On April 1st, The Black Keys will release their new album, Attack & Release, which was produced by Danger Mouse. This will be the group’s fifth release and their first for Nonesuch Records. Below are a couple streams of “Psychotic Girl” in Windows and Quicktime formats to give you a taste of what you can expect. US tour dates after the jump.

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Clutch and Murder by Death, live at the Beaumont Club in Kansas City, MO, February 28th, 2008. Check out the full review written by Crystal K. Wiebe at Synthesis.net. More photos by Lisa Horn after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

It may not feel like it in many parts of the US, but spring and summer music festivals aren’t that far off. The lineup for this year’s Sasquatch Festival, held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA. Leading the bill will be R.E.M., The Cure and The Flaming Lips UFO Show. Notable support includes M.I.A., Flight of the Conchords, David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion) and The Breeders. This year’s festival will also include a comedy tent with a lineup to be announced. Full list of bands available after the jump.

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Tickets will be going on sale starting March 1st for Iron Maiden’s Western US leg of their Somewhere in Time World Tour. The tour is notable for a few reasons:

1. In celebration of the DVD release of their seminal concert film Live After Death, the band’s set list will include mostly classic songs from their ’80s period and a stage setup similar to that of the Powerslave tour (which was the tour Live After Death was born out of).
2. The band, crew and all their equipment is traveling the world together in the band’s Boeing 757 piloted by Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson.
3. Iron Maiden fucking rules, and they wrote all your favorite Ozzfest-metal band’s riffs 30 years ago.

The world tour is already underway, with healthy showings in Mumbai, India, and Perth, Australia. Pilot/vocalist/rock god Dickinson is excited about hitting the Western US:

“We are all greatly looking forward to getting back to see our fans in places like Texas, the South West and Seattle where we haven’t played for quite some time. And for this leg we will be able to bring along all Eddie’s toys which we couldn’t get on our plane during the first leg. We are all having a great time on this tour and really can’t believe the excitement it is creating round the world and the huge numbers of people who are turning out to see us. It makes for a really very exciting time for all of us, fans and band alike”

You should be pretty stoked too. After the jump, a couple Sky News clips about the band’s trip to Mumbai and Western US tour dates with dates and times those tickets go on sale. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting Feb. 28th, Tilly and the Wall will hit the road for their first full US tour since 2006, bringing America some much needed joy. This time around, the group will have two more touring members in tow and will be premiering new material from a forthcoming album, which Tilly and the Wall begin recording in January with Saddle Creek guru Mike Mogis. The new album will be released on Conor Oberst’s Team Love label, though there is no release date set at this time. Tour dates after the jump.

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Liars is kinda hit or miss for me, but I really dug that Brocken Witch album. However, I’ve heard their live shows are something of a spectacle. The group recently wrapped up an arena tour in support of Interpol and Liars frontman Angus Andrew described the experience as follows:

“When we last toured the States it was quite royally. Interpol laid out a magic carpet ride that took us from one historic venue to another. The whole experience was a mind-blowing orgy of music and memories.”

Memories, dude. The New York Times was similarly stoked on the experience.

“[Liars] worked the Garden stage like rock stars… with Andrew strutting and gesticulating in a white suit and a big, relentless beat, Liars sounded at home as arena-rock.”

For the Liars US tour, they’ll be cramming that big arena energy into smaller venues, thereby throwing it all up in your face. The group will stop at Slim’s in San Francisco, The Casbah in San Diego (great venue, by the way), Metro in Chicago and Warsaw in Brooklyn on their jaunt across the US. Los Angeles band No Age will be in support. Dates after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »