Vampires
VAMPIRE WEEKENDvampireweekend.com
Back in 2008, I called Vampire Weekend the most overhyped band, and I think in some ways they still are. The venue they played at obviously sold out, and seeing that they’ve booked The Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, which by the definition of the old style theaters have limited seating. I think if they kept ticket prices lower, it would sell out immediately… but we’ll see. As of this writing, the cheapest seat I see is $54 (not including other miscellaneous charges) on the balcony. However, you can argue that this is one of the “small” venues on their regular Festivals stops. One thing is for sure, I’m glad I caught them very early in their career.
Anyway, the New York band is back with a third album called Modern Vampires of the City, out now on XL Recordings. The story behind this is that after their Contra album, the band toured and wrote a ton of new material during their time spent at soundchecks. Then everyone got sidetracked … but now after two years, the album is done and done and it debut on the US Billboard 200 selling over 130k copies in the first week… the band’s second number-one album.
Yes, expect the new songs from Modern Vampires of the City on their summer tour:
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06/23/13 Firefly Music Festival
06/30/13 Glastonbury Festival 07/04/13 Rock Werchter Festival 07/06/13 London Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 07/12/13 Optimus Alive! Festival 07/13/13 Bilbao BBK Live Festival 07/16/13 Berlin – Tempodrom 07/19/13 Gentlemen Of The Road 07/20/13 Longitude 07/26/13 Ansan Valley Rock Festival 07/28/13 Fuji Rock Festival 08/02/13 Osheaga Festival 08/04/13 Lollapalooza 08/05/13 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum 08/07/13 Calgary, AB S Alberta Jubilee |
08/09/13 Squamish Music Festival
08/11/13 Outside Lands Music 09/05/13 Ottawa Folk Festival 09/07/13 Boston Calling 09/15/13 iTunes Festival 09/20/13 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center 09/28/13 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl 10/04/13 Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/05/13 Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/06/13 Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/08/13 Kansas City, MO Midland 10/11/13 Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/12/13 Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/13/13 Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/13/13 Corona Capital Festival |
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Read More Wampire’s “Trains” is the latest single, taken from their album Curiosity (Polyvinyl Records). The strange Portland duo (?) is currently on tour with STRFKR and will be playing their first-ever UK date in London on June 18th. .…
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WAMPIREwampiremusic.com
Sure, I’ve already mentioned Wampire here, but did you know they’re heading out on tour with Smith Westerns? Now you know!
07/20 Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall *
07/21 Nashville, TN – Exit/In *
07/23 Washington, DC – Black Cat *
07/24 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg *
07/26 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *
07/27 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair *
07/28 Montreal, QC – Cabaret Mile End *
07/29 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace *
07/31 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall *
08/05 Kansas City, MO – The Riot Room *
08/06 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre *
08/07 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge *
08/10 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre *
08/11 Pomona, CA – The Glass House *
08/12 San Diego, CA – The Casbah *
08/16 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile Cafe *
08/17 Vancouver, BC – Electric Owl *
* = w/ Smith Westerns
MY BLOODY VALENTINEmybloodyvalentine.net
Still riding that nostalgia train, Kevin Shields and company are doing massive festivals this year in support of mbv album … yes the album that had a 22-year gap since Loveless.
At this point, I’ve come to the conclusion that I will never see MBV, due to expensive ticket prices and locations.
07/13/13 T In The Park
07/26/13 Fuji Rock Festival
07/27/13 Ansan Valley Rock Festival
08/04/13 OFF Festival
08/06/13 Vienna, Austria Arena
08/08/13 Terraneo Festival
08/10/13 Flow Festival
08/16/13 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall
08/17/13 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre
08/19/13 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
08/21/13 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater
08/23/13 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic
08/25/13 FYF Festival
08/30/13 Electric Picnic
09/03/13 Brussels, Belgium Ancienne Belgique
09/05/13 Cologne, Germany Live Music Hall
09/07/13 Berlin Festival
09/08/13 Munich, Germany Tonhalle
10/30/13 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rockhal
10/31/13 Eindhoven, Netherlands Effenaar
11/03/13 Lille, France Aeronef
SURFER BLOODsurferblood.com
You know, I caught Surfer Blood opening up for Foals this year and I have to say – they are quite good! I hope they come back to Minneapolis soon, from what they’ve said on stage, they must have been here at least five or six times.
Anyway, Surfer Blood’s second full-length album Pythons is out now on Warner Bros./Kanine Records. The band is currently on tour in support of the record, see tour dates below:
July 11 Santa Monica, CA – Santa Monica Pier
July 24 Melbourne, AU – Splendour in the Grass
July 26 Sydney, AU – North Byron Festival
Aug 9-11 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands
Aug 15 Hasselt, BE – Pukkelpop
Aug 23 Reading, UK – Reading Festival
Aug 24 Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
Aug 25 Paris, FR – Rock en Seine
Sept 08 Sacramento, CA – Launch Music Festival
Sept 14 Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
Read More Check out Deap Vally on tour, they are promoting their Get Deap! EP, but be sure to check out their song on the “True Blood” soundtrack, also out this month. .…
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TRUE BLOOD: MUSIC FROM THE HBO ORIGINAL SERIES VOLUME 4www.atorecords.com
Did you catch the first episode of Season 6 of HBO’s “True Blood”? Season 5 ended on a big cliffhanger, so I’m curious about how they will resolve that naked woman’s blood and the hallucinations…
In the meantime, a few weeks ago, the latest True Blood: Music From The HBO Original Series Volume 4 was released courtesy of ATO Records.
If you watch the show, you know that the soundtrack is amazing! As a cover lover, I really dig these modern takes on classic this, like “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Eric Burdon and Jenny Lewis or “(She’s a) Wanderer” by Deap Vally.
Also, for the first time ever, the soundtrack was released on vinyl.
Track listing:
- Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Eric Burdon with Jenny Lewis
- Let’s Boot and Rally – Iggy Pop with Bethany Cosentino
- What Makes A Good Man? The Heavy
- Smokestack Lightnin’ – Howlin’ Wolf
- Pocket Change – Alabama Shakes
- Authority Song – Bosco Delrey
- Turn Turn Turn – My Morning Jacket
- Your Face Can Tell The Future – The Flaming Lips
- The Sun – The Naked and Famous
- Undertow – Warpaint
- I Wanna Be Your Man – Mobley
- {She’s A) Wanderer – Deap Vally
- Whatever I Am, You Made Me – Koko Taylor
- We’ll Meet Again – Los Lobos
Read More If you are looking for a laid back collection of summer tracks then I suggest you look no further than The Ruminant Band by the Fruit Bats. Eric D. Johnson, singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist, led me on a journey to the heart of the summer. . .…
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TIMBER! MUSIC FESTIVALwww.timbermusicfest.com
Timber! Music Festival is taking place this July 26 & 27, 2013 at King County’s Tolt-MacDonald Park in Washington.
Some of the headliners are Helio Sequence, The Fruit Bats, Quasi, Noah Gundersen, Lemolo, Bryan John, etc., full listing below.
According to the press release, ticketholders will enter Timber! through a long suspension bridge … which admittedly, I can only imagine a massive exit through the same bridge!
Timber! Music Festival Full Artistic Lineup
Fruit Bats
Quasi
Noah Gundersen
Lemolo
Bryan John Appleby
Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers
Kithkin
Hobosexual (Vu’s notes: hahahahahaha)
River Giant
Baltic Cousins
S (Jenn Ghetto)
Avians Alight
Vikesh Kapoor
Pablo Trucker
Ten Speed Music
Passenger String Quartet
Jacob Miller & The Bridge City Crooners
Ben Fisher
Nu Klezmer Army
HOODED FANGhoodedfang.com
Toronto’s Hooded Fang is currently in America doing some dates for the month of June in support of their album, Gravez, which was released in late May on Full Time Hobby Records.
Check out “Bye Bye Land“, which was probably the song they sang leaving Canada.
Talking about the influences on recording Gravez, bassist April Aliermo reveals, they’ve eaten “crocodile balls”. No need to elaborate… but she continues with “…slept on floors and couches, watched TV and movies, and looked out the window in between. All this steady instability must have influenced Gravez.”
What is left of their tour:
06/23 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
COFFINScoffins.jp
Japan’s COFFINS has a new album called The Fleshland, coming out July 9, 2013, on Relapse Records.
The album is available in a variety of formats, like CD, double LP, and deluxe edition only available through Relapse mailorder (cover artwork is a black and white).
The doom metal band is currently on tour:
7/28/2013 Earthdom – Tokyo, Japan
8/07/2013 Cassiopeia – Berlin, Germany
8/08/2013 Brutal Assault Festival – Josefov, CZ
8/09/2013 Party San Metal Open Air
8/10/2013 Leperfest – Leper, Belgium
8/11/2013 Bleh Fest @ Unicorn Camden
8/12/2013 La Miroiterie – Paris, France
8/14/2013 Winston – Amsterdam, Netherlands
8/15/2013 Kødboderne 18 – Copenhagen
8/16/2013 Pussy A Go Go – Stockholm, Sweden
8/23/2013 Akihabara Ongakukan – Tokyo, Japan
11/01/2013 Kurawood/Asakusa – Tokyo, Japan
11/02/2013 Earthdom – Tokyo, Japan
11/03/2013 Huck Finn/Imaike – Nagoya, Japan
11/04/2013 Conpass/Unagidani – Osaka, Japan
WISE BLOODchrislaufman.com
Wise Blood is basically Pittsburgh’s Christopher Laufman, who made a splash in 2011 via music blogs ( Pitchfork, The Fader, Stereogum, just to name a few), and now is back with a debut album called id, coming out this June 25th on Dovecote Records. The album release party is listed below:
Check out “Alarm” track via Soundcloud.
Audio not your thing? No problem, check out his video for “Rat” on Youtube.