Tokyo Police Club Follow Up

Update:
TOKYO POLICE CLUB - ELEPHANT SHELL
DEBUT ALBUM OUT APRIL 22 ON SADDLE CREEK (U.S.), MAY 5 ON MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES (UK)

Original Post Here.

Foos Expand Tour

After winning best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards last night, The Foo Fighters decided to expand their current tour!

U.S. tour dates below are below. The Foos will also be back on the road in the states this summer, stay tuned for announcements.

2/18/08 - Worcester MA - DCU Center
2/19/08 - New York NY - Madison Square Garden
2/21/08 - Philadelphia PA - Wachovia Spectrum
2/22/08 - Binghamton NY - SUNY Binghamton
2/24/08 - Detroit MI - Joe Louis Arena
2/25/08 - Rosemont IL - Allstate Arena
2/27/08 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
2/28/08 - Council Bluffs, IA - Mid America Center
2/29/08 - Fayetteville AR - Barnhill Arena
3/2/08 - Glendale AZ - Jobing.com Arena
3/3/08 - San Diego CA - Cox Arena
3/5/08 - Inglewood CA - The Forum
3/6/08 - Inglewood CA - The Forum

Shy Child Set To Release Sophomore Smash “Noise Won’t Stop” On Kill Rock Stars

Features SpankRock & Produced By Chris Zane (White Rabbits/Asobi Sesku/Les Savy Fav)

“Nothing short of an epileptic gonzo jamboree packed with psycho- botic power pop.” NME Radar Feature

“Like DFA 1979 produced by the Neptunes.” - The UK Guardian



The NME declares, “Shy Child are to Kraftwerk what The White Stripes are to Led Zeppelin!” And here is their story... Nate Smith (Drums) and Pete Cafarella (Vox/Keytar) met at Wesleyan University in the mid-90’s where Nate had invited Pete to join his band. Although Pete was kicked out a few days later the two formed a fast friendship that would eventually lead to the formation of Shy Child once they both had relocated to NYC. Initially the band was pursued when time permitted between their various projects. They recorded their 2004 album, “One With the Sun” with small expectations and an even smaller budget, recording it in Pete’s apartment to a computer with Chris Zane for the price of pizza and beer. It would prove to be just enough…


The band caught the attention of producer Paul Epworth (Kate Nash/Bloc Party/The Rapture) at SXSW and soon they were in the studio working on new material along with the band’s previous producer, Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav/White Rabbits/Asobi Seksu). The resulting album, “Noise Won’t Stop” bristles with frantic energy and blistering tones leading with the first track “Drop The Phone” and featuring the U.S. debut sonic single, “Astronaut”. And producer/artist extraordinaire SpankRock, lends a his rapping/vocals to the slickest album track “Kick Drum.”


After a US tour with Hot Chip in November of 2006, the band took the plunge and lived as ex-pats in London for the next 8 months. The time abroad began with a full UK tour in support of their old pals Klaxons culminating in 2 sold out dates at Shepard’s Bush Empire in London. And that was just the beginning; over the course of the summer they traversed the Emerald Isle four times and played numerous shows and festivals throughout Europe. The highlights included sets at 02 Wireless, Glastonbury, The Isle of Wight, and an opening slot at Wembley Stadium with Muse. When all was finished the dynamic duo had logged over 100 dates.


In June of 2007 in the UK they appeared on the venerable program, Later With Jools Holland. On the bill with them that night were Sir Paul McCartney and Bjork, which made for some mighty company indeed. Impressed with their unique sound fashion maven Stella McCartney requested the band to be the performers for her segment in the Fashion Rocks TV special that was broadcasted throughout Europe to over 60 million viewers. And a few months later in January 08, while performing as part of Australia’s legendary Big Day Out Festival, they were asked by Bjork to open for her at the Opera House in Sydney.


Now “Noise Won’t Stop” has found it’s home on the esteemed Kill Rock Stars Label and Shy Child are spending 2008 touring the U.S. Be on the look out for this transcendent two-some.



Tracklisting (U.S. Version)

1. Drop The Phone
2. Pressure To Come
3. The Volume
4. Kick Drum (Feat. Spank Rock)
5. Generation Y
6. Angel Of Mercy
7. Murder Capital
8. Astronaut
9. Noise Won't Stop
10. Summer
11. What's It Feel Like?
12. Cause and Effect

Tapes 'N Tapes Go On Tour

Tapes 'N Tapes announce US and Canada in support of their forthcoming album ‘Walk It Off’.

The album, which is the follow up to 2006’s ‘The Loon’ is scheduled to be released on April 8 and was produced by Dave Fridmann.

The band will preview the material at a number of shows at SXSW in Austin next month before kicking off the tour proper in Minneapolis, MN.


The dates are:
Austin, TX SXSW (March 12-16)
Minneapolis, MN First Avenue (April 10)
Chicago, IL Metro (11) Detroit, MI The Magic Stick (12)
Toronto, Ontario The Opera House (14)
Montreal, Quebec Cabaret Music Hall (15)
Burlington, VT Higher Ground Showcase Lounge - So. (16)
Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club - (17)
New York, NY Fillmore @ Irving (18) Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg (19)
Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church (22)
Washington, D.C. Nightclub 9:30 (23)
Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 (24)
Atlanta, GA The Earl (25)
St. Augustine, FL Cafe 11 (26)
Orlando, FL The Social (28)
Gainesville, FL Common Grounds (29)
Birmingham, AL Bottletree (30)
Austin, TX Antone's (May 2)
Denton, TX Hailey's (3)
Tucson, AZ Club Congress (6)
San Diego, CA The Casbah (7)
Los Angeles, CA Troubadour (8,9)
San Francisco, CA Fillmore (10)
Eugene, OR W.O.W. Hall (12)
Vancouver, B.C Richards on Richards (13)
Seattle, WA The Showbox (14)
Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue (16)
Denver, CO Bluebird Theater (17)

Peter Morén Flying Solo

Peter Morén of Peter, Bjorn and John is gearing up for a solo tour of the US and Canada, to take place in the spring.

The dates which kick off at New York’s Mercury Lounge, will support the release of his debut solo album ‘The Last Tycoon’, released April 8.

Moren will also play a select number of shows at SXSW next month.


The tour calls at:
New York, NY Mercury Lounge (April 21)
Cambridge, MA Middle East Upstairs (22)
Montreal, QC Cabaret Musee Juste Pour Rire (23)
Toronto, ON The Mod Club (24)
Columbus, OH Wexner Center (25)
Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern (26)
Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret (28)
Seattle, WA The Triple Door (29)
Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge (30)
San Francisco, CA Swedish American Hall (May 1)
Los Angeles, CA The Hotel Café (2)
Los Angeles, CA Troubadour (3)

Foals for Obama!

Foals have lent their endorsement to US Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

In a MySpace bulletin, keyboardist Edwin Congreave indicated his band’s support for the senator and joked that they might send him a Foals T-shirt.

“If anyone is reading this from Florida, California, or New York, or indeed all the other states voting today in the democratic primaries, please do us all a favour and vote for Obama,” he wrote. “Foals are definitely for Obama."

“Everyone should be for Obama. he's great. Isn't he just great? We're thinking of sending him one of our T-shirts to wear. We'd wear his T-shirts if he sent us some. Obama? Obama? Can you hear me, Obama? We'd like some T-shirts.”

Spoon

Currently touring the Pacific Rim with a few Euro/UK one-offs on the horizon, the gentlemen of Spoon will soon announce cities and venues for an April 2008 victory lap of the United States.

2007 is now universally regarded as the year of Spoon: The band's sixth full-length studio album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, was released July 10 on Merge to raves from everyone from TIME and THE NEW YORKER to PITCHFORK and STEREOGUM to MEN'S HEALTH and ELLE and all points between.

Last year was also a year of firsts for Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was the first Spoon album to debut in the top 10, while Oct. 6 marked the band's debut appearance on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. They got some sweet photos out of that deal too.

The year closed with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga atop year-end best lists including NPR, GQ ("The Best Music of 2007" lead), NEW YORK (#3 Best in Pop Music), ROLLING STONE (#10 album), PITCHFORK (#7 album), BLENDER (#12 album), ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Top 10 Viral Video), SPIN (#9 album), HARP (#6 album), THE ONION, PASTE, the WASHINGTON POST and many more-as evidenced by the HYPE MACHINE "2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist" index of the blogosphere's most discussed artists and albums, which ranked Spoon #5 artist and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga #5 album.

Spoon is comprised of Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Eric Harvey and Rob Pope. The band's debut album Telephono was released in 1996 and was combined with the 1997 EP Soft Effects for a recent re-release. Other Spoon full-lengths have included A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002), Gimme Fiction (2005), and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)