher Bear (Grizzly Bear) and Say Hey Records, we are proud to introduce this stunning debut artist. In a recent interview with Another magazine Kyp Malone professed, "Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is my favorite songwriter right now." Miles’ brief yet inspirational life story already contains enough Gump-esque moments of cultural serendipity to make it a shoe in for a 2025 behind the music segment, if not a full blown overly- sentimental nostalgia piece about coming of age in downtown Manhattan and Williamsburg in the first decade of the millenium.

The eponymous long player to be issued by Say Hey Records is the first recorded document after years of false starts, self-sabotage , and amiable persistence in the face tragedy. Born in Oregon and raised in Portland and Eugene, Miles spent much of his youth on the road traveling with his comedian father as he played venues across the U.S. After completing high school, Miles gravitated eastward and was in New York by 2000. Immediately he immersed himself in the burgeoning music scene; going to shows and eventually forming a few bands. Miles recorded no less than 5 albums in various early projects like Jackson Plastic, Mud Cub, and Jesus Jackson but sadly ("fortunately" according to miles ) they never glimpsed the light of day.

Each incarnation met it’s demise from a combination of erratic behavior, venue banishment, and indiscreet drug use. Frustrated and fatigued, Miles descended further into addiction, leading to a stint in which he made his bed on the benches of Coney Island. But, throughout it all, Miles continued to distill from his shabby surroundings the inspiration and imagery that make up his debut record.

Recorded with the aid of Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear of Grizzly bear “Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson” (MBAR) began in 2006 in Miles’ apartment. Chris Bear did the drums in a single day and the basics were mixed immediately after the completion of Yellow House; later overdubs were added by Kyp Malone and Daniel Rosen (Grizzly Bear), and the record neared completion.

The album begins with the demented campfire sing-a-long, “Buriedfed”, a dirge disguised as a rave up, and it sets the pace for an album filled with unrepentant confessions played with abandon. MBAR takes the listener through a flawless sardonic narrative, detailing loss, excess, and blurred memories, all the while with an irresistible humor.

Look out for the MBAR sophomore LP in 2009, produced by Kyp Malon

US Tour With White Rabbits

5.20 - Schubas - Chicago, IL
5.21 - 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
5.23 - Caterina Winery - Spokane, WA
5.24 - Berbati’s Pan - Portland, OR
5.27 - Bottom Of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
5.28 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
5.29 - Beauty Bar - Las Vegas, NV
5.30 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
5.31 - Bluebird Theatre - Denver, CO
6.02 - The Bluebird - St. Louis, MO
6.04 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA
6.05 - Black Cat - Washington, DC

THE 6TH ANNUAL US AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIPS GO ON TOUR

THE 6TH ANNUAL US AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIPS 21 CITY NATIONAL TOUR PRESENTED BY TOUCHTUNES SET TO LAUNCH JUNE 2008!
US Air Guitar had its biggest year to date in ‘07. The search for America’s Chosen One spanned 14 cities, where enraptured audiences bore witness to some of the most electric displays of air guitar ever. In 2008, USAG is taking it to a whole new level…

21 cities. 500 to 1500 people per venue. Miraculous performances. Death-defying feats of strength. Water into wine. Pageantry that will dazzle the eye and overwhelm the senses. All the things that make rock and roll a spectacle; make rock and roll spectacular. Without the use of a single instrument.

THE 2008 US AIR GUITAR TOUR
Presented By TouchTunes

June3 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
June 4 Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
June 5 Boston, MA @ Middle East
June 6 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore at TLA
June 8 Detroit, MI @ TBD
June 9 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
June 10 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
June 12 Chicago, IL @ Metro
June 13 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theatre
June 14 DeMoines, IA @ House of Bricks
June 17 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
June 18 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre
June 20 Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theatre
June 23 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
June 24 Portland, OR @ Dante’s
June 25 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
June 26 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
June 27 Alpine, CA @ Dream Catcher Showroom (Viejas Casino)
July (exact date TBA) Austin, TX
July (exact date TBA) Dallas, TX
July (exact date TBA) Houston, TX

US AIR GUITAR NATIONAL FINALS:
August 8 San Francisco, CA @ Grand Ballroom (Another Planet Entertainment)

AIR GUITAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:
August 20 – 22 Oulu, Finland

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: US Air Guitar official website: www.USAirGuitar.com

SAM CHAMPION To Record Live Album At Their Sold Out Show At Mercury Lounge

SAM CHAMPION To Record Live Album At Their Sold Out Show At Mercury Lounge On Wednesday April 23rd, 9 PM With The Virgins! Look Out For Debut Single “Be Mine Everyone” Out May 1st! Sophomore LP HEAVENLY BENDER Out This July On North Street Records!

SAM CHAMPION EP Out Now Click Here!

Can you see the stars where you are? We can't see 'em in New York. Let me tell you this is a damn good rock band at the height of their Byzantine powers. Jack Dolgen's bass rumbles and bounces like it should. Sean Bones' guitar can't miss a note, except, of course when that note is supposed to be missed. And you can hear those pounding drums. And on top of it all, Noah Chernin's plainspeaking about the old tropes that never get old: relationships, mortality, the human spirit, and hard work.

And good old hard work is how Sam Champion has got where they are. It's not an easy game in New York. Rents are pricey and bands are a buck a minute and pizza ovens tend to catch on fire. (More on that later.)

Sam Champion, or the Champ, as we like to call em, hustled onto tours with the Hold Steady, Cold War Kids, Rogue Wave, Apollo Sunshine, the Slip, and Two Gallants. They've gone to England and returned victorious and not a little Victorian and praised by the Guardian. They've killed it at Bonnaroo 2007. The music blogs caught on, premiered the new stuff: VBS.TV http://VBS.TV, Brooklyn Vegan, Gorilla vs. Bear, Stereogum.

It's a nice list of accomplishments, surely, for sure, to be sure. But this record that you're hearing "Heavenly Bender" has been four years in the making. During this godblessed time the Champ went from wearing their influences— Tom Petty, Booker T & The MG's, and Crazy Horse —on their sleeves to amalgamating all those old good songs into something great and new.


Spin.com : "While his guitar style is firmly rooted in garage rock, Chernin's sharp lyrics separate Sam Champion from the rest of the Lower East Side pack.

Rolling Stone : "one of the most buzzworthy releases of 2007"

RCRD LBL posts exclusive download from the CoCo B’s self titled debut

In between the quiet suburban landscapes of track homes, mini-malls and the mean streets of Southern California, you'll find the CoCo B's. With the seal of approval by early bloggers and music writers alike - the CoCo B's blend a barrage of distorted guitars and foot stomping beats with unforgettable melodies. The CoCo B's put out a self released EP last year and most recently a split CD with neighbors Eskimohunter. Coco B's self-titled debut album is a collection of catchy fuzz-pop anthems .

"... In thrall to the likes of The Replacements, The Lemonheads, The Byrds and even Dylan. Man, we love that shit. Why? Because there's only a few months 'til summer. That means a lot time smoking spliffs in parks, and thanks to this, there's more material for our "Now That's What I Call Smoking Spliffs in Parks" cassette mix........ the likes of "Daytrader" and "Hot Pantz" are perfect slices of dashing, adorable indie pop. Skin up, then......." - NME

“Give Up The Money (1982)” Click Here
"Modern Lover" Click Here

KROQ posted live footage of “I Live in LA” from their live performance at Club Sachi
Check it out!

CoCo B's tunes "Modern Lover" & "I Live in L.A." were recently remixed by UK's Half Tiger.
Now available via iTunes

Ted Leo Plays With a Little Spoon

Ted Leo (and the Pharmacists) took up the challenge of remixing one of Spoon's own, "Don't You Evah," from their album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. The result is fantastic! Check it out, Ted Leo's I Want It Hotter Remix!

Les Savy Fav’s After The Balls Drop Out April 29th

Les Savy Fav’s After The Balls Drop Out April 29th (Digital Release Only) Cover Superchunk, Offer Up Non-Album Live Tracks!

Confirm Performances at Capitol Hill Block Party, Pitchfork Festival & NYC’s Highline Ballroom

Syd Butler Becomes Celebrity Blogger For The Washington Capitals : http://fans.nhl.com/Syd_Butler

By now you’ve heard the news: the best live band in indie rock is releasing its first ever live album on Tuesday, April 29th. Arriving on the heels of last year’s universally-adored Let’s Stay Friends, the digital-only After The Balls Drop documents Les Savy Fav’s 2008 New Years performance at Bowery Ballroom in NYC, a show that capped off a wildly successful year with an hour of insanity, serious celebration, and covers of classics from CCR, Nirvana, Misfits, Pixies and Love. So, to get fans ready for the record’s m.o., the Brooklyn smart-punks have unleashed a handful of live tracks and a cover CLICK HERE TO HEAR pulled from the LSF vaults -- a rendition of Superchunk’s “Precision Auto” from the band’s City Sol performance last year, and three Fav oldies (“Disco Drive” and “Reprobates Resume” from Go Forth and “In These Woods” from Rome (Written Upside Down)) taken from a 2005 performance in Atlanta.

Speaking of live performances, a monstrous Fav-in-Berlin show is now streaming in its entirety on Slyfi CLICK HERE TO HEAR (yes, Tim breaks out the singing in the eagle mask trick!), and the band recently picked their 5 Favorite Live Albums (Possible) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music for Myspace. Meanwhile, Harrington and company have lined up a few dates for the approaching summer. Next weekend, the band hits the desert for a Coachella set, before heading to San Fran to play the Great American Music Hall with labelmates The Dodos. May and June are mostly quiet —save for a lone NY performance— before things pick up in July with appearances at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle.

Savy Fav’s City Sol Performance
http://dailyrindblog.com/audio/lessavyfav/precisionauto.mp3

Download and Share “Disco Drive” From An ‘05 Les Savy Fav Performance In Atlanta
http://dailyrindblog.com/audio/lessavyfav/discodrive.mp3

Download and Share “Reprobates Resume” From An ‘05 Les Savy Fav Performance In Atlanta
http://dailyrindblog.com/audio/lessavyfav/reprobatesresume.mp3

Download and Share “In These Woods” From An ‘05 Les Savy Fav Performance In Atlanta
http://dailyrindblog.com/audio/lessavyfav/inthesewoods.mp3

US Dates

04-25 Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music Festival
04-27 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall [w/Dodos]
05-21 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom [w/Zack Gallflankis]
July 18-20 (Day TBA) Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
07-25 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
07-26 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom

After The Balls Drop Tracklist

01 Equestrian
02 Patty Lee
03 What Would Wolves Do?
04 Sweat Descends
05 Yawn Yawn Yawn
06 We'll Make A Lover Of You
07 The Year Before The Year 2000
08 The Lowest Bitter
09 Who Rocks The Party
10 Tim Speech
11 Hey Tonight [Creedence Clearwater Revival Cover]
12 Debaser [Pixies Cover]
13 Astro Zombies [Misfits Cover]
14 Sliver [Nirvana Cover]
15 Everybody's Gotta Live [Love Cover]

Soulfly Ready to Realese a New Album, Conquer

The Soulfly tribe returns, armed and ready for battle with the skull- clobbering new metal masterwork dubbed simply Conquer.

The album will see release on July 29. Featuring the same line up from 2005's Dark Ages –vocalist/guitarist Max Cavalera, guitarist Mark Rizzo, bassist Bobby Burns and drummer Joe Nunez- Soulfly are one the premiere bands that helped revive the genre in the late ‘90s and through the new millennium, thanks to the way they force metal, world music and Brazilian culture to collide and subsequently explode on your speakers!

Cavalera, who spent his formative years changing the heavy metal landscape with the groundbreaking Brazilian metal legends known collectively as Sepultura and who recently reunited with his brother (and former Sepultura bandmate) Iggor for The Cavalera Conspiracy side project, is primed and ready to go with Conquer.

About Conquer, Cavalera cryptically says, referencing key album titles from his illustrious career that spans Sepultura, Nailbomb and Soulfly, “From the beginning of this Devastation, from Visions of Schizophrenia and battles Beneath The Remains to Arise in this Chaos A.D. From Point Blank executions to trying to find the Roots of your soul. From Primitive ways to Trinity, from Prophecies to Dark Ages Inflikting the world with Metal. The mission continues, stronger than ever. Conquer your fear and you’ll conquer life and death.”

Conquer is Soulfly’s sixth album and it continues the Soulfly sonic assault of stormy, thrashy guitar riffs, thunderous, tribal-influenced percussion and an infusion of atypical, world music conventions that Cavalera has built his hard-earned reputation on.

The track listing for Conquer is as follows. In the time-honored Soulfly tradition, the album concludes with a self-titled track.

“Blood Fire War Hate”
“Unleash”

“Paranoia”
“Warmageddon”

“Enemy Ghost”

“Rough”

“Fall Of The Sycophants"

“Doom

“Rot”

“Touching The Void”

“Soulfly VI”

PLAYBOY PRESENTS MORE ROCK THE RABBIT EVENTS!

PLAYBOY PRESENTS MORE ROCK THE RABBIT EVENTS WITH SPECIAL PERFORMANCES BY… THE HEAVY!

Friday, May 3rd : San Francisco, CA @ Mezzanine 444 Jessie Street

Wednesday, May 7th: Los Angeles, CA @ BORDELLO, 901 E. 1st St.

Friday, May 9th : Chicago, IL @ Life During Wartime 2210 W Chicago Ave. (The Darkroom)

Monday, May 12th: New York, NY @ Le Royale 21 7th Ave South

By now, you’ve heard that The Heavy is embarking on their first United States Tour. Playboy is on board to make their major-city stops more…major. So put in that travel budget request and make your way to a metropolis near you, as The Heavy and Playboy Rock the Rabbit get together to make sweet music.

And keep your eyes peeled for their U.S. debut, Great Vengeance and Furious Fire:
Just released April 8th on Counter/+1 Records.

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