The new Wedding Present single off this year’s El Rey may have a very Wedding Present sounding name in “Don’t Take Me Home until I’m Drunk”, but the tune seems more suitable for Gedge’s other band, Cinerama, with its soft and jangly approach-that is until the guitars kick in at the end. In other news, […]

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For the announcement of its new single, “Olympic Airways”, Foals plans to release an exclusive iTunes EP, entitled Gold Gold Gold, which includes previously unreleased UK-only b-sides, plus two remixes. The EP hits iTunes on September 9th, followed by a handful of US dates and an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. No dates anywhere near […]

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The Wedding Present kicks off its US tour in support of El Rey on September 18th in San Diego. I’ve yet to give the new record more than a perfunctory listen, and I haven’t seen the band since the Saturnalia tour in 1996, so I’m hoping to remedy both soon. Anway, the sound of indie […]

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Murder By Death is hitting the road for the next few months. You don’t say? I don’t know how these guys have retained any semblance of sanity with as much touring as they’ve got under their belts. In addition to tour news, though, the band is starting a new 7″ series, whereby Murder by Death […]

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Gang of Four may have called it splits (again), but Wire’s still plugging along for all your post-punk art rock memory lane strolling this Fall. 10.5 – Montreal, QC @ Le National 10.6 – Ottawa, ON @ Barrymore’s 10.7 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Place 10.8 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East 10.9 – New […]

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Magnetic Fields announce tour of fully seated “theatre” venues with upright pianos and minimal conversational noise (once at a Magnetic Field show I saw back in ’94, Stephin was so annoyed with someone talking at the bar that he threw a half-full water bottle at them).

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To try to make up for missing his show at the “Fabulous” Fox in Atlanta last weekend, I just got around to reading this interview Tom Waits conducted with himself. And it’s exactly the amount of crazy and cool I thought it would be. Highlights: Q: What’s the most curious record in your collection?A: In […]

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