The Little Ones will be opening for Brooklyn band The Walkmen in support of their debut full-length release, Morning Tide. The tour starts the first week of October, and The Little One’s Morning Tide arrives October 7th courtesy of Chop Shop Records.
tour: October
16 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
17 Philadelphia, PA – The Khyber Pass
19 Washington, DC – DC9
21 Chicago, IL – Schubas
22 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
23 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
25 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
November
10 Seattle, WA – Chop Suey
11 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
14 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
15 Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar http://www.wearethelittleones.com/ http://www.myspace.com/wearethelittleones
Baltimore duo Beach House have a limited edition single featuring new song “Used To Be,” recorded over the summer of 2008, and b-side, a four-track demo version of “Apple Orchard” (from the Beach House S/T album) recorded three years to the month before the new song. It’s one of the first things Alex and Victoria recorded together as Beach House.
tour: Sep. 27 Big Sur, CA Fernwood Resort (Festival in the Forest)
Sep. 28 San Francisco, CA Swedish American Hall
Sep. 29 Santa Barbara, CA Muddy Waters
Sep. 30 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland
Oct. 02 Boston, MA Mass Arts / Pozen Center +
Oct. 04 Montreal, QC Pop Montreal +
Oct. 06 Buffalo, NY Tralf Music Hall +
Oct. 08 Detroit, MI Museum of Contemporary Art +
Oct. 10 Chicago, IL Epiphany +
Oct. 13 Oberlin, OH Oberlin College +
Oct. 15 Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom +
Oct. 17 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge +
Oct. 22 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge (Carpark CMJ Showcase)
Dec. 11 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall
+ = as part of the Baltimore Round Robin Tour
Chicago based, 22-year old classically trained multi-instrumentalist Anni Rossi will release Afton, a six track mini album, on October 21st. Most of the tracks on Afton were recorded in October of 2006. Anni has recently been working with Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio on her debut album, which is slated for release on 4AD in early 2009.
tour: Sep 26 The Bottom Lounge w/ Why? Chicago
Oct 3 Concrete and Glass Fest London
Oct 4 The Band Room Yorkshire
Oct 5 Hear Here Fest @ The Islington Mill Manchester
Oct 7 Baby Simple Oxford
Oct 9 Laverys Bunker Belfast
Oct 10 Roisin Dubh Galway
Oct 11 Boom Boom Room Dublin
Oct 12 The Whisky Cork
Oct 13 Henry’s Cellar Bar Edinburgh
Oct 14 The Library Leeds
Oct 15 Lee Rosies Nottingham
Oct 16 The Shakespeare Sheffield
Oct 17 Barfly Liverpool
Oct 18 Redland Church Bristol
Oct 19 Labour Club Northampton
Oct 20 Borderline London
Toronto-based quadruplet, Dragonette, released their synth driven curvacious debut Galore on October 28th. Lead vocalist Martina, formed the band in 2005 when she met her future bassist, and future husband, Dan Kurtz at a Canadian music festival. Later on in that year, Joel Stouffer (drums) and Will Stapleton (guitar) rounded out the line-up and they were soon asked to open up for Duran Duran’s US tour after only being a together for eight months.
The coolest song from when KISS went disco with Dynasty, and it happens to be a Stones tune. You were always my favorite Ace, though I rarely think about you guys anymore. http://www.kissonline.com/
The Republic Tigers have recently toured alongside Nada Surf, The Hold Steady, and now have joined up with Travis in the UK, for their first-ever European traverse. Songs from their debut album, Keep Color have been well-received and featured in such TV shows as Gossip Girl, Supernatural, and Chuck. The band went in to the Daytrotter studio last week recording a live session to be featured in the coming weeks over at the site.
video: Buildings and Mountains
tour: September
22 Inverness, SCT – Ironworks *
23 Aberdeen, SCT – Aberdeen Music Hall *
25 Edinburgh, SCT – Picture House *
26 Glasgow, SCT – ABC *
28 Manchester, UK – The Ritz *
29 Liverpool, UK – Liverpool Academy *
30 Wolverhampton, UK – Wulfrun Hall *
October
2 Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – Newcastle University *
3 Norwich, UK – Norwich UEA *
4 Porstmouth, UK – Pyramid Centre *
6 Bath, UK – Bath Pavilion *
7 Sheffield, UK – Leadmill *
8 London, UK – Astoria *
November
15 Denver, CO – Hi Dive #
16 Ames, IA – M-Shop #
17 Chicago, IL – Subterranean Lounge #
* = w/ Travis
# = w/ Bishop Allen http://www.myspace.com/therepublictigers
Brooklyn’s Black Gold have announced their first full US tour – on the road with Jaguar Love (former members of Pretty Girls Make Graves & Blood Brothers) and Japanese synth-punks, Polysics.
tour: October 22 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress
24 – Dallas, TX – The Door
25 – Austin, TX – Emo’s Lounge
26 – Houston, TX – The Meridian
28 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
29 – Charlotte, NC – Tremont Music Hall
30 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
31 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
November
1 – Danbury, CT – Heirloom Arts Theatre *
2 – Boston, MA – Middle East
4 – Montreal, QUE – Club Lambi
5 – Toronto, ONT – Horseshoe Tavern
7 – London, ONT – Call The Office
8 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
9 – Chicago, IL – Abbey Pub
11 – Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
13 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
14 – Pomona, CA – Glasshouse
*Black Gold & Polysics ONLY http://www.myspace.com/blackgold
Get ready to sweat like you haven’t done in a while (and you know you need to), decompressing with Hercules and Love Affair on their headlining North American fall tour in support of their much loved self-titled album. The North American tour includes dates with Mos Def (San Francisco), The B-52s and James Murphy (NYC). The eight piece live band includes Andy manning keyboards, drum machines and providing backing vocals, a horn section, Kim Ann and Nomi on lead vocals, live drums, live bass and other keyboards.
Hercules and Love Affair North American Tour 10/3 – San Francisco, CA @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
(with Mos Def and Rogue Wave, Benefit presented by Spin Magazine)
10/4 – Los Angeles, CA @ Detour Festival
10/17 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
10/18 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
10/19 – Montreal, QC @ Les Saints
10/22 – Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs
10/31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Transit (Making Time Halloween party)
11/1 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom (with B-52s & James Murphy)
11/2 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
audio: You Belong (Riton Rerub)You Belong (Kevin Saunderson Mix)You Belong (Hercules Club Mix)
video: You Belong
Over the course of the past year, INTO IT. OVER IT., a.k.a., Philadelphia native Evan Weiss (The Progress / Up Up Down Down), has written and recorded exactly one new song every week for the past 52 weeks. Check it out here.
LA-based duo John Dragonetti & Blake Hazard, aka The Submarines, will be teaming up with New York’s Brazilian Girls, for a string of California tour dates next week. They’ll be out in support of their sophomore album, Honeysuckle Weeks, which has continued the already mounting acclaim for the husband-wife team.
tour: September
23 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
24 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
25 – Anaheim, CA – The Grove
27 – San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine
video: You Me & The Bourgeoisie
Copenhagen’s, Slaraffenland will release the Sunshine EP on October 7th. The Sunshine EP is a five-track work, featuring two covers: Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” and A-Ha’s “Take on Me” along with three brand new tracks .
White Hinterland have recorded an EP of songs sung in French, entitled Luniculaire. This EP features two original songs, plus covers of songs made famous by Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Fontaine and Francoise Hardy.
audio: Chant de Grillon
tour: 10/02/08 Dudingen, Switzerland – Bad Bonn
10/04/08 Geislingen, Germany – R?tschenm?hle
10/05/08 Zurich, Switzerland – El Lokal
10/06/08 Frankfurt, Germany – Mousonturm – Studio
10/07/08 Wien, Austria – Szene
10/08/08 Munich, Germany – Rote Sonne
10/10/08 Prague, Czech Rebublic – Caf? Cerna Labut
10/12/08 Berlin, Germany – Cafe Zapata
10/13/08 Hamburg, Germnay – Knust
10/14/08 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
10/16/08 Brighton, UK – Komedia Studio
10/17/08 London, UK – Bush Hall
10/18/08 Manchester, UK – Night and Day
10/19/08 Cork, Ireland – Cyprus Ave
10/20/08 Galway, Ireland – Roisin Dubh
10/21/08 Belfast, UK – Aunt Annie
10/22/08 Dublin, Ireland – Crawdaddy
10/25/08 Paris, France – Cafe de la Danse w/ Lambchop
10/26/08 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique w/ Lambchop http://www.whitehinterland.com/ http://www.myspace.com/caseydienel http://deadoceans.com/
The Little Ones will be opening for Brooklyn band The Walkmen in support of their debut full-length release, Morning Tide. The tour starts the first week of October, and The Little One’s Morning Tide arrives October 7th courtesy of Chop Shop Records.
Over the course of the past year, INTO IT. OVER IT., a.k.a., Philadelphia native Evan Weiss (The Progress / Up Up Down Down), has written and recorded exactly one new song every week for the past 52 weeks. Check it out 
