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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Toronto’s renowned indie rock band Dinosaur Bones has revealed details of their sophomore album Shaky Dream, coming out August 6 via Dine Alone Records. You can hear the first single “Spins In Circles” below. Teaming up with Producer John Congelton (St. Vincent, The Walkmen, Explosions In The Sky), the band found themselves embedded in the … Read more
UK band Sharks released a new video for the driving single “Sunday’s Hand”, off of their latest album, Selfhood. The video gives us a snap shot of the lives of an attractive young couple spending a beautiful day together, but watch out for an ending which may surprise you. You can read our review of … Read more
American punk band the Transplants will see their highly anticipated new album, In A Warzone, hit the street this June 25th via Epitaph Records. “When we started this band 13 years ago, we weren’t worried about who was going to like us,” states front-man Rob Aston. “We still aren’t. In A Warzone is more raw … Read more
Foals have released the Nabil Elderkin-directed video for their song “Bad Habit.” You can enjoy the new video below. The UK five-piece just wrapped a largely sold-out US headline tour that included stops at Sasquatch, Governors Ball, Orion Festival and Bonnaroo. They’ll be back in the states in August for Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and more … Read more
Black Joe Lewis brand new full-length LP, Electric Slave, will be released on August 27 on Vagrant Records. Most of the album was produced by GRAMMY award winner Stuart Sikes (White Stripes, Cat Power, Modest Mouse) and recorded at Church House Studios in Austin, TX. Three of the new tracks (“Skulldiggin,” “Dar Es Salaam,” “My … Read more
July 23rd, Hardly Art will release the new full-length by California’s Hunx & His Punx. Street Punk, as the title implies, is a dramatic departure from the band’s previous outing, 2011’s Too Young to Be in Love, and includes a deep-cut Beastie Boys cover (“Egg Raid on Mojo”) and brief, blistering anthems like “Everyone’s a … Read more
You can now see Pokey LaFarge’s debut video “Central Time,” which is the first single from his self-titled album that released June 4 on Third Man Records. Directed by frequent Third Man collaborator Jo McCaughey, with set design and Lomokino photography by Rachel Briggs, the video features whimsical scenes of Pokey and the band playing … Read more
Robert Randolph, the slide guitar jam/rock/blues phenomenon who’s been captivating global audiences for a decade, has debuted the first song from his upcoming album Lickety Split, set for release July 16th from Blue Note Records. Randolph explains the song’s origins: “We started writing Born Again as a love song. It was about that feeling you … Read more
Here is an interesting listen for a Friday afternoon. Olivier Libaux of Nouvelle Vagues cover of Queens of the Stone Age’s No One Knows. His new album Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age (Music for Music Lovers), is due July 16. Check out the cover below.
Jonathan Rado is a songwriter, a staid performer, an evangelical producer – the 23-year-old California native’s solo project, fashioned on brief sabbatical from his main project, Foxygen, is a deliciously self-conscious piece of esoteric apocrypha. Like character games, or symphonies of nonsense imitation-language, his records are cathartic, designed only to liberate the body and break … Read more
Morningbell is one of the more prolific, inventive, and fiercely independent bands in the country. With six albums and four EPs over nine years (including an album released only on custom-made USB cards, a choose-your-own-adventure album, and 2009’s universally lauded Sincerely, Severely), Morningbell has gone more places with their music than most bands do in … Read more
Vampire Weekend has put forth the official video for “Diane Young.” The video comes in fast on the heels of their newest album, Modern Vampires of the City, which debuted at #1 on Billboard 200. You can find our *Headphone Approved* review HERE. Directed by Primo Kahn, “Diane Young” is a veritable who’s-who of indie … Read more
Fresh off a tour with Green Day, Best Coast remain one of the busiest rock bands around as they prepare to embark on their own headlining tour. The upcoming dates will be the first chance to hear brand new songs from their newly recorded EP, release date coming soon. TOUR DATES 5/25 – EL PASO, … Read more
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The Draft, three-founds of post-punk legends Hot Water Music, have announced Cheap Girls and Luther as the support on the majority of their tour of the Eastern US this summer (all tour dates below). Frontman/guitarist Chris Wollard, bassist Jason Black and drummer George Rebelo formed the band in 2006 and the upcoming two week run … Read more
Wax Fang, the psychedelic/experimental duo of Scott Carney and Jacob Heustis, have been relatively quiet since releasing the critically acclaimed La La Land in 2007. Surprisingly, that space of taciturnity had shifted since the band released Mirror, Mirror in the fall, a couple a creepy videos for “Mirror, Mirror” and “Dawn of the Dead of … Read more