Christopher Anthony 
Teenage Guitar Force Fields At Home Guided By Voices Inc. [2013] Fire Note Says: Teenage Guitar gives Robert Pollard an entire new canvas for his creativity and art! Album Review: “In Bob We Trust” is a motto that is used quite frequently around TFN headquarters and is especially utilized when a more challenging record from … Read more
Beady Eye have announced several big shows across seas starting in November. For Beady Eye web members pre-sale starts tomorrow at 9am. November Tour 2013 Sun 10th: Glasgow Barrowlands Tue 12th: Leeds O2 Academy Wed 13th: Newcastle O2 Academy Fri 15th: Manchester Academy Sat 16th: Manchester Academy Mon 18th: Wolverhampton Civic Hall Tue 19th: Portsmouth … Read more
You can new snag a new split 7″ from Sleeping Bag & Mike Adams At His Honest Weight, entitled “Heavyweights”. The two Bloomington, Indiana bands each offer one new track and one cover of the other band. This split 7″ is co-released with Joyful Noiese Recordings and Jurassic Pop. The release is limited to 300 … Read more
Phoenix has a new video for “Trying To Be Cool.” The video is was made with two film crews swapping shots every 25 seconds, that gives this one a very unique angle. You can read TFN review of Bankrupt! HERE and see the video below.
On July 8th, Beck releases another single titled “I Won’t Be Long” which like “Defriended” will be available on 12″ with a 14 minute long extended mix on the B-side. Enjoy the track below and find the 12″ HERE.
Editors The Weight Of Your Love Play It Again Sam Records [2013] Fire Note Says: The Editors once again swing for the fences on their fourth LP. Album Review: The UK’s Editors is a band that I wish would just knock me out with a killer record. They have all the right components with a … Read more
These Are Good People, the debut LP from Philadelphia, PA’s Little Big League is now available for Pre-Order from Tiny Engines HERE. Every vinyl order includes an instant download for the entire album. As well, when picking up the new Little Big League LP today, you can use the coupon code LBL20 for 20% off … Read more
Yellow Red Sparks have another US headlining tour in support of their self-titled debut album (TFN Review HERE). The tour started on 6/28 in Phoenix, and is finishing up in Minneapolis on 7/21.
Kim for Kim – well not sure it is that easy but the Pixies have announced that with Kim Deal leaving the band, Kim Shattuck will be stepping in. Kim will be playing bass guitar and backing vocals on the upcoming tour. You may know Kim from LA band The Muffs and previously from The … Read more
With their new Fragments EP out tomorrow, you can now hear the premiere of single “Semantics” from Milwaukee, WI band Elusive Parallelograms. Fragments represents their fifth release and finds the band growing and more confident than ever. “Semantics” is a music handful as Elusive Parallelograms drop shoegaze, prog-rock and power pop in a blender to … Read more
The Black Keys & RZA The Baddest Man Alive Soul Temple Music [2013] You probably heard this track back in October last year when it appeared on RZA’s The Man With The Iron Fists Soundtrack but it was nice to see it recently issued as a 7-inch. I am sure you have heard of The … Read more
Light Heat Light Heat Ribbon Music [2013] Fire Note Says: Mazarin frontman Quentin Stolzfus returns to the scene after seven years with Light Heat debut. Album Review: I actually would be impressed if many of our readers remembered the early 2000 psych-pop band Mazarin. The group had three full length albums with the sophomore effort … Read more
Touring in support of their critically acclaimed third album Modern Vampires Of The City, Vampire Weekend have added several more dates to their fall run. Along with previously announced headlining stops at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, the band have now announced stops at Philadelphia’s Mann Center and Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, … Read more
Hausu Total Hardly Art Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Hausu provide a fresh and precision based debut record. Album Review: It wasn’t till about the fourth track here on Hausu’s debut, Total, that I started to get where the Portland, OR band was coming from with their retro post-punk sound. Did they sound like Fugazi? … Read more
Beck’s “Defriended” single is now available on vinyl at www.beckdefriended.com. The single includes the original mix plus a 14 minute extended B-side version. This limited edition is a audiophile pressing at 45 rpm and includes a 320kbps download card.
Here is the new Medicine single, “It’s Not Enough”, from their forthcoming album To the Happy Few which is out August 6th on Captured Tracks Records. To The Happy Few Tracklisting 1. Long As The Sun 2. It’s Not Enough 3. Burn It 4. Holy Crimes 5. The End Of The Line 6. Butterfly’s Out … Read more
Case Studies This Is Another Life Sacred Bones Records [2013] Fire Note Says: Case Studies tells it like it is on sophomore album This Is Another Life. Album Review: Case Studies is the current moniker for singer/songwriter Jesse Lortz who was previously one half of The Dutchess And The Duke. This Is Another Life is … Read more
Travis make their return on August 20 with Where You Stand. If you hurry you can get in on the “super deluxe” version which has the first 500 signed. The vinyl itself is listed as a limited heavyweight with gatefold sleeve which you can also purchase individually. You can pre-order HERE. Details below. SUPER DELUXE … Read more
As The End of The Beginning tour begins this week (all tour dates below), Streetlight Manifesto has announced that they have secured the FINAL two shows that will finish out their last year of touring: two nights, November 15th and 16th at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. This final two night stand will be … Read more
O-Rama LLC and MVD will be releasing Blowing Fuses Left And Right: The Legendary Detroit Rock Interviews digitally and on DVD on July 9. The thought-to-be-destroyed original tapes from 1988 were recently re-discovered in an attic in NJ – the five hours worth of footage include interviews with Ron Asheton (the Stooges), Dennis Morgan (the … Read more
Smith Westerns Soft Will Mom + Pop Music [2013] Fire Note Says: Smith Westerns return with a another batch of purposeful dream rock. Album Review: Coming off an excellent record like Smith Westerns sophomore effort Dye It Blonde (2011) is never easy. Once you add in the stress of playing the road till you about … Read more
Weekend spent most of 2012 writing, recording, and painstakingly mixing the 10 songs that comprise Jinx, once again with Monte Vallier at Ruminator. During this time, Weekend relocated cross-country to the already heavily saturated Brooklyn music scene. The trio had collectively grown weary of the trappings of home. Durkan states, “Feeling at home is evidence … Read more
Missouri-based indie-pop trio Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin has debuted the first single, ‘Nightwater Girlfriend’ off their forthcoming album, Fly By Wire which you can hear below. Out September 17th on Polyvinyl, the album will be available on CD/Digital, 180-gram coke bottle clear vinyl with a gatefold jacket and collage-style pull-out poster, a special … Read more
Third Man records will release three very special live records – The Shins, The Kills, and Seasick Steve – on June 25th that represent the first three releases recorded live using Third Man’s one-of-a-kind direct-to-acetate recording process. Without overdubs or editing, all three records were recorded at the Third Man Blue Room last October, mixed … Read more
Kanye West Yeezus Def Jam Recordings [2013] Fire Note Says: Kanye comes at you 90 mph with the impressive Yeezus. Album Review: Let me be the first to say that I am not a regular listener to Kanye West or rap music in general. You may stop reading now or you might just give this … Read more