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The Dandy Warhols’ new album, Earth To The Dandy Warhols, is coming out fewer than two months from now, and to celebrate the band, in collaboration with AOL Spinner, has released another track, “The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers aka The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty.”

Here’s what Spinner had to say:

“It’s 2008, but it sure sounds like ’90s all over again with records dropping from the Lemonheads, Matthew Sweet and the Dandy Warhols in the coming months. Portland’s psychedelic rock quartet are back in full swing with ‘Earth to Dandy Warhols,’ the bands sixth album. The record will surface on August 19, but you get a taste of the band’s updated and untamed eclectic sound on ‘The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers aka The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty.’”

You yourself can download this new track right here.

The Dandys, of course, also have a North American fall tour lined up, starting at the home of Prince and ending in their very own hometown.

TOUR DATES
Sep 09 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue*
Sep 10 - Madison, WI @ Barrymore*
Sep 12 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theater*
Sep 13 - Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus*
Sep 14 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda*
Sep 16 - Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theatre*
Sep 17 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5*
Sep 20 - Philadelphia, PA @ TLA*
Sep 22 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club*
Sep 23 - Atlanta, GA @ The Center Stage Theater*
Sep 26 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall*
Sep 27 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater*
Sep 28 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up*
Oct 03 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern #
Oct 04 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield %
Oct 05 - Portland, OR @ The Roseland Theater (No Pre-Sale)

More dates TBA

All shows with the Upsidedown
*With Darker My Love
# With A Place to Bury Strangers
% With the Charlatans
^With Monstrous

Artist: The Dandy Warhols
Album: Earth To The Dandy Warhols
Label: Beat The World Records
Street Date: August 19, 2008

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Tomorrow, June 26, Apollo Sunshine will play a show in San Francisco’s 12 Galaxies. The band has been hard at work for a while playing songs off their new album, Shall Noise Upon, which will be out physically on September 2 (August 5 for iPods and turntables and iPod turntables), and it shows, because their live set is pretty awesome.

Apollo Sunshine with Big Light
12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St
San Francisco
$12 adv/ $15 door
9pm
21+

Yes, San Franciscans, you, like RCRD LBL, Largehearted Boy, and PopMatters can listen to or download “666: The Coming Of The New World Government” on this blog, OR you could go see it live and in action, which at least seems like it will be slightly more fun than looking at a computer screen alone, but, well…the choice is yours.

Or if you’re in Massachusetts, you can see them on August 8 and 9 in Wellfleet, at the Wellfleet Beachcomber.

“666: The Coming Of The New World Government,” here. [DOWNLOAD]

Artist: Apollo Sunshine
Album: Shall Noise Upon
Label: Headless Heroes
Street Date: September 2, 2008 - CD; August 5, 2008 - Digital/ Vinyl

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With their brand-new album, Earth To The Dandy Warhols, hitting stores in North America on August 19, the Dandy Warhols are bringing their extraordinary live show to fans across the US and Canada. Pacific-Northwesterners are fortunate enough to be able to see the band during their exclusive June shows, but everyone else will have the chance come early fall, with stops in Denver, New York, Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles and pretty much everywhere in between. The band will be supported by LA pysch-rockers Darker My Love for most of the fall tour, as well as their newly-signed labelmates the Upsidedown on all dates.

The Dandy Warhols have already established themselves as musical icons with their songs “Bohemian Like You” and “Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth,” but Earth To The Dandy Warhols, their sixth full-length and first of many on their own label, Beat the World Records, raises them to a new platform. This is classic Dandys, of course, and songs like “Talk Radio” and “Mission Control” continue to reaffirm the band’s position in alternative rock annals, but the album also sees the band moving into repertoire-broadening territory, from the tongue-and-cheek and very Dandy-esque take on outlaw country, “The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty,” to “Love Song,” which features Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler and the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell, and of course, the opener “The World Come On,” which was made available for download on May 5, courtesy of a Stereogum premiere.

Although tickets officially go on sale June 21, members of the Dandys new fan-club subscription service will be able to buy tickets during a special pre-sale starting June 17. Pre-sale for the general public begins June 19 through the band’s website.

Also of note to those in The Dandy Warhols’ home base, the Portland show, initially planned for June 21 at the Roseland Theater, has been rescheduled for October 5 (same venue). The band’s European tour kicks off at the top of July, and due to unforeseen circumstances with gear routing, the equipment must ship out of Seattle on June 21. All tickets purchased will be honored at the October 5 show. Refunds are available at point of purchase for those who cannot attend the rescheduled show.

In other Dandys news, Courtney recently did an interview for Wired.com’s Listening Post, where he talks about the new record, among other things. Here’s a clip:

LP: So you’re not in search of a new sound, you just have a lot of toys in the studio.

CTT: A lot of both. Monkeys like “new” and “familiar” in some kind of unquantifiable proportions. I’m pretty sure this is what led to us making records that sound different from each other. That and the fact that it seems to be about three years between albums.

LP: Talk about the digital release. How has the response been?

CTT: Our digital subscription package with first download of the album turned out to be a great idea, since we own our studio we can produce a lot of music. I feel that digital subscription is the obvious way of the future. If the old-school ASCAP and BMI people had been on the ball, they could have become the new superpowers of music by creating monthly subscription sites in the web’s early days. They snoozed.

Check out “The World Come On” here! [DOWNLOAD]

TOUR DATES
June 20 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo^

Sep 09 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue*
Sep 10 - Madison, WI @ Barrymore*
Sep 12 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theater*
Sep 13 - Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus*
Sep 14 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda*
Sep 16 - Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theatre*
Sep 17 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5*
Sep 20 - Philadelphia, PA @ TLA*
Sep 22 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club*
Sep 23 - Atlanta, GA @ The Center Stage Theater*
Sep 26 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall*
Sep 27 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater*
Sep 28 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up*
Oct 03 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern #
Oct 04 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield %
Oct 05 - Portland, OR @ The Roseland Theater (No Pre-Sale)

More dates TBA

All shows with the Upsidedown
*With Darker My Love
# With A Place to Bury Strangers
% With the Charlatans
^With Monstrous

Artist: The Dandy Warhols
Album: Earth To The Dandy Warhols
Label: Beat The World Records
Street Date: August 19, 2008

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Beginning June 20, Def Jux’s Junk Science will be hitting parking lots, amphitheaters, and fairgrounds across the country as part of the Vans Warped Tour, balancing the punk guitars of bands like Against Me!, Reel Big Fish, and Be Your Own Pet with their seamless and energetic rhymes and beats. Recognizing the gap in hip-hop after Hangar 18 had to cancel their own Warped Tour dates, Junk Science jumped at the chance to join what is otherwise affectionately referred to as “punk rock summer camp.”

Baje One and Snafu, the MC/DJ duo that comprise Junk Science, have known each other since they were both kids growing up in Brooklyn, and now, as part of the celebrated Nuclear Family, they’ve brought their music to the rest of the world, most recently on their second LP, Gran’Dad’s Nerve Tonic — out on Definitive Jux last October — and through extensive touring with the tireless Del the Funky Homosapien. Warped Tour gives them yet another opportunity to show off their stuff, the perfect mix of cool and swagger, complementing and enhancing the line-up and winning over plenty of fans in the meantime.
 
Get ready for show with a sweet remix of “Hey!” with The Boys & Girls Club.
Junk Science - “Hey! Boys & Girls Club Remix” [DOWNLOAD]
 

And the tour dates…
June 20 - Pomona, CA @ Fairplex Park
June 21 - San Francisco, CA @ Pier 30/32
June 22 - Ventura, CA @ Seaside Park
June 25 - Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
June 26 - Las Cruces, NM @ New Mexico State University-Intramural Field
June 28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Utah State Fair
June 29 - Denver, CO @ Invesco Field At Mile High
July 1 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St Louis
July 2 - Bonner Springs, KS @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 3 - Dallas, TX @ Superpages.com Center (form. Smirnoff Music Center)
July 5 - Selma, TX @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 6 - Houston, TX @ Sam Houston Race Park
July 9 - Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Exhibition Center
July 10 - Orlando, FL @ Central Florida Fairgrounds
July 11 - Petersburg, FL @ Vinoy Park
July 12 - Miami, FL @ Bicentennial Park
July 13 - Elkton, FL @ St Johns County Fairgrounds
July 14 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 15 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 16 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 17 - Cleveland, OH @ Time Warner Cable Amphitheater at Tower City

Artist: Junk Science
Album: Gran’ Dad’s Nerve Tonic
Label: Definitive Jux
Street Date: October 23rd, 2007
Formats: vinyl, CD, mp3

CONNECT: Definitive Jux | Junk Science | Myspace

There are bands that sound good on stage, and there are bands that sound good on record, and then there are the fortunate ones that sound good on both. With the full-length debut f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13, out September 9 (August 19 for vinyl and digital) on Great Society, the Oklahoma-based Colourmusic convincingly declare themselves to be a band of both persuasions, already having proven themselves as an imposing live force, most recently as support for British Sea Power on their Spring 2008 US tour.

Check out the song “Put In A Little Gas” here [DOWNLOAD]

With f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13, Colourmusic establish themselves as a group whose playfulness is matched only by their clear understanding of what makes a good song, a satisfying combination of originality, group harmonies, skilled composing, and a refreshingly good-natured outlook on life.

There’s “Yes!,” of course, a track that has been featured on KCRW and has already won over many a fan with its rollicking chorus, a wild repetition that borders on recklessness and yet stays firmly grounded in indie-rock melody, but there’s also the quirky heartland rock of “The Gospel Song” and the crunchy driving bass of “Put In a Little Gas.” “You Can Call Me By My Name” toys somewhere between shoegaze and garage rock and “Spring Song” is nicely inspired by British folk, each song comfortably its own while still tying in to the greater whole.

There’s a concept behind the album — the relationships between colour and notes and emotion, a modern take on Newton’s Colour Theory — but this is not a concept album. Instead, f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13 is spawned from a collaboration of good friends, strong hooks, and organically layered arrangements, an album that’s both practiced and spontaneous, an album that captures both the unadulterated passion found in Colourmusic’s incendiary live show and their consummate musicianship. It’s a complete work, one that truly shows off their unbridled energy and unbounded creativity, a fully-realized portrait of what the band really is, which, when it’s all said and done, ends up being much more than enough.

Check out the song “Put In A Little Gas” here [DOWNLOAD]

Even better, Midwesterners can see the band live and in action early this summer:

June 26 - Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s
June 27 - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
June 28 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
June 29 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
June 30 - St Paul, MN @ Turf Club
July 02 - Fargo, ND @ Aquarium
July 03 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
July 04 - Des Moines, IA @ 80/35 Festival
July 05 - St. Louis, MO @ The Bluebird
July 06 - Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge

Artist: Colourmusic
Album: f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13
Label: Great Society
Street Date: September 9, 2008 - CD; August 19, 2008 - Digital/ Vinyl

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The Postmarks — “Six Different Ways” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

This month’s blurb is from Tim Yehezkely: “There are probably more than Six Different Ways to feel inside but Robert Smith apparently experienced six. Maybe it has to do with rolling a die. Or maybe his heart had some extra chambers. In any case we’re into The Cure, we like the song and it has six in the title so there you go.”
 
 
 
 
Get the rest of “By The Numbers” exclusively at eMusic - for free mp3 download!

The Postmarks — “Five Years” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

The Postmarks - “OX4″ [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

The Postmarks - “Three Little Birds” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

The Postmarks - “You Only Live Twice” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

The Postmarks - “One Note Samba” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

More info on the By The Numbers series - click here…

Artist: The Postmarks
Album: The Postmarks [LISTEN]
Label: Unfiltered
Street Date: Feb 6th, 2006
Formats: CD, mp3

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If you’re looking for something fun to do over the weekend in New York, check out the 5th Avenue Street Fair in Park Slope. This is a perfect place to do some daytime outdoor drinking, and make lots of unnecessary purchases! But, most importantly you can catch CHIN CHIN for FREE! They’ll be playing out in front of Southpaw at 4pm. Come through!

… and if you’re looking for some pre-street fair/party warm up tunes, check out the super fun remix that DJ Eli did of Chin Chin’s funk-tastic “Toot D’Amore.”

Chin Chin - “Toot D’Amore” remix by DJ Eli [DOWNLOAD]

Sun, May 18 — Brooklyn @ 5th Ave Street Fair (125 Fifth Ave.) 4pm

West Coast dates!
Wed, May 28 — Seattle @ Nectar
Thu, May 29 – Portland @ Rotture
Fri, May 30 — Vancouver Island @ Waverly Hotel
Wed, June 4 — San Francisco @ Mojito’s
Fri, June 6 — Los Angeles @ The Mint
Sat, June 7 — Orange County @ Continental Room

Artist: Chin Chin
Album:Chin Chin
Label: Definitive Jux
Street Date: April 29th, 2008
Formats: CD, mp3

CONNECT: Website | Definitive Jux | World’s Fair

Always at the forefront of what’s new and fresh in music, SEEN/ RCRD LBL premiered the title track off Peter von Poehl’s forthcoming debut release…

“Swedish singer-songwriter Peter von Poehl creates illuminated dreamscapes with his music. His forthcoming album (to be released June 10 in North America) Going To Where The Tea Trees Are boasts inspired arrangements using guitar, piano harmonies, sax, and Peter’s unmistakable falsetto that don’t really sound like anything else you’ve heard before.” [read more @ SEEN/ RCRD LBL]

Peter von Poehl - “Going To Where The Tea Trees Are” [DOWNLOAD]

The video for “The Story Of The Impossible” was the top featured video on YouTube earlier this week…

Artist: Peter Von Poehl
Album: Going To Where The Tea Trees Are
Label: Bella Union
Street Date: 6/10
Format: CD, mp3

CONNECT: Bella Union | Website | Myspace

The Postmarks — “Five Years” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]
This month’s blurb is from Jonathan Wilkins: “It is not too far fetched to imagine Armageddon in these times… a fiery end that David Bowie captured beautifully in ‘Five Years.’ The song expresses the myriad of emotions a world would feel if they knew they only had five years left to live. It reminds us that we often neglect reflection and insist on burying our heads in the sand for fear that the world will end if we pay attention to it.”

The Postmarks recently finished up a quick stint of shows in their homestate of Florida, all of which continued to show off, as Flavorpill stated, their “haunting, heartsick ballads and rosy pop melodies,” or, as The Miami Herald put nicely, music that’s created “with the hearts of listeners in mind.”

Prefix also put some up some great pics of the April 30th Orlando show, including the one below.

The Palm Beach Post called the band’s “combination of beautiful melody and retro-Euro influences” “a standout” at May 1st’s SunFest, while another Post writer said of them: “I’ve always liked their music, and after seeing them live, I like them even more.”

The Broward-Palm Beach New Times also featured the band as part of a preview of the May 2 show, which was free in celebration of the June UK release of The Postmarks, a lifelong dream of Christopher Moll’s.

Get the rest of “By The Numbers” exclusively at eMusic - for free mp3 download!

The Postmarks - “OX4″ [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

The Postmarks - “Three Little Birds” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

The Postmarks - “You Only Live Twice” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

The Postmarks - “One Note Samba” [FREE DOWNLOAD @ EMUSIC]

More info on the By The Numbers series - click here…

Artist: The Postmarks
Album: The Postmarks [LISTEN]
Label: Unfiltered
Street Date: Feb 6th, 2006
Formats: CD, mp3

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Still basking in the success of his most recent album, Eleventh Hour, Del the Funky Homosapien is setting off a yet another tour, this time hitting much of the festival circuit, with stops at Monolith, Bumbershoot, Austin City Limits and plenty of others.

Del was recently featured in Pitchfork’s guest list column, where he talked about his favorite record stores, Rock of Love, and his own love of Parliament-Funkadelic:

“I was watching a Parliament show. It was in 1972. And of course, that was off the hook… George Clinton was changing costumes throughout the set. He come out as Starchild, Dr. Funklestein…it’s a trip. You know what? I kind of liked Bootsy [Collins]’s show a little better. He got a little more continuity to his stage goings-on. Like it was a little more unified and goofy. Parliament’s all over the place.”

Del’s set may not feature all the over-the-top theatrics of a P-Funk production, but he certainly knows how to put on a fantastic live show. And this summer there are plenty of chances to see that in action.

Can’t wait that long for new Del music? Check out the exclusive C7 remix of “Foot Down” here. [DOWNLOAD]

Del the Funky Homosapien Summer Tour Dates

May 20 - Spokane, WA @ The Boulevard
May 21 - Missoula, MT @ The Other Side
May 22 - Bozeman, MT @ Zebra Cocktail Lounge
May 23 - Palladium @ Salt Lake City, CA
May 24 - Moab, UT @ Desert Rocks Music Fest
June 06 - Lawrence, KS @ Wakarusa Music Fest
Sept 01 - Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot Fest
Sept 04 - Portland, OR @ Musicfest MW at Roseland Theater
Sept 13 - Morrison, CO @ Monolith Fest at Red Rocks
Sept 26 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival

Artist: Del The Funky Homosapien
Album:Eleventh Hour
Label: Definitive Jux
Street Date: March 11th, 2008
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3

Del The Funky Homosapien - “Bubble Pop (Promo)” [DOWNLOAD]

Mr. Dibbs Presents “Del The Funky Megamix” [LISTEN]

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