Someone over at Current TV saw my post about the Great Mexican Emo Wars of 2008 and forwarded over a link to a short film by Ioan Grillo looking at the Emo Culture in Mexico City and other parts of Mexico. Check that shit out. And any Mexican emos actually reading this, check out the homies Emery on tour in your country next week! Hopefully they won’t get beat up or stabbed on the metro or anything:

Emery Tour Dates:
07.29.08 - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - Hard Rock Cafe
07.30.08 - Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico - Cafe Iguanas
07.31.08 - Puebla, Puebla, Mexico - Centro de espectaculos
08.01.08 - Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Hard Rock Live

Heavy fucking show last night! Don’t miss the Melvins (in tandem with Big Business) on this tour—you will regret it.

Melvins

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Rise Against are just about ready to drop their follow up to The Sufferer & The Witness, and they’re going about it in a sick way.  Appeal To Reason, the new disk, is slated for an October 7th release, and they’ve decided to pull out the big guns and have Thrice, Alkaline Trio and The Gaslight Anthem on the bill with them.  The confusing part is which one of the 3 bands is the headliner?  Sure, it’s R.A.’s tour supporting the disk, but Trio have been around selling records for longer than anyone can remember and Thrice is pretty much one of the biggest bands in the scene… interesting.  Either way, this tour will be amazing, and I’ll be there drunk.

My first introduction to Anticon Records was from someone who absolutely HATED what they were putting out. This, sadly, colored my opinion for some time; that is until my cousin (currently studying international law at Harvard…so I’ll have someone to represent me once I finally get caught for my various illicit activities I enjoy so liberally) burned me a mix CD of some of their artists. It was then that I figured out that Anticon isn’t quite the self-important backpack hip-hop label my friend made them out to be — Its stable of artists is more composed of experimental rock, sample/electronica artists. There’s a love and appreciation of hip-hop within most of these artists, but it’s not straight up beats and verses, far from it. As for my Anticon hating friend, sometimes it pays to take opinions with a grain of salt (or in this case, an entire shaker).

For me, Anticon artist Why? leads the label roster with inventive, glitchy indie-rock with an almost They Might be Giants vocal delivery and dark, contemplation-worthy poetic lyrics. It’s on some real shit, real sink-your-teeth-into sounds. Worth your attention, for sure. Love their cover of “Close To Me,” by The Cure, too. Why? is heading out on tour, and their publicist was kind enough to alert us.

From Force Field PR:

It’s been a busy and interesting year for WHY?, since the release of their acclaimed album Alopecia in March, the band has been touring the world almost non-stop, with a U.S. tour in the Spring and a lengthy European tour that immediately followed. Only one slight hiccup - while in Europe, two of the band members (brothers Yoni and Josiah Wolf) got the mumps, and on top of that, Yoni broke his hand. The band has soldiered on despite these minor setbacks and has scheduled another full North American tour for the fall, with pals Mount Eerie, Tussle and Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) opening along the way.

Check out their video for “Song of the Sad Assassin” right here:

Tour dates (courtesy of Force Field PR) after the jump (more…)

UK eclectic popsters Supergrass will be joining forces with the Foo Fighters for a month’s worth of touring come July 9th. Supergrass will be touring in support of their latest release, Diamond Hoo Ha.

Supregrass is a whole hell of a lot cooler than the Foo Fighters.

Dig the Silver Jews? Listen to our recent interview with founder David Berman here.