Indie Rock
Letter from Paper Route
In a letter from band member JT of Paper Route, the band has announced that their guitarist, Andy, is leaving. They have also stated that they are working on a new album. You can read the letter here.
Mogwai Album Art Revealed
Best Coast and Wavves Joint Tour
Best Coast and Wavves are heading out together for a joint US tour. Read more to check out the dates.
San Diego, CA Soma (January 21)
Tempe, AZ The Clubhouse (22)
Dallas, TX Granada Theater (24)
Austin, TX Emo’s (25)
New Orleans, LA House Of Blues (26)
Tallahassee, FL Club Downunder (27)
Athens, GA 40 Watt Club (28)
Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle (29)
Washington, D.C 9:30 Club (31)
Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom (February 1)
New York, NY Webster Hall (2)
Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg (3)
Boston, MA Paradise (4)
Montreal, QC Cabaret Mile End (5)
Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre (6)
Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall (8)
Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom (10)
Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater (11)
Omaha, NE Waiting Room (12)
Boulder, CO Fox Theatre (14)
Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge (15)
Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw Theatre (17)
Victoria, BC Sugar (18)
Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater (19)
Los Angeles, CA The Music Box (24)
San Francisco, CA The Grand Ballroom at Regency Center (26)
The Dangerous Drama
The Dangerous Summer dropped off the Vultures Unite tour with VersaEmerge, Anarbor and Conditions after VersaEmerge‘s Devin Ingelido threw a beer bottle at the TDS guitarist Cody Payne. Sierra of VersaEmerge has posted a blog about the situation, while it looks like The Dangerous Summer is planning on taking legal action. Read a blog update from Cody of TDS here, as well as a Conditions update here.
[Via AbsolutePunk.net]
New Blink 182 Release Next Year
Blink 182 plan on delivering their new record in April or May and then release the album soon afterward. Read a new studio update from Mark Hoppus here.
“We have a date for the completion of the album. We want to deliver the record in April or May, for release very soon afterward. That’s our goal. That’s what we’re all working toward. That being said, the only thing more important to us than getting the record out in that time is getting a GREAT record out. If it isn’t absolutely ready at that point, we’ll keep working until it is. But that’s the plan. Everything is starting to coalesce, and it’s very exciting to begin the next chapter of blink-182.”
The Strokes Finish Recording
The Strokes have finished their new album and plan on releasing it in the next few months.
Silverstein Signs To Hopeless
Silverstein has signed to Hopeless Records. They are currently preparing for a full US & Canadian tour titled “Winterizer”, but will release Transitions (EP) on December 7. Their fifth full-length is scheduled for a Spring 2011 release.
“We have signed to Hopeless Records! We have been huge fans of the label since their inception and they have become great friends of ours over the years. It is great to work with people who not only get what we do and still embrace the scene, but also actually helped create it. After talking to many labels, we felt we would be the most at home here with Louis, and the entire Hopeless Records staff.”
Cults Sign To Columbia Records
Indie-pop group Cults has signed to Columbia Records in the U.S. and in the UK (under the imprint In the Name Of). The boy-girl duo has only released a few songs and only one official single. They’re currently working on their debut album, which is tentatively scheduled for a spring 2011 release.
New Girl Talk Album Download
Girl Talk‘s new album All Day is available for free download over at Illegal Art’s (Girl Talk’s label) website.
Portugal. The Man At It Again
Portugal. The Man are in the studio working on their new album. A clip from a new song can be seen on the band’s Facebook.
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