BRMC recently announced that their sixth studio album, titled Specter At The Feast, is set for release March 19 on Abstract Dragon / Vagrant. Today the band has released “Let The Day Begin,” the first single from the new album. The track is available for free download on the band’s site (BlackRebelMotorcycleClub.com) by signing up … Read more
The Black Angels have announced the upcoming release of their eagerly anticipated new album. Indigo Meadow will arrive in stores and online on April 2nd. The Black Angels’ most revelatory collection thus far, Indigo Meadow marks the Austin, Texas-based band’s fourth full-length release, following 2010’s acclaimed Phosphene Dream. Once again The Black Angels prove themselves … Read more
Sub Pop is thrilled to share the news that The Postal Service, the much-beloved, long-distance collaboration between Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello, will reunite this spring to celebrate the 10th anniversary and deluxe edition reissue of their universally acclaimed release, Give Up. The Give Up Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition will include the original 10-track album … Read more
The Joy Formidable will be touring the US this spring in support of their excellent new album Wolf’s Law. Presale will begin this Thursday 1/24 at 9 AM EST, and tickets will be on sale on Friday 1/25. For tour dates visit: HERE The Joy Formidable: Wolf’s Law [Fire Note Album Review 1.22.13]
Cayucas are a band to watch as they have already been been making noise with the release of their catchy “Cayucos.” Today, they have announced their debut album, Bigfoot, out April 30 on Secretly Canadian and premiered the video for their new single, “High School Lover” that you can see below. The video, directed by … Read more
Copenhagen’s The White Album have a brand new video for “Seasons End”. This track appears on their EP, Conquistador, which was released late last year. You can check out their video and sound below.
Warner Bros. Records’ Muse hit the road today for an extensive run of U.S. dates. Kicking off tonight in San Diego, CA at Valley View Casino Center, the tour will wrap up on March 7th in Minneapolis, MN. The UK trio is touring in support of their sixth album The 2nd Law, which was nominated … Read more
EmptyMansions’ founder/primary songwriter, Sam Fogarino (Interpol) wrote most of the songs for his debut, snakes/vultures/sulfate while on tour promoting Interpol’s fourth and self-titled album, from mid 2009 to late 2011. Lyrically, the songs are the result of, Sam, reading much postmodern fiction by writers such as Hubert Selby Jr (“Sulfate”); discovering an appreciation for aerial … Read more
Here is a new video from Divine Fits for the song “My Love Is Real”. Watch Britt Daniel of Spoon, Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade / Handsome Furs, and Dan Brown of New Bomb Turks take a dip in the pool! Divine Fits – “My Love Is Real” from stereogum on Vimeo.
Swedish pop maestros Shout Out Louds have made a new video for the first single, “Walking In Your Footsteps,” from their soon-to-be-released new record, Optica on Merge Records February 26. The album is the band’s fourth and marks 10 years since Shout Out Louds released their debut. Check out the video below!
After forming Wampire, Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps steadily began to make a name for themselves in the same Portland, OR, scene that has produced labelmates STRFKR as well as Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It makes sense, then, that Wampire came to Polyvinyl’s attention when the duo opened for STRFKR at a hometown Portland show and … Read more
Seattle’s Ivan & Alyosha are thrilled to announce spring 2013 tour dates in support of their debut album All The Times We Had, out February 26th via Missing Piece and Dualtone Music Group. The band will celebrate the album release with a February 23rd hometown show at the Showbox in Seattle, followed by an in-store … Read more
Wire has announced the release of Change Becomes Us due March 26 on Pinkflag. Wire is firing on all cylinders, as a four-piece studio entity again, the core line-up of Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey now enhanced by guitarist Matthew Simms. Simms had played a key role in helping the band to cultivate and … Read more
You can see the new video today from Dinosaur Jr. below! “Pierce The Morning Rain” answers the question of what happens when you shake up the typical American, suburban lifestyle with dB drag racing. “Pierce The Morning Rain” was directed by Emmy-winning comedy writer and director Scott Jacobson of Bob’s Burgers, The Daily Show, Saturday … Read more
Manchester four-piece City Reign have just released a video for “Making Plans” off their forthcoming full-length debut, ‘Another Step’, that is officially releasing February 25th on Car Boot Records. The video was shot at the Manchester music venue Night and Day, where the band played their first gig several years ago.
We always enjoy checking out new artists here at The Fire Note and the new single “Kings” from Manchester’s Sukh caught our ear. Check it out below and tell us what you think! Sukh began writing music at the age of 16 when he was scoring a film for school. What followed was years of … Read more
Clash the Truth is the highly anticipated new full-length from Beach Fossils which is out February 19th via Captured Tracks. Check out the second single, “Generational Synthetic”, below.
Jim James Tour Dates 2/18: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s 2/19: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 2/20: New York, NY @ The McKittrick Hotel, Home of SLEEP NO MORE In celebration of the forthcoming debut solo album Regions Of Light And Sound Of God, out February 5 on ATO Records, Jim James has … Read more
Billy Bragg releases his first new studio album in five years Tooth & Nail on Cooking Vinyl records on March 18 2013. Available formats are CD, LP and a limited special edition CD+DVD Bookpack. The limited special edition Bookpack includes the CD, a 36 page booklet containing exclusive photos and a collection of columns written … Read more
Instead of an inferior version running amok on the Internet, Dave Grohl released this high quality rocking “Can To Can’t” from his Sound City Movie. The album is out March 12 and can now pre-orderd now at iTunes. Check out the tune below:
Punk Rock Bowling was started back in 1999 as a way to bring the independent music community together for an annual party. It has since grown into a 4 day festival in downtown Las Vegas that brings out fans and bands alike from all over the world. Now in its 15th year, more than 8,000 … Read more
We told you about the new Kim Deal single in our Vinyl Spotlight section just 13 days ago. Well if you waited around you are too late as the limited to a 1000 copies single is now sold out. Regardless all is well now because if you decided to not go for the 7-inch you … Read more
Bad Religion will release their new album ‘True North’ January 22nd on Epitaph Records. The band is celebrating with an album release hangout – broadcast from the Red Bull Sound Space at The World Famous KROQ. They will be playing a short set and taking some questions from fans worldwide. You can catch the event … Read more
The mesmerizing return of Johnny Marr continues, as the new video for his forthcoming single “Upstarts” is unveiled today. The single is the first from Marr’s highly-anticipated solo debut The Messenger due out February 26 (Sire/ADA) and available to pre-order now via iTunes. Marr will set out on a solo tour of the U.K. in … Read more
Joshua Hanson’s delicate voice with a sweet Midwestern twang is the forefront of Yellow Red Sparks’ intricate indie folk sound, but with the added elements of chimes and stand-up bass on their new self-titled single “Yellow Red Sparks” (Yes, the band, album and single are all titled Yellow Red Sparks…INCEPTION!) you and your earbuds will … Read more